Comments on: Another Sunday, another possibility http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/05/25/another-sunday-another-possibility/ Rumblings, Ramblings, and Ruminations Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Steve http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/05/25/another-sunday-another-possibility/#comment-4022 Steve Mon, 26 May 2008 03:49:41 +0000 http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/?p=4346#comment-4022 Well, I'm back. In Windoze, which booted REAL fast, since it has only been up and running bout 10 hours, so it hasn't had time to cruft up yet. This was just a test boot, going to stay in Linux all I can. Going to bed now, feeling good about what I have done today, for a change. Think I'll leave the old, slower stuff to Puppy....woof woof! Well, I’m back. In Windoze, which booted REAL fast, since it has only been up and running bout 10 hours, so it hasn’t had time to cruft up yet. This was just a test boot, going to stay in Linux all I can. Going to bed now, feeling good about what I have done today, for a change. Think I’ll leave the old, slower stuff to Puppy….woof woof!

]]> By: Steve http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/05/25/another-sunday-another-possibility/#comment-4020 Steve Mon, 26 May 2008 03:45:23 +0000 http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/?p=4346#comment-4020 Damn! I wish Windoze installed that fast! And out of the box I was able to watch an AVI file that Media Player 11 played audio only. (Though it did kindly show the nice 1960s imaged to go with the movie--since the movie is in Polish or German or something with subtitles, that didn't really help a bunch...) Now all I have to do is be sure that Windoze will boot, but I bet it will. PCLinuxOS is about the easiest install I have ever done, except that LILO (the default choice of bootloader) ALWAYS fails with me, so I choose GRUB, and it works fine. ???? Oh, well, if that's the biggest complaint I can come up with, then I'm doing good... Damn! I wish Windoze installed that fast! And out of the box I was able to watch an AVI file that Media Player 11 played audio only. (Though it did kindly show the nice 1960s imaged to go with the movie–since the movie is in Polish or German or something with subtitles, that didn’t really help a bunch…)

Now all I have to do is be sure that Windoze will boot, but I bet it will. PCLinuxOS is about the easiest install I have ever done, except that LILO (the default choice of bootloader) ALWAYS fails with me, so I choose GRUB, and it works fine. ???? Oh, well, if that’s the biggest complaint I can come up with, then I’m doing good…

]]> By: Steve http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/05/25/another-sunday-another-possibility/#comment-4016 Steve Mon, 26 May 2008 03:17:50 +0000 http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/?p=4346#comment-4016 Well, been a computer day here. Took my main machine (Dell Dimension 2400) and put in a new (to the machine, anyway) hard drive and some more RAM to get it to 768 MB and partitioned the drive and put XP Pro on it. Runs pretty good, for XP. Got a 2.6 GHz P4 in it, so it goes OK. Gee, there are a lot of updates and additional things to load with Windoze--not that I didn't know it, but I did this yesterday with a machine at work and then again today with this one. Had to actually talk to one of the New Delhi crew yesterday, but got off with a little conversation with Microsoft Millie to day. Microsoft Millie is what I call Redmond's voice-recognition-based XP activation program. I diss Micro$oft a lot, but I gotta give it to them on that voice recognition program--the sucker really works. Maybe the one they have in the Fords works OK too--but I still don't trust it. (What's really funny is the spellchecker that is highlighting my misspellings accepted Micro$oft with the $ instead of an s with not a single qualm. I think I like this spellchecker...Service Pack 3 rolls up a lot of updates, though. Went from ~ 100 to about 7, not counting hardware-specific stuff. Of course, SP# takes a while... Which leads me to the OS I am using at the moment--PCLinuxOS. Strangely enough, the spellchecker DOESN'T like that one--did someone declare National Irony Day and I missed it? PCLinuxOS is running just fine from the CD right now, and I guess I'm about to install it on the other partion on this HD. Kubuntu went straight into an ash shell, which made an ash of me, so I stuck in PCLinuxOS and it is doing fine. I'm listening to Dan Fogelberg from the NTFS partition and surfing the web, and have not had a single burp yet. I do this crap at work with Windoze and I have interruptions on a regular basis. I mean, the interruptions are regularly timed, like it can only play so long while something else is going on before it loses it and has to stutter in the middle of a song. I think someone has been working on Amarok--before when I selected all the songs in a folder, it would play the first one and quit--right now it's playing away like a champ--on song three since I started this comment. THIS is how a computer is SUPPOSED to work! Hell, UNIX had multitasking going on 3 decades ago on hardware that wasn't anywhere NEAR as fast or had as much memory as what this machine does, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The surprising thing is how often Windoze can't do it. Then again, maybe it''s no surprise at all... Well, I really ought to get the install going, but I hate to stop Dan. <sigh> Oh, well, I guess even PCLinuxOS can't install AND play music at the same time. Maybe the next edition....I could put in a change request....try THAT crap with Windoze. Well, been a computer day here. Took my main machine (Dell Dimension 2400) and put in a new (to the machine, anyway) hard drive and some more RAM to get it to 768 MB and partitioned the drive and put XP Pro on it. Runs pretty good, for XP. Got a 2.6 GHz P4 in it, so it goes OK. Gee, there are a lot of updates and additional things to load with Windoze–not that I didn’t know it, but I did this yesterday with a machine at work and then again today with this one. Had to actually talk to one of the New Delhi crew yesterday, but got off with a little conversation with Microsoft Millie to day. Microsoft Millie is what I call Redmond’s voice-recognition-based XP activation program. I diss Micro$oft a lot, but I gotta give it to them on that voice recognition program–the sucker really works. Maybe the one they have in the Fords works OK too–but I still don’t trust it. (What’s really funny is the spellchecker that is highlighting my misspellings accepted Micro$oft with the $ instead of an s with not a single qualm. I think I like this spellchecker…Service Pack 3 rolls up a lot of updates, though. Went from ~ 100 to about 7, not counting hardware-specific stuff. Of course, SP# takes a while…

Which leads me to the OS I am using at the moment–PCLinuxOS. Strangely enough, the spellchecker DOESN’T like that one–did someone declare National Irony Day and I missed it? PCLinuxOS is running just fine from the CD right now, and I guess I’m about to install it on the other partion on this HD. Kubuntu went straight into an ash shell, which made an ash of me, so I stuck in PCLinuxOS and it is doing fine. I’m listening to Dan Fogelberg from the NTFS partition and surfing the web, and have not had a single burp yet. I do this crap at work with Windoze and I have interruptions on a regular basis. I mean, the interruptions are regularly timed, like it can only play so long while something else is going on before it loses it and has to stutter in the middle of a song. I think someone has been working on Amarok–before when I selected all the songs in a folder, it would play the first one and quit–right now it’s playing away like a champ–on song three since I started this comment. THIS is how a computer is SUPPOSED to work! Hell, UNIX had multitasking going on 3 decades ago on hardware that wasn’t anywhere NEAR as fast or had as much memory as what this machine does, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. The surprising thing is how often Windoze can’t do it. Then again, maybe it’’s no surprise at all…

Well, I really ought to get the install going, but I hate to stop Dan. Oh, well, I guess even PCLinuxOS can’t install AND play music at the same time. Maybe the next edition….I could put in a change request….try THAT crap with Windoze.

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