The front panel on mine (particually Mic in) stopped working all together. That combined with poor sound output (compared to the SB Live! in my previous machine) led me to pick up an SB Audigy for $30. And it's been worth every penny I spent on it.
Considering the SB Live! is from 1998 I don't expect Creative to support it on newer operating systems. I bought a SB Audigy for ~ 30USD for my Win7 box (and have a Live! in my XP box) that I have not seen driver issues with.
When I bought my last desktop (2008) I noticed a huge drop in audio quality and volumes going from my SB Live! in my Pentium 4 box to the Realtek HD onboard in the new system. A year ago I added an SB Audigy to my C2D box I noticed a huge jump in the sound output - I didn't have to crank my speakers up to understand speech, recording quality went up, and I started to notice the difference in 128Kb/s vs 192Kb/s (especially on percussion).
I would point out that StarOffice never ceased to exist (and never was quite the same as OpenOffice), and that.Net and C# came about to push Java out of the market, not the other way around.
Backwards compatibility in Office is one of the largest complaints that I have among Office users. And while OOXML may be a documented standard, the version used by Office 2007/2010 is not the same as the standard.
After OpenSolaris met its demise, plus Oracle's reputation in general, I think many of us (including myself and some former Sun employees that are friends of mine) have added not from Oracle or MS to the list. KOffice and WordPerfect seem to work just fine for me.
I haven't noticed too much difference in the Windows vs Linux versions, but I also haven't done a whole lot of gaming on Linux recently. I have a Radeon HD 4550 on an Ubuntu/Windows box and a Radeon HD 3200 on a Fedora/Windows box. I do think that the my last round of updates broke FGLRX on Fedora 13 (I think X upgraded, haven't looked too much into it, will reply again later after checking). Installing the driver has been a simple matter of download, run the installer, startx. I guess I could try some benchmarking of the ATI cards on Linux if you would be interested in some numbers (if you have an idea for a good benchmark for comparing Windows performance to Linux performace let me know).
Guess it's been a few years for you and ATi? Since about the middle of 2007 I haven't had any real issues with ATi's closed source driver. I don't recommend the open source driver for the most recent cards (FGLRX does a much better job).
Yes and no. I prefer the combination of both, I'm slightly paranoid like that. Also, ideally I want to have DNS setup at work so that instead of a hosts file on one system the sites are all blocked companywide. I just haven't gotten that far yet.
Might have been worth upgrading it to 10.4. I did that with mine (800MHz G4 Quicksilver) after putting a new HDD in it (I wanted a bigger one) and haven't had many issues since (stay away from flash).
The main thing that I've noticed with rolling out Windows 7 at work is a much lower virus infection rate. I've yet to see a 7 system get hosed by a fake anti-virus like I did with XP (used to be about every 3 months someone would get hit. Symantec doesn't do jack).
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The front panel on mine (particually Mic in) stopped working all together. That combined with poor sound output (compared to the SB Live! in my previous machine) led me to pick up an SB Audigy for $30. And it's been worth every penny I spent on it.
Considering the SB Live! is from 1998 I don't expect Creative to support it on newer operating systems. I bought a SB Audigy for ~ 30USD for my Win7 box (and have a Live! in my XP box) that I have not seen driver issues with.
When I bought my last desktop (2008) I noticed a huge drop in audio quality and volumes going from my SB Live! in my Pentium 4 box to the Realtek HD onboard in the new system. A year ago I added an SB Audigy to my C2D box I noticed a huge jump in the sound output - I didn't have to crank my speakers up to understand speech, recording quality went up, and I started to notice the difference in 128Kb/s vs 192Kb/s (especially on percussion).
Your SB16 came w/ SCSI? I feel ripped off - mine has an IDE Controller on it.
I would point out that StarOffice never ceased to exist (and never was quite the same as OpenOffice), and that .Net and C# came about to push Java out of the market, not the other way around.
IIRC he attempted to with no success. Computer failure is still a computer failure.
Backwards compatibility in Office is one of the largest complaints that I have among Office users. And while OOXML may be a documented standard, the version used by Office 2007/2010 is not the same as the standard.
Unless, of course, you have people that are running Mac's and IRIX boxes.
You've never heard of egcs because it replaced gcc as gcc.
After OpenSolaris met its demise, plus Oracle's reputation in general, I think many of us (including myself and some former Sun employees that are friends of mine) have added not from Oracle or MS to the list. KOffice and WordPerfect seem to work just fine for me.
Which would explain why Oracle depends on Red Hat's operation system for its Linux operations. Without Red Hat, Linux dies.
Guess I'm still in the yesterday crowd? I try to avoid Flash on Windows as well.
I could say the same of Dell or Lenovo. Maybe one of these days they'll ship a laptop again that isn't a complete disappointment.
For many of the world Red Hat is Linux. Including Oracle.
I haven't noticed too much difference in the Windows vs Linux versions, but I also haven't done a whole lot of gaming on Linux recently. I have a Radeon HD 4550 on an Ubuntu/Windows box and a Radeon HD 3200 on a Fedora/Windows box. I do think that the my last round of updates broke FGLRX on Fedora 13 (I think X upgraded, haven't looked too much into it, will reply again later after checking). Installing the driver has been a simple matter of download, run the installer, startx. I guess I could try some benchmarking of the ATI cards on Linux if you would be interested in some numbers (if you have an idea for a good benchmark for comparing Windows performance to Linux performace let me know).
Guess it's been a few years for you and ATi? Since about the middle of 2007 I haven't had any real issues with ATi's closed source driver. I don't recommend the open source driver for the most recent cards (FGLRX does a much better job).
Ask Adobe if it can play Flash. It's their product after all.
Yes and no. I prefer the combination of both, I'm slightly paranoid like that. Also, ideally I want to have DNS setup at work so that instead of a hosts file on one system the sites are all blocked companywide. I just haven't gotten that far yet.
Hence why my /etc/hosts file is several KB in size...
And this is Chome's fault how? Adblock + Flash block might be a better combination to try though.
Hey - I'm all for people using what works for them. If it works for you, good for you.
Oddly enough I don't know anyone who uses VBA.
So sounds like it works just as well as other MS Office products? Office has issue with office compat. and macros.
Might have been worth upgrading it to 10.4. I did that with mine (800MHz G4 Quicksilver) after putting a new HDD in it (I wanted a bigger one) and haven't had many issues since (stay away from flash).
The main thing that I've noticed with rolling out Windows 7 at work is a much lower virus infection rate. I've yet to see a 7 system get hosed by a fake anti-virus like I did with XP (used to be about every 3 months someone would get hit. Symantec doesn't do jack).