so what if I can delete Icons? That does not remove the executable, which is the point of the matter...
I happen to have a microsoft keyboard, the Natural Pro, and every time that I reboot from debian, into windows the software for the the damn thing has changed the defaults so that the "media" button fires up media player, instead of winamp, like i have asked it too. IE gets launched instead of mozilla as well about half of the time. Each time, in order to fix it I have to wade through ten layers of start menu to find the application that you have to use to make the changes, and then, for what? Just to do it all again next month when I reboot because website X (my bank for one) requires IE?
The real root of the problem isn't that microsoft bundles these applications, it's that I can't remove them. At least not without downloading and instaling a rather large service pack.
You are right though, Red Hat, Mandrake etc do include stuff like xine and xmms by default, there is however, nothing stopping you from opening a xterm and typing 'rm/usr/bin/xmms' or whereever else it happens to be...ever try and erase notepad on an XP box? it's back the next time you reboot...
If it hooks up to computers, it should only require generic drivers.
reminds me of the time that I used an HP LaserJet 4 driver to run a Deskjet 350 in DOS...guy said it would never work...granted, only printed black and white...but still
Disclaimer - I'm not a gamer, in any way, shape or form...and could care less about 3D acceleration
However, I have been personally predicting the fall of nVidia for quite a while now, ever since my Diamond Viper 770 Ultra died, to be honest. I replaced it with a used Asus TNT2 Ultra Card (V3800 I think), and had the same kind of issues, which were mostly the system locking up due to heat buildup.
Then I built a machine for a friend of mine, and we put a Hercules GF2 MX440 card in it, with the same kind of issues. Not only that, but the power requirements were what I was considering to be obscene, for the time.
When we replaced that MX card with a Radeon VIVO, all of the stability issues went away, same thing when I replaced my Asus Card with a Matrox Millenium G550. All of a sudden XP Pro was...well..."Stable"
Then, six months ago I finally got so completely sick of The stability issues that I was living with, mostly due to a rather ecleptic mix of hardware, that I switched XP out for Debian. Found that not only did all of my stability issues disappear (which I knew would happen) but, I had better driver support for my Matrox card than I did in windows.
This got kind of ranty, and I forgot where I was going with this...oh well...
I haven't had a floppy installed on my main system in, what, two years now...and to be honest there was only one time when i missed having it. When i was about to installed Debian on an older box that I had sitting around.
Buying a floppy drive was going to cost me $25 CDN, for something that was going to be a one time thing. Removing the floppy drive from the Aptiva, and installing it in the PIII wasn't an option either.
Wouldn't you know it, the older Pentium 166 box wouldn't boot off of the CD that I had sitting in front of me. I wound up installed Redhat (6.2 i think), simply because I had the boxed set, which happened to include the floppy disk. Downloaded my Debian boot floppies once this was done, and restarted the process. It was a huge pain in the ass, but I honestly considered it to be less of a nuisance than installing a floppy in my workstation.
Other than that, honestly, never missed it, and I NEVER put one into a box that I build.
I'm just on my way to our christmas party in about an hour.
we are doing a "secret santa" thing, everyone draws a name out of a hat, and has to buy something for the person who's name you drew.
sounds good right? yeah, until they tell you that you have to buy 8 things for the person, and that you cannot spend more than $5 CDN to do it...
As far as the company goes though, we will probably get the standard $22 gift certificate for a butterball turkey....
I'm gonna buy a bottle instead....
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I agree with the slackware 8.1 comment. I have a 486dx-66 with 16MB that sits in my closet and acts as a broadband router for the test of the network. It's an old DEC machine that runs beautifully, with i think 2 350MB harddisks in it.
The nice thing about slackware, not doing a lot of fancy hardware detection is that i was able to remove those disks, put them in a faster machine, install everything, recompile a kernel specifically for the 486, slap the disks back into the old cae and away I want. took less than an hour to get everything set up...
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so what if I can delete Icons? That does not remove the executable, which is the point of the matter...
I happen to have a microsoft keyboard, the Natural Pro, and every time that I reboot from debian, into windows the software for the the damn thing has changed the defaults so that the "media" button fires up media player, instead of winamp, like i have asked it too. IE gets launched instead of mozilla as well about half of the time. Each time, in order to fix it I have to wade through ten layers of start menu to find the application that you have to use to make the changes, and then, for what? Just to do it all again next month when I reboot because website X (my bank for one) requires IE?
fuck that
The real root of the problem isn't that microsoft bundles these applications, it's that I can't remove them. At least not without downloading and instaling a rather large service pack.
/usr/bin/xmms' or whereever else it happens to be...ever try and erase notepad on an XP box? it's back the next time you reboot...
You are right though, Red Hat, Mandrake etc do include stuff like xine and xmms by default, there is however, nothing stopping you from opening a xterm and typing 'rm
If it hooks up to computers, it should only require generic drivers.
reminds me of the time that I used an HP LaserJet 4 driver to run a Deskjet 350 in DOS...guy said it would never work...granted, only printed black and white...but still
your right, it has to be modd'd to run NetBSD instead!
Tyan Tiger 230T, Enermax 431W PS...
Try AGain
Disclaimer - I'm not a gamer, in any way, shape or form...and could care less about 3D acceleration
However, I have been personally predicting the fall of nVidia for quite a while now, ever since my Diamond Viper 770 Ultra died, to be honest. I replaced it with a used Asus TNT2 Ultra Card (V3800 I think), and had the same kind of issues, which were mostly the system locking up due to heat buildup.
Then I built a machine for a friend of mine, and we put a Hercules GF2 MX440 card in it, with the same kind of issues. Not only that, but the power requirements were what I was considering to be obscene, for the time.
When we replaced that MX card with a Radeon VIVO, all of the stability issues went away, same thing when I replaced my Asus Card with a Matrox Millenium G550. All of a sudden XP Pro was...well..."Stable"
Then, six months ago I finally got so completely sick of The stability issues that I was living with, mostly due to a rather ecleptic mix of hardware, that I switched XP out for Debian. Found that not only did all of my stability issues disappear (which I knew would happen) but, I had better driver support for my Matrox card than I did in windows.
This got kind of ranty, and I forgot where I was going with this...oh well...
you don't think that, maybe, just maybe this has to do with all the over-clocking that is oh-so trendy these days?
I haven't had a floppy installed on my main system in, what, two years now...and to be honest there was only one time when i missed having it. When i was about to installed Debian on an older box that I had sitting around. Buying a floppy drive was going to cost me $25 CDN, for something that was going to be a one time thing. Removing the floppy drive from the Aptiva, and installing it in the PIII wasn't an option either. Wouldn't you know it, the older Pentium 166 box wouldn't boot off of the CD that I had sitting in front of me. I wound up installed Redhat (6.2 i think), simply because I had the boxed set, which happened to include the floppy disk. Downloaded my Debian boot floppies once this was done, and restarted the process. It was a huge pain in the ass, but I honestly considered it to be less of a nuisance than installing a floppy in my workstation. Other than that, honestly, never missed it, and I NEVER put one into a box that I build.
fuck insightful, is this even relevant to anything that i have ever seen on /.? never mind relevant to this story, relevant to anything...
I'm just on my way to our christmas party in about an hour.
we are doing a "secret santa" thing, everyone draws a name out of a hat, and has to buy something for the person who's name you drew.
sounds good right? yeah, until they tell you that you have to buy 8 things for the person, and that you cannot spend more than $5 CDN to do it...
As far as the company goes though, we will probably get the standard $22 gift certificate for a butterball turkey....
I'm gonna buy a bottle instead....
I agree with the slackware 8.1 comment. I have a 486dx-66 with 16MB that sits in my closet and acts as a broadband router for the test of the network. It's an old DEC machine that runs beautifully, with i think 2 350MB harddisks in it.
The nice thing about slackware, not doing a lot of fancy hardware detection is that i was able to remove those disks, put them in a faster machine, install everything, recompile a kernel specifically for the 486, slap the disks back into the old cae and away I want. took less than an hour to get everything set up...