I'm not sure. I was able to get it installed using 'graphic safe mode' or something like that, but now when it starts up it kicks me to the command prompt. I searched the forums for someone who had a laptop just like mine and tried to follow the instructions to get it working. They had me edit the.conf file you mentioned, but nothing worked. I've since decided that I'll wait for fiesty fawn before I try again.
Over the years I've tried to use linux several times because if it's as good as the people here say then I'm certain I'll love it, it just seems the price of entry if you don't know anyone who can actually help you get it configured properly is still a little high (I'm not looking for a lot of frustration, just an OS that works.) I get all my licenses for MS products free as part of MSDN/Partner program, but if there's something that's better I'm willing to try and spend some time on it (as long as it doesn't include getting cursed at by some kid on a linux forum...)
My boss asked me to start testing Vista here at the office to try and find any incompatabilities with any in house and other common applications we use (none yet), and in my testing one thing that was a noticable improvement is network performance.
I have since installed it on a few machines at home where I have an external drive hooked up to my PC with all of my ripped CDs shared so my wife and kids can access it from their machines, and where iTunes would lockup in the past when I tried to open it from another machine with the library mapped back to the shared drive it now works flawlessly.
I have ubuntu installed, but the GUI doesn't work at all. It drops me to a command prompt and says there's something wrong with x. I'm afraid that the only linux knowledge I have is from trying to get it working and I've never had much luck with getting the GUI functioning though.
The parent's point was that all "real" OSes have multiple desktops and I was simply pointing out that the GUI isn't part of the OS. I'm sure at some point you'll have multiple desktop support for Vista, and the changes in Vista's GDI it will actually work much better than the XP powertoy did. Lastly, linux with no GUI at all is still a "real" OS, is it not?
File x-fers on my test machine are easily 50% faster than those on an identical machine running XP.
Oh, and don't get me started on the network performance. Vista is leaps and bounds ahead of XP when it comes to transfering files accross the network.
X won't load at all on my machine (drops to a command prompt and gives me some cryptic error that no one on the Ubuntu forums had a real/working answer for.) It runs Vista fine though...
I figure I'll give linux another go when fiesty fawn is released.
"In what market does Apple have a monopoly?"
Any market they can get a foothold in. Currently that seems to be online music (at least to the same extent that MS ever had a monopoly.) For most of us Apple = MS without the success...
"I also can't buy a Nokia phone without the Nokia OS in it. Oh the humanity! And why would you want to get a Mac without OS X? What would you gain from that that you couldn't gain from simply buying the computer and erasing the HD? And what does your question have to do with "fair use"? You are not in any shape or form prevented from running some other OS on the Mac."
1) Maybe I already own the OS and I'm disposing of my old Mac? If you believe that the price for the OS isn't built in to every Mac sold then I have a bridge that I'd like to sell you.
"MoAB was a flop, IMO. They stuffed their numbers by adding bugs in applications that had nothing to do with Apple (like VLC)."
It was a flop because you drank the cool-aid.
My boss sounds a lot like you. He even went so far as to have a DSL line ran straight to his office and uses a switch to use it instead of the corporate lan to do stuff that he's had banned/blocked. Generally I have no problem with the rules, just when the guys in "IT" seem to have a different set of them.
"Can you name one climatologist who disagrees with that statement?"
Please name one climatologist who a)wasn't already an environmentalist before becoming a "climatologist" or, b)doesn't have a vested interest in believing humans are causing the latest rise in temp (ie. grant money)
It's not the users job to do this, unless you're implying that everything linux is beta. If that's the case then perhaps it should be clearly marked when you download the distro that you're a beta tester and you're expected to provide feedback instead of listing official release versions that appear to be out of beta?
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I'm not sure. I was able to get it installed using 'graphic safe mode' or something like that, but now when it starts up it kicks me to the command prompt. I searched the forums for someone who had a laptop just like mine and tried to follow the instructions to get it working. They had me edit the .conf file you mentioned, but nothing worked. I've since decided that I'll wait for fiesty fawn before I try again.
Over the years I've tried to use linux several times because if it's as good as the people here say then I'm certain I'll love it, it just seems the price of entry if you don't know anyone who can actually help you get it configured properly is still a little high (I'm not looking for a lot of frustration, just an OS that works.) I get all my licenses for MS products free as part of MSDN/Partner program, but if there's something that's better I'm willing to try and spend some time on it (as long as it doesn't include getting cursed at by some kid on a linux forum...)
My boss asked me to start testing Vista here at the office to try and find any incompatabilities with any in house and other common applications we use (none yet), and in my testing one thing that was a noticable improvement is network performance.
I have since installed it on a few machines at home where I have an external drive hooked up to my PC with all of my ripped CDs shared so my wife and kids can access it from their machines, and where iTunes would lockup in the past when I tried to open it from another machine with the library mapped back to the shared drive it now works flawlessly.
I have ubuntu installed, but the GUI doesn't work at all. It drops me to a command prompt and says there's something wrong with x. I'm afraid that the only linux knowledge I have is from trying to get it working and I've never had much luck with getting the GUI functioning though.
The parent's point was that all "real" OSes have multiple desktops and I was simply pointing out that the GUI isn't part of the OS. I'm sure at some point you'll have multiple desktop support for Vista, and the changes in Vista's GDI it will actually work much better than the XP powertoy did.
Lastly, linux with no GUI at all is still a "real" OS, is it not?
File x-fers on my test machine are easily 50% faster than those on an identical machine running XP.
Oh, and don't get me started on the network performance. Vista is leaps and bounds ahead of XP when it comes to transfering files accross the network.
X won't load at all on my machine (drops to a command prompt and gives me some cryptic error that no one on the Ubuntu forums had a real/working answer for.) It runs Vista fine though...
I figure I'll give linux another go when fiesty fawn is released.
at least not one that's part of the OS.
"In what market does Apple have a monopoly?"
u nes/2100-1041_3-6166226.html
Any market they can get a foothold in. Currently that seems to be online music (at least to the same extent that MS ever had a monopoly.) For most of us Apple = MS without the success...
"um, no they are not. And what would they be sued for?"
I don't think they're getting sued, but the EU has been putting pressure on the iTunes store for some time.
http://news.com.com/EU+takes+aim+at+Apple+over+iT
"I also can't buy a Nokia phone without the Nokia OS in it. Oh the humanity! And why would you want to get a Mac without OS X? What would you gain from that that you couldn't gain from simply buying the computer and erasing the HD? And what does your question have to do with "fair use"? You are not in any shape or form prevented from running some other OS on the Mac."
1) Maybe I already own the OS and I'm disposing of my old Mac? If you believe that the price for the OS isn't built in to every Mac sold then I have a bridge that I'd like to sell you.
"MoAB was a flop, IMO. They stuffed their numbers by adding bugs in applications that had nothing to do with Apple (like VLC)."
It was a flop because you drank the cool-aid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff
My boss sounds a lot like you. He even went so far as to have a DSL line ran straight to his office and uses a switch to use it instead of the corporate lan to do stuff that he's had banned/blocked. Generally I have no problem with the rules, just when the guys in "IT" seem to have a different set of them.
been going downhill ever since...
Hits?
At least he seems to think so...
I really appreciate you coming down from your clearly enlightened high horse long enough to type that up...
Sorry, I replied to the wrong post. Here's a quote from the post that I meant to reply to
"In fact, the deniers are the only ones I have seen become emotional, all the while they are claiming it is others that are emotional."
"Can you name one climatologist who disagrees with that statement?"
Please name one climatologist who a)wasn't already an environmentalist before becoming a "climatologist"
or, b)doesn't have a vested interest in believing humans are causing the latest rise in temp (ie. grant money)
seems to be "I know you are but what am I."
I like how you quote WA without realizing he was making fun of the people who use hyperbole when talking about computer problems.
Millions of people install and use Windows everyday. I guess it's only FUD when it refers to real linux problems as opposed to made up M$ ones...
but I guess I'll have to wait until I can hire an administrator to install it...
you can't voice an opinion? Damn, the slashdot crowd must be FULL of windows devs...
It's not the users job to do this, unless you're implying that everything linux is beta. If that's the case then perhaps it should be clearly marked when you download the distro that you're a beta tester and you're expected to provide feedback instead of listing official release versions that appear to be out of beta?
That's news to me...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv ista/editions/choose.mspx
Not sure what's so difficult.
Now, post me a comparison of ALL current linux distros in a nice chart like this.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv ista/editions/choose.mspx
You're welcome.
""More frustrated"? Sorry, he was a dick from the first post." How so? 99% of the english speaking population can read his first post and not see it.