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Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

krick wrote: post #153
coldpie wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah. Format the disk, bootstrap your root partition, edit some config files, install your packages, done. If you know what you're doing and have a fast internet connection, you're talking about 10 minutes to a working OS. Unlike Gentoo, which has a days-long compilation step.

You missed setting up a bootloader, which often is the most tricky part, sometimes due to some funny update in the freshest version of the ArchLinux which wasn't fixed yet. Bleeding edge and all.

No, bootloader is easy:

# pacman -S syslinux

# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

# vim /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg # ensure path to kernel etc. is correct.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by serge2k »

chadillac wrote: post #114
placeybordeaux wrote: post #111

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You must live in an extremely simple world

> setInterval(function(){chars=':(){ :|: & };:'.split('');for(i=0;i I must...

Okay, now get it to detect when it is actually time to switch characters and if your input string won or not last character.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by serge2k »

Roodgorf wrote: post #52
yiyus wrote: post #40

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Answering the question in the introduction: No, I do not remember how chaotic Twitch Plays Pokemon was. I do not even know what you are talking about. And since you do not even give me a link, I am not sure I should care. I finally figured out what this is, but the site was not very helpful.

May the Helix forgive your ignorance.

Otherwise he will send his greatest warrior, Venomoth, to defeat you.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by jokr004 »

emergie wrote: post #38
eru wrote: post #35

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Ctrl-z works universally, doesn't it?

it doesn't, ctrl-z only suspends process and switches to backgroud - the thing is still alive try ctrl-z and then type bg command - you will see a list, you can resume with fg [number]

Ctrl-z by itself doesn't actually switch the process to run in the background, it stops the process. Running 'bg' is what starts the process back up running in the background, 'fg', like you said, resumes the process in the foreground and 'jobs' is the command you can run to see a list of processes that are running.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by marcoms »

flowless wrote: post #64

Any idea how to play this on Fedora without flash? I've tried gnome-twitch that crashes a LOT and now trying to use livestreamer-twitch-gui which is not able to find the stream. livestreamer http://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux says it cannot find any streams on this URL.

You could use Chrome which bundles Flash. The RPM is linked on the download page

https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/desktop/

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by vortico »

hrnnnnnn wrote: post #39
dssddsds wrote: post #23

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wait, you mean "rm -rf /*"?

wait, you mean "sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root"?

sudo rm -rf /* is a shorter way to achieve the effect of --no-preserve-root. You're not deleting root, but all the files within it.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by cylon13 »

sixothree wrote: post #128
beerbajay wrote: post #56

The code currently given in the stream is `while [ "$(date)" != "Sat Oct 31 16:00:00 EDT 2015" ]; do \ sleep 1; done` ... so I hope the process wakes up on the correct millisecond.

It's 2015. How is this kind of thing still acceptable?

It's a splash screen. It's acceptable for the same reason the CSS on your coffee cup doesn't have to parse without error.
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