Re: [BLUG] BZFlag next week

That sounds good. I've never played that game officially, but I've messed around a little bit with it. Is the learning curve very high, I can't remember what it was like? I got ut2004 earlier this week, but fell asleep around 8:30 saturday evening and woke up around 1:30am. Hopefully I can make it this Saturday.

On 4/22/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:

  We had a lot of fun playing ut2004 last night.  We'll try playing it
again some other time.

  Next week we're going to play BZFlag, which is an open source (and
free) first person tank game.  Its a little simplistic, but it is very
configurable and there is a large community for it.  I hope that the
lower system requirements will allow more of you to join.  You can find
more information about it here:

   http://www.bzflag.org/

  You'll actually find that bzflag is in many of the application
repositories that come with your distribution.  So you probably can just
do an apt-get install bzflag, yum install bzflag, emerge bzflag, etc.
to install it.

  I'll setup a bzflag dedicated server on the same machine and we can
all play this coming Saturday the 28th at 9pm.

  Mark


On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:17:54AM GMT, Mark Krenz [ mark@slugbug.org] said the following:
>
>   Chris Walker and I are playing UT2004 on the server right now if
> anyone else who has it working wants to join.
>
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Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

Jeff Welty wrote:
> PS: is it Hasenfroch or Hasefroch?

My 5 seconds of internet research says Hasefroch. Apparently that's
what I learned today ;)
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[BLUG] BZFlag next week

We had a lot of fun playing ut2004 last night. We'll try playing it
again some other time.

Next week we're going to play BZFlag, which is an open source (and
free) first person tank game. Its a little simplistic, but it is very
configurable and there is a large community for it. I hope that the
lower system requirements will allow more of you to join. You can find
more information about it here:

http://www.bzflag.org/

You'll actually find that bzflag is in many of the application
repositories that come with your distribution. So you probably can just
do an apt-get install bzflag, yum install bzflag, emerge bzflag, etc.
to install it.

I'll setup a bzflag dedicated server on the same machine and we can
all play this coming Saturday the 28th at 9pm.

Mark

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:17:54AM GMT, Mark Krenz [mark@slugbug.org] said the following:
>
> Chris Walker and I are playing UT2004 on the server right now if
> anyone else who has it working wants to join.
>
> --
> Mark Krenz
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> http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

In the past the Firefox browser was accused of having a pretty bad
memory leak... and I believe Firefox uses up quite a bit of memory
regardless of what OS it is running on. Of course I justify the use of
such an app with the features Firefox offers as well as what it stands for.
Jeff
PS: is it Hasenfroch or Hasefroch?

Simón Ruiz wrote:
> I just tried it for the first time myself, definitely a thumbs up. And
> since I have an Intel graphics card on the laptop I tried it on,
> Compiz worked right out of the box (I had to do something like go to
> Preferences -> Desktop Effects). All it had was wobbly windows and the
> cube, but still nifty to have it right out of the box. Resolution I
> had to fix by installing 915resolution and Ctrl-Alt-Backspacing, but
> I've gotten used to doing that on widescreen laptops already.
>
> The only thing that bugs me about it (and not just Feisty, but Linux
> Desktops in general) is how possibly the most used application on the
> computer (at least for Desktop computers) is the buggiest. Firefox is
> single buggiest piece of software on that computer. I was using a
> school laptop at home for a while and Firefox would regularly have a
> conniption and slow my whole system to a crawl; I could often
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a command prompt and killall firefox-bin, though even
> that took forever, but sometimes I had to simply force shutdown by
> holding in the power button. And just now when I was playing with
> Feisty Firefox did some weird stuff when I maximized it while using
> Compiz, so I had to restart it.
>
> This is simply unacceptable.
>
> Now, granted, I seemed to experience this more than my fiancee did for
> example. I'm guessing it may be exacerbated by the fact that I use the
> same profile directory on Ubuntu as I use on Hasenfroch (I use
> PortableApps on a USB stick on Windows and link the
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/jumble.default directory to my FirefoxPortable's
> data/profile directory).
>
> However, it runs smooth as silk on Hasenfroch.
>
> Well, enough of that rant...
>
> BTW, I posted some photos from the IU LinuxFest on my blog (hosted on
> my flickr site), so check out http://indianalinux.blogspot.com if
> you're interested. (Jeremy, I put your biplane computer on there. btw,
> is it still alive?)
>
> On 4/20/07, Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Each Ubuntu release just keeps getting better. I'm loving 7.04 at the
>> moment. This has been the easiest install and setup I've ever had
>> with a
>> linux distro. Everything from installing video card drivers to flash
>> for
>> firefox to extra codecs is really, really easy. Getting a screen
>> resolution
>> beyond 1024x768 wasn't as extremely easy, but with a quick search in the
>> ubuntu forums I was at 1280x1024 quickly. So I like what I've seen
>> so far.
>> Anyone else have an opinion on Feisty?
>>
>> ben
>
>

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Re: [BLUG] random wallpaper in Ubuntu

Thanks for the link. They have some pretty decent wallpaprs, there!

On 4/22/07, Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Oh, and I like http://interfacelift.com/ for good wallapapers.
>
> ben

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[BLUG] random wallpaper in Ubuntu

I wish Gnome had an option to easily set it to randomly select a new wallpaper every x minutes, but, alas, it doesn't.  I'm sure this is nothing new to most of you, but it took me a little while to figure this one out, so I thought I'd share in case anybody didn't know.  And if you know of a better way to do this, please let me know!

1.  sudo gedit

2.  copy this, but replace /home/ben/wallpaper/ with the directory where you have your wallpapers:

#!/bin/bash

# Set your folder with the pics
picsfolder="/home/ben/wallpaper/"

# Go to your folder with the pics
cd "$picsfolder"

# Get the name of a random file
randomfile=`ls *.jpg *.png |sed -n $((RANDOM%$(ls *.jpg *.png |wc -l)+1))p`

# start of gconftool command and set the desktop
gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "$picsfolder$randomfile"

3.  save as changewallpaper.sh in /bin

4.  'sudo chmod +x /bin/changewallpaper.sh'

5.  'crontab -e'

6.  add these lines: 
*/15 * * * * changewallpaper.sh
@reboot changewallpaper.sh

7.  save and exit

And that should be it.  At least it was for me.  That changes the wallpaper every boot and every 15 minutes.  I also added a custom application launcher to my panel with the command '/bin/changewallpaper.sh' and I can click that button to randomly select a new wallpaper if I don't like the current one.   Oh, and I like http://interfacelift.com/ for good wallapapers.  Also, I didn't write that little script, I stole it from this thread:  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=329164&highlight=random+wallpaper

ben

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