Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> No, as a matter of fact I was curious enough to track down some other threads
> of yours, and I saw that you were talking about being on a small net with
> your kids. That's kind of where I'm at now; except I've still got another
> windoze machine and haven't yet loaded LM81 on it. You are giving me a real
> good idea of what to expect, though... :)
I'm glad I didn't confuse ya!
One odd thing I've had happen intermittently, is that just maybe 1 in 10
sessions, KDE's system guard will pop up...I don't crash, or lockup, but I
have to restart D2... Not sure what its supposed to be finding that is
objectionable...
Oh, if you have the Bastille firewall installed, nobody else on the LAN can
join my game if I'm hosting unless I issue a:
service bastille-firewall stop
before starting D2: LOD...
I can -join- any game anyone else is hosting on the LAN though. As soon as I'm
through playing, I just issue a:
service bastille-firewall start
to protect my system once again.
I just know that there is a way to edit the bastille config file to except the
machines on the LAN but I've not found it yet, and its not that hard to turn
bastille off and on... ;-)
> I'm real glad to hear that you've had plenty of success on the local lan with
> Diablo 2. I think that any TCP/IP game stands a good chance of working at
> this point, from what you are telling me. I did'nt expect to get in touch
> with anyone with your level of experience and winex on this list; it was a
> real nice bonus. I appreciate it greatly :)
This list *rules*...I'd have been lost in Linux without it!
> It was BG2 right out of the box. I've been meaning to install TOB and get
> everything upgraded, but I haven't taken that step yet. I've been distracted
> by a " automatic installation" project, where I'm trying to get the perfect
> installation configuration file created, that has all the packages
> preselected. That means I've reinstalled about three or four times; I think
> I've got it now. The BG2 test was on the last installation, so I've got to
> reinstall it on this one. No problem there....I love watching the
> installation screen !!
Thanks, like I said, next time I'm at the local Wal-mart, I'm gonna try to
find the origianl BG2 and grab it. Oh...did you install it onto a Windoze
partition first, then run it from there first, or (it looks like) you
installed it all from Linux (onto a Linux partition)? Thx!
> It's truly an odd sensation. After 20 years of this stuff, I finally get to
> see a native Winblows app run on a Unix kernel. You think about it for such
> a long time, it gives you a wierd but gratifying sensation when you actually
> see it happen. The windows look so odd sitting there in an Enlightenment
> screen
I know just where you are coming from... ;-)
> I don't know if I'm making sense here...
Absolutely! I was awed the first time I got Starcraft running. Darned near
speechless (which all my friends would tell you is a truly rare event!!!)
<grin>
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