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Yes, the Gaeshi is good. Problem is his jumps are awefully slow and I tend not to take to the air with him. So I don't get too many chances with that move. Same thing with the air slashes. Furthermore, all his specials (including the DM) leave him very wide open for punishment if blocked. The thing I don't get is why some of the tier rankings rate him very highly. There has to be something else good or effective with him to be rated this highly.

I know this game is a little old, but it kind of grew on me after the KOF2k3 and SVC hype wore out. So, anyone here good with Ukyo? I find him a really difficult character to play well, even against the CPU (long hangtime, few specials, poor recovery on many moves etc). Presently, the only thing I find useful abt him is standing/crouching A. My entire gameplan these days involves standing/crouching A, plus the occasaional throw and stand B. Specials are almost never used. Is there any other good style of play with this guy?

So, when's the divorce?

I access the EDK network using Shareaza and the download queues for EDK are ridiculously long. Give me BT and Gnutella anyday.

Actually, that's a really good idea. Easy way to make a fortune.

You get what you pay for. It's still watchable though. Beats paying for an expensive movie ticket anytime.

Authentic Chinese or Japanese for me. Not the Americanised junk.

Nice graphics. But pretty shallow gameplay.

I don't think libraries are going to anything. Unless the game source is available, and it can be compiled as a native Linux binary against those libs, which is how winelib works.

Shareaza 2.0 released under opensource!!! Hopefully, a Linux port soon http://www.shareaza.com/

HK? Then you haven't seen Taiwan (ROC). Not only do they have an entire industry of counterfeit products, they even have an industry of making products for counterfeiting products. A lot of the excellent ROM copiers and other cheap electronics are made in Taiwan.

Actually, Linux DOES enhance the p0rn XPrience because it supports more media formats out of the box than Windows.

Good luck. Send a copy to www.tldp.org too.

There's tons of Linux documentation at www.tldp.org. If you're going to write one, it should be something original, and not something that rehashes an existing HOWTO. Anyway, the most difficult parts about installing Linux are the disk partitioning and file system creation stages. Once those are taken care of, the rest of the installation is not too different from a Windows installation.

All service packs and hotfixes.

Do you have any hidden files which you did not take into consideration? How did you arrive at the 300MB value? Is the 2GB value the amount of disk space used, or the combined file size? Note that filesystems typically allocate disk space in fixed block sizes. So even if the file was 1 byte large, the smallest block size would be allocated, which usually is about 4KB. Although 300++MB -> 2GB is kind of stretching it.

Assembly language knowledge is not optional in creating emulators. Not only must you be proficient in it, you also have to know the instruction set and architecture inside-out. After all, an emulator is really a virtual machine that simulates the behavior of the target environment.

strictly speaking, it's not a "low-lev" format but zeroing out every sector on the disk (only HDD for ancient XT PCs need to be low-level formatted. All IDE/SCSI disk used today can handle their manage their own disk geometry). But basically, the answer is yes, you can start off a clean state by zeroing the disk. I assume you're referring to an "XP" cd. Well, search the usual warez sites, torrents if you need it. I can't really help you with that. nah i am not talking about that, as i said i have an original license, but it is an old one from when there were no availabla cds just preinstalled version " to avoid piracy" i am looking for an original cd, i guess i will have to ask microshaft abput that While you're at it, you should tell MS to shaft it for even selling such a ridiculous license in the first place. This whole "license but no CD" deal sounds no better than your average conjob.

strictly speaking, it's not a "low-lev" format but zeroing out every sector on the disk (only HDD for ancient XT PCs need to be low-level formatted. All IDE/SCSI disk used today can handle their manage their own disk geometry). But basically, the answer is yes, you can start off a clean state by zeroing the disk. I assume you're referring to an "XP" cd. Well, search the usual warez sites, torrents if you need it. I can't really help you with that.

Are you intending to wipe everything and reinstall? If so, get this boot floppy: http://www.toms.net/rb/ - follow the installation instructions from the site to transfer the disk image on a floppy disk. - reboot with that boot floppy, and follow the boot prompts (should be safe to use all the default values) - login as "root" (default password is "xxxx") - low-level format the disk (this may take some time) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda (assuming your hard disk is IDE) - type "fdisk /dev/hda". the fdisk interface is quite self-explanory. if you can work the DOS version, this one shouldnt be much of a problem. - create the necessary partitions. make sure you have at least one partition reserved for swap space (allocate 2 x sizeof total RAM for this). if you intend to copy files back and forth linux and windows and you're going to use NTFS for your windows partition, make sure you create another partition which you will need to format as FAT32 as NTFS write support isn't very reliable in Linux. as far as partitioning goes, you're done. you can simply power off to reboot. if you're going to put windows on that box, you will have to install it first before linux because windows will overwrite the MBR during the installation.

use a Linux boot disk or Live CD. Linux's fdisk is much more flexible than the dos version. http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

You're saying that as if the majority of people in prison are on death row. There aren't THAT many death row inmates to make that big of a difference. If you just look at yearly figures, it's not a big deal. But if death row didnt exist, and these ppl are given life sentences, then the figures become cumulative. And it does add up to make a difference in the long run.

Interesting to see that majority voted for a nay (as of 20/05 GMT 2000). Idealistically, I would say nay too, but realistically, it costs money to run a prison, and as prison population increases, operation costs would go up as well. That money has to come from somewhere, and that usually means from the taxpayer. I don't like the idea of my tax money being used to keep some degenerate scum alive...so I would have to say a yay, although the sort of crimes that would warrant a death penalty, and the amount of power given to judges to award death penalities is debatable.

If you just want to experiment, get a livecd. No installation or messy partitioning needed. One of the most full-featured livecds is knoppix (www.knoppix.org). If you want to install and it's convenitnet, get a more recent distro. Linux distros improve significantly with each release. For the other stuff you're looking for, they're likely to be on the distro's CD: media playing = mplayer / xine media encoding = mencoder (likely to be the same package as mplayer) cd burning (command-line) = cdrecord cd burning (gui) = k3b / x-roast partitioning = parted, e2fsprogs, ntfsprogs (all command-line tools, I don't know of any gui ones). Have fun.

1. People make comparisons to determine which is the product best suited to their needs. This is a fact of consumer life, whether IT related or not. 2. "It frickin works" That would really depend on your definition of "works", wouldn't it? Would you consider a system that advertised your personal, private info to the rest of the world as "working"? 3. Service Pack 2 I don't know how you arrived at the conclusion that SP2 would be better (are you an MS beta tester or maybe you have tried the release candidate?) but historically, MS service packs have been known to break compatibility and introduced problems of their own. 4. All systems have their share of security flaws. This is why exposing the source is more benificial than detrimental since the auditing becomes an open and transparent process. Anyone with the tech know-how can identify bugs (security related or otherwise) and fixes made efficiently. It is not surprising to find patches within hours after vulnerabilities are identified. Which other development model do you know of gives such high turn-around rate for bug fixes? Are you aware that the hole which was recently exploited by the infamous Sasser worm was first made public nearly half a year ago and only last month did MS provide a series of patches to address the issue?