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To: Astronaut

Heh, careful there, them’s is fightin’ words for some folks! :)

I wonder if this machine can be slapped around to become a reasonable media center. Shove a high-end video card into it...

...oh wait, that’s right Linux. I’ll stop right there. The next step in that process is cruising usenet to find drivers for the video card, finding them, installing them, discovering they don’t work, finding the source code for the drivers, installing developer tools so I can rebuild it myself... All of this, of course, being done without a monitor. Gah.


9 posted on 11/05/2007 12:33:32 PM PST by Omedalus
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To: Omedalus

“cruising usenet “

LOL, you kind of dated ur-self there. :)


31 posted on 11/05/2007 1:05:12 PM PST by Constantine XIII (THE CAKE IS A LIE)
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To: Omedalus
The next step in that process is cruising usenet to find drivers for the video card, finding them, installing them, discovering they don’t work, finding the source code for the drivers, installing developer tools so I can rebuild it myself...

Again, that is a blast from the past comment from about 1999.

101 posted on 11/07/2007 4:21:33 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture ™)
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