Posted on 07/23/2008 5:54:47 AM PDT by twntaipan
I last checked it out a few months ago. It’s looking somewhat better, but it’s still looking like FS 2000. I’m not meaning to put it down, but I’m after eye candy, and FSX and X-plane both have it. Eventually I will dual-boot, or VM one OS into the other, or something. I miss Linux having used it for only 6 months or so. THEN, I’ll probably get Flight Gear along side the others.
FS 2000!?
Hell guy, last time I really played around with FS, it was on a 4.77MHz PC with a green monochrome screen. And we used FS back then to test the compatibility of hardware.
Funny how things have changed.
So you're comparing a 1.0 release of free and open software that runs on multiple platforms to a 2000 release of software put out by a corporation with Billion$ in R&D at their disposal?!
Damn those FG guys are good!
Here's what I did: I've been running cross platform applications for some time now on the old Windows 2000 machine (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.). Just last week the thing finally died. I swapped in a machine I'd previously set up running PCLinuxOS (I've never liked Ubuntu), running the same apps. The family barely noticed the change.
Is this PC connected to a peer network? Is it connected to a PC with XP Home Edition? If so, how serious was getting the PC's to handshake?
I'll look into PCLinuxOS. But would appreciate any input you have on the above, if possible.
True enough I suppose but SP3 has cut down those myriad large patches. I also use Acronis and was using the AutoPatcher until MS realized it was making them look bad so they cracked down on its author/keeper.
I don’t have XP home. I have one machine with XP pro corporate that I don’t turn on very often (only use it for games and MS flight simulator), two computers running PCLinuxOS (my current favorite distro), and two wireless laptops running linux (Asus EEEpc’s), all connected to my home network. Also have a NAS disk for backups and archive. I’m pretty sure they can all talk to each other (I grabbed some files off the windows computer from one of the linux computers last night), and they all for sure have no problem with the NAS. I’ll have to take a closer look tonight, but I don’t think there’s any problem, and I certainly didn’t have to do any extra configuration.
If you were able to access the Windows PC (XP Pro) from the Linux PC, then you should be alright. But for me, it may be a different issue mine being XP Home.
I’m not going to convert the machine in the basement from Windows 2000 to Linux because I use it for copying music from tapes and a turntable. I’ve tried that with Ubuntu and Audacity (the music editor I use) doesn’t work under the circumstances (It doesn’t recognize the signal).
A buddy has some old PC’s he’s trying to unload so I’ll check with him. But first I want to check into hardware requirements for PCLinuxOS; especially RAM requirements. His PC’s may not fit the bill.
Putting my LP's into digital format is the whole reason I got into linux in the first place! I was tired of trying demo (crippled) windows versions of music recorders/editors, and I was too broke to buy one. So I got wind of some open source programs that worked on linux (also free), and away I went. I bought a preamp to hook my turntable to the soundcard inputs, and finally settled on Audacity for recording/editing, and GWC (Gnome Wave Cleaner) for removing pops and noise. I think I was using something like Mandrake 7.2 at the time, so it was a bit of a chore to get it all working. Nowadays I imagine it would be a lot easier, although like I said before, Ubuntu has always given me problems.
It was in Ubuntu that I was having problems. Audacity would work fine on Windows 2000. But when I tried the Linux version it would not recognize signals through Line In or any other source. I could never get it configured. So I went back to Windows 2000. I then tried Ubuntu as a dual boot on my laptop. I had other issues so now I’m back to Windows XP.
The laptop is in my office. The W2000 PC is down in the basement on a table that also holds my diskette player and turntable. Those are linked to a switch so I can record off either one. (Yes, I did try removing the switch when trying to get Linux to record). The two PC’s are networked. I have a Linksys wireless router attached to my laptop, and a Linksys wireless USB router on the Windows 2000 PC. No problem in Windows networking. But I wasn’t able to get the two to handshake in Linux.
BTW, the Windows version of Audacity has a pop/click cleaner.
But it works quite well.
I have updated a web page where you can get the script.
Be warned--I seem to not have the instructions anymore beyond what is on that page.
Let me know if you figure it out based on the instructions I have posted. If I can update these instructions, I will.
I'll give it a try tonight.
If you have any updated information for any of the distributions on there, let me know and I'll update the page.
You can very easily make sudo passwordless for your username. It’s not always the best thing security-wise (still more secure than XP or vista with it’s nag feature turned off), but it’s certainly easy to do and would remove the annoyance factor for you.
Really, mostly with *buntu, all you have to do is search your problem on the forums and follow the instructions you get. It ain’t rocket science.
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