Oh baby.

[tyggerjai]

So I've finally fired up the THROBBING BEAST OF POWER.
IT throbs. Yea verily, with Power.
Keyboard sucks ass, though. Logitech, what were you thinking?
27 customizable special buttons, though. Including volume and scrolly wheely shit. Wonder what FreeBSD will make of *that*?
Though I think I'll take the crap keyboard upstairs, and keep the dodgy old one down here. Mostly because the keyboard and mouse are a bundled wireless thing, and I prefer my trackball.

But fast. SO very, very fast.

Pop Quiz: Why do otherwise apparently sane people use Microsoft Windows XP?
2000 was bad enough, but really.

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[spark-au.livejournal.com]

Pop Quiz: Why do otherwise apparently sane people use Microsoft Windows XP?
2000 was bad enough, but really.

How well is BSD doing directx these days? Maybe I'll covert if it's good enough :)

Funny you should ask

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

There was a story on /. a while back about someone playing Neverwinter nights under WineX (a windows emulator). They were running a linux WineX binary via the linux emulation layer on a FreeBSD box. So FreeBSD running a linux binary emulating a Windows environment running NWN. I have no idea what the performance was like.

What I meant, however, was why WinXP as opposed to W2K, or even W98, which seems more stable, faster, and just as featurefull.

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Re: Funny you should ask

[spark-au.livejournal.com]

What I meant, however, was why WinXP as opposed to W2K, or even W98, which seems more stable, faster, and just as featurefull.

Well, speaking from personal experiance, XP is the only OS that seems to run on viscera's box of doom. 98 will install, but run for between 1 to 10 minutes before blue screening, 2k and Redhat freeze up during formatting, but XP only crashes rarely - and then during software conflicts with direct x and the piece of shit onboard video card. The problem? Best guess is that it's either P3 chip that only has a heatsink (and I'm too lazy or couldn't be bothered getting a fan) while the BIOS returns highly dubious heat readings from it. The other, less likely alternative, is that the onboard graphics card creates problems. Update the drivers, you say? They're already the latest ones. Get a new graphics card? No AGP slots, and I can't find a PCI 3D card that's halfway decent. New motherboard? I really couldn't be bothered. I'll just stick with the other two boxes.

But beyond a couple of gripes with XP,I don't mind it that much - and I certainly wouldn't say 98 is more stable, or more featurefull. People have griped to me as well about networking with it, but I've seriously had very few problems with it.

Re: Funny you should ask

[spark-au.livejournal.com]

Which, in sort, amounts to:

Because PC's are poorly designed.

Re: Funny you should ask

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Or "Because sometimes we have no option", which isn't a *Real* reason :)
I'm more used to 98Lite than 98, I must admit.
XP networking isn't so bad, though the changes they made to the admin interfaces bite. It's whatever the *fuck* they did to mounting network drives. The whole "machine account" bullshit. I have a samba server that happily shares files out to 2K, 98, BeOS, everyother goddamn thing, but XP won't even talk to it.
Gar.

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