(OT^2) -- [ale] [OT][j/k]Help!!!

[Synco Gibraldter]

on the subject of addictive games, i've started playing a game called
ectroverse... http://217.8.141.79:9990/ << check it out if you have a few
weeks to throw away.


On 5 Mar 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> At the moment, I don't think thin-client/diskless boot over wireless is
> possible. It needs too much driver data to get up and going and all of
> it seems to need things like filesystems and other OS delivered stuff.
>
> But a linux-based game pod in the den sounds great!
>
> Frozen-bubble has stolen my wife as well. I can wake up in the middle of
> the night and can still hear the "music" replaying in my rapidly frying
> memory. My 4 year old sat in front of it for over an hour and was
> dragged to dinner.
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:26, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> > My wife has taken over my Linux box and made it into a "frozen-bubble"
> > machine!!!  She hijacked my session (auto-login to make things easier
> > for her) and now she leaves frozen bubble going in full screen mode all
> > the time!  I finally had to switch to another console and fire off
> > another X-windows session!  Argh!!  :)
> >
> > Great game.  My thanks to whoever recommended it.
> >
> > On a more serious note, has anyone ever tried making a machine boot off
> > a wireless NIC?  I'm assuming it is impossible with a laptop b/c of
> > PCMCIA controller issues (and b/c I don't have a laptop to put in the
> > kitchen) but was wondering if anyone had tried it with a PCI wireless
> > card.  If so, that would rock b/c I could put a computer in the
> > kitchen/den area running as a thin-client simply to play frozen-bubble
> > and to browse the web.
> >
> > Anyway, thanks to any and all who respond.
> >
> > Jonathan Glass
> >
> >
> >
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