It can all be summed up in the screen shot below:
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Why I'll never go back to Windows
With the impending Windows presentation next month I thought it would be a good time to discuss why I'd never go back to Windows on my own personal hardware, other than for work-related issues where I absolutely *must* use Windows.
It can all be summed up in the screen shot below:
It can all be summed up in the screen shot below:
Monday, March 07, 2005
Transgaming completely useless!
In the spirit of my daily rant I have to point out that I tried installing Diablo 2 LOD under Transgaming's Cedega 4.2.1 and it doesn't work. All I get is a screen saying I have to install Diablo 2, which I've already done. Diablo 2 worked only after some tweaking which could have been done with the free version of WINE. Not sure what I'm paying Transgaming for, they've been pretty useless so far.
Heroes of Might and Magic IV, which the Transgaming site also says works, fails to even run the installer. Another top game I play which is useless.
Civilization, another game Cedega is suppose to run really well, also does not install properly. The installation gets to 100% and keeps displaying screens. It refuses to exit.
Heroes of Might and Magic IV, which the Transgaming site also says works, fails to even run the installer. Another top game I play which is useless.
Civilization, another game Cedega is suppose to run really well, also does not install properly. The installation gets to 100% and keeps displaying screens. It refuses to exit.
Ubuntu Live CD...fails to live up to the hype.
There has been a lot of hype surrounding the Ubuntu Linux distribution recently. I decided to give the Live CD a run on my fiance's system. I was bitterly disappointed. The Live CD doesn't come near to living up to the hype it's given. What follows are a few problems I ran into:
1. The Live CD doesn't have ADSL support (at least doesn't have a gui for it). To me this means the live cd is crippled because Internet access is a major feature of Linux. I realize there's only so much to put on a live CD, but why put any Internet software on the CD if end users can't even connect to the Internet.
2. The Live CD crashed the first 2 times I tried booting it.
3. Many programs on the CD would not load even with 384MB RAM.
4. The XServer seems to run too high for the LCD. As the XServer loads a lot of horizontal stripes race across the screen. It's not so bad when the server has finished loading.
I didn't even test the printing facilities or check out the other hardware support, it's possible that sound and the USB cam wouldn't be supported. After having tried the SuSE Live CD I have to say Ubuntu lags behind SuSE by a wide margin.
1. The Live CD doesn't have ADSL support (at least doesn't have a gui for it). To me this means the live cd is crippled because Internet access is a major feature of Linux. I realize there's only so much to put on a live CD, but why put any Internet software on the CD if end users can't even connect to the Internet.
2. The Live CD crashed the first 2 times I tried booting it.
3. Many programs on the CD would not load even with 384MB RAM.
4. The XServer seems to run too high for the LCD. As the XServer loads a lot of horizontal stripes race across the screen. It's not so bad when the server has finished loading.
I didn't even test the printing facilities or check out the other hardware support, it's possible that sound and the USB cam wouldn't be supported. After having tried the SuSE Live CD I have to say Ubuntu lags behind SuSE by a wide margin.
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