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Linsux and Winbloze - There is no decent operating system for the PC!
WMD:
Well, the S3 is certainly not an nVidia card.
S3 as a company ceases to exist. So, the generic S3 driver is probably your best bet, unless the manufacturer of your particular card has a driver. Go to the Device Manager in Windows, what's the name the of the card itself? (Or, look at the stuff that came with your computer.)
Refalm:
quote:WMD: Well, the S3 is certainly not an nVidia card.
S3 as a company ceases to exist. So, the generic S3 driver is probably your best bet, unless the manufacturer of your particular card has a driver. Go to the Device Manager in Windows, what's the name the of the card itself? (Or, look at the stuff that came with your computer.)
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Did I say S3 was nVidia? Anyway, fuck Windows, hwinfo for MS-DOS kicks more ass. No need to boot into Windows. Maybe it'll even work with DOSEMU, but I'm not certain.
Aloone_Jonez:
I get exactly the same information about my graphics card from both control panel an device manager, and as for not booting into Windows and as for using hwinfo for MS-DOS, this is not possible as I'm using Winbloze Xpee, which has an NT not a DOS kernel. I did check and there is a windows version available, but it's shareware.
I fucking hate shareware, you can only use it for so long and then you have to register, and if you uninstall it always leaves some fucking shit behind to slow your computer down and make it so you can't reinstall.
Shareware at first seemed a good idea until I wondered why my old system was starting to slow down after I had tried out a few shareware programs and then I searched my registry and it was full of shit, my hard drive was also riddled with hidden files, and I noticed that every time I booted some of the shareware shit was still being loaded into memory even though I told Winbloze to delete it many years ago.
When I cleaned up my hard drive and rebooted I got loads of errors as Windows still expected the shit to still be there, then I cleaned up my registry, and finally I had to edit WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI.
And before you say, I'm not a total Fuck head I did uninstall everything properly (You know add remove programs) I didn't just delete the directories.
I bet all the shit that gets left behind is bloody retarded spyware.
Anyway shareware and all the companys that push shareware shit, their just as bad as bloody Bill Gates!
[ June 29, 2004: Message edited by: Aloone ]
insomnia:
Why is shareware worse than payware?
You like spending money?
About the kernel compiling in GNU/Linux, any newbie can do this. Try the newbie forum from LQ, people ask those questions all the time and they always get help. You don't even have to understand what you're doing.
[ June 29, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
Aloone_Jonez:
insomnia you cheap arse!
When you pay for software you pay for the developmant costs, ie the software engineers time. Because of this you often get a better product in the end.
Some free softare sucks and the proprietary equivalent is good, for example:
Microsoft Equation Editor (came with " :D M$ Works :D " OEM install on my PC) is good. (well they did buy it from Design Science Inc.)
The open source equivalent OpenOffice.org Math sucks horribly.
Equation Editor is compatable with OpenOffice.org too, and it't the only reason why I keep my " :D M$ Works :D " CD.
Also how many good open source games are there?
Perhaps someone should write some.
And there is some open source payware available, ever heard of Red Hat Linux, Linspire, or evan Mac OSX?
Not all developers are geeks like yourself who program just because they have nothing else better to do!
[ June 30, 2004: Message edited by: Aloone ]
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