I didn’t buy it. It’s a work loaner. Shut up, it runs Gentoo and it was free, for now.
Linux
I get a lot of email. Read again, A LOT of email. I am subscribed to quite a few mailing lists for a bunch of open source projects and Linux distros. For the most part, I read and delete mail rather quickly. Sometimes too quickly. A few times after reading something in my non-mailing list mailboxes, I wish I wouldn’t have deleted so quickly. Thank goodness mutt is has so many configuration options.
folder-hook . 'macro index d
folder-hook =INBOX$ 'macro index d "
folder-hook =INBOX.Daubenspeck$ 'macro index d "
That is all it takes. The first line is the default catch all. In my example, it tells d to act normally and delete files without the trash. The second and third line does the work for the two mailboxes that I need a trash folder for.
Add one more game to the list: Guild Wars Nightfall. It almost like a standard MMORPG, but there are no, repeat no, monthly costs to play. Not only that, but it is also supported (and runs very well) in Cedega.
Chalk up another game that works in Linux.
So far I made it through the tutorial/training mission, and am just about ready to get started in the real game. This game seems to be much more story oriented then other MMORPG’s, which (to me) seem to be a bunch of randomized tasks and mini-missions that have to be completed. I could be wrong, but so far it’s great.
I’m just waiting for a party member or two to join up so we can get a heck of a war party started.
After a few hours of messing around with Cedega, I finally got all of the Steam powered games running on the new Linux box. I tried messing with so many things I nearly forgot what the heck I changed. In the end, it turned out to be an audio problem. If anyone out there is running AMD64 Linux and using the 32-bit emulation packages to run Cedega, please, please, PLEASE make sure you have the “Use MMap” option unchecked. It was that simple. Uncheck and games run wonderfully.
The best part was that I didn’t even have to reinstall anything. All I had to do was scp my ~/.cedega directory from the old machine to the new and run. It was just that easy. The directory and all of the sub-directories was about 12G in total size….