utterly OT

There was some guy on ausmoto who was involved in writing it. <sigh> I
guess I'll have to stop being lazy and go google it.

JL
RTS = Real Time Strategy, but what's TBS ?

 

GP500. Wonder if it'd work on my eeePC?...

 

Turn Based Strategy.


G-S

 

Risk et al ?

 

I've put XP on mine... I'd love one of the new ones though.

 

Remember to wipe it down afterwards OK ?

 

Civilization (even at release IV) is a turn based stratagy game.

But generically speaking risk 'type' games.



G-S

 

Ditto. Now I need to upgrade the RAM and find a cheap 16G SD card.

They are an amazing little beastie. Fast to boot, and rocks along
nicely with open office.

The first notebook I feel comfortable carrying on the pushy.

I'd rather have left it running Linux, but the beastly network at w*rk
requires a windoze program.

Moike

 

Kinda defeats the purpose of it though, doesn' tit?

 

Ta that's the one, where can i buy it I wonder ;-)

JL

 

I don't mind slumming it sometimes...

 

I bought a 1GB stick from Techbuy and an 8GB SD card. About $140 in January.

I've tried Ubuntu and eeeXubuntu (I can still boot that one from a USB
drive).

XP is handy when you do the occasional bit of computer work too. I don't
have a car, so what I carry has to fit in my dilly bag and be able to
put up with a few knocks. EeePC was/is perfect. Handy if they have a
wireless router too.

Just moved into a new place and was quoted 5-8 working days by TPG to
transfer the broadband over. The eeepc found that one of the neighbors
had an unsecured wireless connection. My savior... : )

(Amazingly, TPG got my connection moved in less than 12 hours.)

 

http://tinyurl.com/4gqq62 ; )

Updates I have are;
gp500update1.exe 11.4MB
http://www.x31.net/GP500/patches/Gp500Update1.exe

gp500winXP2XXX.zip 577KB
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/LAVirtuais/gp500winXP2XXX.zip

http://www.gamecopyworld.com/ for no-CD cracks.

http://www.gp500store.co.uk/modules/news/ for more interesting stuff.

 

I thought that might be the case - thanks.

Thanks for the links.

JL

 

Yeah someone near me does too.. I don't use it tho, no point in that, I
have my own.. it'd be handy if I had a limit on my usage I guess.

 

See, being such a techno-dunce, I didn't realise that my wireless-enabled
laptop needed an actual wireless account of its own. I thought that wireless
simply meant you could access your dial-up or broadband account without
actually having wires (shut UP, geeks!) How to explain it?.... um.... ok, to
me, the concept of "wireless" was synonymous with "cordless", as in cordless
telephones... Somehow in my head I had this idea that there's a big
universal stream of information out there, and you can dip your dipper in
and take information out of it if you have a dipper of SOME kind. For
several days I was merrily and unwittingly dipping into a neighbour's
wireless stuff, thinking it was mine because I had a dipper. One day that
wireless account suddenly became secure, and I realised what I'd been doing.
How embarrassment.

It's extraordinary, you know - I am actually quite intelligent in many ways.
Technology has never been one of them. Don't even TRY to act surprised,
Yeebs! <giggle>

betty, wondering if this response ought to be
in the "Some have to work hard at being stupid,
others can do it effortlessly" thread.

 

Not being smart betty, but it is.

Using your analogy you have the phone (router) attached to the wall and
power. At this point in both scenarios an existing wired signal is
converted to radio waves or whatever.

You then have the PC as the "cordless handset", so to speak.

Some providers do have "wireless in a dippable continuous stream" as you
described for which TV would be a decent analogy.

 

<slaps Yeebers> See, now you're REALLY confusing me by telling me that my
wrongheadedness could be right in certain situations. Leave those bloody
goalposts where they were and don't confuse me any further with
hypotheticals!
;-)

I stole the neighbours' wireless allocation (or whatever it's called)
through my genuine misunderstanding of the way things work (and the ease
with which I could unwittingly do the wrong thing - WOW!). One day I will
learn to live with the guilt <grin>.

betty

 

Not generally no, unless youe a HSDPA option on your laptop (mine does
but that's relatively uncommon). You most probably have wifi which
just needs to connect to your ADSL modem/router (assuming it has wifi
support).

You are fundamentally correct. Wireless does indeed mean without wires
and substitutes for having a cable plugged into something.

For practical purposes in Oz you have two "types" (1) of wireless

The first one is analogous to the cordless phone - instead of having
to plug your laptop "into the wall" (your adsl modem) you connect to
it wirelessly (also known as Wifi, 802.11a b or g etc). For this to
work you need a valid internet connection to connect to (as you seem
to have found out that doesn't necessarily have to be yours though you
may be able to connect to your neighbours - same as used to happen
with cordless phones until they started encrypting them Almost any
laptop newer than 5 yrs old should have this built in as standard. The
"base station" has a limited range of a couple of hundred metres(2)
same as a cordless phone.

The second one is analogous to a mobile phone (in fact in many cases
it IS a mobile phone to all intents and purposes). In this case you
get data connectivity exactly the same as you get mobile connectivity
- you sign up for the relevant network and if there's coverage where
you're sitting you have internet. Like the mobile networks coverage
isn't a 100% but it's usually pretty good. There are a number of
flavours of this version which range from things like using 3, Telstra
and etc's mobile network, to things like Unwired and WiMax offerings.

JL
(1) note this is the non technical explanation, I'm aware of the
various versions within these sets
(2) yes yes I know there are ways of extending that

 

You didn't steal anything. If they were silly enough to leave an
unsecured wireless transmission running, then bad luck to them.

Having said that, I did the same in the other direction. Moved to
Hobart and for the first time in a long time I was renting. Can't put
in cables, so went wireless for the first time. Set up the network and
left it unsecured. Then started to wonder why my net connection was so
slow. I hadn't sussed out wireless as it doesn't have the data speed I
need at work so I had ignored it. I got the network up and didn't
really investigate beyond that.

About a month later I was poking around in the wireless software and
thought "Hmmm, why are there 3 connections on this network?".

So I decided to secure the network. I then noticed for the next few
weeks the 3rd person still trying to connect til they finally gave up.
I don't think it cost us anything, so good luck to him/her