{"id":376,"date":"2005-10-26T22:55:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2007-02-28T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T18:04:30","slug":"games-with-the-penguin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Games with the penguin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a slight misjudgement on Sunday, I ended up carting my Windows box to church to play a DVD. This left me using my Linux box at home as I couldn&#8217;t be bothered to plumb my Windows box back in. For practical things such as reading email and browsing the web, this was fine as I used it for that anyway. However, my Linux box was missing a DVD player and any large scale games. Instead of plugging the Windows box back in, I decided I would remedy the shortcomings of my Linux installation. A little rummaging around resulted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtek.chalmers.se\/groups\/dvd\/\">Ogle<\/a> and a Linux binary for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsoftware.com\/games\/quake\/quake3-gold\/\">Quake III<\/a>. Fortunately RPM made Ogle installation a piece of cake, and before I knew it I was watching <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0301357\/\">Goodbye Lenin<\/a> on DVD on my Linux box &#8211; at a nice smooth and regular 25fps! This did, however, delay the installation of Quake III though! When I finally got round to it, this was also very easy as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsoftware.com\/\">id<\/a> had made the installation really easy &#8211; now all I have to do is update <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evenbalance.com\/\">punkbuster<\/a>, or I&#8217;ll be doomed to just spectate games on the internet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a slight misjudgement on Sunday, I ended up carting my Windows box to church to play a DVD. This left me using my Linux box at home as I couldn&#8217;t be bothered to plumb my Windows box back in. For practical things such as reading email and browsing the web, this was fine as&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=376\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}