I did help desk at my last job at a gaming company. Yes some nvidia cards like my older geforce 6600 can not share irq's and will crash my computer when playing any video if I put my system as a plug and play OS. The same is true with some ati cards. Some hardware is just awefull and buggy. THere are some USB drives that randomly decide to be/dev/hda1 or/dev/hdb1 at any moment as an example that I have seen posted in tech forums. As things get moved into software its more of an issue.
But I agree that creative labs is doomed and gone in my eyes as well. They made good stuff at one time before they got greedy and technology caught up to bring quality sound for cheap.
See if you can turn the bios to non plug and play os and change the dma and irq settings for that pci slot. PS disabling plug and play os can make windows2k and occasionally XP blue screen due to the hal being setup during installation.
I had problems with my soundmax with my 5.1 surround system and plan to put my aging sb live back in though wow has some issues with it.
I know I should not use windows update to update the sound driver but oddly ubuntu does weird things with my soundmax on my laptop as well and will not play midi files. I think it maybe hardware related.
I do agree with you that soundblaster is in trouble. Worse Vista does not have accelerated or 3d audio so the point of using a high end sound card is mute. Creative labs is working on a new driver for this but its not done yet.
I think they should focus on the mp3 player market.
This seems like a trend
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I was irrated a month ago when I planned to upgrade my aging AthlonXP computer. I could not find any decent AGP video cards and ddr2 ram replaced ddr1. Also my power supply was not compatible with the new motherboards and new motherboards did not have any ide connections for my drives.
I had to really upgrade to a whole new machine and spend hundreds more as I could not simply replace my board and put my older peripherals on.
I switched to Intel because I was upset that AMD kept changing things with new standards.
I am sick and tired of this and I think the problem is getting worse. Ide is fine and Sata is not needed because the transfer rates of the hard drives have not caught up. Maybe its a conspiracy to buy new machines? The problem is getting worse
Ubuntu is hot because its the most easiest and simplist distro to use.
For the majority of users it is the first distro that just works though, I know you said its not and I have seen comments here stating its not 100% ready for all hardware.
For me its highly integrated and very well thought of with things like clicking on a.deb in firefox will load a nice.deb installer is just an example.
Apt-get just works and I have seen alot of problems with beta level software packages in other distros that should not have been included in the portage, yum or some.bin files. Ubuntu seems stable for once.
Its hardware autodection just works too on all my computers and even the printer worked by cups via plug and play! I have had anything like this.
My el-cheapo laptop under a vinalla windowsXP service pack2 cd has issues and I need to copy all the drivers to a cd to make it work properly. Ubuntu runs flawless and detects everything.
Anyway this is why many of us love it and view it ahead of the competition.
Now we need to work on other hardware to make sure its more flawless.
Many worstations use RHEL because most proprietary apps will only target it and or SuSE enterprise. Also companies like Dell will only support their workstations if they run RHEL. Obviously mute if you only run free software and firefox.
Researching a printer is an example of a nightmare.
Why should joe sixpack do that? Why can't he just plug it in and have it work? If it can not do that and run software he buys at compusa then its defective and support will go through the roof. Also company image will look bad as he will be mad because his computer can not read mp3s or play movies.
Yes we know how to configure Ubuntu to do this but joe six pack does not and will assume its not supported.
Also what is a driver to Joe Six pack? why should he care? If he does not know what a driver is then he wont even know to research his hardware or check for later versions.
Also the consumer for Dell is Joe six pack. Dell gets a nice volume for being nice to Microsoft. Joe compares different models and gets the cheapest one for the same spec. So Joe will want that volume license and if its not there he will go to a competitor. Plain and simple.
Dell does sell Linux for its servers and workstations. But Joes need Windows until the monopoly is broken.
I do not know about you guys but I prefer more competition and less vendor os lock in.
Java is huge in the mobile market as a result.
The problem I have is all the oses are dictated by the monopolies of the carriers. Even the menu's must work all the same and all applications except java applets need to be signed so they can be the gatekeepers aka the carriers.
As you can tell by my posting that I was not a big fan of it. Yes linux was very immature at the time but I was blown away by redhat 5.2 later on and it was lightyears ahead and it had cool things like kde and widow managers besides looking glass.
SCO Xenix cough Openserver has the been the worst unix out on the market for almost 20 years and Caldera's Openlinux lite sucked goatballs. Old sco has the opportunity to make Openserver more like Solaris, AIX, and Linux for over 2 decades but decided to make it stagnant for decades.
Worse SCO intentionally crippled its product by not having standard components like a TCP/IP stack unless of course you pay $1200 or something outrageous. No gnu tools, no debuggers, no well just about anything to troubleshoot a dying sco.
But it seems IBM hurt SCO not by endoring Linux but SCO's crappy linux distro and lottery ticket. Darl McBride won over $26 million personally from the disk compression lawsuit from MS that was included with DOS 6. I think he wanted the same thing to happen with Linux and they were hoping old sco would provide. Bad move.
SCO has itself to blame and they could have been the next redhat or maybe sun if old sco actually improved their os 20 years ago. Its time it died like other companies who made poor business decisions.
Many websites will use hd photo because it contains drm so people can not steal their images or hyperlink them unless its on their site.
Also I was on frostwire earlier today and wma and mp4 was about equal to mp3. People use whats on their computer thats free.
I think ms is getting ready in its war agaisnt linux by trying to standardize on as many proprietary patented technology as possible. If joe six packs firefox can not display images but IE can, which browser do you think he would use? (Passive sentance... whatever)
Its very difficult to find work teaching math or science unless you have a single subject credential in those areas. The problem California has it that they do not like hiring math and science teachers. Why? Money.
They can hire an intern for half the price and just get rid of them every year or what they do is put in a permanent sub and recycle them just to meet quotas so they don't get sued. Its disgusting.
The problem really is paying more for math and science teachers. If the schools must pay more for these teachers then they will fire them to save money and use interns.
So why should a teacher get a credential in a subject that could damage his or her career?
Also whats great about unqualified interns is that they do not have to comply with no child left behind. They can claim they could not find enough qualified teachers to fill the position and the schools will no longer have to be held accountable.
As a result she plans to teach in Texas next year. Pay is only a few thousand less a year and the bean counters do not run the schools and do borderline illegal things like what I described above or putting 50 kids to a class room and then change all the teachers in October so they can get away without paying teachers salary for 1 whole year. My jaw dropped when I heard about that.
Lets go back in time, no firefox just bloated netscape 4.7, NO gnome and kde was still beta and not included, you had to be root in order to use dialup(made me consider FreeBSD), no default gui as init 3 in console was the norm, alot of video cards did not run X right, no hardware detection, no default setup tool for X where the user did not have to do anything, no refresh rate set when your done running XF86Config, and the guis were just BAD. I used SCO which was then Caldera OpenLinux lite 1.2 which had somehting called looking glass wm. That wm was ugly and quite primptive and really bad. Window maker had to be compilied and installed manually. Also I do not think my USB keyboard was supported at the time either.
Thank you HP for not using Linux 10 years ago. It was not ready for anything other than a very simple server with no more than 2 processors. It would have turned alot of people agaisnt Linux.
How hard it would be to figure out how to click the applications menu in gnome and find OpenOffice. Also if you know Word and excell then openoffice should be a no brainer for almost all users.
The only training needed should be for the IT department and that is when real costs come into place. MCSE's do not know how to write a unix shell script unless they are trained are self taught but most users do not need special training.
Well that is probably good because I hate Dells and they are kia's of the computer world.:-)
Seriously my compaq laptop has great linux support and it runs very cool. You want a vendor who uses standard parts and Dell likes to modify things like their nvidia cards and laptop chipsets so the Linux drivers and even Windows drivers wont run..... and of course Dells own proprietary drivers are years old and are not updated. It sucks for gamers and Linux users.
Anyway try a laptop with an intel chipset. HP actively supports Linux and the windows tax is not much since they do not even include a restore disk. This is just my own opinion though and most geeks like dual booting windows so this is why they do not offer linux only.
I believe they still sell Linux for their servers but that is it.
I.T. does now want Linux besides in the computer room. I think Dell even offered Linux for some workstation but demand was not high.
Its not like they will support it for Dimension users. However making it linux compatible with drivers for linux in case the geeks want to dual boot or wipe Windows off it seems more doable but even that is expensive. It will add support costs and Dell does not like people opening up their boxes and doing things to them where it might cost htem money in support or hardware replacements in case it becomes broken by a (l)user.
Which is why I switched to Ubuntu and FreeBSD long ago from redhat. The conspiracist in me thinks rpm was invented as a way to keep you on the upgrade trendmill. I spent lots of money in the past upgrading linux distros before I had high speed internet access and could apt-get or use the ports. RPM is truly terrible and yum does not solve anything other than to download some other packages that might be required with it. Upgrading is still a nightmare.
I guess commercial software vendors like Oracle love people all running the same version of everything because its easier to support and develop but its not friendly for users.
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I did help desk at my last job at a gaming company. Yes some nvidia cards like my older geforce 6600 can not share irq's and will crash my computer when playing any video if I put my system as a plug and play OS. The same is true with some ati cards. Some hardware is just awefull and buggy. THere are some USB drives that randomly decide to be /dev/hda1 or /dev/hdb1 at any moment as an example that I have seen posted in tech forums. As things get moved into software its more of an issue.
But I agree that creative labs is doomed and gone in my eyes as well. They made good stuff at one time before they got greedy and technology caught up to bring quality sound for cheap.
Well probably because he could afford a hummer. Her hummer is a different matter now
They are not the same hummers.
THe new ones today are just junky old cheverolet trucks with a hummer frame bolted on it. Got to love the beancounters who thought of this?
It may have an issue with irq routing/sharing.
See if you can turn the bios to non plug and play os and change the dma and irq settings for that pci slot. PS disabling plug and play os can make windows2k and occasionally XP blue screen due to the hal being setup during installation.
I had problems with my soundmax with my 5.1 surround system and plan to put my aging sb live back in though wow has some issues with it.
I know I should not use windows update to update the sound driver but oddly ubuntu does weird things with my soundmax on my laptop as well and will not play midi files. I think it maybe hardware related.
I do agree with you that soundblaster is in trouble. Worse Vista does not have accelerated or 3d audio so the point of using a high end sound card is mute. Creative labs is working on a new driver for this but its not done yet.
I think they should focus on the mp3 player market.
I was irrated a month ago when I planned to upgrade my aging AthlonXP computer. I could not find any decent AGP video cards and ddr2 ram replaced ddr1. Also my power supply was not compatible with the new motherboards and new motherboards did not have any ide connections for my drives.
I had to really upgrade to a whole new machine and spend hundreds more as I could not simply replace my board and put my older peripherals on.
I switched to Intel because I was upset that AMD kept changing things with new standards.
I am sick and tired of this and I think the problem is getting worse. Ide is fine and Sata is not needed because the transfer rates of the hard drives have not caught up. Maybe its a conspiracy to buy new machines? The problem is getting worse
Ubuntu is hot because its the most easiest and simplist distro to use.
.deb in firefox will load a nice .deb installer is just an example.
.bin files. Ubuntu seems stable for once.
For the majority of users it is the first distro that just works though, I know you said its not and I have seen comments here stating its not 100% ready for all hardware.
For me its highly integrated and very well thought of with things like clicking on a
Apt-get just works and I have seen alot of problems with beta level software packages in other distros that should not have been included in the portage, yum or some
Its hardware autodection just works too on all my computers and even the printer worked by cups via plug and play! I have had anything like this.
My el-cheapo laptop under a vinalla windowsXP service pack2 cd has issues and I need to copy all the drivers to a cd to make it work properly. Ubuntu runs flawless and detects everything.
Anyway this is why many of us love it and view it ahead of the competition.
Now we need to work on other hardware to make sure its more flawless.
"perl -i -p -e s/id\:6\:in/id\:3\:in/ /etc/inittab"
I was thinking of writing a program in perl a few days ago for a pet project but your post makes me think that is a bad idea. Shudder
IF your employer uses Oracle it maybe worth the switch. They no longer support Debian.
ALso if you run servers that can not go down it maybe nice to have RHES running as its supported by software vendors and OEM's.
Many worstations use RHEL because most proprietary apps will only target it and or SuSE enterprise. Also companies like Dell will only support their workstations if they run RHEL. Obviously mute if you only run free software and firefox.
What about Emacs?
Researching a printer is an example of a nightmare.
Why should joe sixpack do that? Why can't he just plug it in and have it work? If it can not do that and run software he buys at compusa then its defective and support will go through the roof. Also company image will look bad as he will be mad because his computer can not read mp3s or play movies.
Yes we know how to configure Ubuntu to do this but joe six pack does not and will assume its not supported.
Also what is a driver to Joe Six pack? why should he care? If he does not know what a driver is then he wont even know to research his hardware or check for later versions.
Also the consumer for Dell is Joe six pack. Dell gets a nice volume for being nice to Microsoft. Joe compares different models and gets the cheapest one for the same spec. So Joe will want that volume license and if its not there he will go to a competitor. Plain and simple.
Dell does sell Linux for its servers and workstations. But Joes need Windows until the monopoly is broken.
Will be bashing all Ubuntu linux users next as unAmerican. .... well at least the ones I know about
I do not know about you guys but I prefer more competition and less vendor os lock in.
Java is huge in the mobile market as a result.
The problem I have is all the oses are dictated by the monopolies of the carriers. Even the menu's must work all the same and all applications except java applets need to be signed so they can be the gatekeepers aka the carriers.
My first linux was openlinux lite 1.2. :-)
As you can tell by my posting that I was not a big fan of it. Yes linux was very immature at the time but I was blown away by redhat 5.2 later on and it was lightyears ahead and it had cool things like kde and widow managers besides looking glass.
Since when was IBM responsible for SCO's profits?
SCO Xenix cough Openserver has the been the worst unix out on the market for almost 20 years and Caldera's Openlinux lite sucked goatballs. Old sco has the opportunity to make Openserver more like Solaris, AIX, and Linux for over 2 decades but decided to make it stagnant for decades.
Worse SCO intentionally crippled its product by not having standard components like a TCP/IP stack unless of course you pay $1200 or something outrageous. No gnu tools, no debuggers, no well just about anything to troubleshoot a dying sco.
But it seems IBM hurt SCO not by endoring Linux but SCO's crappy linux distro and lottery ticket. Darl McBride won over $26 million personally from the disk compression lawsuit from MS that was included with DOS 6. I think he wanted the same thing to happen with Linux and they were hoping old sco would provide. Bad move.
SCO has itself to blame and they could have been the next redhat or maybe sun if old sco actually improved their os 20 years ago. Its time it died like other companies who made poor business decisions.
Many websites will use hd photo because it contains drm so people can not steal their images or hyperlink them unless its on their site.
... whatever)
Also I was on frostwire earlier today and wma and mp4 was about equal to mp3. People use whats on their computer thats free.
I think ms is getting ready in its war agaisnt linux by trying to standardize on as many proprietary patented technology as possible. If joe six packs firefox can not display images but IE can, which browser do you think he would use? (Passive sentance
Its very difficult to find work teaching math or science unless you have a single subject credential in those areas. The problem California has it that they do not like hiring math and science teachers. Why? Money.
They can hire an intern for half the price and just get rid of them every year or what they do is put in a permanent sub and recycle them just to meet quotas so they don't get sued. Its disgusting.
The problem really is paying more for math and science teachers. If the schools must pay more for these teachers then they will fire them to save money and use interns.
So why should a teacher get a credential in a subject that could damage his or her career?
Also whats great about unqualified interns is that they do not have to comply with no child left behind. They can claim they could not find enough qualified teachers to fill the position and the schools will no longer have to be held accountable.
As a result she plans to teach in Texas next year. Pay is only a few thousand less a year and the bean counters do not run the schools and do borderline illegal things like what I described above or putting 50 kids to a class room and then change all the teachers in October so they can get away without paying teachers salary for 1 whole year. My jaw dropped when I heard about that.
I ran Linux about 10 years ago ... wow that long?
Lets go back in time, no firefox just bloated netscape 4.7, NO gnome and kde was still beta and not included, you had to be root in order to use dialup(made me consider FreeBSD), no default gui as init 3 in console was the norm, alot of video cards did not run X right, no hardware detection, no default setup tool for X where the user did not have to do anything, no refresh rate set when your done running XF86Config, and the guis were just BAD. I used SCO which was then Caldera OpenLinux lite 1.2 which had somehting called looking glass wm. That wm was ugly and quite primptive and really bad. Window maker had to be compilied and installed manually. Also I do not think my USB keyboard was supported at the time either.
Thank you HP for not using Linux 10 years ago. It was not ready for anything other than a very simple server with no more than 2 processors. It would have turned alot of people agaisnt Linux.
Training bla bla
How hard it would be to figure out how to click the applications menu in gnome and find OpenOffice. Also if you know Word and excell then openoffice should be a no brainer for almost all users.
The only training needed should be for the IT department and that is when real costs come into place. MCSE's do not know how to write a unix shell script unless they are trained are self taught but most users do not need special training.
Well that is probably good because I hate Dells and they are kia's of the computer world. :-)
.... and of course Dells own proprietary drivers are years old and are not updated. It sucks for gamers and Linux users.
Seriously my compaq laptop has great linux support and it runs very cool. You want a vendor who uses standard parts and Dell likes to modify things like their nvidia cards and laptop chipsets so the Linux drivers and even Windows drivers wont run.
Anyway try a laptop with an intel chipset. HP actively supports Linux and the windows tax is not much since they do not even include a restore disk. This is just my own opinion though and most geeks like dual booting windows so this is why they do not offer linux only.
I believe they still sell Linux for their servers but that is it.
I.T. does now want Linux besides in the computer room. I think Dell even offered Linux for some workstation but demand was not high.
Its not like they will support it for Dimension users. However making it linux compatible with drivers for linux in case the geeks want to dual boot or wipe Windows off it seems more doable but even that is expensive. It will add support costs and Dell does not like people opening up their boxes and doing things to them where it might cost htem money in support or hardware replacements in case it becomes broken by a (l)user.
Welcome to RPM hell.
Which is why I switched to Ubuntu and FreeBSD long ago from redhat. The conspiracist in me thinks rpm was invented as a way to keep you on the upgrade trendmill. I spent lots of money in the past upgrading linux distros before I had high speed internet access and could apt-get or use the ports. RPM is truly terrible and yum does not solve anything other than to download some other packages that might be required with it. Upgrading is still a nightmare.
I guess commercial software vendors like Oracle love people all running the same version of everything because its easier to support and develop but its not friendly for users.
I wonder if it would explain the amount going up as paranoid companies are heavily auditing everything they do and all financial data
Care to elaberate?