Really need some info here...Help me out???

[pofnlice]

I built a system about 2 years ago i think...it's been a while...it has;
AMD Athlon K6XP (1.6ghz)
Radeon 7200 LE
Predator 5.1 Maddog Sound Card
1 gig RAM
40 gb WD someshitoranother hdd
100 gb cantfugginrememberdistributor hdd
creative 56x cdrom
phillips 1200ex cd+rw
netsys fasethernet 10/100 card

I wanna make the change to an alternative O/S but need more info...

My uses you ask?
3DStudio max
Office Shtuck (Word processors, spread sheets bla bla bla...
altering downloaded porn videos  
delrina form flow and jet form have frequented my system
photoshop
The list could go on for hours...errr lines...
I'm in the military and use my puter for work and escape.  Yes I game and have a console allready, but it's not the same.
any suggestions are welcome, I am currently looking at a Linux version at the Post Exchange which is selling for $35.00 and comes with all the office and photo editting stuff inherent.  Input from experienced users would be appreciated...I gues it's mostly being anxious of a new thing, but I hate my 90 day format excursions due to windows corruption.

[pofnlice]

OK Ima moron, let me post this where it is applicable.

[slvadcjelli42]

Why does "Topic Starter" say "AmericanBastard" but the only posts here are by "Joey"?

EDIT: WTF? I swear, it said Joey!! What am I, going nuts here? did you change your name or something?

[ September 28, 2003: Message edited by: Dirk Gently ]

[Calum]

moving to lounge...

[avello500]

dirk gently..... your name just makes me laugh.
no offense intended.

[ October 01, 2003: Message edited by: avello500 ]

[Faust]

>AMD Athlon K6XP (1.6ghz)
fine

>Radeon 7200 LE
might want to look into it, ati doesnt have a good reputation for linux drivers

>Predator 5.1 Maddog Sound Card
nfi.  if its a creative chipset it will be fine, but I've never heard of that card before.

>1 gig RAM
fine

>40 gb WD someshitoranother hdd
fine

>100 gb cantfugginrememberdistributor hdd
fine

>creative 56x cdrom
fine

>phillips 1200ex cd+rw
should work, especially if its popular

>netsys fasethernet 10/100 card
should work, especially if its popular

>3DStudio max
multimedia right?  try looking into blender, if thats entirely wrong then dual booting may be an idea

>Office Shtuck
open office is great

>altering downloaded porn videos
ah...  no idea

>delrina form flow and jet form have frequented my system
if i knew what that was i would tell you

>photoshop
try looking at the gimp if thats for non paid work

>I'm in the military and use my puter for work and escape. Yes I game and have a console allready, but it's not the same.
wine runs a lot of windows games but is hard to coinfigure at first.  most "linux native" popular games tend to be first person shooters.

[xyle_one]

Use blender for 3d. And filmgimp has been getting alot of good reviews. Some say it is as good as adobe premiere (which, by the way, isn't that good).

[Faust]

It would be cool if they released whatever was used for lotr and shrek...  

[xyle_one]

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
It would be cool if they released whatever was used for lotr and shrek...  

I beleive they used Maya. On Linux farms.  

Wish i could get a copy of maya for linux. That would kick some serious ass. But, they probably used something else.

[Faust]

Yeah I know they used a massive amount of Linux boxes for the movies - something like hundreds of terabytes of hard drive space in a massive wall for LOTR.  (Drool  :-D)  You would think that if they ported Maya to Linux that Maya would just get released on Linux - it could make them a lot of money, and if it's already ported by a movie studio theres no cost involved.

[pofnlice]

Yes, they did use maya, however on linux frames i'm not sure, I would have to do some research on that.  Maya is a very advanced prog...ie...I can't figure it out.  I get field test copies for the 3dmax series and that fugger is a bitch to learn.  But if 3d modelling is something you're interested in.  Do not ask people how to...rather get the books and tutorials and walk yourself through the projects slowly and steadily.  You'll learn a lot more that way and actually a lot faster.  When you finish all of the tutorials and Ecyclopedia sized stacks of books worth of instruction manual, you will be ready to do shit on your own.  Say you wanted to make your own porn vid with lara croft...not easy but deffinately doable...especially since there's loads of web sites to download her framesets, skins, ik and movement segs from...
Any of the threedee modellers are good.  It's really a question of how profficient you get with it.

[pofnlice]

btw...you're not crazy....my acct was american bastard, my visible name was joey, I changed it to match both my home and work accts...sorry for the confusion...

Form Flow is a prog that basically databases prefilled forms.  All you have to do is fill in the cells... Let's say you office uses a form for application for employment...as they all do.

You being the shift manager go to the infamous "Blank Forms File" to discover some incompetant moron has used the last copy and not many any copies...So you go to the even more synonomous "Original Forms File"...no luck, it was probably the same moron used that too.

Form Flow and Jetform end those probs...you just open it and go into the database to pull up a blank form and reproduce it yourself.  

It was originally designed for a paper free office.  But since we're humans and killing trees is something the executive types love to do, it pretty much has become the "Blank Forms File."  Still a usefull tool though especially for all of the Mountains of paperwork we generate in the Armed Forces...u don't wanna be the guy who has to do the shredding, it takes some hours out of your day...Speaking of which I gotta go do some, some files marked "Area 51"  are in the shred box  

[Faust]

quote:however on linux frames i'm not sure

Yup, Linux boxes.  HP has been advertising the hell out of Shrek being done on Linux and a lot of computer magazines have been touting the "wall" used in LOTR.  Some massive solid wall of 1000+ computers all running Linux and all clustered together to get up the amount of processing power needed for the rendering.  With a project that scale they could have written their own 3D program I guess.  :-D

 

quote:Form Flow is a prog that basically databases prefilled forms. All you have to do is fill in the cells... Let's say you office uses a form for application for employment...as they all do.

Um database management stuff *should* be good, there are a lot of database packages and I assume  some management software for them.  Hey you could always splash out on Oracle.  ;-P  Or do you want more of a spreadsheet package like excel?  Open office could do that.  I kind of know what you mean though, my teachers used something like that for grading us.  :-(

 

quote:

It was originally designed for a paper free office. But since we're humans and killing trees is something the executive types love to do, it pretty much has become the "Blank Forms File." Still a usefull tool though especially for all of the Mountains of paperwork we generate in the Armed Forces...u don't wanna be the guy who has to do the shredding, it takes some hours out of your day...Speaking of which I gotta go do some, some files marked "Area 51" are in the shred box

Make sure you cross shred btw, you can get a lot of info out of single pass shredded documents.  Maybe burn the real sensitive stuff.  Oh and the *REAL* important stuff goes up on that ufo you caught right?  Don't lie to me buddy, I *know.*

[pofnlice]

...

I don't recall at this particular time...

Of course a cross shredder...followed up by a burn barrell.

It was a frisby, really!

[xyle_one]

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