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Dan The Man

Dan The Man

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Yup, I'm officially a trader. :sqerr: I've gone on and on about how great linux is and it is great but a lot things just don't work they way the should. I'm tried of having to borrow the laptop every time I want to access a java enabled site among other things.

The only downside is I have to run anti-virus which eats resources but I'll be able to use some of my favorite apps again. Like Mail washer is one of my favorites and a few old games I have on CD-ROM.

At any rate, the price for an OEM copy of XP home was right and it's sort of a late Christmas gift to myself. I really wanted to buy XP before that mess called Vista hits the market and I'm unable to buy XP.

After 8 months away from Windows, I'm not all that up on the lastest freeware apps. Any good ones I should try out?

Thanks,
Dan
 
Im surprised you're having java website problems! Java has never been a problem for me with Firefox or Mozilla. The only catch I found was that you have to manually enable linkage between the browser and java runtime.
 
FYI the machine I am writing from is dual boot with dual drives. I work almost exclusively from Linux and fall back to booting to Windows98SE when I need to work on Visitrax for music cataloging. My Think Pad is a refurb w/Windows2000Pro. I only use that for Visitrax in the field. As of this point I see no reason to switch to XP or even think of Vista.

Once I have time to learn more about Wine and Crossover Office, I will be using Visitrax on Linux. I have on Linux now, but can't get it to recognize CDROM for some reason. I'm sure it's in how I am mapping and/or aliasing the drive. I don't think I have the syntax/protocol correct for calling the drive.
 
DJCraziAce said:
Dan, what version of Linux and what kernel were you using? Java is NO reason to switch back to Windows... if anything, it runs WORSE on Windoze.
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I'm running the latest Ubuntu (6.10) kernel 2.6.17. To be sure I'm going to keep a partition for Ubuntu mainly to experiment with. It isn't just Java. For instance ever since the latest kernel push, I cannot burn audio CD's, it'll convert all the files start the burn then spit out some error. It worked all the time before, now I keep wasting CDs. I don't know why I have all the libraries I need installed. When I make an audio CD with the exact same files on Windows it burns perfectly.

As much as I dislike Windows the truth is when properly managed it just works.
 
Dan send me a email/PM i have a addy for you that you might be interested in ok

speak to you soon
 
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