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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:28:58 -0300, Jim Holsenback wrote:
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> "Ross" <rli### [at] speakeasy net> wrote in message
> news:462e2346$1@news.povray.org...
>> On a side note, I also started using GnuCash and the OpenOffice
>> spreadsheet.
>> Both work quite nicely.
>
> ah ... good to hear .... once up and running I'll need to migrate from
> excel/access/money .... yep I bought into the MS thing hook, line and
> sinker. good feedback ..... Thanks
I've only been using OpenOffice for nearly 2 years now - I have an MSDN
subscription and had Excel installed under Crossover Office for a short
period of time, but everything I do now is in OpenOffice 2.
The only things I use Windows for any more are running Moray, occasional
things where I absolutely must use IE for something (like apparently
applying for an Amex card - if you use FF, at least in my experience, you
fill out the online application and it says "sorry, we can't contact our
backend systems", but if you use IE it works *every time*. Go figure),
and ATM also using the Blackberry Desktop since there's no Linux
equivalent - but once I'm on our BES at work, I can ditch the desktop as
well.
Jim
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> My povray setup involves typing the scenes in vi (syntax highlight, word
> completion, keyboard macros etc) and calling my custom povscript from the
> shell to render the scene. Fast and lean...
>
> It's a good alternative to get away from the M$ blackhole.
Indeed.
I just scrubbed Vista off what was my M$ Slutbox, and installed Fiesty Fawn.
I'm still looking for a solution for my PCB and Schematic tools which run
under dos, but other than that, I like it.
I subscribe to the MAP program, so I get MS office, OS, and server products
for "free", and I still don't think they are worth using. That should tell
you something. Vista was about the most unimpressive "upgrade" I've ever
seen.
Move 11G between two fast hard drives, would you believe SEVEN HOURS?
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On Mon, 07 May 2007 18:17:33 -0400, Dave VanHorn wrote:
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>> My povray setup involves typing the scenes in vi (syntax highlight, word
>> completion, keyboard macros etc) and calling my custom povscript from
>> the shell to render the scene. Fast and lean...
>>
>> It's a good alternative to get away from the M$ blackhole.
>
> Indeed.
>
> I just scrubbed Vista off what was my M$ Slutbox, and installed Fiesty
> Fawn. I'm still looking for a solution for my PCB and Schematic tools
> which run under dos, but other than that, I like it.
Try DOSBox - that may do what you need. Otherwise, VMware or another
virtualized environment should work for you unless there are custom
hardware hookups involved.
> I subscribe to the MAP program, so I get MS office, OS, and server
> products for "free", and I still don't think they are worth using. That
> should tell you something. Vista was about the most unimpressive
> "upgrade" I've ever seen.
> Move 11G between two fast hard drives, would you believe SEVEN HOURS?
Hehehehe, I have a subscription to MSDN, and VMs for Windows 2000 and XP
for some work-related stuff, Moray, and the Blackberry Desktop software
(which is mostly obsoleted now that I've got an account on our BES at
work) and am even named as one of the technical contacts on the company
contract, apparently - but I use the stuff so rarely any more that I'm
considering having them drop my subscription.
Jim
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Le 05/08/07 00:17, Dave VanHorn nous fit lire :
>> My povray setup involves typing the scenes in vi (syntax highlight, word
>> completion, keyboard macros etc) and calling my custom povscript from the
>> shell to render the scene. Fast and lean...
>>
>> It's a good alternative to get away from the M$ blackhole.
>
> Indeed.
>
> I just scrubbed Vista off what was my M$ Slutbox, and installed Fiesty Fawn.
> I'm still looking for a solution for my PCB and Schematic tools which run
> under dos, but other than that, I like it.
What about magic:
http://www.opencircuitdesign.com/magic/index.html
>
> I subscribe to the MAP program, so I get MS office, OS, and server products
> for "free", and I still don't think they are worth using. That should tell
> you something. Vista was about the most unimpressive "upgrade" I've ever
> seen.
> Move 11G between two fast hard drives, would you believe SEVEN HOURS?
Well, that's about 440 kbytes per second... someone using an
ethernet drive on a old 10Mbits network ?
Looks like a bit of a bottleneck anyway!
--
The superior man understands what is right;
the inferior man understands what will sell.
-- Confucius
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> Hola,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with Ubuntu's version of Linux?
This post was a while ago, but FWIW POVray 3.5 is available as an Ubuntu
package. I got mine off of a DVD collection, but it should be in most
repositories, under graphics/multiverse or multiverse/graphics.
3.5 is missing some cool textures like cork, but it should generally be
fine.
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David J Bush wrote:
>>Hola,
>>
>>Has anyone had any experience with Ubuntu's version of Linux?
>
>
> This post was a while ago, but FWIW POVray 3.5 is available as an Ubuntu
> package. I got mine off of a DVD collection, but it should be in most
> repositories, under graphics/multiverse or multiverse/graphics.
>
> 3.5 is missing some cool textures like cork, but it should generally be
> fine.
>
The standard (generic Linux, not Ubuntu specific) 3.6 version works fine
for me. Download it directly from povray.org.
Although, I can only say that I've installed it and rendered some of the
standard examples from the scenes directory, I haven't (yet) run it
extensively under Ubuntu. (I mostly use Fedora, but I like to fiddle
with other distros, and POV-Ray is usually the first thing I install.)
-=-Larry -=-
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With my kubuntu install, I see 3.6.1-6 as being available in
multiverse/graphics .
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Jim Holsenback wrote:
> Hola,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with Ubuntu's version of Linux?
Used Mepis during the time when Mepis was using the Ubuntu repositories.
I had some trouble getting "regular" Debian packages to work. No method
of installing Pixie didn't screw up my system.
That has been my only taste of Ubuntu, but it was a sour taste. Mepis,
now using the Debian repositories, is another user-friendly,
out-of-the-box distro very similar (I believe) to Kubuntu.
-Shay
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hmm, this thread still alive.
anyway, now with broadband I downloaded the latest Ubuntu release from my
previous version, burnt it and installed.
In under 30 minutes I had a working system fully updated, previous directories
from the other disk partition mounted as volumes in the desktop, a slick Compiz
graphical interface running atop the proprietary nvidia driver that looks just
about as good as any Mac/Vista, codecs for mpg, mp3, wmv (offers a simple
search-for-extra-codecs), a working broadband connection and the latest
Firefox, Blender, Gimp and inkscape. I also installed Wings3D, but it's
broken. and, hey, even gedit is better than ever!
The installation procedure only asked my time zone by providing a clickable
world map and my user name. You could also easily partition the disk by
selecting one to install to. Internet connection was the only command-line
procedure, by following a simple pppoeconf text interface.
that's it: the most easily accessible Linux distro ever.
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In article <web.4728dbd453ebc795773c9a3e0@news.povray.org>,
nam### [at] gmailcom says...
> hmm, this thread still alive.
>
> anyway, now with broadband I downloaded the latest Ubuntu release from my
> previous version, burnt it and installed.
>
> In under 30 minutes I had a working system fully updated, previous direct
ories
> from the other disk partition mounted as volumes in the desktop, a slick
Compiz
> graphical interface running atop the proprietary nvidia driver that looks
just
> about as good as any Mac/Vista, codecs for mpg, mp3, wmv (offers a simple
> search-for-extra-codecs), a working broadband connection and the latest
> Firefox, Blender, Gimp and inkscape. I also installed Wings3D, but it's
> broken. and, hey, even gedit is better than ever!
>
> The installation procedure only asked my time zone by providing a clickab
le
> world map and my user name. You could also easily partition the disk by
> selecting one to install to. Internet connection was the only command-li
ne
> procedure, by following a simple pppoeconf text interface.
>
> that's it: the most easily accessible Linux distro ever.
>
Fedora was easy like that too, at least as far as I got. But it
defaulted to an Virtual Partition file system or some BS and I haven't
figured out a way to get rid of that, short of running the installer
again and nuking the partition. Probably could from inside Fedora as
well, maybe, but seriously, why use something that a) isn't that useful,
since most people are not going to leave huge chunks of disk space
unused to "resize" into, and b) can't be read/removed with 90% of the
distros, since they don't support it (including Ubuntu). :p
Seriously though, heard some good things about the latest Ubuntu
release. The only issue some people had was some laptops which the
hardware makers put stupid settings in for their power management (like
spinning the disks down every 30 seconds or some idiocy, and trashing
the life span of the HD by doing so), and which Windows and others
override, but Ubuntu didn't (because, well... who the hell would be dumb
enough to set the BIOS defaults on their own hardware so stupidly?) lol
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