That happened to me for a while. Re-sub or give another email.
Tyjenks
3302
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI for the PC is $14.95 until Sunday from Direct2Drive.
Cubit
3303
Interesting. Troy’s write-ups have me intrigued at that price.
Synergy is even less maintained than Multiplicity, I think the last major release was 2006 or something.
I use Synergy, because if I am running two machines, it’s very likely one of them is a Linux box. If you only use Windows, and don’t mind paying money (less, this weekend) you might want to use Multiplicity. Config will probably be easier, and you can drag and drop files between machines, (synergy shares a clipboard, but you need to use SSH or a shared folder for files).
Of course, if you have two machines, at least one should be running Linux.
While Synergy isn’t really being updated anymore, it still works great in my experience. I was really disheartened by the 2006 date of the last update and anticipated major issues because I wanted to link a Windows 7-x64 and MacOS Leopard setup but Synergy installed easily and worked fine. I’m running just the basic Synergy server on Windows 7 and SynergyKM on the Mac side.
Of course, if you have two machines, at least one should be running Linux.
While I disagree about that, I do think that being Windows-only is a huge failing of Multiplicity. When I want multiple monitors all running Windows, I just run Windows on one box with multiple monitors connected. While there certainly are some scenarios where I could imagine someone wanting to have multiple Windows boxes set up like this, it seems far more likely to me (and maybe this is my developer bias showing) that people would more often want to use this functionality to span different operating systems without resorting to perf-killing virtual machine usage.
wumpus
3306
perf-killing virtual machine usage
Yeah, good thing I have that 4 Ghz quad-core CPU to play MP3s and browse the web at the same time.
Have you priced DDR2 RAM recently? 8 GB RAM is a hundred bucks.
That’s a good price, but: anyone have any idea if it’s still got the dealbreaker activation-based DRM when bought through Gamersgate (which typically doesn’t have DRM)? I’d have bought it long ago if it didn’t have that particular millstone around its neck.
I’ve got 8 gb of RAM in the quadcore Windows 7 x64 machine I’m typing this post on right now, it doesn’t make perf-killing virtual machines any less perf-killing. Ever tried to do 3D modeling or 3D game programming on a hosted virtual machine? The whole world isn’t web apps and web app development.
wumpus
3309
The whole world isn’t web apps and web app development.
Tell that to the world, man.
Obviously if you’re doing what is effectively 3D gaming in a VM, then that’s a different argument entirely.
No, it isn’t a “different argument”, it is the one I started with in the first place before you came in assuming I was talking about web browsing and playing mp3s or whatever. Virtual machines are a complete performance killer (when they even work at all) for the type of work I do.
wumpus
3311
Except in the extremely narrow case you’ve established (effectively, “I can’t play Crysis in a virtual machine”), VMs aren’t “performance killing”. Maybe in 2004, yes.
Benhur
3312
I picked up Too Human at the Target secret shelf for $20 yesterday and I am really digging the game so far, bad dialogue and all. They also had Ace Combat 6 for $15. Has anyone tried that one? How is it?
God, those Steam bundle package sales are The Devil.
— Alan
I swear, 80% or more of my Steam games list now comes from these mega-collections or big-percentage sales and I will probably never even get around to most of them. But at $4-5 a game, what the hell, maybe I’ll randomly pick one on some lazy weekend afternoon…
sinfony
3315
Do you read the things you’re responding to, or even your own responses? It’s difficult to tell.
wumpus responds best to random boldface emphasis a la John Dvorak.
I really try to go out of my way to make my Qt3 posts non-personally-offensive (though I don’t always succeed) but you are a completely self-absorbed twat that prattles on incessantly about things you only half understand.
This has nothing to do with Crysis. The stuff I am working on runs on an iPhone and in terms of 3D geometry involved it is orders of magnitude (look it up, don’t assume you know what it means after hearing about it once like you did with NP-hard/NP-complete) less complicated than Crysis and it STILL isn’t suitable for a VM solution when half my tools are Windows and half are MacOS and all are 3D-based. Despite token support for some 3D acceleration, VMs just fail to properly function in this situation, even when I’m doing what is effectively OpenGL 1.1 level stuff. I won’t even get into the fact that you can’t legally run MacOS (other than the GUI-less server version) as a guest OS within a virtual machine because while that is a factor for me in practice, I still wouldn’t be able to use VMs effectively for this even if it weren’t.
Beyond games there are entire classes of software applications like scientific computing (which increasingly uses things like massive multithreading and CUDA) where I would never want to be developing inside a virtual machine. Yes, virtual machines work great for web development, web development testing, web hosting, etc, and I even use virtual machines quite often when I am doing that type of development, but again, that is far from being the only thing developers do with computers these days.
Bah! I had my credit card out and everything before realizing that it’s only Titan Quest that’s on sale. Immortal Throne is still $15.
Both were on sale late last year. Too bad. I don’t think they repeat a sale often.
wumpus
3320
but you are a completely self-absorbed twat that prattles on incessantly about things you only half understand.
Actually, I understand perfectly, I just think you’re taking your sample size of 1 and generalizing it to the world. Virtual machines don’t work for you, personally? Well then it must be a bad idea for everyone! Never mind that what you’re doing is incredibly narrow today (OS X with its required hardware dongle, plus 3D) – and you’re assuming VMs will never be able to directly talk to video hardware tomorrow. This won’t always be true.
Sorry if I didn’t communicate this clearly enough earlier, but I think your personal attacks are out of line.
Despite token support for some 3D acceleration, VMs just fail to properly function in this situation, even when I’m doing what is effectively OpenGL 1.1 level stuff
Filed under “duh”. Whether it’s playing Crysis or drawing a single OpenGL sphere on the screen, it’ll be brutally slow either way, because there’s no access to 3D video hardware in current VMs.
Let’s revisit this discussion in four years and see who was right. Hint: it won’t be you.
