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- Publication date: 17 May 2008
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Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, "The Peloponnesian War" is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical wisdom. However, this classic book has long presented obstacles to the uninitiated reader. Written centuries before the rise of modern historiography, Thucydides' narrative is not continuous or linear. His authoritative chronicle of what he considered the greatest war of all time is rigorous and meticulous, yet omits the many aids to comprehension modern readers take for granted--such as brief biographies of the story's main characters, maps and other visual enhancements, and background on the military, cultural, and political traditions of ancient Greece. Robert Strassler's new edition amends these omissions, and not only provides a new coherence to the narrative overall but effectively reconstructs the lost cultural context that Thucydides shared with his original audience. Based on the venerable Richard Crawley translation, updated and revised for modern readers, "The Landmark Thucydides" includes a vast array of superbly designed and presented maps, brief informative appendices by outstanding classical scholars on subjects of special relevance to the text, explanatory marginal notes on each page, an index of unprecedented subtlety and depth, and numerous other useful features. Readers will find that with this edition they can dip into the text at any point and be immediately oriented with regard to the geography, season, date, and stage of the conflict. In any list of the Great Books of Western Civilization, "The Peloponnesian War" stands near the top. This handsome, elegant, and authoritative new edition will ensure that its greatness is appreciated by future generations.
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Joined: 6/24/08
DAoC was my first MMO. Within the first hours of logging into my friends account I had a random person start talking to me as we leveled in the same area. After running around together for about an hour he asked if I wanted to join his guild. I was a little intimidated because I wasn't sure what would be expected of me. I eventually decide to join the guild, aptly named "Icemen". I came to find out the guild was made up of men and women from Iceland and even some from the UK and United States.
I loved this guild. It was a small community of people who were polite and wanted to play with each other. They were willing to help a newcomer and were quite active. As time went on the guild slowly dissolved as DAoC became less popular. I have since played many other MMO's and never have I felt such community in an MMO as I did at that time in DAoC.
It wasn't just the guild though. The Alliance that our guild was a part of was very active. The players there were mature and enjoyed playing the game. Maybe I'm just pining for the good old days, but it seems to me that the gaming community has become a harsh and uncaring environment. I'm not sure why that is. Is it that more young adults are playing? Were the DAoC players a more mature crowd? Has the internet society changed in general?
I'm sure you may have had a different experience than me, but I still hope that CU will attract back that crowd of people who played DAoC in part because of the community.
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Joined: 3/01/13
I feel the same way man.
I think it's a combination of factors. The MMO genre as a whole has grown a LOT with the introduction of a lot more "casual" mmo's (wow namely drawing in a huge playerbase).
Back then, there were a LOT less mmo players, and the mmo's were a lot more hardcore than casual. Also, there were a lot less MMO's to choose from. There are so many to choose from now, it's pretty overwhelming.
So you pretty much HAD to socialize and work together to even play back then, and you knew that the people that were there REALLY wanted to be there, and weren't one of these modern A.D.D. here today, gone tomorrow type mmo players. Back then people were in it for the long haul. Also leveling took a lot longer back then, so people felt a lot more attached to / immersed in their character. I remember it being a big deal when people re-rolled a new character to get to 50.
There would be gossip around that so and so is actually so and so re-rolled. To me that's funny now, because nowadays nobody would really care haha.
Although, people used to get "blacklisted" back then too, so people tried to keep track of who was who for that reason. =) A lot of blacklisted people would try to re-roll to get away from their bad name, but usually it ended up leaking out who they really were. =)
I dunno though, I think it's mostly the introduction of so many casual gamers into the genre. It makes the genre bigger, but I feel likewise that the quality of the gaming decreases significantly. That's why I'm excited about a niche game. Let all the casual players have their themepark mmos. Us REAL mmoers need our own mmo now hehe.
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Joined: 9/13/06
Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Yes, the community in DAOC was an amazing thing, almost a perfect storm of several factors that made it superior to any that I've experienced before or since.
I too had a great experience starting out, with official player guides (volunteer) that would let you ping them to ask noob questions.
The game had a strong grouping emphasis, and the combat model pretty basic, (kill mobs in camps) so people were always willing to pick up the random stranger and even show him the ropes if he didn't know his role. (without mocking him either)
Your reputation mattered, and once established you could count on people actually pinging you on log in and asking them to join their party, and no, they weren't even necessarily your guild mates.
Now, the above was all on the Blue (normal) servers, over on the Red side (Mordred) wasn't nearly the same experience.
Everyone outside of your guild was an enemy and you really couldn't trust them. Game mechanics prevented you from damaging your party but more than one unsuspecting person fell victim to the trick of allowing themselves to be invited to a group only to find themselves ungroupd and killed by their new "friends", sometimes immediately after completing a successful hunting day. (happened to healers a lot)
Of course, you wouldn't group with those folks again, so people who attacked healers and other support usually suffered the worse for it in the long run.
People on Dred were still far more social and not really too many jerks, even though we were permitted to talk between players unlike on the normal servers.
Overall I had a great time in both models, and stil feel DAOC will be the unobtainable model for a good social MMO that I yearn for.
Arrogant, Condescending, Dismissive, Elitist, "Meany", you speak as if these are bad things?
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Joined: 3/01/13
Originally posted by Kyleran
Wow, that part about picking up people that didn't know what they were doing, and showing them the ropes is so true, and so lost in current mmos.
Back then, it was WELL worth it for the group's benefit to group anyone to help, regardless of their ability. Basically you'd do better with a bad player added, than none at all. So groups would actively add you regardless, and then try to make you a better player once they got you. The dynamic worked really really well. And if people saw you get a lot better, then tended to become your friends and possibly guildmates.
Nowadays if you join a group in mmos, if you instantly aren't an expert at your class, or know every caveat of detail of a particular boss fight, you are ostrasized, ridiculed, and sometimes kicked from the group.
That's so bad for a sense of community.
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Joined: 9/25/12
Originally posted by Tuktz
It was lost in DAoC too, after a while, which helped kill the game.
Once /level 20 was added to the game, all the veterans just made alts and jumped right to the battlegrounds. DAoC didn't have anything in terms of a tutorial. So, new players would log in for the first time, and instead of being greeted by veteran alts, shown the ropes, the dungeons, given gold, they were met with empty zones. It entirely killed new players from coming into the game. Then ToA happened, which drove off Vets. It was a steady decline after that. People always seem to underestimate just how devastating /level 20 was to DAoC's population.
Soon the game transitioned into a "solo to level cap" game.
But wow, Icemen! I saw them around on Albion Pellinor ALL THE TIME. I started out in Council of Order, and grouped with some Icemen. Then I followed some guildies to Heroes of the Realm once I got my own account. And after that, I followed our guild leader, Cadilaa, to Icemen. She eventually became guild leader of Icemen and, after almost everyone left, I inherited the role.
Small small digital world. I think that old character, Signus, is still the guild leader of Icemen.
Novice Member
Joined: 2/11/13
I´m pretty sure the success of Camelot Unchained will raise and fall with the community. It will be inevitable to socialise with other players and in doing so, you will have an impact on how the atmosphere on your server is going to be. A lot of the current games promote solo-play and are in general filled with handholding mechanics. Thats something, you won´t see in Camelot Unchained.
People will have to be careful with their own reputation, because not doing so could ruin the game experience for you. Start behaving like a jerk and you will be treated like one. There is no cross-server instant dungeon finder or battlegrounds where you can group with new players all the time.
Here your name will be the first thing that counts. If you treat people like crap, then you will get a response for doing so. No hiding behind name changes, cross-server groups or easy solo-gaming. It is time to relive the fascination thats called socialization.
And personally - I´m looking forward to earn my respect again and by doing so maybe gain some new friends. Its so sad, that all those millions of new MMORPG players, that came with World of Warcraft, never experienced, what it meant to be a part of a real server community.
They would favor different things today, thats for sure.
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Joined: 11/11/03
Originally posted by Bordog
Several reasons.. some of these are generalizations, but on the whole they are more true than not..
1) Most gamers these days are entitled babies that want everything now and don't want to work for it. They don't want to grind - they want to hit max lvl in days (see WOW, SWTOR, etc).
2) Most gamers these days demand to be able to solo 99% of the time and be able to get good gear as they level up very quickly. That results in games that CAN be soloed quite easily and that are very rewarding even if you solo because most of the rewards are given as quest rewards and those are far better than anything you can get from grouping up and going out and taking on challenging content. So today's MMOs have become very anti-social in nature because there is no requirement to work with anybody else. Same goes for the crafting in today's games, where there is no forced interdependency.
3) Yes, there are more and more gamers coming into MMOs thanks to WoW's broader appeal and marketing efforts. This has drawn the types that like to smack talk and play Call of Duty (I'm a COD: Black Ops 2 fan, so i know how obnoxious and rude a good majority of that playerbase is). Plus kids coming into MMOs these days grew up on games like WoW where you can solo everything, so they are less aware of the value of a game with challenge, interdependency and grouping, and whine like the kids they are if the game is too hard or they aren't getting the phat lewtz that they see others carrying.
Communities were the strongest in the more challenging games and the games with greater interdependency. SWG had one of the best communities I've ever seen. I had a PA (Imperial Army on Chilastra) that was VERY close knit, very large, and it was what kept a lot of us around far longer than we would have stuck in a game where that community did not exist. We built a player city, built player structures, had all sorts of dedicated crafters and social players (musicians, entertainers, etc.), and then of course the combat types.
This is all why what Mark Jacobs is saying is so appealing for so many of us. Harkens back to the older school MMOs were choices mattered. Where interdependency existed. Where community was key. Where challenge was prevalent.
I get the feeling that if you can get the newer generation of MMOers to get into a game like CU, they might never go back to the ezmode mass market MMOs that are out there today.
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Joined: 2/16/13
Reading this thread literally gave me nostalgiac chills.
I remember leveling up a character on Mordred, fighting tooth and nail to stay alive long enough to level, weaponsmithing to keep my gear competitive, and trying to act in an honorable fashion on a ffa pvp server.
Coming from a RP server (Guin) to Mordred, I didn't know what to expect aside from rampant griefing, which was to be expected. So I tried my little experiment out, helping newbies when I could by protecting them from gankers, giving them quality gear, and generally trying to play a RP server toon on a ffa pvp server.
I won some, lost some, and generally had a blast, though I didn't have that sense og community.
Then, a group of people found me. They were a RP guild devoted to playing a kind of "peacekeeper" role on Mordred. We were a perfect fit.
Keep in mind that we were CREATING our own gameplay at this point. Forming a community with certain goals actually changed the game for us in a fundamental fashion. Our DAoC was VERY different than John Smith's, and that was a testament to that era.
I hope to recapture that kind of magic.
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Joined: 6/24/08
Originally posted by DavisFlight
I had never thought of the /level 20 but you are right. I remember it was around that time that things were in decline, especially with the ToA expansion. I think what everyone has said is so true and am glad to see that others feel the same about the community in DAoC. I hope that CU can rekindle an environment like that, that the community I'm seeing here in these forums will transfer to CU.
I had forgotten how much your name meant on your server. Yes, there was gossip about which alt beloned to who, because it was a big deal to start a new character (until /level 20). People were actually concerned about someone leaving the guild, or where a new guild member was coming from. I remember an individual in a guild called Epic on Albion Pellinor that was a Cabalist and would run around Snowdonia, Pennine Mtns and Forest Sauvage. The point is, I remember people that weren't in my guild and respected them because of the roles they played on the server as leaders or just being a persistent presence. With so many new players it has been hard to really pick out players like that in other MMO's for me.
I remember Cadilaa! I wasn't in the guild too long before that merge happened, so I don't really remember it, but I do remember Cadilaa.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 3/04/13
Yeah, I haven't really quite found a sense of community like there was on DaOC as well. Hell, my guild I last associated with back on Ector (Hey Yall/Athena's Avatars) I still talk to this day. It's a bit of a nostalgic "getting the band back together" feeling whenever we pull everyone together for some other game or go back to daoc for a few weeks. Though, it always peters out because, well, games aren't what they used to be from the days of the first mmos and even MUDs (I still talk to people I mudded with back in the day also).
The mmos now are not endearing, or satisfying for that matter. It's liek all the restaurants out there turned into hamburger joints, hyping their own rendition of the hamburger; although, at the end of the day it's still a hamburger not really much different from the others. You get sick of it. Quick.
Joined: 7/01/08
Nothing is til it is and even then you never know until its been.
I've been pretty impressed with the community on these forums honestly. I assume that has a lot to do with so many of you coming from DAOC.
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Joined: 3/15/13
Originally posted by Tuktz
Hi everyone, I decided to join these forums after hearing about Camelot Unchained.
Agreed DAOC had the best community, in game, forums and the herald (I wish they could hire Sanya Thomas for CU !!! ). Since DAOC I've experienced a bunch of MMO's and not one has come close to DAOC in sense of community, and yes it's partly because things were way different back then. But I remain optimistic that if the game is built in a way that it stimulates peoples awareness and participation, there is a chance that CU can come close to this.
I've always thought that even controversy is a good thing, it gets people talking and involved ! Remember those buffed stealthers ? Or late night relic raids ? Oh, and while I'm talking about things that cause controversy, I'm totally against identical, mirrored classes between realms. There should be differences! It doesn't matter if it causes a tiny unbalance between a specific classes if it doesn't hurt the general PvP. Bard, Minstrel and Skald had different abilities and that's one of the things that got people talking.
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Originally posted by jugup
Welcome chief. You'll find plenty of discussion here. There's a good bit on Joystiq and a couple other places as well. If you haven't already, I definitely would read through the founding principles.


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Title: Kwakiutl Totem Pole
Address: South grounds, Manitoba Legislature
Unveiled: July 20, 1971
Artist: Henry Hunt
This six metre, cedar totem was commissioned by the B.C. Centennial Commission and presented to Manitoba to celebrate the anniversary of B.C.'s entry into confederation.
The base shows a chief wrapped in a ceremonial blanket to represent the foundation of the Kwakiutl people of Vancouver Island. It is topped by the thunderbird, symbol of power and strength.
Artist Henry Hunt (1923 - 1985) worked in a number of mediums but as a result of becoming the chief carver for the First Nation it is his sculpture that he is most noted for. That artistic tradition is carried on by his four children, including Richard Hunt, and now his grandchildren such as Tony Hunt Jr.
By the turn of the century the totem was worn by the elements and rot had set into the wood. Local artist Dwayne Ball approached the Legislature with a plan to repair and restore it. In 2006 he spent four weeks in the park behind the legislature doing just that.
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Sheffield led for the first half of the contest, holding a 8-6 advantage at the end of the first period and a 17-15 lead at halftime. ECC came to life in the second half, taking a 36-29 lead at the end of the third quarter and then holding on for the 63-57 victory.
"It was a good win," said ECC coach Aaron Straub. "Any time you can give up 28 points in the fourth quarter and still win has got to be a good one."


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Date: Sunday 03 July 2005
Position @ 1200 Local (GMT+1): 59°48' North, 001°13.0' West
Next destination: Peterhead, TBC
ETA: Tuesday 05 or Wednesday 06 July 2005
Distance to go: N/A
Current weather: Sunny / part cloudy
Wind: SSW, Force 8
Sea state: Rough
Barometric pressure:1005.8 mmHg
Air temperature: 13.5°C
Sea temperature: 9.6°C
For the most up-to-date chart of the ships position, visit sailwx.info
The vessel is currently en route to the Bruce platform and at the time of writing we were just to the south of the Shetland Isles passing Sumburgh Head.
The Shackleton should be on station at the Bruce platform by midnight Sunday ready to start another pipeline survey.
For most of the week we have been to the west of the Shetlands in the area around the Foinaven & Schiehallon FPSO vessels surveying the many pipe lines around these facilities.
Unfortunatley the weather took a turn for the worse and the conditions made it too difficult to carry on with the surveying work so after a bouncy night we are heading towards The Bruce Platform where the conditions are good enough to carry on with another part of the inspection project.
The following two pictures are what conditions can be like in the North Sea at times.
During our time to the west of the Shetlands we were not the only ship carrying out tasks for the oil companies, The Olympic Hercules which is an anchor handler was in situ around the Foinaven FPSO inspecting the moorings also the Sub Sea Viking which is a class 3 dive boat was busy laying transponders and inspecting the flowline termination points around The Schiehallion FPSO so it was a busy area with quite a few projects ongoing.
Subsea Viking working next to Schiehallion FPSO.
In the meantime the Ernest Shackleton was inspecting flow lines around the same area using a solo workclass ROV.
Stolt Offshore, Solo ROV on deck aboard the Shackleton.
To give you an idea of the scale, Solo is about the size of a Transit Van (but costs a huge amount more).
Meanwhile aboard the Shackleton the Crews routine tasks carry on as normal in all the departments.
(Top left) Jim Mellon Ships ETO Elec Checking the Thrusters electrical panel , (Top right) Fraser Macdonald 4th Engineer repairing the mess room ice machine.
(Bottom left) Ray Davis The Bosun's Mate painting shackles in the Bosun's store, (Bottom right) Keith Walker Ch Cook in the Galley.
And finally not forgetting some of the survey crew.
(1) Vidar Andersen (Offshore Manager) in the worksite office (2) Survey analyzing collected data in the dry lab.
Thats about all from the Ernest Shackleton for this week, Events this coming week include a port call to Peterhead, transit to the southern sector of the North Sea and ongoing pipeline surveys.
Thanks to Ray Davis for some of the photos.
As for the Ships Crew friends and family we will see you all in about 10 days time.
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Originally posted by YoungManKlaus View PostNice job, managing to even piss off promoters / news sites by constant nagging. After all I presume that's the reason you posted the excerpts.
Originally posted by mark45 View PostMichael, imo you're dramatizing too much a simple offer of money, the guy didn't ask you to commit a crime or join a cabal, really, it's not even worth the article if not for the link of the site.
What I don't like about all that is publishing private mail communication -
no matter of which quality his mails are and how strange Soreau behaves.
Scott might not appreciate that you leaked his emails to the public.
But on the other hand, I appreciate the openness, transparency, integrity and having and adhering to a policy.
Some websites value hype, page views, partners, connections and collaborations. Other sites value honesty, openness, transparency, truthfulness.
Some accept bribes, others refuse to be corrupt.
What I don't like about all that is publishing private mail communication -
no matter of which quality his mails are and how strange Soreau behaves.
Originally posted by Serge View PostIf Phoronix was a personal blog, maybe it would be alright. I don't know how others feel about it, but I don't expect journalistic integrity from personal blogs. But Phoronix is postured as a journalistic site. As such, Phoronix can't sell coverage, as that would violate the trust that news consumers place in news providers.Last edited by GreatEmerald; 04-01-2013, 05:10 PM.
Originally posted by F i L View PostI'm not so sure about that, seeing as how Mark Shuttleworth just left Canonical to join Apple. Without Mark's money, I don't see Mir going anywhere too fast.
If you would have cared to read the rest of the tweet Mark said he was "taking the Ubuntus[sic] communities with him to Nirvana...". I assume "Nirvana" refers to Apple, though I suppose he could be referring to the news of the reunion of eponymous early 90's band after the reappearance of Kurt Cobain (damn, that was an amazing prank he pulled...full props to him).
I find it a bit tasteless as well, but hey, at least it's honest.
Also, I'm genuinely curious, is there any law that prohibits doing that?
I mean, he was the intended recipient, after all.
It just doesn't seem ok to me to publish private communication.
BTW, I'm not defending this Soreau guy here.
IMHO the best way to handle things would have been to stop
communicating with this guy and filter the mails to the trash bin.
I _could_ only speculate on why Michael chose to post instead.
Or the other way round, is giving kickbacks like that illegal?
Obviously, not anything that's legal should be done right away...
IMHO the best way to handle things would have been to stop
communicating with this guy and filter the mails to the trash bin.
I _could_ only speculate on why Michael chose to post instead.
1. if he ever would have posted a news about this fork that sounds somewhat positive, and then someone would have leaked this email, even soureou could have done it under some strange circumstances, it would look like he would be corrupt or something.
2. if every journalist would act like you propose, what would people learn out of that, just write to 20 news-sites or other press 19 will not tell about it but 1 will go for it, and they reach their goal. So what would they learn, if you dont do it, you must be stupid.
I dont understand why some people are so defendish over him, last time I answered to him on this side, suddenly I got attacked by one guy for calling him maybe in danger of becoming a psychopath, instead of him doing this bad stuff.
(he even after telling me calling him psychopath, "a piece of shit" and something else)
I get that that was maybe not the most clever move I did, still its a small thing against somebody lieing around and try to "bribe" or pay somebody for such stuff, and insulting other people, as some coworkers said he even tried to get one of them fired, that with his insults could fall into mobbing. But hey defend him because somebody says something negative about his behaviour.
Thats btw also a part of mobbing somebody, you give them the feeling that they self are the cause and deserve to get mobbed.
But to be fair the complains of calling him to be in dangeour did not come from him but someobody else, at least it was another account, so I assume it was somebody else, maybe a fanboy or something like that, maybe he knows him, if so it also fits the scheme of mobbing that most of the time a group mobs somebody else not one person alone.
I dont want to make that bigger than it is, I dont work with him or others so it does not hurt me much, but you should think twice who you try to defend with what reasons and who you attack.
If you all would at least attack soreou AND micheal for doing that in the same post, thats your oppinion and thats allowed. But defend sareaou (sorry dont care so much to look the exact name up) and attack micheal I cant understand.
Just say at least, maraou did something very stupid, but I think you should not do something stupid in response to that (I dont think its stupid) but if you turn around who is the initial problem causer and who reacts maybe wrong to a problem it really sucks.Last edited by blackiwid; 04-01-2013, 06:28 PM.
No, there's no way that many letters could have been fabricated, and in such style. You can tell soreau's writing style.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I think this is fake. It seems plausible, if not likely true. But that is exactly the problem: plausible pranks are the best ones because people are more likely to fall for them.
Whatever the case, I have a strict policy of not believing anything I read on April 1st. It is easy enough to wait a day.
Originally posted by TheBlackCat View PostThat is assuming soreau was not in on it.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I think this is fake. It seems plausible, if not likely true. But that is exactly the problem: plausible pranks are the best ones because people are more likely to fall for them.
Whatever the case, I have a strict policy of not believing anything I read on April 1st. It is easy enough to wait a day.
And another thing, there was some how do you say that broken porcelan with the split of the wayland project and it is only a few days ago that that happend, so I dont think one of the sites would want to make such jokes about it.
And another thing, you cant just make wrong accusations to people as a joke, because some people maybe only read that accusation and dont come to the site again, or some find the news on search page later and dont get that it was a joke.
Especialy if its not totaly obvious ("good ones, that are not obvious"), you cant do that.
So I am 100% shure thats not a fake news.


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The sweet-tart dressing paired with creamy Stilton cheese strikes a great balance in this winter salad.
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Whisk first 10 ingredients in medium bowl to blend. (Dressing can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
Bring vinaigrette and figs to simmer in heavy large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Simmer until dressing is slightly syrupy, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes. Cool slightly. Season dressing to taste with salt and pepper.
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Before the Texas Rangers' Josh Hamilton did it Tuesday night, the Cleveland Indians' Rocky Colavito was the only player to hit four home runs in a game against the Orioles. Colavito went deep four times at Memorial Stadium on June 10, 1959. Here's a story The Sun ran 30 years later, reflecting on the slugger's feat.
June 18, 1989
30 years ago, Rocky Colavito ended a slump by becoming only the third player to hit four homers in four consecutive at-bats in a nine-inning game
Rocky Colavito clicked his way down the tunnel from the visitors clubhouse and emerged in the Cleveland Indians dugout carrying his K-55 bats -- 33-ounce models that most hitters would consider light when compared with the weight of a 3-for-28 batting skid.
The date was June 10, 1959, and though Colavito remembers much of it well, it wasn't yesterday.
Newspaper stories that day featured words you're not likely to see in today's edition -- atomic bombs and coeds. A bear was running loose on Lombard Street. A Baltimore Orioles minor leaguer named Cal Ripken, who later would have a son of the same name, was hitting .314 in Class D. Later that week, an outfielder named John Powell would be signed.
Memorial Stadium, which will be abandoned after the 1991 season, was in just its sixth year when Colavito entered its third base dugout and saw Harry Jones, a beat reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Hey, Rocky, when are you going to come out of this slump?" Jones asked.
Slump was a word Colavito, then 25, used as often as he tried bunting for singles.
"What slump?" was Colavito's reply.
Jones: "C'mon, you know what I mean."
Colavito: "I don't know what you mean."
Jones: "Geez, you're 3-for-28. Don't you call that a slump? When are you coming out of this thing?"
Colavito: "You never know, Harry. Tonight might be the night. You never know."
That was the end of the conversation. Colavito and Jones, who worked together on Indians telecasts in the 1970s, never mentioned that exchange again -- even though Rocky Colavito hit four home runs that night.
Rocky Colavito, 31st on major league baseball's home run list with 374, is retired and living in a hilltop home in Bernville, Pa., eight miles northwest of Reading, where he met his wife-to-be, Carmen, as a minor leaguer in 1953.
Looking back: Rocky Colavito hit 4 homers against Orioles in 1959
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Kohan Series UpdatesFebruary 17th, 2003 by Marv
TransGaming has done an update to the Kohan Series to fix some startup issues that users have been experiencing and added support for glibc 2.3.
TransGaming has done an update to the Kohan Series to fix some startup issues that users have been experiencing and added support for glibc 2.3.
Fans of Scorched Earth may find Scorched 3d of some interest. They have begone a port using SDL which will allow great flexible for them in the future. I can personally admit to wasting my childhood on the original game.
We received the news last week that Linux Game Publishing has released their version of Candy Cruncher, the addictive puzzle game from Pyrogon. The game comes in DVD packaging, and has a suggested retail price of £10.00, which inside sources tell me is around $15 USD.
You can pick it up from any of LGP's resellers, including TuxGames and LGP's online store.
James Hills has sent a press release announcing that A Tale in the Desert, a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from eGenesis, will launch on 15 February 2003 with a native Linux client alongside the Windows client. It is reported to be the first MMORPG to launch with a native client for Linux, and is most certainly the first Linux game to feature hot polygonal chicks in what appears to be ancient Egyptian garb. Like other MMORPGs, ATitD allows you to control a character with stats and an inventory. Unlike the rest, however, there is no combat. Instead you complete tasks (called "tests"), manage a network of businesses, and become reknowned for creating great works. They compare this style to the gamplay of Illuminati and Diplomacy. The game involves a story, which is revealed as you play, and when the story ends, so does the game. The client will be downloadable before the launch of the service on the 15th, and provides a free trial period of 24 hours of online activity or a month of service (whichever comes first). After that time, you'll have to pony up $13.95 per month to keep playing.
It is worth noting that the game will require a 3D accelerator. I've not seen anything yet on how well it works under Linux with the various cards available.
But wait, there's more! The online service is provided by a cluster of nine commodity PCs running Red Hat 8 and the LGPLed library Cal3D was extended by eGenesis during the creation of ATitD to include tangent space calculations (for environment-mapped bump-mapping). Their new version is called eCal3D. Other Linux tools used for the port were The GIMP, zlib, libpng, and (unsurprisingly) gcc.
For our German readers, we'd also like to point out that there will be a German-language server provided by MDO Games. For more information, head on over to Kemet.
You're still here? Well, perhaps you'd like some screenshots? How about the FAQ? Or this hot page of downloads?
Harjula pointed out a new source release for an existing commercial game, Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche Versus Ka-52 Hokum by Razorworks. Although I've never heard of this game, I have one data point indicating that is was a pretty decent game. You'll find a link to the source code along with other resources at the download section of the page. The source release at least makes possible a Linux port by a flock of dedicated Linux combat sim fans.
Note that you should read the LICENSE.TXT file before throwing yourself into the code. My quick read over the license, which Marv extracted for me from the Windows-centric zip/exe package, makes it sound like you're free to modify the source as long as you (a) do not distribute improvements without redistributing their license with it (b) do not profit, or allow anyone else to profit, from the source code, binaries, or improvements made to either, and (c) give any and all improvements back to Razorworks. I realize that most of you come to LinuxGames reguarly to obtain legal advice, and I thank you for that, but I'd like to remind you that IANAL*; read the license yourself and then decide if you want to play by their rules.
Without a doubt, the original game is required for doing most anything useful with this, but it still appears to be for sale online. Perhaps check your local game store bargain bins before purchasing online.
And, should you wish to hook up with other people looking to work on the source you'll find a "Now What?" thread on the SimHQ forums along with the original announcement.
* IANAL means "I am not a lawyer". That's dirty enough. Don't make it any worse.
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Remember that even though the engine is GPL, the game's data still remains proprietary.
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A true geek goal in life is to get posted on SlashDot, which is the reasoning behind X-TuxX-Tux is a gaunlet style game featuring open-source mascots which will run on various platforms. New featuers/changes in this release include:
Fixed Denial of service attack on server.
Added mouse control (now you can use FPS-likecontrols)
Added Chainsaw weapon & Bill Gates baddie to cut upwith said weapon.
No longer requires server to be started as a separateprocess.
Nvidia tweakers should be happy about the new release of YanC(Yet another nV Configurator) This version has the following changes:
Fixed critical storage bug
modules.conf support included (Side Band Adressing, AGP Fast Writes etc.)
Simple NVClock integration included (available if NVClock is present onyour system)
added Dutch localization
added Turkish localization
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added several new artifact and regular weapons
added floating eye
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many abuses prohibited
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corrected many non-fatal bugs
decreased IVAN's RAM usage greatly
doubled IVAN's compile speed
The weekly update of the NeverWinter Nights Linux Client has occured with a very long and detailed update:
Bugs. Dammit.
Probably of one of my personal favorite games to play, Serious Sam: The First Encounter has been updated to Beta 2. Bugs that have been fixed in this release include the following.
- Rocket launcher reports ammunition correctly, instead of being stuck at 50 or 100. Fixes Bug #243.
- Mouse input now "grabs" correctly when going from full screen to windowed and back. Fixes Bug #382.
- Viewpoint shouldn't "jump" when returning from console/menus/chat/etc anymore. Fixes Bug #282.
- Launcher script should respect symlinks better. Fixes Bug #280.
- Beta expirations updated for another month. Fixes Bug #361.
Pending bugs include "can't kill last boss" and "fall through the floor" bugs are still there with work arounds stated in the README. You grab it VIA loki-update or download the following filesssamtfe-beta2.sh.bin
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I have tried several of the procedures recommended in the replies and
I have encountered snags. I have kubuntu 10.04 (64 bit) and run XP (32
bit) under VirtualBox. I tried the method mentioned by Harold (using
the diskpart under DOS) but the utility would not "see" my USB drive.
I have no trouble accessing the USB under VB with windows explorer but
diskpart would only see the virtual harddrive that XP is installed on.
Strange ...
I then tried using microsoft's own USB creator
(Windows7-USB-DVD-tool). It took awhile to get the necessary packages
installed before I could run the MS tool, but once I did I hit another
hurdle. The MS tool kept saying that I did not have a valid iso.
WTF?!?! I found this post though:
The author mentions: "It appears there are two (possibly more)
"navigation buoys" within UDF-formatted ISOs that point to important
chunks of the image called Anchor Volume Descriptor Pointers (AVDPs).
The first AVDP is somewhere near the top of the image. The last AVDP
is located in what appears to be the last logical block of the image.
(My guess is this is to support bi-directional reading.) So assuming
each logical block of the image is 2048 bytes large, one could also
assume the last logical block is –2048 from the end of the file,
right? Well, that's what the tool assumes. It checks for the last AVDP
at the start of the last logical block, doesn't find it, and bombs
In the post you can download his tool to fix the UDF offset issue,
very easy to use. Once I did the MS tool had no trouble mounting the
ISO and copying the files to the USB. HOWEVER, it completed the copy
operation (after about 1 hour) and gave me an error about not being to
run the bootsect.exe. My copy of XP is 32 bit and the OS I am
attempting to put on the USB is 64 bit! I found a 32 bit bootsect file
online and used the the info in Orson's post to make the USB bootable
and started copying the files.
SO, hopefully when the files are done copying the stupid USB will
actually work. I will let you know how it goes.
thanks for all the replies!
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Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a widely renowned school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, the greatest scientist of the Victorian Age. The school is run by his son, Ernest, who has held to his father's policy that the small, exclusive college remain male-only. Violet sees her opportunity when her father departs for America. She disguises herself as her twin brother, Ashton, and gains entry.
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Some legacies are born, and some are created. When Wesley Smithart '15 came to Huntingdon as a freshman she was known as a legacy automatically because her mother, Elizabeth Couey Smithart '86, is an alumna (and a member of the Board of Trustees). But what she's done since coming to Huntingdon ensures that Wesley's legacy for the future is all her own. The SGA president and vice president, varsity cheerleader, Chi Omega women's fraternity treasurer, Huntingdon Ambassador, Huntingdon Host, Head Orientation Leader, Judicial Board Justice, Countess of Huntingdon Ball Committee Chair, Voice of Justice President, Food Service Committee Chair, and member of College Democrats, the Greek Honor Board, and the Campus Activities Board also carries two majors (religion and communication studies) and holds a 3.9 GPA. For two years in the spring she and members of Voice of Justice, an organization she helped to found on campus, held a 27-hour Stand for Freedom on the front steps of Pratt Hall to raise money for and awareness about modern-day slavery in the form of human trafficking. A quest for justice may be another one of those born legacies in Wesley, since her mom is an attorney and her dad is a circuit judge, but it's that pursuit that drives her professional ambition. After graduating from Huntingdon she hopes to combine her passions for justice and religious freedom and to earn degrees in law and divinity simultaneously. During the summer of 2013 she worked as a human trafficking intern for One Place Family Justice Center and Central Alabama Trafficking Task Force and in 2014 she worked with the law firm Balch and Bingham. But with all of this accomplishment and drive pulling her onward, she says what she loves most about Huntingdon are hallmarks of the College's own legacy: history, tradition, family, home. Legacies are meant to endure.
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We received a press release from Archie Comics yesterday announcing that VERONICA #202 will introduce Riverdale High's first openly-gay character, Kevin Keller, in a story titled "Isn't it Bromantic?" The issue sees America's favorite girl brunette, Veronica, pursuing Mr. Keller and him trying to let her down gently regarding his disinterest. The chase borne from misunderstanding ratchets up in hilarity after Kevin defeats Jughead in a burger eating contest, making Veronica fall even harder for him. Kevin Keller's introduction is a conscious effort by Archie Comics (as stated by its CEO, Jon Goldwater) to keep Archie reflective of teens' modern world and to make Riverdale current and inclusive.
I'm going to skip the discussion of how this reflects the changing times and bring up a very relevant problem I have with this storyline. Something I simply can't suspend my disbelief over. What girl on planet Earth crushes on a guy after he's won an eating contest? I mean, MAYBE after she's known him for a while, but… no, not even. It's like winning an award for dirtiest bathroom or filthiest laundry. An accomplishment? Maybe. Something to brag about to anybody but your buddies? Absolutely not. All the ladies in the Comic Vine community chime in here. Would you honestly be that attracted to a guy who's just sucked down 10 Whoppers and probably gotten every sort of ketchup, mustard and mayo on his shirt?
Then again, I recall seeing something about that Japanese Kobayashi dude who wins all the hot dog eating contests getting a lot of groupies, so what I do know? Anyway, see for yourself in VERONICA #202, which hits on September 1.
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Life & Death: Late-term abortion is more than a social issue
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Fresh Start: Results are the only true measure of success
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The Real Story: Obamacare pushes costs upward
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Sole Survivor: Manchin's status not hurt by election results
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Real Reasons: Longtime Democrats feel abandoned by party
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Quick Start: Obama should allow pipeline construction
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Question of filibusters should be reopened
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Big-spending groups trying to keep status quo
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Bold Solution
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The following is an archive of a post made to our
'vox mailing list'
by one of its subscribers.
I recently subscribed to the Debian-laptop list, and I see that some people
are having a hard time getting Debian to run on laptops. Those who have
older kernels especially have problems. And it looks like solving those
problems sometimes requires recompiling a kernel.
So I was curious about a couple of things.
1) Are there any Debian fans on this list who have given up trying to install
Debian on a laptop, and have instead installed a commercial distro with more
2) Are there laptop brands that are better for Linux and Debian?
I've read that the IBM Thinkpad was good for Linux, but some people claim that
this in part had to do with IBM trying to develop its server business. The
concern is that Lenovo might not be as motivated to make the Thinkpad Linux
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