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Invisible wrote:
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> I'd use Linux too if I could. But it's just too difficult.
This from the man who's writing his own logic prog lang
> the software I want to use doesn't exist for Linux. And that is why most
> people end up being stuck with Windoze; it's where all the software is.
>
Yup, have to admit I do have XP on a couple of machines purely for
Flight Sims, a couple of games and Daz3d, Bryce and Hexagon.
John
--
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.
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>> I'd use Linux too if I could. But it's just too difficult.
> This from the man who's writing his own logic prog lang
Hey, do *you* know how to make Linux recognise the fact that I just
plugged in a USB sound card and that sound should be routed through that
instead?
Similarly, do you know how to edit /etc/X11/Xconfig because you just
changed your video card and now X11 crashes on startup?
[The nice thing about SuSE's configuration program is that it will works
even if X11 isn't running...]
>> the software I want to use doesn't exist for Linux. And that is why most
>> people end up being stuck with Windoze; it's where all the software is.
>>
> Yup, have to admit I do have XP on a couple of machines purely for
> Flight Sims, a couple of games and Daz3d, Bryce and Hexagon.
This is also what really keeps me from trying a Mac. I'd basically have
to throw all my software away - and what's the point of that?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
>>> I'd use Linux too if I could. But it's just too difficult.
>
>> This from the man who's writing his own logic prog lang
>
> Hey, do *you* know how to make Linux recognise the fact that I just
> plugged in a USB sound card and that sound should be routed through that
> instead?
>
Never tried 'cos I've never needed to
> Similarly, do you know how to edit /etc/X11/Xconfig because you just
> changed your video card and now X11 crashes on startup?
>
<irony> Back when Queen Victoria was a lad</irony> that is the way we
all did it. If I've made any hardware changes I invariably boot into
runlevel 3 then startx; if all looks good fine else fire up vi and away
we go.
> [The nice thing about SuSE's configuration program is that it will works
> even if X11 isn't running...]
>
Haven't used a distro's config for a few years now. Call me a dinosaur
but at least if anything goes wrong I know what I did so I can reverse it.
John
--
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.
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> I thought that was especially amusing, given that at that exact moment
> both of us were playing CSS - a game which exists only on the Windoze
> platform...
Wine AppDB lists "Counter-Strike: Source Retail / Steam" in the top-10
platinum list ("Applications which install and run flawlessly on an
out-of-the-box Wine installation").
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> The newer Word format is supposedly more open. It's an XML-based format,
> IIRC. I dunno what sort of proprietary stuff they've crammed into it,
> though.
It's a direct dump of the binary format internal structure into XML.
When you see a tag called <useWord97LineBreaks>, what should your
implementation do?
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> Wine AppDB lists "Counter-Strike: Source Retail / Steam" in the top-10
> platinum list ("Applications which install and run flawlessly on an
> out-of-the-box Wine installation").
*one raised eyebrow*
You're telling me a game making intense use of 3D hardware [not to
mention CPU-intensive physics simulations] will actually work under
software emulation?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> Similarly, do you know how to edit /etc/X11/Xconfig because you just
>> changed your video card and now X11 crashes on startup?
>>
> <irony> Back when Queen Victoria was a lad</irony> that is the way we
> all did it. If I've made any hardware changes I invariably boot into
> runlevel 3 then startx; if all looks good fine else fire up vi and away
> we go.
> Haven't used a distro's config for a few years now. Call me a dinosaur
> but at least if anything goes wrong I know what I did so I can reverse it.
Well, there are advantages to that too - but it does require you to be a
complete expert in exactly how everything on the entire machine works in
order to configure anything.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> And yet, I run Vista (Home Premium, even!) on a rather moderate machine.
>> 2.6 P4, 200GB harddrive, and 2.5G ram. It runs rather smoothly, actually.
>> I didn't notice any considerable performance drop from WinXP to Vista.
>
> In which universe is a machine with a 200 GB HD and more than 1 GB of RAM
> considered "moderate"? That sounds pretty high-end to me...
Well not your universe obvously ;-) In our universe on dell.co.uk you can
get a core2duo 2.3 GHz with a 20" LCD, 2GB RAM and 320 GB HD for 529 GBP
total. And as you keep telling us, Dell's prices are 73x more than
everywhere else, so I think that is a pretty moderate spec to me :-)
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>> In which universe is a machine with a 200 GB HD and more than 1 GB of
>> RAM considered "moderate"? That sounds pretty high-end to me...
>
> Well not your universe obvously ;-) In our universe on dell.co.uk you
> can get a core2duo 2.3 GHz with a 20" LCD, 2GB RAM and 320 GB HD for 529
> GBP total. And as you keep telling us, Dell's prices are 73x more than
> everywhere else, so I think that is a pretty moderate spec to me :-)
Damn. In my universe, anything that says Core 2 Duo on it is likely to
cost several hundred pounds by itself... :-(
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Damn. In my universe, anything that says Core 2 Duo on it is likely to
> cost several hundred pounds by itself... :-(
You mean like in weight?
--
- Warp
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