The particular system I'm ordering will have XP on it (mostly because I need XP to VPN to work).
Most of the ones with Linux come with some sort of basic office suite. What sort of thing were you looking to do?
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Tom Scola - Jul 25, 2008 8:12:41 am PDT #7204 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2008 8:15:38 am PDT #7205 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, not for me. Just wondering about how thin client the non-desktop part of the market was trending. Are we going to avoid paying for MS Office by using Google Docs, or are we going to do it with Open Office?
Tom Scola - Jul 25, 2008 8:19:16 am PDT #7206 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It depends, I guess, on how much people will trust Google with their stuff. Google Docs is blocked for me from work, for example.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2008 8:30:38 am PDT #7207 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It seems the natural way to go from one of the stripped down machines, but even before it comes to trusting Google, one has to trust their internet connection. I've heard the netbook touted as the next big innovation, but I just don't buy it yet. I'm still a relative Luddite who's attached to her flash drive. I'd just run OpenOffice off that.
DCJensen - Jul 26, 2008 6:30:45 am PDT #7208 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I did something stupid.
I decided I needed a Mac partition on my FreeAgent 750 GB drive.
No problem, it's all Fat32 right now, right?
So I hooked it up to one of my old PCs, and made a 50 GB partition with Partition Magic 8.
What I did not take into account was that the old PC is only a Pentium III, and has USB 1.1.
After 16 hours or so, the "moving data" section is up to 3%.
God help me if there's a power outage or a cable gets disconnected in the next 20 days.
Back up the data? of course I didn't.
[Headdesk]
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omnis_audis - Jul 26, 2008 11:11:29 am PDT #7209 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
is there a audio or video quality difference between HDMI & component? I received the HDMI cable in the mail, only to discover stupid cable installer gave me a box that doesn't have HDMI connections. I'm wondering if it's worth the hassle of dealing with bad Time Warner or not to try and swap boxes.
Tom Scola - Jul 26, 2008 11:25:43 am PDT #7210 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
is there a audio or video quality difference between HDMI & component?
In theory? Yes. In reality? It's probably not very perceivable.
I received the HDMI cable in the mail, only to discover stupid cable installer gave me a box that doesn't have HDMI connections. I'm wondering if it's worth the hassle of dealing with bad Time Warner or not to try and swap boxes.
It's very likely that you don't have an HD cable box, then. What is the model number?
omnis_audis - Jul 26, 2008 11:34:08 am PDT #7211 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
DCT6200/2005 from motorola. It says "HDTV capable" on the front.
Tom Scola - Jul 26, 2008 11:38:06 am PDT #7212 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm wondering if it's worth the hassle of dealing with bad Time Warner or not to try and swap boxes.
It probably wouldn't be worth dealing with TW if HDMI did give you better picture quality.
omnis_audis - Jul 26, 2008 7:38:56 pm PDT #7213 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Sigh: I seem to be techno-disfunctional today. OK, partially. I finally got the airport extreme base station to work. After much head bashing, hitting the reset button pretty much did the trick.
Now my issue is with the new Airport Express I just purchased. It's purpose is two-fold: 1) carry my iTunes to my Hi-Fi in the living room via wi-fi! and 2) to plug my Xbox into so it connect to LIVE.
well, I've tried to set it up wirelessly a dozen times. Everytime it got to the "update" section, it would time out and not be able to find it again. Reset. Try again. Finally I plugged it in to the computer directly. Got much further! Even got airtunes working with the gizmo right next to me at the desk. So, thinking it's all good, I walk it over to the living room, plug it in. Nope. Not connecting. The bedroom computer not seeing it at all again. I put an extension chord on it, and lift it out of the rack and sitting on top of the TV, to give as clear a shot as possible. Still no luck. I have both wi-fi's on FULL, so them suckers should see each other from 20' away, even if it is through a interior wall.
Any thoughts on what it could be?