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Quote from: Ghills on April 07, 2012, 11:14:53 pm

I had to use something completely inferior to Linux recently, and my computer is much slower ever since.

FTFY.

Mego was disgusted by an inferior OS recently.

Two can edit quotes to reflect personal preference. Vista was kinda bloated but if you had a computer that could handle it, it worked just fine. Vista's main problem was the PoS Walmart computers that would come pre-installed with Vista and like 500MB of RAM and then, for some reason, not work well. Windows 7 is literally Windows 6.1 (where Vista was Windows 6) if you pay attention to Microsoft's version numbers. They did trim some bloat, but most of what they did to "fix" 7 was that by the time people got their hands on Windows 7, Microsoft had told the prebuilt computer manufacturers "Stop that you dicks" and most people upgrading on their own had also upgraded their own computers to handle Vista.

Anyways, requesting (re? I forget) dorfing. Grath - preferably Male - Don't particularly care.

it happened again but with none of the same conditions.

A werewolf was happily locked in his bedroom for about a year.  Every month he would wolf out and zip back and forth in his room, then he would change back and admire his fine door for a month.  He'd come back not thirsty, so i totally expected him to just go on this way forever.  About a year after i got him locked away i got a bunch of cancellation announcements and he's out of his room murdering all my soap makers. 

I'm in a serene biome, and no ghosts are on the unit list. 

He only managed to kill 2 of my soap makers before returning to normal.  i then atom smashed him.  So how did he get out?

So what you're asking is... Who let the were-dogs out?

In Deathgate II, we should enslave a group of vampires, feed them animals/barrels of blood so they may survive, then when we break into the Candy Store, we unleash them as a blitzkrieg unit upon the Clowns. They'll never know what hit them.

OR convert the entire fortress into vampires by 'milking' the vampires (via training spears) into the main drinking water reservoir.

Quote from: Grath on January 16, 2012, 12:41:01 pm

Quote from: Mego on January 16, 2012, 12:20:27 pm

So, funny story. I opened up Dwarf Fortress to play more of my turn today. (funny inorite?) Well, I was quite confused when there were no fortresses named "Shashmebzuth" on the Continue Playing menu. I started freaking out, until I realized I had been playing the turn on the Linux side of my computer. I'm on Windows now. Linux can do read/write operations on NTFS filesystems, but Windows can't even detect the existence of ext4 filesystems. That means, I have to reboot into Linux, copy the save into my Windows DF folder, and then go back to Windows.

FORTRESS PROGRAMMERS! I NEED AN EXT4 READER FOR WINDOWS!

Better solution: Just keep the save in the Windows DF version, then do a symlink of the save folder in the NTFS partition into your Linux DF folder. Then you just have one save folder between the two versions and problem solved.

Translation:  Blah blah technobabble blah science wizardry jargon blah blah strange words.

Non-Technobabble Translation: Windows and Linux store files using different methods. Linux has a way to understand how Windows stores files, but nobody has yet made a way for Windows to understand how Linux stores files. Therefore, to be able to easily play Dwarf Fortress in either Windows or Linux, store the save files in the DF folder in Windows, and then tell Linux to pretend that the save files folder in the Windows DF folder is also in the DF folder in Linux.

I'd offer my help of an EXT4 reader, but I still have another year and a half before I even get my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and my college is solely a Linux shop so I don't know how to do that kind of low-end stuff in Windows.

So, funny story. I opened up Dwarf Fortress to play more of my turn today. (funny inorite?) Well, I was quite confused when there were no fortresses named "Shashmebzuth" on the Continue Playing menu. I started freaking out, until I realized I had been playing the turn on the Linux side of my computer. I'm on Windows now. Linux can do read/write operations on NTFS filesystems, but Windows can't even detect the existence of ext4 filesystems. That means, I have to reboot into Linux, copy the save into my Windows DF folder, and then go back to Windows.

FORTRESS PROGRAMMERS! I NEED AN EXT4 READER FOR WINDOWS!

Better solution: Just keep the save in the Windows DF version, then do a symlink of the save folder in the NTFS partition into your Linux DF folder. Then you just have one save folder between the two versions and problem solved.

Sign me up.
Name: 'Grath'
Profession: 'Arrow Catcher' (Unarmed Wrestler) [or anything sufficiently awesome and/or dwarfy, as deemed by the overseer when I'm being dorfed.]

Hooray!

If nothing else arises as a challenge for Battlefailed: Open the clowncar and colonize it?

If the rest of the turns on the current list go quickly, I could take a turn as long as it started by like the 26th or so, but I'll be too busy to play any DF starting on the 29th.