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man, that’s totally radical... far out

Tom no like.... microsoft have a history of destroying that which they embrace

neat

so.... does this beta have any new/interesting fetures?

The disk is more likely to go than the controller, but isn't vista still in beta or RC? It could be a bug even big companies like Microsoft have the occasional bug. have you checked your software, could be the media.

I’d say the main difference is the kernel.... Other than that there are a few minor changes in the file system/partitioning/libs and that sort of thing. I’d have to say the main reason for the whole Linux vs BSD thing is simply due to the fact that Linux got big and easy, whereas BSD is still relatively small and lacks a lot of the GUI/configuration nonsense that tends to slow down Linux systems. But all in all I haven’t notice much difference in the use of them (not that I have used BSD as much as I have Linux). Unix is a brand name and also has a different kernel and proprietary software.

no sound at work. kinda neat though. i get 404 @ your code link

hadn't really had time to mess with it this weekend, but thanks for the tips i'll give it another try when i'm not so busy.

yeah but the router stopped errrr routing my net conection

internal, i tried turning off the DHCP but that didn't work so good

does anyone know how to set up static ip's on a linksys router? I'm sick of changing my NFS config every week or so.

i doubt its a 386, its got a cd-rom drive, i'd say 486. a live cd would be nice but i doubt it would boot from cd, in fact I'm betting its an old proprietary cd-rom connected to the sound card. no doubt it would be alot fun to mess with and it'll probably would run an old version of linux. Though i'd think the 2.6 kernel would be too big for the RAM (EDO??) and the hard disk would not be big enough for a large swap partition. still it'd be interesting to hear quite what you do with it. n.b looks like a nice soundcard (they don't make 'em like they used too)

you're probably right, although i havent noticed any slowdowns, it took alot of workarounds to get my opengl games to run. although now i've got them working, they don't run any slower.

its just 4 desktops, each one funtions just like it did 2D except i can set window transparancy and zoom in. The cube only comes up when changing desktops. its really quite simple to use.

I just installed Xgl and compiz. they give you a 3d desktop in linux. They're known to work on KDE and gnome. i just thought you might be interested. 4 desktops are wraped around a cube thumbnails in task switch. neat huh?

@cooper Thanks i found /etc/init.d/boot.local it lets me pass commands that are executed before the first run level, so they're present in all. i also found that setting a low swappiness in here makes it boot faster.

well, gee whiz, if your all that, why did you ask for advice on a tech forum?

pffft, is this a 'how do i hack my grandmothers cookie jar?' kinda question? they don't go down well

This brings me onto a question I've been wondering about, probably worthy of its own topic but... meh. Is there a Linux 'autoexec.bat' kinda script somewhere? I got a lot of commands I'd like to pass at boot

didn't they stop the windows overlapping to keep it from looking like mac os? all in all they haven't come that far (except for getting rid of ms-dos exec).

I usally go for number of expansion slots and the least onboard crap. I pay between £20 and £50 and i have never had any problems with a motherboard yet.

Even though cedega and wine are 32bit apps, they will run on a 64 bit distro. Source runs with cedega, but it don't run that well or pretty. you're best off duel-booting if you want to play newish games, unless they're id games of course.

I see my desktop and i want to paint it black

also rember that the phisical disk space is set in 4kb clusters (i think its 4kb for NTFS) so for example a file reported as 41kb will in actual fact take up 44kb, doesn't sound like a lot but if you have a lot of small files it adds up.