November 22, 2004

A Fedora Laptop and MGS3

Fedora wins out on laptop installation

Don't get me wrong, I like the Red Hat distribution well enough, but I really wanted to try something other than RH on that little Amity CN to have another linux OS to compare.

But ultimately, Red Hat had the installer that would run an ftp install from floppies.

At Stephen's suggestion, I went back to FC1 and used their floppies to do an FC1 install(turns out you couldn't do FC3 because of a kernel change). The initial directory issues weren't because of the extra // going on(as mentioned in a previous post), but that I hadn't provided a full enough path to the install files.

Oops, my bad.

So I'm sitting happy with RHFC1 running a 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernel. I've already downloaded 2.6 to see if it has any added benefit, but I'm guessing I'm going to get more of a performance boost first by streamlining the boot process(bye bye sendmail!).

Tami bought a tiny optical mouse for her machine, which is small enough(1.5-2"x1.0" or so) that I may add it to mine to see if it is picked up. If so, I just may add a gui back to it. But for now, happy CLI-ness.

MGS3 Update(Spoilers)

I'm not sure how far into the game I am, but I've beaten back Ocelot, The Pain(Beekeeper gone horribly, horribly wrong), The Fear(circus freak gone freaky freaky wrong), The End (What do you mean, he's photosynthetic?!), and just last night, I made to and took out the Fury(Astronauts with jetpacks and flamethrowers don't mix).

I won't spoil the story for anyone, but I do want to talk about fighting The End, because I thought he defined what many people wanted in a major boss for many years. In many games, when you face a boss, you're in a rather cramped environment. For the end, the boss-field(the area where you square off), is a forest, foothill, and hilltop. Three areas as large as most board levels.

The End is well over a hundred years old and is considered to be the "Father of sniping". He is an expert at camoflague and even with the Thermal googles, he's hard to pickup because he has a below normal body temperature. There are probably at least 20 sniping locations he can be at and the only way you can find him is to follow his foot prints and use the thermal goggles, motion detector, anti-personell detector, and active sonar.

Sounds easy? Think again. He's a sniper folks... Luckily he's only shooting tranq darts at you, but that will kill you just as well. He can hit you from long off if you don't try to flank him real slowly, and even then that's no gurantee. When you hit him, he'll drop a flashbang and run off, leaving you blind and your ears ringing).

And the part about him being photosynthetic? I was close to killing him off, then he runs off somewhere and I hear him plead with the forest to give him strength, and I kid you not, he went from 5% health and stamina back to full bar. I thought I was going crazy. He didn't do it twice to me though.

I finally, through a war of attrition, blowing up his ammo dump with TNT and planting claymores at the sniper locations, I finally took him out. It was the longest I've ever sparred with a boss, running at an hour or more.

He was probably the most fun boss to play against, followed by the Fear, The Fury, and the Pain.

I know I still have to face the Shagohod, Col. Volgin, and Ocelot at least one more time in the game. If you haven't played this game yet, give it a rental. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Posted by Jeffrey at November 22, 2004 11:24 AM
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