I use Avidemux as a replacement for Virtualdub. It seems to have all/most of the capabilities vdub does, but then again I don't do anything fancy with it. I'd love a non-linear video editing program for Linux that worked well, though.
For the record, I'm a SuSE fan with Ubuntu/Debian a close second/third.:)
Civ3 works great in Cedega. I was just playing... It has a couple of quirks (some of the menus/advisor screens are sluggish), but other than that it runs very well.:)
Somehow I suspect that Al Jazeera isn't any less biased than FOX News, although I wouldn't quite call them a "terrorist" news network like the other reply to this post does...
Seriously now, I was just thinking that I wished MS would go back to version numbers (or at least years). How is the layman supposed to know which is newer between Windows XP and Windows Vista (or 2000 and Vista or ME or 3.1, for that matter)?
Let's see...Just yesterday I spent way too much time play Civ3. Last week I got some Red Alert 2 action in. A few months back I played some UT2004 and a bit of the original Command & Conquer. I even had some fun with Half-Life 2. Granted, when you use Linux you're list of available games is going to be restricted compared to Windows, but from my experience there are more than enough games available with either native version or through WINE/Cedega. Some games work better than others, and some games won't work at all, but overall I'm quite impressed that the WINE and Cedega teams have done with their projects.
I don't understand that mentality, the one that says, "Always doing something productive and stressful is good, 'wasting' any second of your life not being productive is bad."
Keep in mind that this is coming from people wasting time posting on Slashdot. Ignore them--they're nothing but hypocrites.
The IE and OE entries in Add/Remove Programs only remove the shortcuts to these programs. I do believe you'll find everything in Program FIles\Internet Explore and..\Outlook Express right where it always is. Then again, things could've changed with SP2...
You can automate most Linux installers I've seen in similar ways as Windows. That doesn't excuse the abysmal Windows installer. It certainly isn't the user's fault if the installer sucks, either.
The GP may be a troll, but you're not helping matters much yourself.:) 5-10 reboots? Come on, get serious. I just installed XP on two machines in the past week--a 500MHz P3 and 450MHz (IIRC) P3. Let's count the reboots: 1. After "textmode" setup (the blue screen of...life?) 2. After the GUI portion of setup 3. Connect to Windows update, download updates
Note that the install disc I used in both cases had SP2 slipstreamed, so that was one less reboot you may need. I also never reboot until I'm done installing all the software that might require it rather than after each piece of software--nothing's ever broken as a result, so why not?:) Either way, we're still looking at 5 or 6 reboots tops. Hardly the 10 you give as the max.:)
As far as I know, it's not the drives themselves that need the drivers--it's the controller chipset the drive is connected to. I've been wrong before, though.:)
It depends on the chipset. While I've not tried it myself, from what I've heard from many users with the sata chipsets in nforce boards (among others), Windows setup required those magic driver floppies to work. All I can personally speak to is that Debian picked up my sata drive without any trouble at all. It even automatically loaded the required module(s) for me. I'd see what Windows did with it, but that's my server and I'm not eager to mess with it right now.:)
What version of Windows were you using? I've never seen this with any version I've used from 98 to 2000 to XP. The most Windows will do is "kindly" rewrite the mbr of the drive it's installed to. Mind you, every time I've dual booted both operating systems have been on the same drive, so maybe it'll act differently in this other case...but I doubt it. Wouldn't be the first time an MS product acted differently for no good reason, though.:)
I should also add that, from my experience, OO does indeed load much more slowly (10 or so seconds difference, which really isn't that big a deal honestly) than MS Office 2000 or XP. This is without either autoloader. After an initial load, the speed difference of subsequently loading either is virtually non existent. YMMV, however.:)
No, OO gives you the option whether or not to install it and the default is no. MS Office does the opposite. To be fair, you'd need to disable both autoloaders.
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I use Avidemux as a replacement for Virtualdub. It seems to have all/most of the capabilities vdub does, but then again I don't do anything fancy with it. I'd love a non-linear video editing program for Linux that worked well, though.
:)
For the record, I'm a SuSE fan with Ubuntu/Debian a close second/third.
Civ3 works great in Cedega. I was just playing... It has a couple of quirks (some of the menus/advisor screens are sluggish), but other than that it runs very well. :)
Exactly. Since Thompson references the organs, etc, he had to have downloaded one of these mods.
Somehow I suspect that Al Jazeera isn't any less biased than FOX News, although I wouldn't quite call them a "terrorist" news network like the other reply to this post does...
I agree, but I thought we were talking about Firefox vs. IE? :)
It couldn't be 5.3 because...? :)
Seriously now, I was just thinking that I wished MS would go back to version numbers (or at least years). How is the layman supposed to know which is newer between Windows XP and Windows Vista (or 2000 and Vista or ME or 3.1, for that matter)?
Let's see...Just yesterday I spent way too much time play Civ3. Last week I got some Red Alert 2 action in. A few months back I played some UT2004 and a bit of the original Command & Conquer. I even had some fun with Half-Life 2. Granted, when you use Linux you're list of available games is going to be restricted compared to Windows, but from my experience there are more than enough games available with either native version or through WINE/Cedega. Some games work better than others, and some games won't work at all, but overall I'm quite impressed that the WINE and Cedega teams have done with their projects.
But then you have to pay for the car/gas/bus fair/whatever to get to a place that has computers to use! ;-)
You also can't install the latest version of IE (6.0 SP2) without buying the latest point release of Windows--Windows XP (aka 5.1.whatever).
This "hack" didn't appear until shortly after the PC version was released. IIRC, it was the first version to get a version of the hack.
Oh, I don't know...Your job, maybe? ;)
I don't understand that mentality, the one that says, "Always doing something productive and stressful is good, 'wasting' any second of your life not being productive is bad."
Keep in mind that this is coming from people wasting time posting on Slashdot. Ignore them--they're nothing but hypocrites.
Is this a new 2.6.12 thing? I'm running a sata and a pata drive in my Debian system running 2.6.11 without any such problems.
The IE and OE entries in Add/Remove Programs only remove the shortcuts to these programs. I do believe you'll find everything in Program FIles\Internet Explore and ..\Outlook Express right where it always is. Then again, things could've changed with SP2...
You can automate most Linux installers I've seen in similar ways as Windows. That doesn't excuse the abysmal Windows installer. It certainly isn't the user's fault if the installer sucks, either.
Hmm..Perhaps this is one of the "features" of Home that isn't in the "Pro" version...
To be fair, Windows spends most of its install time in the GUI portion.
...and Debian (and Ubuntu) uses a text based installer for the whole thing. Who cares, anyway? pretty_gui != good_installer
The GP may be a troll, but you're not helping matters much yourself. :) 5-10 reboots? Come on, get serious. I just installed XP on two machines in the past week--a 500MHz P3 and 450MHz (IIRC) P3. Let's count the reboots:
:) Either way, we're still looking at 5 or 6 reboots tops. Hardly the 10 you give as the max. :)
1. After "textmode" setup (the blue screen of...life?)
2. After the GUI portion of setup
3. Connect to Windows update, download updates
Note that the install disc I used in both cases had SP2 slipstreamed, so that was one less reboot you may need. I also never reboot until I'm done installing all the software that might require it rather than after each piece of software--nothing's ever broken as a result, so why not?
You really ought to check out this guide to unattended Windows installations. It might save your sanity. :D
As far as I know, it's not the drives themselves that need the drivers--it's the controller chipset the drive is connected to. I've been wrong before, though. :)
It depends on the chipset. While I've not tried it myself, from what I've heard from many users with the sata chipsets in nforce boards (among others), Windows setup required those magic driver floppies to work. All I can personally speak to is that Debian picked up my sata drive without any trouble at all. It even automatically loaded the required module(s) for me. I'd see what Windows did with it, but that's my server and I'm not eager to mess with it right now. :)
What version of Windows were you using? I've never seen this with any version I've used from 98 to 2000 to XP. The most Windows will do is "kindly" rewrite the mbr of the drive it's installed to. Mind you, every time I've dual booted both operating systems have been on the same drive, so maybe it'll act differently in this other case...but I doubt it. Wouldn't be the first time an MS product acted differently for no good reason, though. :)
I should also add that, from my experience, OO does indeed load much more slowly (10 or so seconds difference, which really isn't that big a deal honestly) than MS Office 2000 or XP. This is without either autoloader. After an initial load, the speed difference of subsequently loading either is virtually non existent. YMMV, however. :)
No, OO gives you the option whether or not to install it and the default is no. MS Office does the opposite. To be fair, you'd need to disable both autoloaders.