...that includes agricultural powerhouses like Alaska and Los Angeles. I've heard California is the land of nuts, fruits and flakes, but enough for Los Angeles to be considered an agricultural power house? You go, Los Angeles!
Wow that jogs a faded memory of mine...
I cracked OCP Art Studio for the C64 when I was a kid because the copy protection was so damn annoying. I think all I did was browse through the first few disk sectors (displayed as 6510 assembly language) and NOP'ed the JSR instruction (and address) that called the protection routine. I remember thinking "Well.... that was easy."
IMHO this review reminds me of something I might read in a freshman writing class. Good intent, maybe, but the focus is weak and I sense a lack of experience with Linux in general or perhaps this is a Ubuntu user's perception of other distros. (bias?)
I agree that Ubuntu seems to have fewer hardware compatibility issues, but every (K)Ubuntu distro I've tooled around with for a few hours makes me feel like I'm wearing clothes that are two sizes too small.
So they've done Miami Vice, mobsters, LA street gangs, and now Russian mobsters. What's next? EA buys Rockstar Games and releases "GTA: Hot Date" and "GTA: Pets."
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...does that mean these aren't stable? I was getting lazy and tried to cram too many ideas into one sentence. Important details were omitted; Sorry about that. (Hey, I'm honest.) There were two issues:
1. The display (typically only one monitor) would go into standby mode after making changes to xorg.conf and restarting Xorg. Only a reboot would return any sanity. The same problem would happen when changing resolutions CTRL-ALT +/-. As long as the system was rebooted after modifying xorg.conf, everything was fine. Its likely this issue was with the Xorg server and drivers more than Ubuntu, but it was a royal headache to troubleshoot and I've been tinkering with Linux on and off since the early 90s so I wasn't completely shooting in the dark. We thought maybe the hardware was bad, but the workstation was setup for Ubuntu/Windows XP dual booting and there were no issues in XP. To clarify my usage of "stable" - The desktop was not stable (as in it was fickle whether it worked or not) after restarting Xorg. Heck, the xorg.conf file didn't even need to be modified for this to happen.
2. After hand tweaking xorg.conf so that the two displays rendered the desktop exactly how I wanted it, the Ubuntu display manager would hose xorg.conf bad enough that Xorg would fail while attempting to init the two video cards.
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How does 7.10 handle dual monitors when there are two video cards involved (verses one card with two heads)? I'm curious if this is what Bigjeff5 has a hard time with. Last year I was in this situation with Dapper on a co-worker's workstation. His system had integrated Intel video + an older PCI ATI card. I wrestled with the Xorg.conf file and BIOS settings on and off for about a week before I got it working. It wasn't too stable either, meaning you could not modify any display settings using the GUI; This had to be done directly in Xorg.conf.
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...that includes agricultural powerhouses like Alaska and Los Angeles. I've heard California is the land of nuts, fruits and flakes, but enough for Los Angeles to be considered an agricultural power house? You go, Los Angeles!Wow that jogs a faded memory of mine... I cracked OCP Art Studio for the C64 when I was a kid because the copy protection was so damn annoying. I think all I did was browse through the first few disk sectors (displayed as 6510 assembly language) and NOP'ed the JSR instruction (and address) that called the protection routine. I remember thinking "Well.... that was easy."
Don't forget a real "gamer" sound card (~$125) Otherwise we're talking something like on-board Realtek crap?
Maybe next they will transform the series into a MMORPG... Duke Nuke'em Forever-quest? Age of Duke? There will be a collectors edition, no doubt.
IMHO this review reminds me of something I might read in a freshman writing class. Good intent, maybe, but the focus is weak and I sense a lack of experience with Linux in general or perhaps this is a Ubuntu user's perception of other distros. (bias?) I agree that Ubuntu seems to have fewer hardware compatibility issues, but every (K)Ubuntu distro I've tooled around with for a few hours makes me feel like I'm wearing clothes that are two sizes too small.
...does that mean these aren't stable? I was getting lazy and tried to cram too many ideas into one sentence. Important details were omitted; Sorry about that. (Hey, I'm honest.) There were two issues:1. The display (typically only one monitor) would go into standby mode after making changes to xorg.conf and restarting Xorg. Only a reboot would return any sanity. The same problem would happen when changing resolutions CTRL-ALT +/-. As long as the system was rebooted after modifying xorg.conf, everything was fine. Its likely this issue was with the Xorg server and drivers more than Ubuntu, but it was a royal headache to troubleshoot and I've been tinkering with Linux on and off since the early 90s so I wasn't completely shooting in the dark. We thought maybe the hardware was bad, but the workstation was setup for Ubuntu/Windows XP dual booting and there were no issues in XP. To clarify my usage of "stable" - The desktop was not stable (as in it was fickle whether it worked or not) after restarting Xorg. Heck, the xorg.conf file didn't even need to be modified for this to happen.
2. After hand tweaking xorg.conf so that the two displays rendered the desktop exactly how I wanted it, the Ubuntu display manager would hose xorg.conf bad enough that Xorg would fail while attempting to init the two video cards.
How does 7.10 handle dual monitors when there are two video cards involved (verses one card with two heads)? I'm curious if this is what Bigjeff5 has a hard time with. Last year I was in this situation with Dapper on a co-worker's workstation. His system had integrated Intel video + an older PCI ATI card. I wrestled with the Xorg.conf file and BIOS settings on and off for about a week before I got it working. It wasn't too stable either, meaning you could not modify any display settings using the GUI; This had to be done directly in Xorg.conf.
I feel secure knowing that the DoD uses Symantec Antivirus and not Norton.... Oh wait! Crap.