To anticipate and prevent
Your probably looking at the title with a bit of shell shock — after weeks of linux posts, I’m talking about windows. Not only that, the very same laptop that was running debian is running Windows 2003 Standard with Service Pack 1. Yea, I couldn’t handle it any more — I need to play games…
Well I downloaded a trial of Cross Over Office and gave it a spin — I have to say I’m impressed. Its technology that works. I installed IE6 w/o any effort on my part. I also installed iTunes 4.7, though I was hoping for something slightly newer. Then I tried some non-free software — —…
Problems seem to be showing up with Cedega. It appears to be a really small outfit — and they are ambitiously trying to support alot of games. Now thats honerable and all — for a very small fee… But… The software just doesnt work — at least not for me. Lots of people seem to…
A friend of mine sugested trying out Cedega (based on wine) so I did — looked like a cool app and for only 5$ a month its worth it. Only problem is that I didn’t have 3D acceleration (or opengl for that matter) working yet. I skimmed around for a bit and found a most…
Right on first boot after using that new kernel of mine (because I made sure ALSA & the right modules were compiled in — not just optional) ALSA worked. Fired up XMMS and pointed it at ALSA and it was playing away. Problem is that Gnome uses ESD so some devices dont work. I found…
So I’ve continued my work on my laptop this last week. Fiddling around a bit and I found a few bits. First off that no matter what I do, I cant possibly get a USB drive working because the udev package for debian requires me running 2.6.12 or better (And I’m at 2.6.8 ). Of…