Roam the cities of the future and take out criminals as a Mercenary of the Law. Take contracts for the police and upgrade your weapons & vehicle to eliminate growing threat of gangsters. Explore huge cities of skyscrapers and roam freely among busy public traffic.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Crime Cities in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Retail version of Crime Cities. Other versions may require additional steps.Tips & Specs:
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux ExplainedMint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.0Wine Installation
Click ToolsSelect “Manage Wine Versions”
Look for the Wine Version: 3.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the rightClick Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 3.0 is installed and you can close this window
Copy Disk Data
Create a new folder on your DesktopEnter Disk 1
Copy all the data from Disk 1 to the new folder
Eject Disk 1 (right-click icon on Desktop, slect eject)
Enter Disk 2
Copy all data to new folder!IMPORTANT!
Leave Disk 2 in the drivePlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinuxClick Install
Click “Install a non-listed program”
Select “Install a program in a new virtual drive”
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: crimecities
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Click Next
Select Wine 3.0
Click Next
Select “32 bits windows installation”
Click Next
Wine ConfigurationApplications Tab
Windows version: Windows XPClick apply
Graphics Tab
Check “Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows”Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Click “Select another file”Click Next
Click Browse
Navigate to the new folder on your Desktop
Select “Setup.exe”
Click OpenClick Next again…
Click Next
Check “I Agree”
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next to install
- Uncheck “Create Desktop Shortcut”
- Uncheck “View the readme.txt file”
- Check “Install Intel Indeo(r) 5.0 (required for movies)
- Uncheck “Install DirectX 9.0
Click Finish
Click No
Click Next
Note: Indeo installation might crash or error, but it still installs
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select “CrimeCities.exe”Click Next
Name the shortcut: Crime Cities
Click Next
Check “I don’t want to make another shortcut”
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinuxSelect “Crime Cities”
Click ConfigureGeneral Tab
Wine version: 3.0
Note: Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine. Click the + to download other versions of WineDisplay Tab
Video memory size: enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
CD Audio Hack
Before we launch Crime Cities we need to remove the CD audio bugOtherwise the game with hang at loading the first level
Nagivate to Crime Cities install folder
Full Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/crimecities/drive_c/Program Files/Strategy First/ Crime Cities/Scripts/
Rename cd.scr
to cd.scr-oldLaunch Crime Cities
Back to PlayOnLinuxSelect “Crime Cities”
Click RunNote: Click Debug to see errors
LauncherSelect Video Tab
Adjust:
- Resolution
- Windowed Mode
- Visibility range
- Disable Fog
- Disable Extra Flares
- Texture Quality
- Low Video Quality
- Use Texture Compression If Available
Click Start
Conclusion:
After I figured out how to avoid the CD Audio crash Crime Cities ran perfectly. It a very old game and should run great on just about any laptop or netbook. Unfortunately if you do not have a DVD ROM drive, you won’t be able to play it, but you can always purchase Crime Cities on GOG.comI was surprised that Crime Cities supported 1920×1080 resolution. That is impressive for an old game.
Gameplay Video:
Screenshots:
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KDE Plasma 5.14 Released – Slashdot
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KDE Plasma 5.14 Released (kde.org)
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KDE has released Plasma 5.14 desktop. Among many other things, Plasma 5.14 simplifies managing multiple displays thanks to its new Display Configuration widget; Global Menus a la macOS now work also with GTK applications like GIMP; a new safeguard feature warns you if other users are logged in when you log out; and Discover now lets you install Snaps from all available channels (not just the default), orders software by release date, and shows package dependencies.
Downloads can be found
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Regardless of whether a mission expands or contracts, administrative
overhead continues to grow at a steady rate.
Working…
Cultist Simulator has a free update out now along with The Dancer DLC
Developed Weather Factory, some of the same people responsible for Fallen London and Sunless Sea, have pushed out a good free update for Cultist Simulator along with the first DLC.
See Also: Scaine’s original review of Cultist Simulator who said it’s “like nothing you’ve probably ever seen before”.
I have to agree with what Scaine said about it, the game is truly unique and while very interesting it can be difficult to get into and quite confusing at the start. It’s also a strange game to try and describe! A single-player tabletop card game with you dragging cards around and slotting them into actions to progress through it.
Even with the starting confusion, it’s certainly a game that managed to pull in my entire undivided attention in a way that not many games are able to. That’s thanks to the excellent writing, the atmosphere and the many options you’re presented with to further whatever goal you desire. It’s a brilliantly addictive game.
Here’s what’s in the free update out today:
- Wounds and scars: Followers now learn from their mistakes. It’s much safer to send them on Expeditions, and though they’ll still die if they injured enough.
- Follower romance: what could go wrong with workplace relationships when your office is an occult society dedicated to bringing the apocalypse? Court your cultists and date your disciples. It probably won’t end disastrously.
- Rebellion and rivals: mistreating acolytes now risks turning them against you and attempting to win the game faster than you can.
- Quality of life updates: a smorgasbord of UI/UX improvements based on feedback since launch. Snap-to-grid cards, double-click card placement, intelligent card stacking… now nobody should get RSI. Yay!
As for the The Dancer DLC, it includes:
- One new Legacy (AKA starting character): rise to unearthly fame as the Dancer, employed at the infamous Gaiety Theatre, Ecdysis Club or in some of the more exclusive city parlours.
- Two new Ascensions (AKA ways to win): explore a trinity of insights into the powers of Heart, Moth, and those who came before. Realise your true form, and perhaps even tempt one of the enigmatic Ligeians to the Dance.
- Animal spirit-selves (AKA why would you not want to go on holiday as a boar): some dances can only be performed in far places, and some cannot be performed in human shape.
You can pick up Cultist Simulator on Humble Store (DLC link), GOG (DLC link) and Steam (DLC link).
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SUSE News Wrap-Up from the Cloud Foundry Summit EU (+ Kubernetes)
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When I wrote two weeks ago that SUSE will be busy at the Cloud Foundry Summit EU, I didn’t fully grasp exactly how busy we’d actually be. The Cloud Foundry Summit just seems to get bigger and better every year. With that comes more scheduled and impromptu meetings, discussions, and opportunities to learn and share. This was my first Summit in a couple of years, and it was a little overwhelming trying to keep up with everything that was happening as well as meeting with as many analysts and members of the press as possible to help spread our news around Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes.
The big news at the Summit, from SUSE’s point of view, was around the CF Containerization and Eirini projects, both of which SUSE is contributing to. Both projects are now part of the Cloud Foundry Foundation and they are key to integrating Cloud Foundry with Kubernetes.
CF Containerization was contributed by SUSE. Its roots go back several years when it was known as Fissile, and it has contributors other than SUSE, including IBM and SAP. In a nutshell, CF Containerization takes Cloud Foundry BOSH releases and converts them into Docker containers and corresponding Helm charts, ready to be installed into an existing Kubernetes. It’s what we use to build SUSE Cloud Application Platform today, and results in a smaller installation that requires no knowledge or installation of BOSH, instead leveraging an organization’s Kubernetes infrastructure and expertise.
Eirini was contributed by IBM and receives contributions from SUSE and SAP. Eirini’s goal is to offer a Cloud Foundry operator the choice of using native Kubernetes for container scheduling instead of Cloud Foundry’s Diego. This makes a ton of sense for SUSE Cloud Application Platform — because it already runs inside Kubernetes, adopting Eirini would remove what we believe is an unnecessary layer of complexity (using Diego in our product essentially means that we are running application containers inside of Diego containers). That’s why we announced at the Summit that we would be adopting Eirini for future versions of SUSE Cloud Application Platform. As soon as it’s fully baked and tested, we’ll be shipping it. My colleague, Ron Nunan, posted some additional background information on this last week.
As a product marketing wonk, part of my responsibility is helping to craft press releases for announcements and events and then hopefully convincing press and analysts to write about it. It turned out that our announcements at this Summit complemented the Cloud Foundry Foundation’s announcements very nicely, so several articles have been published so far (with more to come) where I didn’t even speak to the author! Thanks, Abby, Chip, Devin, and others at the Foundation for that!
Without further ado, here is a round-up of what was in the news:
SUSE Operates Across Communities to Deliver Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry Innovation to the Enterprise (SUSE press release)
Gerald Pfeifer, SUSE vice president of Products and Technology Programs, said, “Our approach is to identify leading open source technologies and bring them together in a way that makes sense for our customers. Today, that means bringing the unsurpassed productivity of the Cloud Foundry model together with modern Kubernetes infrastructure in SUSE Cloud Application Platform. This unique combination enables our customers to reduce complexity and become more agile to meet the changing demands of the digital economy.”
Cloud Foundry Focus on Interoperability Continues with Two New Projects Integrating Kubernetes (Cloud Foundry Foundation press release)
“Eirini and CF Containerization are the latest examples of the Cloud Foundry community’s approach to continuously exploring future evolutionary directions for the platform,” said Chip Childers, CTO, Cloud Foundry Foundation. “Developers have made it clear they need a simple, agile and flexible delivery method to push apps to production, which Cloud Foundry Application Runtime delivers. They also have multiple use cases in which deployment and management of software packaged into containers is critical. These new projects demonstrate additional approaches to combining Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry technologies.”
Cloud Foundry expands its support for Kubernetes (TechCrunch)
Clearly then, Kubernetes is becoming part and parcel of what the Cloud Foundry PaaS service will sit on top of and what developers will use to deploy the applications they write for it in the near future. At first glance, this focus on Kubernetes may look like it’s going to make Cloud Foundry superfluous, but it’s worth remembering that, at its core, the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime isn’t about infrastructure but about a developer experience and methodology that aims to manage the whole application development lifecycle.
SUSE Integrates Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry in Cloud Application Platform (ServerWatch)
Smithurst explained that SUSE containerized Cloud Foundry and deployed it into Kubernetes because there was an opportunity to increase Cloud Foundry’s efficiency by taking advantage of the popularity of Kubernetes, and eliminate the need for Cloud Foundry users to learn and use BOSH. BOSH is a lifecycle management tool that has long been a central component of Cloud Foundry.
Cloud Foundry embraces Kubernetes (ZDNet)
The overall goal is to give end-users a more consistent operational experience between application and container platforms. To further help this, additional projects that focus on shared logging and metrics and unified networking — via technologies like Istio and Open Service Broker API (OSBAPI)-compliant service catalog synchronization — are also on their way.
New Kubernetes-Native Implementation of Cloud Foundry is Coming to SUSE Cloud Application Platform (DevOps Digest)
This is SUSE’s latest move to provide Kubernetes users with the top cloud native DevOps experience by combining Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry technologies. SUSE Cloud Application Platform boosts developer productivity with automation that eliminates the need to build and manage container images.
Kubernetes won, and that’s OK. Cloud Foundry into the future… (Diversity Limited)
And whereas OpenStack was all about cloud infrastructure, since its inception, Cloud Foundry has been more about a developer experience and DevOps lifecycle management story. While OpenStack spent its early years telling anyone who would listen that it enabled users to compete with AWS, Cloud Foundry simply focused on its core message of developer agility – smart strategy, it seems.
Cloud Foundry Goes All-In With Kubernetes (DataCenter Knowledge)
What all this essentially means is that Cloud Foundry has joined the rest of the world in making Kubernetes an integral part of its container strategy.
Cloud Foundry announces new Kubernetes projects (Enterprise Times)
This is more than just container fever. The orchestration capabilities and smaller footprint of containers make it easier for companies to scale-out and scale-up their applications. Cloud Foundry has had a spectacular year in terms of new members and applications in its online marketplace. The latter is up tenfold in just 10 years. The problem that many developers faced was that they were unable to easily take advantage of Kubernetes despite last years announcement.
Cloud Foundry Foundation tightens Kubernetes integration with new projects (DevClass)
Eirini and CF Containerization are the newest additions to the portfolio of non-profit Cloud Foundry Foundation. Both projects should mainly help users to combine Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry if needed, which is something developers have been asking for for a while now.
Cloud Foundry Adopts a Pair of Kubernetes-Based Projects (SDxCentral)
Childers earlier this year indicated that the organization was working through gaining more confidence in the maturity and direction of Kubernetes and how it would fit into Cloud Foundry. “We don’t chase the shiny ball,” Childers said, noting that the organization was more focused on only adding components that will help developers.
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Must-Have Tools for Copywriters – ThisHosting.Rocks
Did you know that the average salary of a copywriter is about $44,000 per year? The highest paid copywriters get six figures each year. However, to demand such pay, copywriters need to have a specific set of skills that catapult their content to make sales.
Copywriting and content marketing is a combination of science and creativity. You must select the right words, have a robust sounding cadence and give an appeal to readers, or else they might never read it regardless of how useful your information is. With the right adjectives and sentence structure, you will get users to read and buy their products. And that doesn’t mean that copywriters shouldn’t have skills unrelated to their profession, like learning how to use tools with the use of which the content is published, like the most popular blog software for copywriters – WordPress and its plugins.
There are a couple of tools that you can use to blog that will improve both your writing and your strategy. It will allow you to get better responses and attract more traffic which means more money for you.
Here are a couple of the best blogging/copywriting tools and tips on how they can improve your readability and traffic.
Yoast SEO
One of the first tools employers ask is whether you have experience with Yoast SEO. It allows you to improve both your readability and SEO.
Using it as a tool allows you to improve your SEO score and your keyword placement issues. It allows you to set your target keywords, page slug and meta description which will evaluate everything on your page and let you know whether it holds up with search engines or not. The best part about it is that it not only tells you about what you are doing wrong but also shows you how you can improve. Because of the importance of keywords when users are searching for content, this tool is quite essential.
If your post has an orange or green ranking, you are confident that you will get a high traffic than similar websites that have a red-level ranking. It tells you if your sentences are too long, if you have a passive voice and when your paragraphs are too long. The reviews of this software will show you just how essential this tool is for your copywriting jobs.
Hemingway
Yoast is perfect for readability with WordPress posts. However, if you do not have WordPress, you need a tool that will help with your other marketing techniques like email campaigning. That is where Hemingway comes in. It is a free tool that you can also download as your desktop app.
All you need to do is enter your text in the exact format it will appear to your customers, and it will color code all the areas that can be improved. It will show you the sentences that are too long, passive voice and phrases that could be simpler. It allows you to attract your readers because your sentences will be shorter, punchy, and straightforward. Your sentence structure will also be better and trim to the bare bone.
CoSchedule’s Headline Analyzer
Headlines are tricky to get. For most writers, writing the headline takes a lot longer than writing the entire post. This does not help since headlines are the essential part of the whole post. Without a catchy headline, people will not click so you will not get traffic which will translate to less income for you.
This headline analyzer is excellent because it evaluates how common your headline is, how good it will be at attracting people’s emotions and how much power it has behind it. It will also do a character and word count. All this data will be combined, and you will know how compelling the headline is.
Plagiarism Checker by SmallSEOTools
This tool checks your articles and whether or not parts of them are already published somewhere else. It’s an easy way of checking for plagiarism or if something was copied from a different website. This is common if you’re writing about a topic that’s widely covered online, you may accidentally write something identical that’s already been published, and you should avoid that. Another common scenario is checking if the content was plagiarised when you’re reviewing articles written by freelance writers at sites like Upwork or essays bought from sites like PapersOwl Australia. Basically, anything that hasn’t been written by you. Though it’s rare that people plagiarise and copy content in essays or professionally written articles, it’s still a useful tool to use just to be 100% sure.
Word counter
It is yet another free tool that is accessible online. It allows you to copy and paste your text and it will:
- Count the characters and words
- Show you the keywords recommended based on the text you have pasted
- Demonstrate your keyword density
Unlike Yoast, this tool shows you if there are words or phrases that you are using too often. You may have some issues with finding keywords. However, if your content has repetitive words that are not related to the keyword, the content will not bring in traffic from your target audience. It tells you when your content needs some shaking up, which is great.
Unsuck it
While your audience wants to know all that tech information, they want to understand it. This can be difficult if the phrases used are too complex to understand. This software makes it easier for you to get the information you need.
It will define jargon and give you synonyms and a couple of jokes that you can throw in to make your content more fun.
Even if you do not find the words you are looking for, you will know which ones you should have in your thesaurus.
Conclusion on tools for copywriters and bloggers
Copywriting is difficult. However, these tools can help you make your content more interesting. The best thing about them is that they are not expensive. They will help you get more traffic to your site.
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Mind maps are designed to help display processes and projects clearly in a graphical format. This review explores the design possibilities offered by five mind map programs.
Structuring complex processes is part of the daily grind in many organizations. To help people understand their decision and thought processes, mind-mapping programs depict process steps graphically. Users can view an onscreen tree view to visualize dependencies.
However, visual clarity depends on the design possibilities offered by the mind-mapping program: Illustrations break up abstract content, and different font attributes emphasize the relevance of individual project steps. I tested five mind map programs to see how their design features compare.
CmapTools
CmapTools [6], developed at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, is available for several platforms. Its license is proprietary, but the software is free of charge. The website also features a server variant for an on-premises server and an iPad version. You can also use CmapTools in the cloud, which does not require a dedicated application on the client, just a web browser.
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Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps
How to get started with Linux Apps for Chromebooks.
After months of user testing in developer and beta channels, the Crostini
project at Google finally delivered the goods, Linux apps for most users
of Chromebooks in the stable channel—definitely worth the wait. While
this still is aimed primarily at developers using Chromebooks, I think
there’s a good chance these Linux apps will be used and enjoyed by the
general public using Chromebooks as well. There’s still a bit of a learning
curve to overcome before that possibility is realized, but if you
already are a user of any Linux distro, it will feel very familiar. Here’s
an overview of how to install it and what to expect afterward.
After getting the update to version 69, go to Settings and scroll
down a bit, and you’ll see the option to turn on Linux apps. Figure 1
shows this first step. Note that this isn’t available on all Chromebooks; if
you’re using an
older one, you’ll have to wait a while before this function is available. If
you don’t see the option to turn on Linux apps, your Chromebook
currently lacks that functionality. But, if you have a Chromebook
produced in the past two years, you probably will see the option.
Figure 1. Linux Apps Option
Figure 2. Installing Linux Apps
After it’s done installing, you see the terminal appear. From here, you
can do as you would with any terminal. I chose to sudo apt-get
install the
GIMP, Open Shot, Handbrake, Firefox and the GNOME Software Center,
which I used to download and install Audacity. The GNOME Software
Center provides an easy-to-manage GUI method of finding the more
popular Linux apps, but if you prefer the terminal method of using apt-get
install, that works just as well and provides more app choices than the GNOME
Software Center.
One more thing to note about the GNOME Software
Center is that you likely will not see any apps in it after first installing
it. You need to reboot first before the apps appear.
If you want to run
Firefox on a Chromebook, there are actually two ways to do it. One way
is to download and install Firefox from the Google Play Store as an Android
app. Now with Linux apps via Crostini, you also can download and install
it from the terminal using apt-get install, but it needs to be the extended
support release version, Firefox-ESR.
Figures 3–5 show some of my installed apps up and running.
Figure 3. OpenShot
Figure 4. The GIMP
Figure 5. GNOME Software Center
File management for Linux apps is available in the Files folder—on the bottom
left side below Play files, you’ll see Linux files. This folder is where
all files created by a Linux app reside. Manually adding sub-folders
is necessary, since this is a blank canvas when you start. You can copy and
paste the Linux
files folder to and from Chrome OS folders, but the
reverse is more difficult. Moving files from the Linux files folder
back to Chrome OS folders involves copying to either your Google Drive
or an external drive, then moving it back to the Chromebook’s Chrome
OS files folders. This is one function that shows Crostini is still in
a beta state—hopefully it’ll be corrected in future OS releases.
Figure 6. Linux File Folder
The rest of my experience using Linux apps on my Chromebook has been
great, with the exception of Audacity; they all have functioned exactly as they do on my Ubuntu Linux
laptop. The Linux apps further expand the Chromebook’s functionality,
which already had gotten a substantial boost last year with the addition
of Android apps.
The Chromebook is rather quickly becoming a full-service
laptop/tablet experience—one that actually involves three OS experiences
under one hood, each one as easy to access as the other. For me, the one
Linux app to add a function I needed but didn’t previously
have is Audacity. Unfortunately, there is currently no audio support in
Crostini that allows Audacity to do what it is designed to do—another
beta hiccup that hopefully will be addressed sooner rather than later. Just
to clarify, you will hear audio from a video or audio file stored in Linux
files, such as something transcoded in the Handbrake Linux app, since that
is actually being played by a media player in Chrome OS, you just can’t
currently create audio in Crostini.
The GIMP also adds a missing dimension for
Chromebooks, providing a full photo-editing suite of tools—who needs Photoshop when you have the GIMP? I believe the
addition of Linux apps will enhance the Chromebook’s appeal to the general
public, not just for the developers for whom Crostini was first created.
And, if you are a developer,
you now have another option on which to create.
For developers considering a Chromebook for work, the best
option is one of several high-end Chromebooks—like any of the Google
Pixelbooks, the Asus Flip c302 or the HP X2. If you need to know what
Crostini can and can’t do for developing before purchasing, see
the open-source Chromium
project page on containers and Crostini,
which should answer all the questions you may have on this subject.
Chromebooks are now a viable option for those who wish to use open-source
apps with an added layer of security that’s hard to match. Plus, the added
exposure to open-source apps is also a good thing for the Open Source
community. Here’s to hoping Crostini progresses from beta to stable and
becomes easy to use for everyone.
4 Useful Tools to Run Commands on Multiple Linux Servers | Linux.com
In this article, we will show how to run commands on multiple Linux servers at the same time. We will explain how to use some of the widely known tools designed to execute repetitive series of commands on multiple servers simultaneously. This guide is useful for system administrators who usually have to check the health of multiple Linux servers everyday.
For the purpose of this article, we assume that you already have SSH setup to access all your servers and secondly, when accessing multiple servers simultaneously, it is appropriate to set up key-based password-less SSH on all of your Linux servers. This above all enhances server security and also enables ease of access.
1. PSSH – Parallel SSH
Parallel-SSH is an open source, fast and easy-to-use command line based Python toolkit for executing ssh in parallel on a number of Linux systems. It contains a number of tools for various purposes such as parallel-ssh, parallel-scp, parallel-rsync, parallel-slurp and parallel-nuke (read the man page of a particular tool for more information).
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