I use Linux every day, all day, and have for years.
Sunday I didnt even turn on my laptop, the only PC I own that I power down
:D
instead I went on a motorcycle ride into the desert, it was fun, then monday
my brand new motorcycle got knocked over in the parking lot, its got all of
500 miles on it :(
otherwise I am batting about that, its just not the only OS I run.
I have a very large HP color inkjet that works just fine in Linux, but
it's Postscript. I mostly seek out postscript printers because they
mostly just work.
I am trying to recall how long its been sense I last played with my HP on
linux, might just have to play again, maybe it does belong on the list of
working printers, still doesnt clear up the other printers. 2 of which im
battling now. (ill respond better to printers to another post)
Each laptop is different. On my IBM apm -s will make it sleep. Saving
state is a little trickier, but there is a Linux solution for that
too.
understood, but realize its a technical reason linux is not ready for the
desktop, when I bought this laptop (its about 3 months old now) it was
shipped with at least a dozen viruses (ok really they are apps you cant
un-install that HP thinks you want, which sounds like a virus to me) so I
nuked the drive and did a re-install from a normal windows XP cd, (after
backing everything up just in case) also this is the way I prepared it for a
linux dual boot. After I finished installing windows I didnt do anything and
all of these features worked, in many cases the scan codes really are the
same as on a fairly old XT style keyboard I have and on a few newer ps/2 and
usb keyboards I have also. yet in linux they needed some hacking, and I have
not gotten it to save the state yet, though more from lack of time. and all
of the above are things linux should DO, not things I should have to hack
around to make work.
I don't begin to comprehend putting programs inside of spreadsheets,
but I'm not surprised the vb stuff doesn't work in Linux. VB is an
abomination to begin with, and you have to really want it to even have
a basic interpreter on a Linux system.
comprehension is not required, for me making it work is. and for ME windows
is required because of it.
I'm not that familiar with Access, but if it's anything like other
Microsoft software, one version won't work with another version, so
why would anyone expect it to work with Linux.
in this case its not soooo bad, go back too far and it gets ugly, but 1
version either way is usually painless, and in this case upgrading always
works, but you are forced to automatically import the older version which
makes that file now the newer version its the downgrading that fails
depending on version's. ive never had a problem exporting, but you must have
access to export from.
I've seen Jim Sack do some pretty interesting things with binary
editors in Linux, so the tools are there, I just don't know much of
anything about them. NTFS is a different kettle of fish. It's only
recently been supported by Linux and I'm not even sure it's safe to
write to NTFS from Linux yet.
NTFS support is nice, but it takes more than just a hex editor to make
things work, you need to be able to do things to the drive, things I only
know how to tell the windows tools to do. then its nice to have some
automation in assembling the parts and filling in the gaps, drives are huge
these days I dont wanna do it all manually if it can be helped out
programatically, which it can.
You didn't specifically mention Exchange before. Exchange is a
non-standard email/calendar/kitchen sink server, that works only
barely. It's prone to catastophic unrecoverable failures and talks its
own proprietary protocol. I've set up Linux servers that can emulate
Exchange, without the catastophic failure mode, but they speak
standard imap/pop protocols instead of the Micosoft mapi protocol.
true I did the desktop user thing and grouped all email into one pile,
however I did state I use both outlook and outlook express there are not a
ton of reasons for such things.... my home-office server has all of the
features of exchange without the mapi protocol, and it works great, except
when im not at home...
> I am not remembering display off the top of my head, acdsee is more of
> a show me the files along with image info (dimentions colordepth),
> show
> the image and index some things so i can search fast and let me
> move/copy/rename them, though there are some basic editing, I like
> and use Gimp also.
XV does all you describe about acdsee.
not quite the right thing, or at least I dont know how to make it do the
right thing.
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