Oh, so it's probably on a smallish flash chip on the motherboard then. For some reason I was under the impression that it replaced the BIOS. I guess you could just put a CF card in place of a hard drive and put Splashtop on on, and have a really fast booting system. Now I'm wondering whether that would be useful/possible on my laptop... it does have a memory card slot, but for SD/XD/MMC only. I don't think it can boot from the media card slot either. And replacing the HDD with a CF card isn't really much of an option.
Have you tried this, and tried installing it on your motherboard? I'm actually intrigued by this, but it seems like it wouldn't be possible to just install on any old motherboard.
I mean, did it stop booting Windows after installing Ubuntu? I don't know why that would happen unless it's trying to boot the wrong partition, or the resizing partitions corrupted some system files.
That's another problem between computer and keyboard... any guide to dual booting will tell you to install Windows first, and then Linux because Windows puts NTLDR on the MBR and NTLDR won't boot Linux, so you have to install Linux with GRUB second and overwrite NTLDR. If Windows doesn't boot after installing Linux, then I'd guess it's a GRUB issue, and you should try to check your partitions. Some OEM machines come with a recovery partition, and sometimes that gets detected as the Windows partition. Happened to me with LILO on Slackware 10, although I've found GRUB to be better at detecting partitions. If all else fails, create a BartPE disc and boot into Windows that way, it's essentially a Windows live CD. Google for it. The more you know...
I know it's not because of their technical prowess but because of their army of marketing people. In the end I don't care how they got to that point.
And at the end of the day, that's all I really care about. I'm all for open source and everything, but supporting open source doesn't have to mean running only open source programs or operating systems. Windows is great for those who can use it properly and don't fill their computers with junk.
I have to agree, in fact for a lot of them it seems more like a tool than a toy. There are a few smart Mac users who use it because it's basically commercial *nix, but even they can't resist bashing Windows at every opportunity. I just don't understand how buying computers from a company that makes everything the same and won't let you build your own with their OS makes you rebellious in any way, if anything they seem more like sheeple to me than the average Windows user.
Really? I'm thinking there's a problem between computer and chair here... I like Linux and all, and there are a lot of things that it does so much better than Windows (package management is amazing), but sometimes it's a much bigger pain in the ass than Windows could ever be. There are actually a lot of things that Vista gets right, believe it or not, that are a pain in the ass in Linux. Some of that's due to poor manufacturer support (wifi drivers in particular) but regardless, I find that I usually end up using Linux mostly when I'm really bored and want to kill time trying to get various pieces of hardware to work. It's actually quite fun (I've been trying to wrangle Linux onto a tablet PC) but Vista's tablet support is so much more advanced it's almost a joke.
Haha, I'm in California and Obama's more or less guaranteed to win, so I'm actually considering voting for Nader to get the message across that some of us would actually like a far more liberal government. But then, I also think Nader is something of a prick for continuing to run every year instead of letting someone else represent the Green party. In the end, although now I'm confused by Obama's position on the FISA bill, I might just vote for him anyway.
Metroid Prime is definitely not an FPS, like the sibling poster I suck at FPSs but Metroid Prime was a blast and pretty easy. It's more of an action-adventure game. I was going to say your tastes suck, but then you said Zelda kicks ass, so now I'm confused. I always saw Metroid Prime as a futuristic version of Zelda.
Same thing happens in Windows XP (haven't checked Vista but it's probably the same). If you're playing a DVD and take a screenshot the area where the DVD was (if you were playing it in a window) is black.
I'm a Windows user you insensitive clod! Joking aside, I use Linux too occasionally but since my primary machine is a gaming machine I didn't bother with installing Linux since I'd be unable to use my hardware. (RadeonHD driver still needs work and getting Windows games to work in Linux is a pain even with working drivers. But I have high hopes for the future since AMD is at least acting more open source friendly these days.) Additionally, my laptop is a tablet PC, and I don't know whether it would be worth the trouble of installing Linux if I can't use the tablet aspect of it in Linux.
I'd guess that there are Wacom drivers available, but really, Windows does everything I want without much fiddling, and I have enough control for my tastes with the registry. I used Linux on my older computer because it was slow and Linux seemed cool at the time, but now computers are a lot faster and (even) with Vista I don't feel any sluggishness.
For the record, Vista is better than XP on decent hardware, and I'm not entirely a Linux noob as I've compiled my own kernels and broken my X server and had to edit.conf files a fair number of times when I tried Slackware. I do use the command line pretty frequently in Windows, but that's because I started with DOS (well, my first experience with computers was DOS, but I was 4, so I didn't learn much from DOS beyond the basic directory navigation commands).
...and 300W for a video card is starting to become the norm, depressing as it is.
Not really, die shrinks have been actually driving down power consumption. If you look at this page: http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-4850-and--4870-crossfirex-performance/3
you can see that the latest generation Radeon 4850 and 4870 consume much less power than the power hungry peaks set by the 2900XT. The 4850 system uses less than 300W at full load. That's pretty damn impressive considering the ridiculous amount of performance it puts out.
Really? I don't think Apple fanbois [sic] would know that much about Pentium math errors, judging from their apparent age levels... On a more serious note, I think it's just CPU geeks who make those jokes, not Mac fans.
Yeah, the corporate editions of McAfee and Symantec are amazing, I don't know why the retail editions are designed to suck like they do. I think their detection rates are a bit higher than AVG or Avast. But as the saying goes, the best antivirus is commonsense.exe.
Yeah I've heard NOD32 and Kaspersky are good for-pay AV softwares, but I tend to not pick up viruses anyway so I don't feel like actually paying for antivirus.
I dunno, I use Avast, it's pretty good and free as well. I like the UI a bit better and it seems to get definition updates pretty frequently. Much less of a resource hog than Norton/McAfee too, although so is AVG.
I'm not a professional programmer, yet, but if I was I would probably resent being managed by someone who fails at CS. But I don't know about others...
I'm curious as to how you did that, because I'd like to do the same as I head off to college. I'm wondering whether it's possible to operate something like that by word of mouth, because I think I would suck at advertising. Unfortunately, my university (starting in the fall), UC Berkeley, is pretty geeky and my major is EECS so I'm going to have to look pretty far to find people who are incapable of building their own computers. I wouldn't mind repairing them or removing viruses, which I find fun actually.
Mozilla is actually working on an extension called Weave that essentially does everything it sounds like GBS did. At least, I know it syncs bookmarks, history, and cookies, and other things.
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Oh, so it's probably on a smallish flash chip on the motherboard then. For some reason I was under the impression that it replaced the BIOS. I guess you could just put a CF card in place of a hard drive and put Splashtop on on, and have a really fast booting system. Now I'm wondering whether that would be useful/possible on my laptop... it does have a memory card slot, but for SD/XD/MMC only. I don't think it can boot from the media card slot either. And replacing the HDD with a CF card isn't really much of an option.
Have you tried this, and tried installing it on your motherboard? I'm actually intrigued by this, but it seems like it wouldn't be possible to just install on any old motherboard.
Oh, I see what you mean. That's kind of strange.
I mean, did it stop booting Windows after installing Ubuntu? I don't know why that would happen unless it's trying to boot the wrong partition, or the resizing partitions corrupted some system files.
That's another problem between computer and keyboard... any guide to dual booting will tell you to install Windows first, and then Linux because Windows puts NTLDR on the MBR and NTLDR won't boot Linux, so you have to install Linux with GRUB second and overwrite NTLDR. If Windows doesn't boot after installing Linux, then I'd guess it's a GRUB issue, and you should try to check your partitions. Some OEM machines come with a recovery partition, and sometimes that gets detected as the Windows partition. Happened to me with LILO on Slackware 10, although I've found GRUB to be better at detecting partitions. If all else fails, create a BartPE disc and boot into Windows that way, it's essentially a Windows live CD. Google for it. The more you know...
I know it's not because of their technical prowess but because of their army of marketing people. In the end I don't care how they got to that point.
And at the end of the day, that's all I really care about. I'm all for open source and everything, but supporting open source doesn't have to mean running only open source programs or operating systems. Windows is great for those who can use it properly and don't fill their computers with junk.
I have to agree, in fact for a lot of them it seems more like a tool than a toy. There are a few smart Mac users who use it because it's basically commercial *nix, but even they can't resist bashing Windows at every opportunity. I just don't understand how buying computers from a company that makes everything the same and won't let you build your own with their OS makes you rebellious in any way, if anything they seem more like sheeple to me than the average Windows user.
Really? I'm thinking there's a problem between computer and chair here... I like Linux and all, and there are a lot of things that it does so much better than Windows (package management is amazing), but sometimes it's a much bigger pain in the ass than Windows could ever be. There are actually a lot of things that Vista gets right, believe it or not, that are a pain in the ass in Linux. Some of that's due to poor manufacturer support (wifi drivers in particular) but regardless, I find that I usually end up using Linux mostly when I'm really bored and want to kill time trying to get various pieces of hardware to work. It's actually quite fun (I've been trying to wrangle Linux onto a tablet PC) but Vista's tablet support is so much more advanced it's almost a joke.
Actually, that's inaccurate, this was debunked a while ago. I can't remember the link off the top of my head but it's not true.
Haha, I'm in California and Obama's more or less guaranteed to win, so I'm actually considering voting for Nader to get the message across that some of us would actually like a far more liberal government. But then, I also think Nader is something of a prick for continuing to run every year instead of letting someone else represent the Green party. In the end, although now I'm confused by Obama's position on the FISA bill, I might just vote for him anyway.
Metroid Prime is definitely not an FPS, like the sibling poster I suck at FPSs but Metroid Prime was a blast and pretty easy. It's more of an action-adventure game. I was going to say your tastes suck, but then you said Zelda kicks ass, so now I'm confused. I always saw Metroid Prime as a futuristic version of Zelda.
Crap, misclicked the moderation. Now I have to post to undo that. Filller text.
Same thing happens in Windows XP (haven't checked Vista but it's probably the same). If you're playing a DVD and take a screenshot the area where the DVD was (if you were playing it in a window) is black.
Oh shi- I'm using Flash on a tablet PC running Vista! The horror!
I'm a Windows user you insensitive clod! Joking aside, I use Linux too occasionally but since my primary machine is a gaming machine I didn't bother with installing Linux since I'd be unable to use my hardware. (RadeonHD driver still needs work and getting Windows games to work in Linux is a pain even with working drivers. But I have high hopes for the future since AMD is at least acting more open source friendly these days.) Additionally, my laptop is a tablet PC, and I don't know whether it would be worth the trouble of installing Linux if I can't use the tablet aspect of it in Linux.
.conf files a fair number of times when I tried Slackware. I do use the command line pretty frequently in Windows, but that's because I started with DOS (well, my first experience with computers was DOS, but I was 4, so I didn't learn much from DOS beyond the basic directory navigation commands).
I'd guess that there are Wacom drivers available, but really, Windows does everything I want without much fiddling, and I have enough control for my tastes with the registry. I used Linux on my older computer because it was slow and Linux seemed cool at the time, but now computers are a lot faster and (even) with Vista I don't feel any sluggishness.
For the record, Vista is better than XP on decent hardware, and I'm not entirely a Linux noob as I've compiled my own kernels and broken my X server and had to edit
...and 300W for a video card is starting to become the norm, depressing as it is.
Not really, die shrinks have been actually driving down power consumption. If you look at this page: http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-4850-and--4870-crossfirex-performance/3 you can see that the latest generation Radeon 4850 and 4870 consume much less power than the power hungry peaks set by the 2900XT. The 4850 system uses less than 300W at full load. That's pretty damn impressive considering the ridiculous amount of performance it puts out.
Really? I don't think Apple fanbois [sic] would know that much about Pentium math errors, judging from their apparent age levels... On a more serious note, I think it's just CPU geeks who make those jokes, not Mac fans.
Yeah, the corporate editions of McAfee and Symantec are amazing, I don't know why the retail editions are designed to suck like they do. I think their detection rates are a bit higher than AVG or Avast. But as the saying goes, the best antivirus is commonsense.exe.
Yeah I've heard NOD32 and Kaspersky are good for-pay AV softwares, but I tend to not pick up viruses anyway so I don't feel like actually paying for antivirus.
I dunno, I use Avast, it's pretty good and free as well. I like the UI a bit better and it seems to get definition updates pretty frequently. Much less of a resource hog than Norton/McAfee too, although so is AVG.
Excellent use of magic ponies, and a point that a lot of people seem to be missing here.
OK, it was a stupid colloquialism, but you get the idea.
I'm not a professional programmer, yet, but if I was I would probably resent being managed by someone who fails at CS. But I don't know about others...
I'm curious as to how you did that, because I'd like to do the same as I head off to college. I'm wondering whether it's possible to operate something like that by word of mouth, because I think I would suck at advertising. Unfortunately, my university (starting in the fall), UC Berkeley, is pretty geeky and my major is EECS so I'm going to have to look pretty far to find people who are incapable of building their own computers. I wouldn't mind repairing them or removing viruses, which I find fun actually.
Mozilla is actually working on an extension called Weave that essentially does everything it sounds like GBS did. At least, I know it syncs bookmarks, history, and cookies, and other things.