BSD & Gaming

DEFCON by Introversion Software is a great game and doesn’t seem to get the notice that I think it deserves. It has a linux kernel version of the game that works great under FreeBSD. In fact if you install it via the ports it’s a quick simple install.

You don’t have to buy the game to play it, you can try it out for free. It’s a hell of a lot of fun and the soundtrack definitely has that creepy feel that sets the right mood, you know the end is coming and all you can do is try to survive and keep as much intact as you can. One nice feature is being able to play solo or online, it’s your choice with lot’s of options for online multiplayer games and even mods to change things up.

The game itself is not very big in size only 59mb. Don’t let that fool you though it’s more fun than many games taking up gigs of space. Windows and Mac versions available as well. I bought the download copy and it was well worth the price (currently around $16.60).

Try it out you won’t be sorry! http://www.everybody-dies.com

Some games are just so much fun that it’s great to go back into my collection and dig them out again for another round.

Using WINE I installed Lords of the Realm II. I didn’t have any issues with the install and the process took relatively no time. I found a no-cd fix for it a long time ago which requires you to copy over extra files from the disk. But the advantage is I can put my cd back into storage for safekeeping.

Now that my installation is done I have the game almost ready to go. The next step is to setup winecfg to run the game in a window (personal preference), and I found the sound would not work unless I set it up for emulation mode. After that I was all ready to play.

The game is fun and addictive, and for me it’s definitely in the top end of my all time favorites. There are not many games that have much staying power, but this one does.

If you don’t have a copy of this game and want to some inexpensive entertainment, just head over to eBay, there are usually a few copies for sale. Enjoy!

I liked Mozilla before they split off Firefox and then renamed the suite from Mozilla to “Seamonkey” blegh! What a name. I refuse to use it, sorry in my opinion that name is just lame. I can’t believe they couldn’t come up with something better. Ah well… I rant…. blah blah blah.

Anyway… I’ve used tabbed browsing for ages and I prefer to have the close button to the far right in the tab bar. The recent changes of a new page button, a list all button, and having a close button for each and every tab is just annoying. I don’t need all that crap. So every time I setup firefox on a new computer here are two things I do right away.

First – edit the userChrome.css file for your profile by adding these lines after the
@namespace line:

.tabs-container > stack {display:none!important;}
.tabs-newtab-button {display: none !important;}

Second – go to about:config and filter for browser.tabs.closeButtons and change the value to “3“.

TADAH! Once again the tab bar is cleaned of all the junk I don’t want and my close button is on the right where I prefer it. This works great in FreeBSD so I assume it should work fine for windowsz and linux based os’s.

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