Re: Sim City - Mac or PC?

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:47:24 +0100, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Woody)
wrote:

And the OEM copies?

Nope. No OEM or box shifted copies. the only legit copies will be with
things such as the eee.

Ok thanks. I'll tell my mate and he'll have to stock up .. ;-)

Makes good business sense from their point. They really don't want
people staying on XP, but they really really dont want a popular linux

I thought MS were 'involved' in a Linux of some sort?

I find it sits there with a big fat yellow question mark more often than
not. Obviously more problem when it is a network device!

Interestingly I have an SMC USB > Ethernet device that is
automatically detected by XP so it's easy to get round that one. I got
one off eBay after I saw my mates and how handy it was .. mine came
from Australia! ;-)


I do get your point there. Although I disagree on vista. Again you find
xp more 'intuative' because you know where things are. I think vista
actually wins from a no knowledge point of view.

You might be right.

It's small, granted but isn't bad considering (but mine has 2G RAM
now).

Mine just has the default 512. I didn't find a reason to upgrade it.

I suppose not with the std Linux. I thought the eee wouldn't mind a
bit extra for XP, minimize the use of the HDD etc.


I was asking Jenny today how much of an issue not having the real MSN
and particularly no cam would be to her? She said "quite a bit" as she
used that quite a lot with her friends and boyfriend. As she uses it
more than me atm that could be awkward.

I am not saying there is no msn camera support, just that it wasnt the
sort of thing I knew about as I wouldn't use it

Understood. But before I revert back to Linux I'll need to get that
one qualified .. I'll check and maybe ask on the eeePC forum.

That is not suprising. Especially with N networks, which are about the worst
technology for that problem.

Oh.

It would be interesting to see what a mess they made.

I'll sort summat out (as it looks from your experiments below it might
be a goer).

Anyway. After doing so much of my OU that I bored myself with it, I
whipped out the eee, and downloaded the spectrum thing. I tried to
install the developer tools, which didn't work and on the second time
through I read the error message, which told my they were already
installed (oops - forgot that!)

Doh! So you had done that previously? Was that the SDK I mentioned
previously?

Then I built the spectrum thing, which failed.

'Built' ..?

Then I downloaded libUSB
and built that. That worked. Then I built the spectrum tools again, and
there was no error.

More building ..?

I tried running them (as there were a couple of programs, different
modes). They both said 'No wispy device'. Which I found faintly amusing!

;-)

Anyway, I think they are built and running ok, but they don't do
anything without Mr Wispy.

Ok, well, I'll see what I can do. ;-)

All the best .. (and thanks for testing that for me).

T i m

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