| holstein | aaas: ive done some of that with VNC | 02:15 |
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| holstein | ive used VNC to control my studio machine from a netbook in the other room or whatever | 02:16 |
| swamptin | Well well | 14:19 |
| holstein | swamptin: o/ | 14:25 |
| swamptin | how's holstein | 14:27 |
| swamptin | ? | 14:27 |
| holstein | im doing well, and you? | 14:28 |
| swamptin | Same old. Contemplating coming back to Linux when I get my new machine... still putting together a spec for it though | 14:29 |
| holstein | yeah? | 14:30 |
| holstein | what are you on now? | 14:30 |
| swamptin | XP. Using a borrowed machine until I can afford to get a new machine | 14:34 |
| swamptin | It at least allows me get online. Had a Ubuntu laptop for a couple of years before, but it finally crapped out on me | 14:35 |
| swamptin | Now trying to see what I can get for about500 to 600 pounds. | 14:36 |
| holstein | check the system76 site | 14:36 |
| holstein | im sure there is the equivalent in your area :) | 14:37 |
| swamptin | system76? | 14:37 |
| swamptin | Oh cool... this could be helpful | 14:40 |
| holstein | HP sell ubuntu boxes too | 14:41 |
| swamptin | do they? hmmm... I was thinking of just getting a machine without an OS and adding Ubuntu when it got here. | 14:42 |
| swamptin | But at least if these ship with Ubuntu I don't have to worry about driver issues. | 14:43 |
| holstein | lol | 14:44 |
| holstein | you *alway* have to worry about driver issues | 14:44 |
| holstein | unless you want to get something all intel | 14:44 |
| swamptin | Surely if they ship with Ubuntu they'll make sure it works first? | 14:44 |
| holstein | hell, i can make it work | 14:45 |
| holstein | does it have 3D? | 14:45 |
| holstein | whats the driver support like? | 14:45 |
| holstein | can you update? | 14:45 |
| holstein | i know system76 have their own software in there for drivers | 14:45 |
| holstein | not sure about HP | 14:45 |
| holstein | im just saying, dont thing you can buy a preloaded linux box, and all is good | 14:46 |
| swamptin | A fair point, well made. | 14:46 |
| holstein | i bought a suse preloaded HP mininote with VIA hardware (before i realized how bad that could be) | 14:46 |
| holstein | i have the most challenging time with it | 14:46 |
| swamptin | yeah? "fun" is it? | 14:47 |
| holstein | eh... its fine | 14:48 |
| holstein | its a netbook with an express card slot, which is what i wanted anyways | 14:48 |
| holstein | those are not available anymore | 14:48 |
| swamptin | Got a spec together of an i5 machine with and X-Fi sound card in budget. So we'll see how that stacks up on the forums | 14:55 |
| swamptin | Other than that, i *think* it's all good. But I'll research it all, just in case | 14:56 |
| holstein | sure | 15:05 |
| holstein | i use a dual core box with 8gb's of ram | 15:05 |
| holstein | i got that machine and a laptop for recovering data on 4 hard drives, so i didnt mind spending some money bumping up the ram | 15:06 |
| holstein | it depends on what you are planning on doing, but i can really do quite a bit of audio work on a decent P4 with a gig of ram or so | 15:06 |
| holstein | i only say that because i see that a lot... 'when i save up a ton of money, im goin to buy the perfect audio machine and make music' | 15:07 |
| holstein | when in fact, whatever machine you are on now is probably perfectly capable of doing a lot of audio work | 15:07 |
| swamptin | holstein: yeah, my last machine was perfectly fine. I'd do work on this but it isn't mine, and it's only gor 256mb ram... which is far from ideal | 23:25 |
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