Re: OT: Unless F1 teams use Radeon cards under Ubuntu

Frank Adam wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2009 14:26:10 +0100, Alister <Someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Frank Adam wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009 01:18:44 +0000 (UTC), David <doodah@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thu, 28 May 2009 14:45:23 +1100, CatharticF1 wrote:

David <doodah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:gvircp$tb1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Guys, I need some nixnerd help.

For the life of me (and many other users it seems) I cannot get my
Radeon 9600 Pro to work AT ALL under Ubuntu (8.10 nor 9.04).

Tried the x-org drivers

Tried the official ATI Catalyst drivers and control panel.

Fukt.

Help?

Cheers,
Dave
Now saying, "*** shitty onboard graphics"
"*** Bill even harder"
This is the problem when you swim against the mainstream. If you use an
OS like Ubuntu, and even just a Mac the flipside to the wonder and glory
of all that you admire is that you will have to work harder to make it
work and do without things because the biggest market is always most
likely to have the widest choice.

I last tried it with OS/2. And sure, wasn't it neat watching it run
Windows. But worth the effort, no - not at all imo.
Nah. I'm going great guns with Ubuntu. And for me, it's all worth the effort. There was absolutely nothing I ran under Windows that I haven't been able to replace (FREE!!) under nix.

Does OO run xls files properly yet ? Doubt it.

Give it a go people! Kill Bill!

Have and am, Bill is fine.. Then again, i have XP for my mainstream use with the damn good and
just as free .Net framework and MySql. Best of those three worlds,
AFAIC.

never had a problem with an XLS file yet.

VBA macros ?
The reason i've mentioned it is because a lot of large companies use
excel sheets with VBA to shuffle data around. It is their simple way
of allowing the average office worker to update data, while the macros
take care of stuff which those workers can't or shouldn't do.
Incidentally, i didn't have MS office installed on my main machine
either, but since nowdays i need to help out and write a fair dose of
VBA code for my wife's workplace, i had to install it and yes, i still
have OO installed as well, but only use it for PPS files now. There are of course portable ways around Excel, but to do that, my
wife's company, for instance, would have to restructure/convert
thousands of documents, retrain hundreds of workers to use the new
stuff and neither Bill nor the open source crowd will pay for that..
so it won't happen in a hurry. OO guys shoudl try and get VBA working,
that would give them a good boost. Dunno why they don't, perhaps there
may be copyright issues with MS holding just about everything with VB
in it, despite abandoning it in it's classic form.
this sounds like the company are using the wrong application for the task (Spread *** instead of database).
it is a common practice because people don't seem to be able to design database systems to be easy & I cant see the situation changing any time soon, although this is exactly why an open standard for file formats is req!

OO copes with al the sheets I have with Macros, but I am sure there are some that don't

What happens when Microsoft Update or patch Office? either newer versions wont work with the old files or the old one one work with new docs
How many times do these macros need modifying or re-writing to cope?

I don't even have Microsoft office on my Windoze PC ( I have 1 specialist application for administering external equipment that is only available on doze :-( ).

Horses for courses of course. :)

I've picked up Ubuntu because i've built a 4th PC and wasn't prepared
to pay for another copy of XP. Let alone Vista, which i detest.
However, there is little i can see, other than the price that would
make me into a Linux junkie..
You may find that as you use it more your thought patterns may shift as you get used to Linux's more security focused approach.

When I first started I found having to switch to root to perform admin a right PITA, now I cringe every time i see Doze let me make (potentially) system killing changes without a 2nd thought.

Personally I do not like the way all Doze configuration info is stored in 1 Binary file (the registry), on a number of occasions I have had this corrupted so bad that the only way to recover is with a full reload.
I have recovered my Linux box ( & Yes it was my tweaking that broke it) by booting form a live CD & correcting or replacing 1 or 2 text config files
.