hardware issue -- update

[Matthew Carpenter]

My Quake3Arena and Unreal Tournament are delicious on SuSE 8.2pro for my
NVidia GF4 Ti4200.

But my favorite of the two is Q3A.  


On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 19:51:33 -0600
Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:

> dep wrote:
> > quoth Matthew Carpenter:
> > 
> > | BTW-  How was the new SuSE computer received?  Did he like it?  I
> > | trust the trip back was copescetic (if a bit sniffly)?
> > 
> > the new suse machine -- to bring everyone else up to speed, i took a 
> > 2-gig athlon machine loaded with suse 8.2 to my sister and her two 
> > children, a 10-year-old girl and 16-year-old young man for christmas -- 
> > was instantly beloved. my niece got things figured out on her own to 
> > the extent that she was giving her mom tech support; it went even more 
> > swimmingly for my nephew who, of course, was interested in linux games, 
> > so i'll have to locate some of those, oh joy.
> > 
> If you are looking for commercial games, I like www.tuxgames.com .  They
> have a pretty comprehensive list of the commercial games that folks like to
> play. The "nethack" games can be fun for a while.  I like Atlantik (a
> monopoly clone) and freeciv.  At 16, your nephew may be into the first
> person shooters, which I know nothing about except that the graphics make me
> nauseous and the concepts make me feel about the way you do with the flu.
> 
> > the trip back was actually worse than the trip out, in that the 
> > ibuprofen wore off in four hours but the truck held five hours' gas. so 
> > i had an hour of literally feeling my temperature going back up. which, 
> > anyway, gave me the pleasure of enjoying it going back down again. a 
> > pattern that, dammit, continues.
> > 
> Is there a rule that says that you must drive to the bottom of the gas?
> 
> > i'd go to the doctor to get diagnosed with pneumonia except that she 
> > would likely tell me to go to the hospital, the place where people who 
> > have pneumonia get really sick and then die. which is not in my current 
> > plans for the year.<g>
> 
> I have spent the last two years tutoring nursing students (of which my wife
> is one).  I spent a little over five years as a paramedic, so I understand 
> something of the medical system, I am scared to death of being in a
> hospital. 
>   I think the better hospitals provide care that can be fairly described as 
> VERY BAD.  The typical hospitals just don't bear thinking about.
> 
>      -- Alma
> 
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Matthew Carpenter 
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