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Try the 64bit K-TV with your old card http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php?t7188.html or try the generic BT878 WDM driver http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/supportedcards.html

Open source to the rescue... maybe

See here:

This topic sounds very interesting, but I just can't face this thread and the millions of "if Microsoft made cars" jokes that I'm sure are coming.

While I don't have any ironclad evidence, I was able to find a designer quote talking about the beta being thoroughly tested on 64-bit systems and a thread on PlanetAMD64 discussing the demo with no major 64-bit issues.

So I'm guessing it does.

Battlefield 2 worked fine when I played it, if that helps at all.

"Shit I don't even have a cell phone."

See, now this I don't understand.

I don't have a land line. Why? The cell phone is _cheaper_. If you're going to be pragmatic, ditch the land line.

It's not about new and hip. It's about being fed up with how the old-fashioned phone company rips you off and charges you out the a$$ for features that simply come included with cell plans.

Plus you can take the thing with you. Nobody could ever get in touch with me when I had a land line. Now, they can, plus I get to screen my calls with caller ID and voicemail for free. Woot.

You can take my barebones nokia from my cold dead fingers.

As for the iPod, it simply works with Linux and has a non-annoying interface. Run Amarok or GTKpod and you're good to go. At least I _know_ it
works. It's not about trendy, though a decent design that doesn't look like ass helps.

Cranky Old Man Rant about electronics design and "WTF are they thinking?":

Minimalist design never gets the chance to look like ass. Steve Jobs knows this. Take a brick. Paint it white. You have a White iBrick. Throw a bunch of buttons, weird shapes on it, and you have an Ugly White iBrick. Same goes for laptops. Apple laptops are all striaght clean lines, single color. Tasteful. Doesn't even get the chance to look like ass. Look at a Dell or (horrors) DellAlienware notebook. Looks like ass.

A KitchenAid mixer looks like...a Mixer. It doesn't look like anything else or try to. Yet it's a classic design with clean streamlined lines. If I erased the logo from it, you'd identify it as a KitchenAid anyway.

Sit there and look like a computer, not a ricer box.

Computer fashion victims:

http://img.alibaba.com/img/product/11/32/11/113211 58.jpg

It looks like the grille of a Pontiac Aztec.

http://images.planetamd64.com/phatsob/dainescc/dai nescc012.jpg

I know it's a mod, but that will give a 3 yr old nightmares... DAAADDEEEE!!! IT'S COMING TO TAKE MY BRAIIIN!!

http://www.freecomputer.ca/cases2.gif

Is that a jet intake? Yes, not only do I want it to sound loud, but I want it to _look_ loud and what's louder than a jet engine?

Another mod, but damn....

http://otakuscience.sharper.nl/images/game_pc%20ca se.jpg

OMFG, it looks like a Partidge Family lunch box (which is trendy now!) Aaaand it's slightly creepy at the same time! Yes! You too can raise eyebrows at your next LAN party!

Get off my lawn, you kids.

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BMO

That's not a mature product designed for end users, despite how (othere wise) nice Ubuntu is.

Uh? One bug for one particular hardware type in a beta release and it's 'not designed for end users'?

Jeepers! I guess vista isn't a mature product designed for end users - it's beta had bugs. I guess osx isn't a mature product designed for end users either - it's beta had bugs.

gnucronyms are better:

Perl = Perl Extraction and Report Language

PHP = PHP Hyped Protocol

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I've got a Visioneer scanner that doesn't work, and I've been eyeing a HDTV tuner card that doesn't have drivers yet.

Moral of the story: don't buy cheap ass hardware. It goes the same way for the linux guys ...

And there are several HDTV tuner cards well supported, for example this one comes recommended. No reason to pay the Apple Tax...

I have had to set up several new Dell's from scratch that lack a floppy drive, yet use SATA harddrive's. I have found that the easiest way is just to find the sata drivers and slipstream them into a SP2 installation disc.

Instructions can be found all over google, and it typically takes less than an hour or so to make a good slipstream that you can use on most every computers' installation.

Some links i had bookmarked: Here and here.

I haven't used the Bluetooth versions but I know the RF mice drive me nuts trying to aim in 3D shooters.

According to one thread though, it seems that the Logitech Desktop MX doesn't have this problem.