I have this.
I have a standard SB Live! Value, and I paid about $25 for a daughtercard from Hoontech that outputs the virgin digital audio - Dolby Digital works great on my external decoder. It has coax and optical outs!
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You've obviously never shorted out a notebook power supply. I cut the wire on mine by accident and it was plugged into the wall. Gave myself a nice zap even through the plasit insulation on the cutting pliers, and thoroughly destroyed the power supply for some reason. The thing started to smoke. I did break out my $7 Radio Shack soldering iron and got to work soldering the wire back together (REAL men don't use any insulation at all before testing:P) and it just didn't work.
For anyone to accept this as a tv-like appliance, then you'll have to be able to walk up, flip the switch, and be on in only a few seconds. And btw, some people DO mind having their appliance in the "on" state and have to worry about unplugging it by accident, which will apparently "break" or "mess with" the system somehow when it has to do a scandisk or fsck or something and it takes 5 minutes to boot instead of two seconds.
That was a long rambling sentence, but it's 6 fucking am.
Haven't needed tech support yet, it's worked beautifully on my Athlon box. And, there's been at least 5 driver releases since I bought it two months ago.
And, i bought it for less than a Geforce2 with video-in/out and no tv tuner at all. This card handles all the video needs I have beautifully. Replaced a Geforce + tv tuner + video capture card gorgeously.
The All-in-Wonder Radeon is a fucking awesome card. Great 3D (up there with a Geforce2 GTS), the best TV tuner i've seen, excellent video capture, excellent video out, wonderful hardware motion compensation, and even a coax digital sound out for good measure.
I argue your number 3. We don't need to completely understand the foundation of Unix in order to install gaim on Suse or establish an internet connection.
My point is this: learning should be a part of the using process (as it is with windows..it's usable when you don't understand everything). Learning should NOT be a prerequisite to doing anything useful with the OS.
I believe it would be immensely helpful to have "doing x in Linux is like doing y in windows." Your elitism, saying "read them first" and so forth are exactly what have turned me off from Linux. Several times I have installed Linux on various computers and got it to work, but have been frustrated because I don't know how to do many simple things and documentation is either simple to the point where it's not helpful or complex to the point where I don't know what they're talking about. Many times I have gone to #linux on DALnet or something and asked a simple question, only to be told "Read the Fucking Howto's, it's in there" by several people. It's IMPOSSIBLE to get help there, and I have nowhere else to turn when the HOWTO's have failed me.
I'm not a stupid guy. I'm the resident hardware guy at my dorm, make $18 an hour teaching a guy A+ and how to do various advanced things in Windows, and I learn quickly. But I don't have large amounts of time time to devote to learning linux due to school, gf, etc. There is absolutely nothing out there to help a guy like me pick up how to do simple things in Linux quickly. That is what the Ask Slashdotter was trying to convey. Such a thing CAN exist, and such a thing WOULD help large numbers of people (slightly below the no-gf-having geek loser Linux elite and slightly above the novice programmer) learn and USE linux.
Everyone complains that Linux is the domain of 1337 h4x0r5 or whatever. It is not that hard, but it does take an investment of time people like myself cannot make. We are the next logical step for linux to take over. The help the poseter wants CAN and WILL make that happen.
We don't need to make Linux easier like everyone has always said. WE NEED TO FACILITATE LEARNING IT. Linux isn't inherently hard, but it is a leap moving from someone who is really good at windows to someone who can effectively use Linux.
None of this is about being faster or more productive. None of the manufactureres even claim that you will reach your full previous typing speed - the bowl lets you get to about 50%.
These are all about reducing finger movement and strain. These were designed to help prevent RSI/carpal tunnel syndrome or offer relief to sufferes of it.
All this is stated in the article. People, please read them. Moderators included. It should somehow be a requirement that a moderator reads the article before modding replies.
It installs the apps that are common for those 20 tasks, but it tends to install..say, three ft clients, 5 email clients, 3 or 4 text editors, etc. The author was making the point that the default install should just give the user a single editor, a single email client, etc. Someone just installing Linux who wants their email shouldn't have to set up and use 5 different clients and make a decision of which is best. The default client of a distro for a simple install should just be chosen by the distributor.
Have you LOOKED at the custom install of a distro?? I've been using Linux for a while and have NO IDEA what the vast majority of those things are. How is a newbie supposed to know what ANY of them are?
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Oh, but HA! I was not debating the correctness of the poster's grammar, but the content of his signature file!
;)
Obviously, "our friend" IS aying that sneakermail and spam filters hold the same worth, but I don't believe that is what the poster intended
*reclaims victoriousness*
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...
I think you need to reconsider your sig
*puts hand up meekly*
;)
I have this.
I have a standard SB Live! Value, and I paid about $25 for a daughtercard from Hoontech that outputs the virgin digital audio - Dolby Digital works great on my external decoder. It has coax and optical outs!
Great card.
Isn't it amazing how much more you post to slashdot and stuff right after you break up with a girl?
;)
Just went through it to. Good Luck
Just like Netscape, right?
You've obviously never shorted out a notebook power supply. I cut the wire on mine by accident and it was plugged into the wall. Gave myself a nice zap even through the plasit insulation on the cutting pliers, and thoroughly destroyed the power supply for some reason. The thing started to smoke. I did break out my $7 Radio Shack soldering iron and got to work soldering the wire back together (REAL men don't use any insulation at all before testing :P) and it just didn't work.
For anyone to accept this as a tv-like appliance, then you'll have to be able to walk up, flip the switch, and be on in only a few seconds. And btw, some people DO mind having their appliance in the "on" state and have to worry about unplugging it by accident, which will apparently "break" or "mess with" the system somehow when it has to do a scandisk or fsck or something and it takes 5 minutes to boot instead of two seconds.
That was a long rambling sentence, but it's 6 fucking am.
Haven't needed tech support yet, it's worked beautifully on my Athlon box. And, there's been at least 5 driver releases since I bought it two months ago.
:P
And, i bought it for less than a Geforce2 with video-in/out and no tv tuner at all. This card handles all the video needs I have beautifully. Replaced a Geforce + tv tuner + video capture card gorgeously.
Oh yeah, 2D is wonderful too
The All-in-Wonder Radeon is a fucking awesome card. Great 3D (up there with a Geforce2 GTS), the best TV tuner i've seen, excellent video capture, excellent video out, wonderful hardware motion compensation, and even a coax digital sound out for good measure.
Crappy cards? Think again.
The quote is:
"The kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own"
;)
that list is a POLL
;)
And see the other comments.
Amazon customers aren't quite lit majors
Amazon's list is a POLL of readers, not a list compiled by editors or something.
These books were produced by a poll of Amazon.com shoppers.
Take it for what it is and stop bitching about how bad it is.
The sands of time, for me...
;)
are running looooooooooooowwwwww.....
excellent post, my friend
hehe, yeah, but it's funny in a sarcastic sorta way :)
very cute ;)
do you say "apt" or "ay pee tee"?
Um...if the cable is straight, the whole thing will be in geosynchronous orbit..
right?
I must question the sanity of someone who mentions "Fight Club" in a list of otherwise brilliant, distinguished works of art ;)
And remember, he was only god as long as someone believed.
Did he mean "RAM and hard drive price both continuing to decline"?
It's Athlon.
:)
Not Ahalon, Atalon, or Athalon
(not a flame, just wanted the poster to read this)
I argue your number 3. We don't need to completely understand the foundation of Unix in order to install gaim on Suse or establish an internet connection.
My point is this: learning should be a part of the using process (as it is with windows..it's usable when you don't understand everything). Learning should NOT be a prerequisite to doing anything useful with the OS.
I believe it would be immensely helpful to have "doing x in Linux is like doing y in windows." Your elitism, saying "read them first" and so forth are exactly what have turned me off from Linux. Several times I have installed Linux on various computers and got it to work, but have been frustrated because I don't know how to do many simple things and documentation is either simple to the point where it's not helpful or complex to the point where I don't know what they're talking about. Many times I have gone to #linux on DALnet or something and asked a simple question, only to be told "Read the Fucking Howto's, it's in there" by several people. It's IMPOSSIBLE to get help there, and I have nowhere else to turn when the HOWTO's have failed me.
I'm not a stupid guy. I'm the resident hardware guy at my dorm, make $18 an hour teaching a guy A+ and how to do various advanced things in Windows, and I learn quickly. But I don't have large amounts of time time to devote to learning linux due to school, gf, etc. There is absolutely nothing out there to help a guy like me pick up how to do simple things in Linux quickly. That is what the Ask Slashdotter was trying to convey. Such a thing CAN exist, and such a thing WOULD help large numbers of people (slightly below the no-gf-having geek loser Linux elite and slightly above the novice programmer) learn and USE linux.
Everyone complains that Linux is the domain of 1337 h4x0r5 or whatever. It is not that hard, but it does take an investment of time people like myself cannot make. We are the next logical step for linux to take over. The help the poseter wants CAN and WILL make that happen.
We don't need to make Linux easier like everyone has always said. WE NEED TO FACILITATE LEARNING IT. Linux isn't inherently hard, but it is a leap moving from someone who is really good at windows to someone who can effectively use Linux.
None of this is about being faster or more productive. None of the manufactureres even claim that you will reach your full previous typing speed - the bowl lets you get to about 50%.
These are all about reducing finger movement and strain. These were designed to help prevent RSI/carpal tunnel syndrome or offer relief to sufferes of it.
All this is stated in the article. People, please read them. Moderators included. It should somehow be a requirement that a moderator reads the article before modding replies.
It installs the apps that are common for those 20 tasks, but it tends to install..say, three ft clients, 5 email clients, 3 or 4 text editors, etc. The author was making the point that the default install should just give the user a single editor, a single email client, etc. Someone just installing Linux who wants their email shouldn't have to set up and use 5 different clients and make a decision of which is best. The default client of a distro for a simple install should just be chosen by the distributor.
Have you LOOKED at the custom install of a distro?? I've been using Linux for a while and have NO IDEA what the vast majority of those things are. How is a newbie supposed to know what ANY of them are?