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 Which Operating System do you use?, Polling for SR software in the making... |
 Nov 4 2003, 10:06 AM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 20-October 03 Member No.: 5,741  |
To be useful to me, an in-game tool needs to run on my palmtop. I happen to have a Sharp Zaurus, it runs Linux. Most people own either a Palm or a WinCE device.
Java (in some form or another) will run on all of these, and will run on any desktop. I'm actually in the early planning stages of an SR tool in Java, so if you want to collaborate at all let me know. |
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Nov 4 2003, 10:49 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 17-June 02 From: Concord University, Athens, WV Member No.: 2,880 |
People always bash ME, but after spending about 15 minutes messing with the settings, I worked out the worst of it's problems (primarily a horribly slow startup). The thing crashed once a week at most, and that was usually due to some resource-heavy program (Kazaa, for example) running more than a few hours. It would run almost any program you could find (including some old things I had from back when I used 3.x), and I have yet to see a virus that actually affects the thing. On the other hand, XP has screwed up just about every time I turn on the machine, almost every virus out there will damage it, and I've had compatability problems constantly. Even with something as simple as playing midis in Winamp. The only times Winamp crashed in ME was when I accidentally opened all my playlists at once, and it tried to read the resulting 20,000 song list all at once (the length is due to my midi collection - I downloaded zip files containing the entire collections from three midi sites). But with XP, I've gotten used to saving the playlist I'm making every 10 songs because it crashes so often. And finally, if I was given the opportunity to remove any one feature from XP, it would have to be the error report boxes. No, I don't want to send an error report to Microsoft. I didn't want to send one the last 10 times this program crashed today, either. I hate those things. |
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Nov 4 2003, 12:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 639 Joined: 22-April 02 Member No.: 2,638 |
My Computer> Properties> Advanced> Error Reporting> Disable Error Reporting |
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Nov 4 2003, 01:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 392 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Hamburg, Germany Member No.: 1,270 |
Wow, what were you doing to your WindowsXP? This thing has been running rock stable ever since I got it! The only bad thing is that it doesn't run all of the legacy applications like some older games but appart from that it's the best OS ever to come out of Redmont, as far as I'm concerned.
And why should all the Win32 Viruses not affect WinME? Of course, I don't use XP all that much lately since I switched to Linux... I was getting sick of all this commercialized closed-source crap. Why spend hundreds of dollars on applications that don't work half of the time when I can have hundreds of applications for free that work totaly reliably (once you got them installed, that is...)? Perhaps I should post a second poll to make it clear that I want all the Windows versions in one category and to include PalmOS in the selection... |
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Nov 4 2003, 05:08 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 2-June 03 Member No.: 4,668 |
I use linux on the machine I have sitting with Me when we game. I would love to have more linux or even more web tools available. I have an internal webserver, so something thats accessable via HTTP or PHP would be awesome :)
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Nov 4 2003, 05:34 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,632 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Portland Oregon, USA Member No.: 1,304 |
XP all the way, but I'm looking at getting a Linux palmtop. I'll probably give up my dreams of coolness and get a Windows based one, but some good SR software that ran on Linux might change my mind.
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