Tell them fine, I'll go somewhere else. Ask to speak to a manager. Any reasonable person I'm sure wouldn't mind as long as you explain this will not harm their system.
I just went out to fix a clients computer (Win98). They went to turn it on and all the drivers were not being used. It was using all standard Windows drivers. Stuck at 640x480 res and 16 colors and netcard wasn't present. Tried to reinstall the drivers, but it didn't see the cd-drive to get the drivers from. I went into safemode and saw most of the drivers there. I began to remove some and finally I ened up removing everything. Still nothing changed, didn't automatically start adding even the most basic drivers. Add new hardware did nothing. I finally ran scanreg from DOS and picked a date from 5 days ago (the most recent). Bam, back to normal again.
Why?! Linux would never screw up like that. It's just desgin flaws like that where things randomly break for no aparent reason that makes me despise windows more and more.
BTW, I ran Win98 for 2 years straight without ever reformatting. Had to baby it a lot and learned about scanreg, saving my ass many times. Amazing how horrible the registry is. Why didn't MS just use text file system instead of a crappy registry that needs a tool to keep it in check.
That is why my comment does not apply to you. In a real work enviroment Windows needs howtos much more the Linux does. I don't just need to serve webpages the company I work for host websites. One computer runs many mission critical websites and windows is not designed for it.
I've spent more time figuring out how to do things with WinNT here at work. Backing up IIS and various other tasks. If and when I do find a particular solution it is usually GUI only and can't automate it. With *nix tar up the/etc directory. Cron it to tar and copy elsewhere. HOWTO's and things are much easier to come be for *nix.
Fonts is a big deal for graphic companies. The company I work for does internet work and graphic work. The graphic guys cringe when a PC (Windows) job comes in. Mac OS just excels in that line of work. Linux and Windows have about equal font difficulties.
"Bored" games? Heh, since I was pretty young when I first played Atari then moved to NES, Super NES. Then PC gaming from there. A lot of us are raised on video games. There isn't an alternative, well consoles, but I find PC games way more fun. Plus I prefer keyboard mouse controls to controllers.
Wow stability?! Although Win2k is quite stable... compared to other versions of windows. I find it just does hold up to unices. I always found applications easier to come by on the unices. For example FreeBSD ports is great way. Search the the ports and try out one of thousands of apps that seem to way superior to Windows counterparts.
BTW, I don't know if 'unices' is the correct terminology. Should I say *nixes?
If I'm not mistaken, you are legally allowed to backup your current music. Companies put copy protection to prevent distribution although stopping backups in the process since backing is the first step in distributing.
Looking at the Makefile in FreeBSD ports I don't see any such options --disable-calendar, etc.
I just need a good X email client that will handle HTML good and put the red underline on mispelled words. Like KMail with that feature would be fine. Even better Eudora for X. Eudora is my favorite client.
Oh well I guess my search continues or I break down and install evolution with added features I don't need.
Which is why I specifically said "in the US", and said "I'm sure you would find them eating whole squid in Japan." You just reiterated everything I just said for the sake a trolling.
Not to nitpick, but I love sushi. The only thing I have had with tentacles and it was just a cut piece of octopus. Typically sushi is just fish. I'm sure in Japan you would find some of them eating whole squid with tentacles and all, but of all the sushi places in the US I have never come across anything like that. Once at an Italian place I got a seafood soup dish that a whole squid, but cooked of course.
I always call some of my friends cases rice rocket computers. Most of them are half assed ugly unfinished cheap mods. On top of that they are the ones with a non-working computer 95% of the time. Funny, I have 99% track record for a working computer at LAN parties. 1% is usually just a particular game won't run correctly or not all.
Well thanks, I didn't bother to check to dictionary. You learn something new everyday!
I was not trying to nitpick and the smart ass tone most./ers enjoy. I just saw patent in the word. I'll assume the:) at the end marked your post as good intentions.;)
It always difficult get the right tone across text based communication.
Well not everyone has your views of what's absurd. These stories are fiction and what one writer could see as the future another my not see that at all. Time change, the future could end up in a number of infinite possibilites. That is the fun of sci-fi. There are plenty of visions I disagree with as well, but they can very well be good stories. Open up a little.
BTW, not trying to nitpick, I make spelling and grammar mistakes all the time but where you said "...patently absurd." Did you mean "blatantly" absurd or so absurd that it could be patented?
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My card, a Hauppage WinTV Theater, has a coax connector of the back for the antenna (just a long cord) that came with it. So you could string it where ever. Meaning there isn't an antenna inside the computer.
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Tell them fine, I'll go somewhere else. Ask to speak to a manager. Any reasonable person I'm sure wouldn't mind as long as you explain this will not harm their system.
I just went out to fix a clients computer (Win98). They went to turn it on and all the drivers were not being used. It was using all standard Windows drivers. Stuck at 640x480 res and 16 colors and netcard wasn't present. Tried to reinstall the drivers, but it didn't see the cd-drive to get the drivers from. I went into safemode and saw most of the drivers there. I began to remove some and finally I ened up removing everything. Still nothing changed, didn't automatically start adding even the most basic drivers. Add new hardware did nothing. I finally ran scanreg from DOS and picked a date from 5 days ago (the most recent). Bam, back to normal again.
Why?! Linux would never screw up like that. It's just desgin flaws like that where things randomly break for no aparent reason that makes me despise windows more and more.
BTW, I ran Win98 for 2 years straight without ever reformatting. Had to baby it a lot and learned about scanreg, saving my ass many times. Amazing how horrible the registry is. Why didn't MS just use text file system instead of a crappy registry that needs a tool to keep it in check.
That is why my comment does not apply to you. In a real work enviroment Windows needs howtos much more the Linux does. I don't just need to serve webpages the company I work for host websites. One computer runs many mission critical websites and windows is not designed for it.
I think you just wandered to the wrong website.
I've spent more time figuring out how to do things with WinNT here at work. Backing up IIS and various other tasks. If and when I do find a particular solution it is usually GUI only and can't automate it. With *nix tar up the /etc directory. Cron it to tar and copy elsewhere. HOWTO's and things are much easier to come be for *nix.
Fonts is a big deal for graphic companies. The company I work for does internet work and graphic work. The graphic guys cringe when a PC (Windows) job comes in. Mac OS just excels in that line of work. Linux and Windows have about equal font difficulties.
"Bored" games? Heh, since I was pretty young when I first played Atari then moved to NES, Super NES. Then PC gaming from there. A lot of us are raised on video games. There isn't an alternative, well consoles, but I find PC games way more fun. Plus I prefer keyboard mouse controls to controllers.
Wow stability?! Although Win2k is quite stable... compared to other versions of windows. I find it just does hold up to unices. I always found applications easier to come by on the unices. For example FreeBSD ports is great way. Search the the ports and try out one of thousands of apps that seem to way superior to Windows counterparts.
BTW, I don't know if 'unices' is the correct terminology. Should I say *nixes?
I second that!
I previous poster once provided this link to a similar response to yours. I will do the same.
Read here to correct yourself.
If I'm not mistaken, you are legally allowed to backup your current music. Companies put copy protection to prevent distribution although stopping backups in the process since backing is the first step in distributing.
Looking at the Makefile in FreeBSD ports I don't see any such options --disable-calendar, etc.
I just need a good X email client that will handle HTML good and put the red underline on mispelled words. Like KMail with that feature would be fine. Even better Eudora for X. Eudora is my favorite client.
Oh well I guess my search continues or I break down and install evolution with added features I don't need.
Which is why I specifically said "in the US", and said "I'm sure you would find them eating whole squid in Japan." You just reiterated everything I just said for the sake a trolling.
Plus they got to be restarted all the time. BSODs patches, and make winders happy.
Heh, you have to use a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Power and network cables should be all that is need for a pure server.
I'm just messing with you, I use win2k for my gaming machine.
Not to nitpick, but I love sushi. The only thing I have had with tentacles and it was just a cut piece of octopus. Typically sushi is just fish. I'm sure in Japan you would find some of them eating whole squid with tentacles and all, but of all the sushi places in the US I have never come across anything like that. Once at an Italian place I got a seafood soup dish that a whole squid, but cooked of course.
I second that. Soap operas have been lacking something I couldn't pinpoint... naked chicks!
OH Thank goodness!!! Palladium is just a hoax.
I always call some of my friends cases rice rocket computers. Most of them are half assed ugly unfinished cheap mods. On top of that they are the ones with a non-working computer 95% of the time. Funny, I have 99% track record for a working computer at LAN parties. 1% is usually just a particular game won't run correctly or not all.
Well thanks, I didn't bother to check to dictionary. You learn something new everyday!
./ers enjoy. I just saw patent in the word. I'll assume the :) at the end marked your post as good intentions. ;)
I was not trying to nitpick and the smart ass tone most
It always difficult get the right tone across text based communication.
Well not everyone has your views of what's absurd. These stories are fiction and what one writer could see as the future another my not see that at all. Time change, the future could end up in a number of infinite possibilites. That is the fun of sci-fi. There are plenty of visions I disagree with as well, but they can very well be good stories. Open up a little.
BTW, not trying to nitpick, I make spelling and grammar mistakes all the time but where you said "...patently absurd." Did you mean "blatantly" absurd or so absurd that it could be patented?
Heh, I love your sig. I giggle everytime I come across it. Evertime I read it as ten then read binary at the end and giggle to my self "oh 2 hehe."
There isn't a point, one would be stupid to put a high end video card in a server.
But, FreeBSD is plenty capable to be server or a OpenGL 3D Graphic, Gaming machine.
Here's a snippet from their README.txt, its an example configuration for X.
Section "Device"
Identifier"Device"
Driver"nvidia"
VendorName"NVIDIA"
BoardName"GeForce2 Go"
EndSection
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My card, a Hauppage WinTV Theater, has a coax connector of the back for the antenna (just a long cord) that came with it. So you could string it where ever. Meaning there isn't an antenna inside the computer.