IRQ conflicts are still there. Especially for Nvidia 6600 GT and some ATI cards.
Worse, back in the old days you could change the IRQs with jumpers. Today most crappy boards *cough* dell *cough* try to put everything on one irq with apic irq routing. Yes it works most of the time fine but when it doesn't it usually means its time to go into the bios. Worse WindowsXP will bluescreen if you put IRQ sharing off and change plug and play OS to non plug and play os unless you reinstall. Sometimes it will boot fine changing these.
Sometimes when technology comes into play to solve a problem and it can create more difficult headaches unless its done right
Just install Ssh on the notebook and then install ssh on a superfast desktop like the quad core macs that can have more than 4 gigs of ram and run Windows. Of course if you want any gui's you will need X and I do not know if your development tools are win32 only or not? Then if you can use nmake you wont need the ram to begin with.
Terminals began when early microcomputers sucked and were just mere toys. They are used for situations like what you described. Maybe you can also install vnc on the other computer and you can have gui access as well.
California is already like this and let me tell you things are getting quite bad here. Houses have gone up 400% in value and wages were cut in half during the same period from 1999 to today. I see hordes of Mexicans outside home depot on my way to work everyday willing to work for several dollars an hour and I feel bad for the honest carpenters and construction workers. Salaries have dropped from 50k a year to 14k a year also known as 8/hr for the same job. So has the price homes fell as a result? Nope. It has gone up considerable and the shareholders of these construction companies have been creaming their pants as a result.
Meanwhile I do not speak spanish fluently and its hurting my chances for finding a job. Worse those in retail and the service industry and desperately getting MCSE's and A+ certifications so they no longer have to compete with these cheap workers and our depressing my wages.
I am moving to Texas by this summer as a result. I know its bad there too with immigration but at least I can afford a home.
Prices for things are not going down with this cheap labor at all which is a bad warning sign.
Sure its great to to try to come up with these utopia worlds but when you have kids to feed your views change and its survival of the fittest.
You will appear more like a job hopper with holes on your resume if your dropped. Hell my brother has fired contractors (temps) because there was not a big enough budget for coffee. His boss made him do it but still the landlord does not care when he wants his rent.
I worked(still do) for a contractor and my assignment was cancelled. Now I am looking at any job I can get and I appear to be a job hopper now because I only worked for company x for 2 and a half months. There are no active contracts close enough in my area and its been a month(now have a hole forming). I am thinking of working a retail crap job just to make it by in the meantime temporarily which of course means I will have to quit (yet again) when things look better. This will make my resume worse.... etc.
Do not be a contractor unless you have lots of experience and networking or if you have nothing to lose(live at home still).
But then comes the question of how do you know he wont quit in 5 months for another higher paying job?
Employers do not want someone who will leave when a better offer is there. Sure people will leave within reason after a few years but stability and loyality is important. If he is not loyal with other employers then he wont be loyal with you either.
I am in the problem now as I worked for a contractor company whose contract expired. I am not viewed as a job hopper and I am likely to take a lower end job because I am unhirable at the moment and it sucks
You can order some pc's with WindowsXP if you call them or from their website. I know many laptops that come with Vista you can order WindowsXP restore disks.
You are right to avoid Vista if you run any security software or anything graphically intensive.
.. by listening to their customers who want quality computers that do not break down and also bundle poor support.
I did a consulting job for help desk at a gaming company and more than always it was odd dell desktops and laptops that had issues or had very bad drivers. Dell loves to modify their video hardware so vanilla nvidia and ati drivers wont work. Sometimes new laptops have drivers from 2005 that wont run many games properly and no recourse to upgrade the drivers.
Also I have never seen techs load tcp/ip stacks on systems that fail to authenticate to a domain controller. Sound odd? It happens with Dell corporate desktops. At a former college they had a guy whose sole job was to run around with a diskette that had the proprietary tcp/ip stack.dll files for failing Dell pcs. Incredible!
Definitely needed a warning label for that link. Of course after gthe goatse thing a few years ago I should have learned better to click on links of pics on/.
In what ways does your mac have issues? I wanted to upgrade to an OSX machine for years as a former BSD zealot. I ended up getting a core duo windowsXP desktop as my next pc instead after my wife wanted to save money. I still run linux on my older laptop for school (java support has been problematic under FreeBSD)for my programming courses. I am thinking of getting a macbook pro to replace it eventually but I want if there are issues (like the heating problems in the first generation units).
What freedom do I have if I can't watch video's and do things on my computer that I can do on windows? Sure its not gnu in the sense free.
With Ubuntu the decision to chose what you want is there in the preferences with software updates. Want only gnu then only install? Then you can do that too just like Debian.
But the second you try to force an opinion on someone then you are taking away rights whether you believe they are more beneficial or not.
Second is the issue of conflicts with software packages.
I hate rpm hell. I admit I have not used redhat since 2001.. maybe 2002 so I have never used yum yet. But still its not perfect and in this day and age with thousands upon thousands of apps and libraries you just can not do manual path changing and hunting dependencies. I was always envious of the Debian and FreeBSd users because they can try new packages for kde and gnome without going into rpm hell. So I switched to FreeBSD as soon as I got high speed internet access and then back to windows as I needed to learn java for school and then back to Linux with Ubuntu. Ubuntu just works. The only hard thing is I had to get automatix to install some proprietary codecs and patented fonts that are clear type. But future versions wont have that problem iwth the cross licensing deal.
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Oops I was under the impression that the linux drivers were just the ported win32 ones and they had an abstraction layer to support multiple platforms. I have not used linux on any of my machines with nvidia graphics in over a year and use intel graphics with ubuntu.
This sounds to me that nvidia is still favoring windows as the newest drivers there work on older geforce3 cards running directX and Opengl fine.
Thanks for the info as I am typing this on a brand new Core duo with an nvidia 7600GT. I think I will keep linux off it if this is nvidia's idea of support.
That argument is a whole new set of worms and is highly political.
THe hardcore gnu zealots and Linus do not want a driver interface as it would encourage proprietary drivers. Why write opensource drivers or give their specs away then?
To me its the only way as the hardware vendors cross license technology from other companies and these other companies would have to approve of the opening of the drivers. Also these other companies are IP firms and they are afraid people will rip off their technology if an open source driver exists. Last, the FCC requires all wifi cards to come with close source drivers so terrorists wont use them to disrupt communications.
I am in favor of a standard driver interface that could be ported between architectures and platforms and the linux kernel team almost split over this issue last year. Vendors want this and as a user I want drivers and understand some may have to be closed source.
To me its fustrating as the problem is political and not technical. Supporting old stuff is not fun but required in the business world, regardless of what Linus wants to do.
Infact I referred a few users to go to www.nvidia.com who had your hardware to update their drivers so graphical distortions would go away in our game we made. The latest drivers always helped
A week ago slashdot had a story about internal MS emails being released to the public.
The head java evanglist at MS(now part of the J project) himself said "Who cares about cross platforms. It might have been an issue 5 years ago when I joined Microsoft but it is not now" which was dated from 1997.
What condition would Linux be in today if all the applets were win32 based java apps? Why use AWT when you can use win32,.net, or AFC or whatever Ms's proprietary solution at the time was? After all 95% of the market uses windows.
But since flash has taken off you can go to www.youtube.com under macosx and Linux.
Sun did the right thing and it would have killed java. IF java is no longer portable than why can't it not integrate and be fast? Its an argument they would have lost.
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IRQ conflicts are still there. Especially for Nvidia 6600 GT and some ATI cards.
Worse, back in the old days you could change the IRQs with jumpers. Today most crappy boards *cough* dell *cough* try to put everything on one irq with apic irq routing. Yes it works most of the time fine but when it doesn't it usually means its time to go into the bios. Worse WindowsXP will bluescreen if you put IRQ sharing off and change plug and play OS to non plug and play os unless you reinstall. Sometimes it will boot fine changing these.
Sometimes when technology comes into play to solve a problem and it can create more difficult headaches unless its done right
You can run an nmake batch job. Yea lame I know but at least you dont have to deal with the gui
Just install Ssh on the notebook and then install ssh on a superfast desktop like the quad core macs that can have more than 4 gigs of ram and run Windows. Of course if you want any gui's you will need X and I do not know if your development tools are win32 only or not? Then if you can use nmake you wont need the ram to begin with.
Terminals began when early microcomputers sucked and were just mere toys. They are used for situations like what you described. Maybe you can also install vnc on the other computer and you can have gui access as well.
Agreed Emacs is just so ram hungry.
Of course they have a vested interest not to support it. IBM makes DB2.
Also IBM wants you to buy an IBM server with your DB2 database. Oracle linux can run on Sun's which also is IBM's competitor.
This is purely political and not unexpected.
Sprint does the same thing and you need to pay more to use your own phone to cover the cost of not using sprints own apps.
Is this post sarcasm?
California is already like this and let me tell you things are getting quite bad here. Houses have gone up 400% in value and wages were cut in half during the same period from 1999 to today. I see hordes of Mexicans outside home depot on my way to work everyday willing to work for several dollars an hour and I feel bad for the honest carpenters and construction workers. Salaries have dropped from 50k a year to 14k a year also known as 8/hr for the same job. So has the price homes fell as a result? Nope. It has gone up considerable and the shareholders of these construction companies have been creaming their pants as a result.
Meanwhile I do not speak spanish fluently and its hurting my chances for finding a job. Worse those in retail and the service industry and desperately getting MCSE's and A+ certifications so they no longer have to compete with these cheap workers and our depressing my wages.
I am moving to Texas by this summer as a result. I know its bad there too with immigration but at least I can afford a home.
Prices for things are not going down with this cheap labor at all which is a bad warning sign.
Sure its great to to try to come up with these utopia worlds but when you have kids to feed your views change and its survival of the fittest.
Contracting is bad.
You will appear more like a job hopper with holes on your resume if your dropped. Hell my brother has fired contractors (temps) because there was not a big enough budget for coffee. His boss made him do it but still the landlord does not care when he wants his rent.
I worked(still do) for a contractor and my assignment was cancelled. Now I am looking at any job I can get and I appear to be a job hopper now because I only worked for company x for 2 and a half months. There are no active contracts close enough in my area and its been a month(now have a hole forming). I am thinking of working a retail crap job just to make it by in the meantime temporarily which of course means I will have to quit (yet again) when things look better. This will make my resume worse.... etc.
Do not be a contractor unless you have lots of experience and networking or if you have nothing to lose(live at home still).
But then comes the question of how do you know he wont quit in 5 months for another higher paying job?
Employers do not want someone who will leave when a better offer is there. Sure people will leave within reason after a few years but stability and loyality is important. If he is not loyal with other employers then he wont be loyal with you either.
I am in the problem now as I worked for a contractor company whose contract expired. I am not viewed as a job hopper and I am likely to take a lower end job because I am unhirable at the moment and it sucks
You can order some pc's with WindowsXP if you call them or from their website. I know many laptops that come with Vista you can order WindowsXP restore disks.
You are right to avoid Vista if you run any security software or anything graphically intensive.
.. by listening to their customers who want quality computers that do not break down and also bundle poor support.
.dll files for failing Dell pcs. Incredible!
I did a consulting job for help desk at a gaming company and more than always it was odd dell desktops and laptops that had issues or had very bad drivers. Dell loves to modify their video hardware so vanilla nvidia and ati drivers wont work. Sometimes new laptops have drivers from 2005 that wont run many games properly and no recourse to upgrade the drivers.
Also I have never seen techs load tcp/ip stacks on systems that fail to authenticate to a domain controller. Sound odd? It happens with Dell corporate desktops. At a former college they had a guy whose sole job was to run around with a diskette that had the proprietary tcp/ip stack
I had my kids around too.
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Definitely needed a warning label for that link. Of course after gthe goatse thing a few years ago I should have learned better to click on links of pics on
In what ways does your mac have issues? I wanted to upgrade to an OSX machine for years as a former BSD zealot. I ended up getting a core duo windowsXP desktop as my next pc instead after my wife wanted to save money. I still run linux on my older laptop for school (java support has been problematic under FreeBSD)for my programming courses. I am thinking of getting a macbook pro to replace it eventually but I want if there are issues (like the heating problems in the first generation units).
What freedom do I have if I can't watch video's and do things on my computer that I can do on windows? Sure its not gnu in the sense free.
.. maybe 2002 so I have never used yum yet. But still its not perfect and in this day and age with thousands upon thousands of apps and libraries you just can not do manual path changing and hunting dependencies. I was always envious of the Debian and FreeBSd users because they can try new packages for kde and gnome without going into rpm hell. So I switched to FreeBSD as soon as I got high speed internet access and then back to windows as I needed to learn java for school and then back to Linux with Ubuntu. Ubuntu just works. The only hard thing is I had to get automatix to install some proprietary codecs and patented fonts that are clear type. But future versions wont have that problem iwth the cross licensing deal.
With Ubuntu the decision to chose what you want is there in the preferences with software updates. Want only gnu then only install? Then you can do that too just like Debian.
But the second you try to force an opinion on someone then you are taking away rights whether you believe they are more beneficial or not.
Second is the issue of conflicts with software packages.
I hate rpm hell. I admit I have not used redhat since 2001
Are you sure you want to visit this page?
I see you are about to install the driver? Are you really really sure?
THen how the hell can I find more people to join my wow raids?
After all its an os as well
Oops I was under the impression that the linux drivers were just the ported win32 ones and they had an abstraction layer to support multiple platforms. I have not used linux on any of my machines with nvidia graphics in over a year and use intel graphics with ubuntu.
This sounds to me that nvidia is still favoring windows as the newest drivers there work on older geforce3 cards running directX and Opengl fine.
Thanks for the info as I am typing this on a brand new Core duo with an nvidia 7600GT. I think I will keep linux off it if this is nvidia's idea of support.
A coupon so Microsoft can increase sales of more copies of windows.
Boy, that sure showed Microsoft.
That argument is a whole new set of worms and is highly political.
THe hardcore gnu zealots and Linus do not want a driver interface as it would encourage proprietary drivers. Why write opensource drivers or give their specs away then?
To me its the only way as the hardware vendors cross license technology from other companies and these other companies would have to approve of the opening of the drivers. Also these other companies are IP firms and they are afraid people will rip off their technology if an open source driver exists. Last, the FCC requires all wifi cards to come with close source drivers so terrorists wont use them to disrupt communications.
I am in favor of a standard driver interface that could be ported between architectures and platforms and the linux kernel team almost split over this issue last year. Vendors want this and as a user I want drivers and understand some may have to be closed source.
To me its fustrating as the problem is political and not technical. Supporting old stuff is not fun but required in the business world, regardless of what Linus wants to do.
Your card is still supported.
Infact I referred a few users to go to www.nvidia.com who had your hardware to update their drivers so graphical distortions would go away in our game we made. The latest drivers always helped
You need an interactive debugger to know what the program is doing. Unless of course you write %100 bug free code which I doubt
Notice you say in theory.
Still it does make me uncomfortable about the thought of making the most destructable thing the universe has right here at home.
A week ago slashdot had a story about internal MS emails being released to the public.
.net, or AFC or whatever Ms's proprietary solution at the time was? After all 95% of the market uses windows.
The head java evanglist at MS(now part of the J project) himself said "Who cares about cross platforms. It might have been an issue 5 years ago when I joined Microsoft but it is not now" which was dated from 1997.
What condition would Linux be in today if all the applets were win32 based java apps? Why use AWT when you can use win32,
But since flash has taken off you can go to www.youtube.com under macosx and Linux.
Sun did the right thing and it would have killed java. IF java is no longer portable than why can't it not integrate and be fast? Its an argument they would have lost.
Well of course he hates java. It directly competes with flash and coldfusion.