[gentoo-amd64] Re: MAKEOPTS values for Athlon 64 X2

[Duncan]

Thomas Rösner <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de> posted
45AD8CF6.1010009@××××××××××××××.de, excerpted below, on  Wed, 17 Jan 2007
03:41:58 +0100:

> Andrei Slavoiu wrote:
>> --- Thomas Rösner <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Btw, may I come to your place when UT2007 is out?
>>> ;-)
>>>
>> Unless it will be released under a free license I
>> doubt Duncan will let you run it on his computer :-p
>>
>
> Everyone has his dark secret, perhaps his is a dual boot to win98... (I
> really liked that flipper table!).

Well, not that, but there /is/ still one slaveryware app  I still
run.  (Note, NOT a binary ring-zero kernel module, which as black-box code
at the kernel level exposes the entire system to danger, see for instance
the recent NVidia security issues they knew about but tried to cover up
while not providing a fix for some time!!) Yes that certainly does pretty
much makes me a slave to it as I've not found it acceptable to kill as yet.

The app in question?  The old original Master of Orion game, DOS version,
copyright 1993 so 14 years old now!  I run it in freedomware DOSBOX, so at
least the game's not dragging any other slaveryware with it.  I figure I
accepted it back then and if nothing else, it's a decently well known
quantity, or DOSBOX couldn't support it as well as it does, but at some
level both you and I know that's rationalization.  (FWIW, I tried MOO-2,
but wasn't particularly enthralled, as it lacked a single feature that
would have made the game nearly as addicting as the original.  It needed a
general planetary development pre-load queue, that is, a list of
enhancements that would preload into the work queue as soon as one
colonized the planet, thus saving the repetitive task of putting the same
thing into each build-queue, scores of times.  Without that, the game was
too much mundane repetition and not enough actual challenge.  To its
credit, that's one balance the original MOO obviously got /very/ right,
thus my continued addiction to it.  I think I was getting ready to switch
to Linux just as MOO-3 was coming out, and by that time wasn't buying
anything further that didn't run on Linux directly, so I never played it.)

Nothing else, however, and if I found it necessary to load other
slaveryware (say MSWormOS DLLs under WINE) to support it, I expect it
would be long gone.  Single binary-only/slaveryware app, no other binary
dependencies, but yes, I remain a slave to it, this I'll publicly admit.

(If you notice, my no slaveryware statements are almost always in a
forward-looking context.  I haven't purchased nor will I purchase any
non-freedomware software or hardware that requires it, since the switch.
(I did make the mistake of purchasing an NVidia card shortly
before the switch, having checked it for Linux drivers, but not
actually realizing that some binary-only drivers existed and the
significance of that fact.  I was /so/ glad to get off the thing,
about a year later, tho!  Since then it has been Radeons 9250 or lower,
thus freedomware driver supported, which happen to be relatively cheap,
so I haven't been complaining. =8^)  However, that's /not/ saying I don't
have that one remaining legacy app, now an incredible 14 years old. What's
14 computer years in human years? My relatively modest rule of thumb is a
5:1 ratio, so if it was a human, it'd be a good 70 years old now, at
least. I've seen others use the same 7:1 ratio often used for dogs, which
would put it at 98 human-years old! In any case, it's OLD, but still very
addicting, obviously, or I'd not still be running it!)

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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