Guest pod Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 Bling Blong, I've told you 3457894574075 times to just get XP and call it a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RzO Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 yah me sucks anus. I had it for the first two years of college and it gave me shit. Truthfully I have had this toshiba laptop since 8/03, so 4 years old and I have never had any issues with it. It is running xp and I have only reformatted once in like 05 I think. It still runs really fast, and because of this I have no reason to buy another comp, even though I really want a mac, so I can be like the cool kids. Ok that was a joke, but my point is I have not had any problems with the xp on this machine and probably won't spend the money for a new one till this one starts to suck, a if it aint broke do fix it mentality if you will. I will prolly make the switch though whenever this one goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coach Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 Well, my experience has been that Toshibas rock. I dropped my last one from shoulder height, dented the corner, and it didn't even hiccup. But I think Miss Behavin's issue is Vista, not XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RzO Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 well i guess as with anything new there will be bugs. But with ME, it never got better I remember peeps in school reformatting with the one before ME just cause it was better. Luckily XP is actually pretty good. i hope for windows sake that vista gets worked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted August 24 Report Share Posted August 24 Before ME was 98...not bad, 2K was solid, XP more so. Still nowhere near as solid as the various UNIX flavors. Check out www.dell.com/linux for pre-built Ubuntu boxen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Miss_Digital Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 i got blue screen today!!!! it also has a prob with my external hard drive some days it likes it some days it doesn't even know what it is >I LOVE UBUNTU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive used it on and off its fab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Miss_Digital Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 it wouldnt even recognise my digital camera XP didThis is very likely because the camera is too old for Vista to have the driver built in. At least, that is usually the reason for that kind of problem. If you have the install disc that came with it, just use that. If you lost it, go to the camera manufacturer website and DL the driver from there.Remember, that Windows does not have every driver for every device ever invented built into it. Otherwise it would be even a huger monster than it already is. universal drivers would solve that i believe and no my cam is new i did some updates that seemed to fix it still its USB its supposed to be plug and play ... not plug and download updates install drivers and playthe User Account Control (UAC) is most annoying feature... stop asking me so many fucking questions ... i turned it off with in seconds of owning my new PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Blow out your XP install and throw Ubuntu in. On modern hardware it's cake. It gave me some crap on an old Thinkpad, but nothing some mild tinkering didn't fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Miss_Digital Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 WARNING: VISTA is the New Millenium edition > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Miss_Digital Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Yeah Ubuntu is great' date=' I had it installed in an old PC about 2 years ago.But it is an alternative to the angry Window user, who cant afford to switch to a Mac and wants another OS.The point I am arguing though is the fact that sometimes as a computer user you need to find ways to manipulate a problem yourself and if not ask questions, look in a search engine, do something.[/quote']thats the problem been doing that for years... i'm not curious ... i dont even want to know why shit doesnt work anymore...before i actually found it fun.. i have a problem it do an engine search, i try what people tell to do in forums i'm fed up updates and patches and all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Every OS has an update/patch regimen. Even OS X has something at least monthly. It's nice though on the Mac side since it's not as often. And rarely requires a restart. My Ubuntu updates thus far? Never a restart. Actually I can't really think of anything I've done to it that has required a restart at all. I might be a bit optimistic but Ubuntu is probably a 'contender' for a Windows replacement OS. I'm at the point of recommending the Dells that come with it pre-loaded for business use. We got an intern PC here at the HQ, it has XP on it right now, but I'm considering putting Ubuntu on it, and just not telling the intern, and see how she (our intern will be a girl) adapts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ICON Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 FUCK WINDOWS AND MACits ALL ABOUT LINUX UNUNTUits friggin SWEEEET! best of all.. ITS FREE.. its not a resource hog so you dont need a super pc.WWW.UBUNTU.COMso, what programs can you use on Linux? NOT A WHOLE LOT... so why is it so great? Whats the point of having a great performing OS if you cant use any programs on it?You get what you pay for in this case. Usually, computer issues come from the owner of the computer... not from the computer or OS itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 I see a lot of people going to Linux in the "me too" rebel fashion. Do a lot of people need Linux? Nope. However, I could set up a box running Ubuntu, lock it down to everything but Open Office, Firefox, media players, P2P client, and T-Bird, and 99 percent of the people on this forum would be able to get through their work and leisure time on a computer thus configured. Without me showing them how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coach Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Well, I just recently found out that it is either not possible or a huge pain to network Vista and XP. This is just plain insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Hah. My Ubuntu laptop sees all the machines here, both Mac and Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coach Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Can you print through any of them, though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Our printer has a built-in server so yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coach Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Hmmm... that doesn't help me.Can it run all the regular Windows programs, including PC games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Games no. But for a biz PC, it's fine. You could give it to any schmuck and they'd be fine using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jbit Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Well, I just recently found out that it is either not possible or a huge pain to network Vista and XP. This is just plain insane.Give each machine a unique IP address and connect to a switch. It's not that hard. My network has Windows 2000 professional -> Windows 2008 server, Linux, and MAC machines all communicating just fine. Dont beleive the hype. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 In a mixed environment you can't just arbitrarily let the systems decide things, leads to issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest obby Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 FUCK WINDOWS AND MACits ALL ABOUT LINUX UNUNTUits friggin SWEEEET! best of all.. ITS FREE.. its not a resource hog so you dont need a super pc.WWW.UBUNTU.COMbYsxaMyFV2Y xC5uEe5OzNQ True!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Miss_Digital Posted September 19 Report Share Posted September 19 waring: windows vista wont recognize external hd enclosures and its a known problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guyman1966 Posted September 19 Report Share Posted September 19 I'm inclined these days to go Mac since a lot of the apps I'm using, like the whole Adobe Creative Suite, just run much more reliably on the Mac architecture. Has HELL frozen over? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted September 19 Report Share Posted September 19 It used to be the reverse until recently. But suddenly Adobe is putting a lot more effort into their Mac apps than PC ones. I would be inclined to say 'fuck 'em both' and just run Ubuntu with the GIMP, but the GIMP is still very inferior to Photoshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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