| === TheMaster is now known as Unit193 | ||
| canthus13 | you'd think that uninstalling a DHCP client would stop the daemon... | 06:20 |
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| === taggerdoodles is now known as paultag | ||
| thafreak | Ok, unity sucks with less than 4Gb of ram aparently... | 14:46 |
| thafreak | I tried...I really did | 14:46 |
| thafreak | going to stick with xfce I think | 14:46 |
| thafreak | Also, it seems the opensource nvidia driver kinda sucks...crashes alot | 14:47 |
| canthus13 | s/with less than 4Gb of ram apparently// | 14:52 |
| snap-l | I dunno, I like Unity | 14:55 |
| snap-l | but it definitely requires bettern than your cheapo Intel card. | 14:55 |
| thafreak | i'm using a decent machine I had been using just to stream video to the tv | 14:56 |
| thafreak | but it's a dualcore athlon 2 3ghz | 14:57 |
| thafreak | only has 2gb of ram currently | 14:57 |
| snap-l | You definitely need more than 2GB for a modern browser. :) | 14:57 |
| thafreak | xfce so far runs great though...but I haven't launched chrome with my billion tabs open yet | 14:57 |
| thafreak | and so starts the swapping | 14:59 |
| thafreak | canthus13: so re: gfx cards...for playing mostly older games you think intel card would be best? | 15:06 |
| thafreak | They get decent opengl performance? | 15:06 |
| thafreak | I may also try wine+steam | 15:07 |
| canthus13 | Not for games, no. :P | 15:11 |
| thafreak | haha | 15:11 |
| canthus13 | Well, most of the indy games work with my 4500HD. | 15:11 |
| thafreak | so I guess it's between AMD and Nvidia | 15:12 |
| canthus13 | but wine/steam is a definite no. | 15:12 |
| thafreak | I know I should like AMD...because Nvidia hasn't played nice with the OSS folks... | 15:12 |
| canthus13 | Meh.. screw the OSS whiners. | 15:13 |
| canthus13 | I've had excellent luck with nvidia cards. | 15:13 |
| dzho | -.- | 15:13 |
| dzho | ITYM screw we free software whiners | 15:13 |
| dzho | OSS folk are about compromise and quality, less about ethics and freedom and the long view | 15:14 |
| canthus13 | They've always worked for me. I really couldn't care less if the driver source is closed. nvidia maintains the drivers themselves. :/ | 15:14 |
| dzho | yeah, I found them to be a PITA | 15:14 |
| canthus13 | dzho: ok. that works. :) | 15:14 |
| dzho | I maintained a lab full of stuff with nvidia cards back in the day and never much relished the idea that I had to go and rebuild the nvidia modules every time the distro upgraded the kernel | 15:15 |
| canthus13 | dzho: I always used envy. | 15:15 |
| canthus13 | dunno how well that would work on a large scale, though. but most modern distros will install the non-free drivers if you want them. | 15:16 |
| dzho | none of that existed then | 15:16 |
| dzho | I'm not above installing the nvidia drivers on a onesy-twosy basis even now | 15:17 |
| canthus13 | and it's a far cry from back in the day when the only way I got my Sound Blaster AWE64 working was by compiling driver code found on a newsgroup, that was posted by a sympathetic Creative engineer. | 15:17 |
| dzho | but I'm always going to cast a hairy eyeball on it all, because companies tend to do things like abandon product lines | 15:17 |
| dzho | like, I'm sure you can't get drivers from nvidia for those cards, now. | 15:18 |
| * dzho wonders what ever became of those machines | 15:18 | |
| dzho | left that job before we retired the hardware, iirc | 15:19 |
| canthus13 | dzho: Nah. you can still get drivers for Nvidia TNT cards. | 15:22 |
| thafreak | i can get like a 1Gb radeon or nvidia for about $40 at microcenter...geez... | 15:22 |
| canthus13 | thafreak: only 1Gb? Weak. :P | 15:24 |
| thafreak | I think I could keep all of counter strike in video ram with that ;) | 15:26 |
| thafreak | This is probably a silly question...but would a pcie 2.0 card work in a 1.0 slot? | 15:26 |
| thafreak | I don't think my 16x slot is 2.0 compliant | 15:26 |
| dzho | canthus13: ah, it must have been this I was thinking of http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/26/2240250/nvidia-drops-support-for-its-open-source-driver | 15:29 |
| Cheri703 | :D http://www.behance.net/gallery/Water-Wigs/4889175 | 20:55 |
| canthus13 | Uhh... | 21:36 |
| Cheri703 | :D :D | 22:56 |
| canthus13 | weirdo. :P | 23:01 |
| Cheri703 | psh, you are just jealous of my awesomeness | 23:47 |
| Cheri703 | also, I REALLY WISH quassel would get channel notifications >_< | 23:47 |
| === yano is now known as jfriedly_ | ||
| * canthus13 hugs his irssi. less complicated. :) | 23:53 | |
| Unit193 | Plus it's pure awesome. | 23:54 |
| canthus13 | ++ | 23:54 |
| === jfriedly_ is now known as yano | ||
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