08-23-2008
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 Disturbingly Different | Re: Vista owners beware Ubutastic!!! It's been two full months since Windows has been run anywhere in my house! Since I set up our good computer as a dual H.D. dual boot I've been unintentionally forcing Sweetie to try Ubu. (For whatever reason she never managed to understand that rebooting to Win. is VERY easy....I've walked her through it many times....apparently learning how to use the various goodies I've been adding was easier.  )She's also slowly (grudgingly) coming to grips that Ubu. is a lot faster than Win. XP and that Firefox is reeeeeally really awesome (especially with the add ons) also a hell of a LOT faster than her old browser. Anyway with a few notable exceptions this has been the longest stretch trouble free computing ever...no viruses, no spyware, no BS for the sake of BS....life is good. The main gripes...Wine refuses to do what I want it to. Realplayer for Nux (helix?) and Win. refuses to work. Gaming sucks without my controller (calibration software works but games fail to recognize it's existence). (WTF didn't the folks at Ubu. feel the need to make this easier to set up.) ---------------- I'm not "mad" just slightly deranged!  | |
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08-24-2008
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 Resident USSRian        | Re: Vista owners beware which controller? also realplayer is for whusses, use VLC it will work, better, faster and on all platforms, supporting all the formats of audio/video you can ever throw at it... And which games are you trying to get into? ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?"  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.  | |
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08-24-2008
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 Wedding Planner    Sponsor | Re: Vista owners beware Quote:
 ---------------- Hypography Science Forums Moderator --- "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan "We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie | ||
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08-24-2008
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| Disturbingly Different | Re: Vista owners beware I'll answer if you promise not to laugh at my aging ghetto gear  Or my feeble choice of game... Whusses? To be honest the last time I was really involved with gaming on a pc 386/66's were state of the art...so I'm just a bit behind the times. Lately I've been playing Alien Arena (found it while looking for various old school games in synaptic). Loads of fun but a pain using mouse and keyboard. My controler is a cheapy PS/PS2 knockoff made by G.F. and worked fine with Windows and functions within the calibration software I've got for Ubu. but doesn't want to work anywhere else. Will look up VLC....Will it play the vids I've collected using real? As for Wine is it's refusal to function due to it's outdated Win version? Or? Any other options to wine that will work with XP? (preferably on the super cheap as I'm very much broke  )---------------- I'm not "mad" just slightly deranged! | |
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08-24-2008
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| Resident USSRian | Re: Vista owners beware wine has a configuration agent that allows you to tweak how you run your program also WHY IN THE NAME OF THAT SUPREME BEING THINGY are you running Alien Arena in Wine? Alien Arena, as in the CodeRED Alien Arena? or a different one? ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | |
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08-24-2008
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| Disturbingly Different | Re: Vista owners beware Quote:
I am however trying to sort out which goodies I have for Win. that I can run with wine (or perhaps another program) in Ubu. Corel for example. Perhaps my understanding of what exactly Wine is is wrong but I thought it was for running various Win. dependant programs in nux type OS's. ---------------- I'm not "mad" just slightly deranged! | ||
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08-24-2008
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| Resident USSRian | Re: Vista owners beware Wine is a program that provides windows API to a windows program. It stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, but in simplest of terms to describe, it is. Hmm, corel, go to the main wine site, and see the list of confirmed and compatible software.... Btw Gimp does well, and so does InkScape if you do vector... ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | |
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08-25-2008
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 Curious | Re: Vista owners beware No computer system/network is ever 100% secure, and I'm not one bit surprised something like this has happened. It's an idea my buddies and I were thinking up when we were all taking our MSCE college courses. It's a shame none of us ever ventured out to do actually do it... | |
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08-25-2008
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| Resident USSRian | Re: Vista owners beware Quote:
---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | ||
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