yeah, it's on the site, download it... and install it on an OSX host.
And I can't think of any downside to installing XP, except that I think that OEM copies on the free market are going to get VERY expensive REAL soon now. I see demand from both Mac users AND dissatisfied people who got a machine with Vista on it snd want something that works.
Other than that, I suggest combining the "run naked through the streets" and diazepam option.
Attorneys representing stockholders should be demanding an explanation of just how this $2M expenditure benefits Turner, given that Turner should not be legally liable for Boston voters having voted retarded idiots into political office.
Remember that these devices were placed in 10 other cities and Boston is the only one that shut their city down over it. Turner's guerilla advertisers could not be reasonably expected to anticipate that what grabbed a few eyeballs in sane parts of the US would cause a governmental meltdown in what used to be "The Cradle of Liberty".
People deal with computers differently. I'm more interested in doing things with my computer than trying to relate to it. So I run Debian Etch and VMware Server/Windows 98SE... and unless I'm trying to add peripherals or other hardware to the system, It Just Works. Which suits me, since I spend at least as much time on my computer as you do. Probably more, I'm a free-lance writer, writing mainly Linux how-to stuff.
Just replace the case with an ATX case, PSU, motherboard, processor, CPU, hard drive, and if your new motherboard isn't integrated, the video card. (make CERTAIN the video card is Vista-compatible... based on reports from users who've actually gotten it to work) On second thought, just go with a separate Vista-ready video card, apparently, integrated video chipsets don't have the horsepower.
Glad I could help.
My 1999 computer is running Debian Etch today... of course, it's on it's fourth motherboard.
Full-time astroturfers can hang out on slashdot all day, every day and if one does that enough, one gets to moderate.
It's the fundamental problem with anonymous (to the userbase) moderation. I don't know what problem it was intended to solve, I'll just say that AFAIK, slashdot is the only major blog that still uses it.
In the real world, you can be fired or sued at the drop of a hat by your employer. Regardless of who you think your "friends" are, regardless of your job performance. It might be about something that has nothing to do with your job, perhaps your employer saw something political on your blog he didn't agree with. Or maybe you suddenly get a new boss that doesn't like the way you comb your hair.
Companies frequently will try to turn a layoff into "discharge for cause" as a way to save money on future unemployment insurance premiums.
Be prepared to defend yourself against wrongful termination or get screwed.
do you see any bootable CD images here? and the BIOS upgrade for my ancient Biostar motherboard (so ancient it runs an Athlon 3500+ in an AM2 socket) was also a floppy image.
I'd love to shitcan my floppy drive... they're cheap, but flaky... and everyone knows about the inherent problems with floppies, but until vendors stop distributing diagnostics and BIOS upgrades on floppy and distribute them on CD images instead, those of us who deal with real-world hardware still have to deal with floppies.
Try it in Linux. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. The drivers are out there and they work. Since you're doing an embedded product, I assume the inability to run MS Office is not exactly an issue.
I stopped using dual boot in my first experiments with Linux because it was too big a pain in the ass, it seemed every time I had a document open, the next app I wanted to use was always on the other OS. While I had access to both filesystems at all times (the right Windoze utility will do this), it was the other OS apps I needed. Going to emulation fixed the problem and gave me cut and paste clipboard between guest and host OSs.
When it became impossible to upgrade Win4Lin 9.x, I switched to VMware Server, and I'm very happy with it.
Given how good my experiences have been with VMware Server on Linux, I'd say that Mac users should give the free (except for needing a cc of a Windoze OS) VMware Server instead.
It's Visual Thought, freeware / abandonware from Confluent. (they stopped selling it in 2002) IMHO, it's excellent (I've tried dia, and agree with you). It does everything you asked for and a few things you didn't.
Learn more about it here
The bad news is that it needs to be ported to Linux, the Windows version is a major reason why I run Windows in VMware Server on this box, I have yet to successfully install it on Linux, it blows immediately as soon as one starts the install script with the following error message:
The following file is not available: <br><br> admin/admin_ch.;1
If you want to try it out - warning... grab the VT14.zip instead of the separate tar.gz files, unzip them and you'll get all the downloadable tar.gz files in working form. (in the separate files, hpux blows out with a CRC / length errors on untarring)
the Nvidia nvnews forum... where I actually did get help from an nvidia employee. (it didn't help, but that's another matter)
I'm aware that small developers communicate to users via their forums, but none of the big guys do
Is nvidia too small and insignificant to fit into your personal universe?
While I won't label you troll or fanboy, I will state that you apparently don't know what the hell you are talking about. I'm sure you're used to people telling you that. You should listen to them, and in technical forums, listening is all you should be doing. Only rabid fanboys want to hear lame excuses for Apple.
Knoppix 5.02 tried to load nv onto my Biostar 6100AM2... and after what looked like several tries, loaded vesa... which got me to a working desktop. (which I couldn't manage with FC6 after a week of trying kmod-nvidia, drivers direct from Nvidia, different entries in xorg.conf, etc.) Luckily, somebody read my post on the nvidia forum and told me that Knoppix was using the same video configuration setup Debian Etch uses.
When I installed Debian Etch, the vesa driver loaded immediately and shortly after, I installed the Debian-packaged nvidia driver... and have had no video problems since.
I'd rather have used nv , but... if it doesn't work, there's no point.
VMware Server doesn't seem that memory intensive with a VM (Win98SE) running over Linux, I've got 1G of DDR2 and I hardly ever touch the cache short of doing something stupid like running Opera/Linux with 50... oops, make that 65 open sub-windows.
Make that not all that memory intensive under normal operating conditions.
Would memory utilization be all that much worse under OSX?
in any profession where people deal with the general public, be assured that these professionals are saying exactly the same kinds of things about you (as in the diary submitter) to each other that we say about them when we fix their self-induced problems. You got high chloresterol brought on by too many McBurgers and fries and you keep going back to your doctor to get some pills? Guess what? That doctor is probably calling you "that idiot" and "meathead" and even less flattering things about you the minute you walk out of the examining room. And he'll be just as right as you are when you slam him because he installed Yet Another Malware-Loaded screensaver on his box.
The only difference with respect to "public" exposure is that you hang out on IT-oriented blogs so you consider this "in public". Go find some medical professional-oriented blogs if you want to find out what these professionals think of you.
This is a good thing. We WANT our professionals to blow off steam at each other, because we won't like the results if they blow it off at us... they don't want us telling them "Open a DOS prompt. Type format C: and then type "Y" and all your computer troubles will be over" any more than we want them "accidentally" screwing up our prescription meds.
One doesn't become a professional anything because we want to kiss the asses of our clients all the time. Anybody who's any good is going to get pissed off at our clients / fellow workers who don't have our specialized skills... and they're going to be pissed off at us because we don't get it right in their areas of expertise in a way that causes them unnecessary trouble. There's some reason why IT pros should have any more humility than they do?
And yes, you are an idiot. That doesn't mean the rest of us are going to follow your lead.
Though the biggest idiot here is whoever thought your article worth posting on slashdot.
that Apple gets slammed far more than they deserve, the article that got posted here is purely and simply Mac fanboy crapola from someone so detached from reality that he posted a list of reasons to avoid iPhone and tried to spin them all into positives.
Can Apple Marketing keep the iPhone from going the way of the MS Zune?
I've got all of the above plus a fifth API... Windoze via VMware Server running on this desktop... and It Just Works. From a user viewpoint, it really doesn't matter as long as they all play nicely together.
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yeah, it's on the site, download it... and install it on an OSX host.
And I can't think of any downside to installing XP, except that I think that OEM copies on the free market are going to get VERY expensive REAL soon now. I see demand from both Mac users AND dissatisfied people who got a machine with Vista on it snd want something that works.
Other than that, I suggest combining the "run naked through the streets" and diazepam option.
EVERYTHING currently in SUSE?
Not impossible, but they're going to have to field a programming team comparable in size to the Open Source community to do it and pay for all of it.
in order.
Attorneys representing stockholders should be demanding an explanation of just how this $2M expenditure benefits Turner, given that Turner should not be legally liable for Boston voters having voted retarded idiots into political office.
Remember that these devices were placed in 10 other cities and Boston is the only one that shut their city down over it. Turner's guerilla advertisers could not be reasonably expected to anticipate that what grabbed a few eyeballs in sane parts of the US would cause a governmental meltdown in what used to be "The Cradle of Liberty".
People deal with computers differently. I'm more interested in doing things with my computer than trying to relate to it. So I run Debian Etch and VMware Server/Windows 98SE... and unless I'm trying to add peripherals or other hardware to the system, It Just Works. Which suits me, since I spend at least as much time on my computer as you do. Probably more, I'm a free-lance writer, writing mainly Linux how-to stuff.
Just replace the case with an ATX case, PSU, motherboard, processor, CPU, hard drive, and if your new motherboard isn't integrated, the video card. (make CERTAIN the video card is Vista-compatible... based on reports from users who've actually gotten it to work) On second thought, just go with a separate Vista-ready video card, apparently, integrated video chipsets don't have the horsepower.
Glad I could help.
My 1999 computer is running Debian Etch today... of course, it's on it's fourth motherboard.
Full-time astroturfers can hang out on slashdot all day, every day and if one does that enough, one gets to moderate.
It's the fundamental problem with anonymous (to the userbase) moderation. I don't know what problem it was intended to solve, I'll just say that AFAIK, slashdot is the only major blog that still uses it.
really needs to get out a lot more.
The "right" OS for you is the one that runs the apps you need with a minimum of personal hassle.
is probably a Mac.
In the real world, you can be fired or sued at the drop of a hat by your employer. Regardless of who you think your "friends" are, regardless of your job performance. It might be about something that has nothing to do with your job, perhaps your employer saw something political on your blog he didn't agree with. Or maybe you suddenly get a new boss that doesn't like the way you comb your hair.
Companies frequently will try to turn a layoff into "discharge for cause" as a way to save money on future unemployment insurance premiums.
Be prepared to defend yourself against wrongful termination or get screwed.
do you see any bootable CD images here? and the BIOS upgrade for my ancient Biostar motherboard (so ancient it runs an Athlon 3500+ in an AM2 socket) was also a floppy image.
I'd love to shitcan my floppy drive... they're cheap, but flaky... and everyone knows about the inherent problems with floppies, but until vendors stop distributing diagnostics and BIOS upgrades on floppy and distribute them on CD images instead, those of us who deal with real-world hardware still have to deal with floppies.
when a bunch of us were watering you last night, and you thanked us as we were all zipping up.
Try it in Linux. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. The drivers are out there and they work. Since you're doing an embedded product, I assume the inability to run MS Office is not exactly an issue.
I stopped using dual boot in my first experiments with Linux because it was too big a pain in the ass, it seemed every time I had a document open, the next app I wanted to use was always on the other OS. While I had access to both filesystems at all times (the right Windoze utility will do this), it was the other OS apps I needed. Going to emulation fixed the problem and gave me cut and paste clipboard between guest and host OSs.
When it became impossible to upgrade Win4Lin 9.x, I switched to VMware Server, and I'm very happy with it.
Given how good my experiences have been with VMware Server on Linux, I'd say that Mac users should give the free (except for needing a cc of a Windoze OS) VMware Server instead.
error message...
It's Visual Thought, freeware / abandonware from Confluent. (they stopped selling it in 2002) IMHO, it's excellent (I've tried dia, and agree with you). It does everything you asked for and a few things you didn't.
Learn more about it here
The bad news is that it needs to be ported to Linux, the Windows version is a major reason why I run Windows in VMware Server on this box, I have yet to successfully install it on Linux, it blows immediately as soon as one starts the install script with the following error message:
If you want to try it out - warning... grab the VT14.zip instead of the separate tar.gz files, unzip them and you'll get all the downloadable tar.gz files in working form. (in the separate files, hpux blows out with a CRC / length errors on untarring)
contracts FOR POLICEMEN have a section on assignment of intellectual property developed on the job?
Giving you a troll rating definitely has merit. You have no value as a human being, and you don't add value to this site.
a Mac fanboy got mod status. . . just another example of why anonymous moderation isn't a great idea.
Is nvidia too small and insignificant to fit into your personal universe?
While I won't label you troll or fanboy, I will state that you apparently don't know what the hell you are talking about. I'm sure you're used to people telling you that. You should listen to them, and in technical forums, listening is all you should be doing. Only rabid fanboys want to hear lame excuses for Apple.
Knoppix 5.02 tried to load nv onto my Biostar 6100AM2... and after what looked like several tries, loaded vesa... which got me to a working desktop. (which I couldn't manage with FC6 after a week of trying kmod-nvidia, drivers direct from Nvidia, different entries in xorg.conf, etc.) Luckily, somebody read my post on the nvidia forum and told me that Knoppix was using the same video configuration setup Debian Etch uses.
When I installed Debian Etch, the vesa driver loaded immediately and shortly after, I installed the Debian-packaged nvidia driver... and have had no video problems since.
I'd rather have used nv , but... if it doesn't work, there's no point.
VMware Server doesn't seem that memory intensive with a VM (Win98SE) running over Linux, I've got 1G of DDR2 and I hardly ever touch the cache short of doing something stupid like running Opera/Linux with 50... oops, make that 65 open sub-windows.
Make that not all that memory intensive under normal operating conditions.
Would memory utilization be all that much worse under OSX?
in any profession where people deal with the general public, be assured that these professionals are saying exactly the same kinds of things about you (as in the diary submitter) to each other that we say about them when we fix their self-induced problems. You got high chloresterol brought on by too many McBurgers and fries and you keep going back to your doctor to get some pills? Guess what? That doctor is probably calling you "that idiot" and "meathead" and even less flattering things about you the minute you walk out of the examining room. And he'll be just as right as you are when you slam him because he installed Yet Another Malware-Loaded screensaver on his box.
The only difference with respect to "public" exposure is that you hang out on IT-oriented blogs so you consider this "in public". Go find some medical professional-oriented blogs if you want to find out what these professionals think of you.
This is a good thing. We WANT our professionals to blow off steam at each other, because we won't like the results if they blow it off at us... they don't want us telling them "Open a DOS prompt. Type format C: and then type "Y" and all your computer troubles will be over" any more than we want them "accidentally" screwing up our prescription meds.
One doesn't become a professional anything because we want to kiss the asses of our clients all the time. Anybody who's any good is going to get pissed off at our clients / fellow workers who don't have our specialized skills... and they're going to be pissed off at us because we don't get it right in their areas of expertise in a way that causes them unnecessary trouble. There's some reason why IT pros should have any more humility than they do?
And yes, you are an idiot. That doesn't mean the rest of us are going to follow your lead.
Though the biggest idiot here is whoever thought your article worth posting on slashdot.
that Apple gets slammed far more than they deserve, the article that got posted here is purely and simply Mac fanboy crapola from someone so detached from reality that he posted a list of reasons to avoid iPhone and tried to spin them all into positives.
Can Apple Marketing keep the iPhone from going the way of the MS Zune?
it. The iPhone looked interesting right up until the bad news showed up... here.
At this point, if I want an expensive mobile, I'll go with a high-end Palm PDA.
I've got all of the above plus a fifth API... Windoze via VMware Server running on this desktop... and It Just Works. From a user viewpoint, it really doesn't matter as long as they all play nicely together.