Erik van der Werf wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Nick Wedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steenvreter no yes
Hi Nick,
I never said yes. At this point it is rather unlikely that Steenvreter
will participate. Steenvreter only runs on linux. Since the machines
in Leksand run windows and remote computation is not allowed (which is
funny considering the tournament is on KGS) I pretty much have to be
present myself.
That always irks me when I hear this kind of thing. The world is
basically windows "chauvinistic" and it's common to find little
consideration given to any other platform.
Did you know that you can create your own linux environment without
having to "touch" the machine you will be using? My wife has her own
windows machine that she doesn't want me "touching", but I have a
complete linux install via an external hard drive that leaves her
machine "untouched." Although the install is specific to that
machine, it is easy to build "universal" setups that will boot on any
modern PC into Linux, without touching the hard drive of that
machine. This would require that you bring a memory stick of some
kind or perhaps an external USB hard drive. You can get big ones
really cheap now, and they are very compact. You plug it into the
USB port and then boot into Linux.
In my opinion, the tournament organizers should do this for you and the
other potential Linux participants since Linux is becoming more and more
popular and apparently it is already very popular with Go
programmers. There are several possibilities for setting up machines
that could use either Windows or Linux that would not require major
effort on their part - just one good Linux guy helping them.
I also feel for the Mac people and also people that have built programs
that run on networks of workstations or other potential supercomputer
programs that would not be able to participate.
- Don
I did not find cheap flights for a short visit and I
probably won't have time to attend the EGC for a full week, also
housing seems to be getting difficult.
So for now better assume that Steenvreter will *not* participate in Leksand.
Erik
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