[PLUG] Games and Linux and Life

[drew wymore]

On 11/6/06, Alan Olsen <alan.olsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/6/06, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > The one gamelike addiction I permit myself is Sudoku puzzles out
> > > of the paper, but even there it was more satisfying to write a
> > > solver in Perl (which has solved every puzzle so far, though a
> > > 16x16 5 star from the Oregonian takes almost a minute to solve
> > > by machine, and hours by hand).  Still, that is time taken away
> > > from other things.
> > >
> > > The reason there are so few games for Linux may be because Linux,
> > > and creativity in general, are much more engaging games.  Perhaps
> > > if we developed some game-like debugging tools, then the young
> > > folk spending kilo-hours looking for monsters in mazes could be
> > > looking for buffer overflows instead.
> > >
> > > Keith
> > >
> > > --
> > > Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com         Voice (503)-520-1993
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> >
> > Well said Keith. I think you hit the nail on the head. I play games but
> I
> > do
> > so as a distraction from writing code, debugging said code and generally
> > trying to learn more about Linux then I do about how to get the latest
> gun
> > in Unreal Tournament.
>
>
> Games are also one of the best ways to shake out the bugs in an X
> configuration/driver.



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