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by jdratlif
Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:09 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Re:

jdratlif wrote:Xfce is very nice, and I don't think we'll be seeing "lubuntu" anytime soon.
Looks like I was wrong. http://distrowatch.com/6025

Wonder if it'll fit on a CD-RW. Xubuntu used to, but it doesn't anymore. That was something I liked a lot.
by jdratlif
Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:57 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Re: I hate Linux

I'm guessing a similar number for IE8. What, with 20/100 on Acid 3? IE 8 passes acid 1 and 2, so a lot of sites render properly, but what about sites that begin to use new standards? How many sites do you think are about to abandon IE users? It's still more than 50% of the browser marker. EDIT: Act...
by jdratlif
Fri Apr 16, 2010 1:09 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Re: I hate Linux

I was actually being sarcastic... IE sucks. IE8 doesn't really offer much new to the table compared to IE6 and IE7, nor does it pass Acid 3 on anything more than 20/100. IE9 will apparently be more standards compliant, and looks interesting due to the fact that it will use hardware acceleration to ...
by jdratlif
Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:44 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Re:

OSX userland is freeBSD based. Thats it. Thats because its kernel isn't based on BSD. Its based on Mach. Only part of freebsd core run on top of this Mach microkernel. Yes, that's what I was talking about, but I didn't want to delve into RMS-land and have an argument about what constitutes an opera...
by jdratlif
Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:20 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Regardless, you could set up /home/ to be an ext2 partition that Linux and MacOS can both read, then have MacOS and Xubuntu on their own partition. If disk space is an issue, you can always pick up a 500GiB disc for about £30-40 on scan, which really isn't much. Though, I'll assume you live in the ...
by jdratlif
Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:06 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Yes, that interface in the screenshot you posted looks fine, similar to the one I see with my card on ossxmix. To each his own. Xubuntu destroyed my Snow Leopard boot partition. I don't know what happened. All I told it to do was format the Snow Leopard partition as ext4. Sounds like your problem i...
by jdratlif
Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:23 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Xubuntu destroyed my Snow Leopard boot partition. I don't know what happened. All I told it to do was format the Snow Leopard partition as ext4. I didn't change any partitions. I think my home partition is safe though, so it's not a big deal. Wasn't like I could dual boot atm anyways. I'm running OS...
by jdratlif
Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:13 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
jdratlif wrote: Imagine a great GUI on a FreeBSD install. That's Mac OS X.
You forgot "if the FreBSD install was fucked up so badly that every good thing about it was broken."
Could you elaborate? I don't see any problems with the unix stuff. Everything works the way I expect it to.
by jdratlif
Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:18 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

You really think that about ossxmix? I find it really easy to use personally. It's interface makes much more sense than in other mixer apps. Yes, I really think ossxmix is terrible. So many controls that either do nothing, or simply do nothing for me (i.e. control things I'm not using). Can the int...
by jdratlif
Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:06 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

Imagine a great GUI on a FreeBSD install. That's Mac OS X. Ok, except MacOS is based on Darwin, not FreeBSD :P Darwin borrows heavily from FreeBSD. Xfce is not bloated, also. It depends on your configuration. My Xfce is the latest version, and it's as fast as a hyena on steroids. LXDE is fast(er), ...
by jdratlif
Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:19 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

1) Ubuntu comes with ALSA and PulseAudio, which are shit. Remove them and replace with OSSv4 and you're golden. You can even get ALSA apps working on OSS with the following workaround: http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/05/perfect-sound-with-oss-version-4.html If interested in OSSv4, see the fol...
by jdratlif
Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:40 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

You should totally try OpenBSD. I've used it in the past, and it's simply the best OS on this planet, period. Xubuntu #1 Gnome, Xfce #2 Linux isn't stupid, you are #3 Ext4/ReiserFS(if possible these days...) #4 Yes, VirtualBox. Use the proprietary version, the OSE is shit. #5 Yes, most AMD64-based ...
by jdratlif
Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:54 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

funkyass wrote:get DOS 4.0 if you can. it rox the best.
I'm gonna see how Snow Leopard works out for awhile, but DOS 4.0 is definitely next on my list.

Linux is gone now. Everything seems to work great except there's no smplayer in OS X.
by jdratlif
Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:46 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

I've been messing around with Snow Leopard. All my hardware seems to work, so I'm going to start backing things up and trying it out.

If it doesn't work out, I guess I'll give MS-DOS a go.
by jdratlif
Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:34 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

I don't know what I would do without you grin.

Forgot to mention, it also must have read/write ntfs support for my external hard drive that I share with windows.

And have python support. And come with a free puppy. And pay my taxes.
by jdratlif
Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:11 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I hate Linux
Replies: 97
Views: 93592

I hate Linux

It's stupid and ugly and I have the weird (but seemingly prevalent) cpu usage goes through the room when using the hard drive problem. So it's time to look around. I was keeping Linux for my old TiVo to connect it to the internet, but I got a new TiVo and it has built-in networking, so I could switc...
by jdratlif
Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:28 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: playstation emulators for amd64 linux
Replies: 2
Views: 3521

playstation emulators for amd64 linux

Anyone know of any? I'm trying to figure out why pcsx-df won't work for me. It continually crashes on load saying /dev/input/js0 is already open or can't be opened or something. It has world read permissions. It shouldn't need a joystick, but I can't see any way to configure it w/o one. pcsx, pSX, a...
by jdratlif
Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:11 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: nsrt availability
Replies: 6
Views: 2596

Well of course it's already mentioned. :)

Thanks.
by jdratlif
Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:42 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: nsrt availability
Replies: 6
Views: 2596

nsrt availability

Everytime I go looking for nsrt, I have to hunt through forum posts to find it.

Is nsrt.edgeemu.com ever coming back? Could we sticky the location of nsrt somewhere, or have I overlooked it? I've done a search, and checked the ZSNES, DOCs, and FAQ forums.

Is there anything official?
by jdratlif
Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:46 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all
Replies: 40
Views: 17406

most people equate it to roughly the load of a minimal windows vista install. I'm not complaining, it's just one of the things that slows a lot of people down from using it. Vista I do notice. I had to upgrade my old laptop from 1 to 2 GB RAM or it would be very slow. My new laptop has 4 GB, as doe...
by jdratlif
Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:47 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all
Replies: 40
Views: 17406

so I have to use ossxmix which I don't like, but I'll get over it. I'm working on an ossxmix/kmix replacements for OSSv4. Want to pitch in? What's yours going to do differently? I would like kmix fine if it had an OSS4 backend. ossxmix has a dozen controls I don't understand, but don't seem to dire...
by jdratlif
Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:39 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all
Replies: 40
Views: 17406

OSS is supposed to support per application volume controls. IMO, this was the biggest improvement of Vista over XP. When an app starts using the vmix output, ossxmix changes the name of pcm8 9 10 or 11 to the application, which suggests I can already control volume levels on an application basis. I ...
by jdratlif
Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:01 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all
Replies: 40
Views: 17406

KDE4 works great for me and has for quite some time now. With the 4.2.4 release, even the tray works (the only remaining issue that affected me). I decided to reinstall to see if I could get OSS to work. There must be some dependency that didn't pull in OSS last time, cause KDE finds it now. Both mp...
by jdratlif
Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:30 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all
Replies: 40
Views: 17406

The first one I've seen. No such option in my KDE4 when OSS was present. Your blog entry looks more promising. I will look into that when I have a moment, but it sounds like that's using ALSA emulation over OSS, which would be fine, but I thought KDE4 could go native. You're using KDE4, right? Is OS...
by jdratlif
Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:25 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: browser history collage
Replies: 16
Views: 9343

It's tooled to ignore the NSFW sites.