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Games Linux

What do you do when your girlfriend wants to play N64 games on Linux?

Answer: Get it working. No matter how much time or effort it takes. Then blog about it, and finally have her read your post.

About 2 months ago, before I made the switch to Linux full-time, I installed the Project64 emulator when I was running Windows.

I started up Mario64 with a Saitek USB joypad and the girlfriend came over and asked to play. She absolutely LOVED it. So much in fact, that she has mentioned it about it every few days for the past two weeks or so.

If you know anything about women, this means she REALLY wants to get her game on.

As far as legality goes, I can’t get much more legal than Mario 64 – I’ve got a Nintendo 64 sitting in my closet with a plethora of games including Mario 64, which was included with the game system. Unfortunately the process of backing up a ROM is the legal grey area here. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. You are on your own.

You might be asking yourself this question: If you’ve got an N64, why the heck are you using an emulator?

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Firewall Linux

This is the Fastest review EVER of 5 Linux firewall distributions.*

*fastest review by this author.

I’ve got a P3 500MHz PC w/ 192MB of RAM and a 1GB Transcend Flash IDE module that I’ve been running as a Linux-based IPCop firewall platform for around the last two years.  It’s been running IPCop after testing out m0n0wall, SmoothWall, pfSense and IPCop.  pfSense impressed me, but wasn’t quite polished enough for me.  m0n0wall and SmoothWall had their various problems with the current releases back then, and IPCop won my vote by default.

Two years have passed since then, lets see if there’s anything different this time around.