Anybody here use Linux?

on Sun January 25 2004 12:05 pm, Conor decided to enlighten us with:

In article ,
says...

Cheers on you decision to avoid French products. I started to go back to
Red Hat possibly due to the whole deal with the French/German/Russian
thing, but I thought I'd wait for Fedora to mature a bit before I tried
it. Maybe by Core 3 I'll give it a look. Besides, I really like SuSE...

"I started to go back to Red Hat possibly due to the whole deal with
the French/German/Russian thing"

....err better forget SuSE then because its a German distribution.

That was my point. I have been a SuSE user, but I've considered going to Red
Hat/Fedora because of the whole debacle. However, Fedora Core 1 is in its
infancy, and I do like SuSE a lot.



--
Big Daddy Ruel Smith

My SuSE Linux machine uptime:
8:25pm up 49 days 4:03, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.90, 0.89

My Windows XP machine uptime:
Something less...

on Sun January 25 2004 12:05 pm, JAD decided to enlighten us with:

hmmm nvidia does have the advantage, as one driver nearly fits all...but
not the 'latest' cards from the major suppliers have a xinux' compatible
driver that I have seen....

From nVidia's site (http://www.nvidia.com/object
linux_display_ia32_1.0-5328):

"Linux Display Driver - IA32


Version: 1.0-5328
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: December 22, 2003



Release Highlights


Supports latest GeForce FX and Quadro FX GPUs
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Added support for UBB and FSAA Stereo.

Improved GLXPixamp support.

Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.

Added support for GLX_SGI_swap_control.

Reduced CPU usage when OpenGL applications are syncing to vblank."


--
Big Daddy Ruel Smith

My SuSE Linux machine uptime:
8:27pm up 49 days 4:06, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.60, 0.78

My Windows XP machine uptime:
Something less...

on Sun January 25 2004 4:53 pm, Anon decided to enlighten us with:

It's a marketing scam. Many consumer items in the U.S. (especially
electronics and computer components) are advertised as costing $____
"after
rebate". Let's say a DVD player is $30 US after rebate. So you pay sixty
bucks for it, and then you have to mail in for the rebate. To send away
for the rebate, you need an ORIGINAL sales receipt, and an ORIGINAL UPC
CODE
(cut off the box). Plus, you need to fill in a form of course. You have
to
send all this information away by mail. It's a scam, as most rebates are
rejected, even if they are claimed correctly. The most common scam is
that you did everything right, but the rebate processing company will
claim
(incorrectly) that you didn't send in the UPC code. Thus the rebate is
rejected.

What it boils down to is that it is a way to trick U.S. consumers into
paying more for certain items by promising to give them a discount AFTER
THEY BUY something, and then deliberately failing to honor that promise.

You'll see lots of people claim that they have no problem claiming
rebates. These are the same people who SHOULD be purchasing lottery
tickets on a
regular basis. When more than 50% of rebates are automatically rejected,
someone who's never had a problem claiming a rebate obviously has luck on
their side. -Dave

I recently bought a WD 120 GB drive with 8MB cache with a $60 rebate and the
rebate was in my mail in a couple of weeks!



--
Big Daddy Ruel Smith

My SuSE Linux machine uptime:
8:32pm up 49 days 4:11, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.47, 0.67

My Windows XP machine uptime:
Something less...

interesting as I was looking at the latest offerings of Nvid off the self at BB....no mention of xinux on the box...I'll re-examine
that and grab some model numbers....also would like to see/or hear from someone on a working system incorporating this driver.
Everything looks good on paper, and many xinux 'drivers', have been less than perfect, with many features lost/lamed.

"Ruel Smith (Big Daddy)" wrote in message ...
on Sun January 25 2004 12:05 pm, JAD decided to enlighten us with:

hmmm nvidia does have the advantage, as one driver nearly fits all...but
not the 'latest' cards from the major suppliers have a xinux' compatible
driver that I have seen....

From nVidia's site (http://www.nvidia.com/object
linux_display_ia32_1.0-5328):

"Linux Display Driver - IA32


Version: 1.0-5328
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: December 22, 2003



Release Highlights


Supports latest GeForce FX and Quadro FX GPUs
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Added support for UBB and FSAA Stereo.

Improved GLXPixamp support.

Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.

Added support for GLX_SGI_swap_control.

Reduced CPU usage when OpenGL applications are syncing to vblank."


--
Big Daddy Ruel Smith

My SuSE Linux machine uptime:
8:27pm up 49 days 4:06, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.60, 0.78

My Windows XP machine uptime:
Something less...

I recently bought a WD 120 GB drive with 8MB cache with a $60 rebate and
the
rebate was in my mail in a couple of weeks!


Quick, buy a powerball ticket before your luck runs out. -Dave

I've never been rejected for a rebate claim. Only shop enough to make
sure the price after rebate is worth the trouble.

Anon wrote:

In other words, pay a hundred bucks for a sixty buck drive, mail in the
rebate, do EVERYTHING RIGHT, get the rebate rejected, end up paying


forty


bucks more than you should. No thanks. -Dave


What is this whole rebate thing? I live in the UK, I'm guessing its a US
thing right?

Steve



It's a marketing scam. Many consumer items in the U.S. (especially
electronics and computer components) are advertised as costing $____ "after
rebate". Let's say a DVD player is $30 US after rebate. So you pay sixty
bucks for it, and then you have to mail in for the rebate. To send away for
the rebate, you need an ORIGINAL sales receipt, and an ORIGINAL UPC CODE
(cut off the box). Plus, you need to fill in a form of course. You have to
send all this information away by mail. It's a scam, as most rebates are
rejected, even if they are claimed correctly. The most common scam is that
you did everything right, but the rebate processing company will claim
(incorrectly) that you didn't send in the UPC code. Thus the rebate is
rejected.

What it boils down to is that it is a way to trick U.S. consumers into
paying more for certain items by promising to give them a discount AFTER
THEY BUY something, and then deliberately failing to honor that promise.

You'll see lots of people claim that they have no problem claiming rebates.
These are the same people who SHOULD be purchasing lottery tickets on a
regular basis. When more than 50% of rebates are automatically rejected,
someone who's never had a problem claiming a rebate obviously has luck on
their side. -Dave

"Anon" wrote in message ws.com...
In other words, pay a hundred bucks for a sixty buck drive, mail in the
rebate, do EVERYTHING RIGHT, get the rebate rejected, end up paying
forty
bucks more than you should. No thanks. -Dave

What is this whole rebate thing? I live in the UK, I'm guessing its a US
thing right?

Steve

It's a marketing scam. Many consumer items in the U.S. (especially
electronics and computer components) are advertised as costing $____ "after
rebate". Let's say a DVD player is $30 US after rebate. So you pay sixty
bucks for it, and then you have to mail in for the rebate. To send away for
the rebate, you need an ORIGINAL sales receipt, and an ORIGINAL UPC CODE
(cut off the box). Plus, you need to fill in a form of course. You have to
send all this information away by mail. It's a scam, as most rebates are
rejected, even if they are claimed correctly. The most common scam is that
you did everything right, but the rebate processing company will claim
(incorrectly) that you didn't send in the UPC code. Thus the rebate is
rejected.

What it boils down to is that it is a way to trick U.S. consumers into
paying more for certain items by promising to give them a discount AFTER
THEY BUY something, and then deliberately failing to honor that promise.

You'll see lots of people claim that they have no problem claiming rebates.
These are the same people who SHOULD be purchasing lottery tickets on a
regular basis. When more than 50% of rebates are automatically rejected,
someone who's never had a problem claiming a rebate obviously has luck on
their side. -Dave
And here all this time I should have been buying Lotto tickets cause I
must be very lucky with all 10 out of 10 of my rebates honored :-)

"Anon" wrote in message
s.com...

I recently bought a WD 120 GB drive with 8MB cache with a $60 rebate and
the
rebate was in my mail in a couple of weeks!


Quick, buy a powerball ticket before your luck runs out. -Dave



I dunno...... I recently purchased a big-screen HDTV, Dolby receiver,
subwoofer, new Hitachi LCD monitor and a video card. All with mail-in
rebates. Got checks totaling over $400 US in the mail the last two weeks. If
they were that bad, someone would be on their collective asses for offering
these. Large, well established companies are NOT going to use false
advertising to sell their products. Granted, there are probably a very few
unscrupulous companies out there, but they are in the minority.

Ed


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on Sun January 25 2004 8:43 pm, JAD decided to enlighten us with:

interesting as I was looking at the latest offerings of Nvid off the self
at BB....no mention of xinux on the box...I'll re-examine that and grab
some model numbers....also would like to see/or hear from someone on a
working system incorporating this driver.
Everything looks good on paper, and many xinux 'drivers', have been less
than perfect, with many features lost/lamed.

No box has Linux support on it as hardware OEM's consider Linux too small a
market to make that big a deal over.

Features "lost/lamed"? Give evidence...



--
Big Daddy Ruel Smith

My SuSE Linux machine uptime:
6:02am up 49 days 13:40, 2 users, load average: 0.89, 0.35, 0.12

My Windows XP machine uptime:
Something less...

Features "lost/lamed"? Give evidence...

your kidding right? your knowledgeable in nux, why are you asking for evidence...that's a common "give' when using full featured
hardware with nux, something's don't work. What? you want a list of all hardware that doesn't have all its features available? You
can work on that yourself.



"Ruel Smith (Big Daddy)" wrote in message ...
on Sun January 25 2004 8:43 pm, JAD decided to enlighten us with:

interesting as I was looking at the latest offerings of Nvid off the self
at BB....no mention of xinux on the box...I'll re-examine that and grab
some model numbers....also would like to see/or hear from someone on a
working system incorporating this driver.
Everything looks good on paper, and many xinux 'drivers', have been less
than perfect, with many features lost/lamed.

No box has Linux support on it as hardware OEM's consider Linux too small a
market to make that big a deal over.





--
Big Daddy Ruel Smith

My SuSE Linux machine uptime:
6:02am up 49 days 13:40, 2 users, load average: 0.89, 0.35, 0.12

My Windows XP machine uptime:
Something less...