Speed Up Your Computer (Easy steps of end of the month maintenance)

NETcessities ^ | March 31, 2005 | NETcessities

[melbell]

"You mean like this...? :-) "

yup! that'd be the one! :)

Well, mine's a little bit lighter gray, but yeah, same thing! :)

[hiredhand]

yup! that'd be the one! :)

Well, mine's a little bit lighter gray, but yeah, same thing! :)

Very good! I like it a LOT....need to upgrade from KDE 3.1.4 to something a little newer...but I'm otherwise VERY happy with FreeBSD/KDE. :-)

[Zavien Doombringer]

Which operating system, and how much RAM and disk space do you have?
How old is the machine and which version of Office are you running?

- Freepmail me

[diamond6]

bttt

[melbell]

I fought KDE for a while because it's too much like windows. And I was so mad at Windows when I switched to linux that I didn't want anything that even reminded me of it. I was using Enlightenment for a long time but then I decided I wanted the convenience of desktop icons and I could never get Gnome to work...so I went KDE.

[Sloth]

Myself, I'm still trying to figure out why this foot switch is so hard to use. Makes moving the little pointer thingy really hard to move around the screen.

It's a lot easier if you take your shoes off.

[hiredhand]

As I remember (and pls don't quote me on this :-), RedHat made installing KDE difficult somewhere around 7.2 or so. They supported Gnome. A LOT of people jumped off the RedHat bandwagon and went with other distros because of this. Then there were fewer people like me who went with the "BSDs"....FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I'd been using OpenBSD for firewalls anyway, and FreeBSD for servers, so I decided one weekend (back around FreeBSD 4.3 or so) to try to build a desktop (user) system out of it. It was REMARKABLY easy! "X" was a pain to set up. But I found that the Linux binary compatibility support let me run "amost" ALL Linux programs!....inside of FreeBSD! I can even install packages via RPM if I want to. :-)

This in conjunction with OpenOffice...which lets me open ALL MS documents...and I have NO reason to ever be a Microsoft user again. They simply don't have the only and best way to do things anymore. People just haven't figured it out yet. But they will. :-)

The ONLY major gripe I have with FreeBSD is in the way it handles sound devices. Now and then, I enjoyed playing Enemy Territory. Because of the FreeBSD sound device problem, I couldn't use a TeamSpeak client, and get sound from the Enemy Territory client simultaneously. It was annoying....but since I had an unused on-board sound card, I ended up using the SB card for ET, and the on board for TeamSpeak! When I searched for a solution, and found that I wasn't the only one having this problem, the "general" answer was that we "...shouldn't be using FreeBSD as a user operating system!"... :-)

[melbell]

Mr. Melbell plays ET also. The only thing I use Windows for anymore at home is for games. But right now I'm playing World of Warcraft, which runs just fine with Cedega! ;)

[hiredhand]

Mr. Melbell plays ET also. The only thing I use Windows for anymore at home is for games. But right now I'm playing World of Warcraft, which runs just fine with Cedega! ;)

Shucks! I upgraded XFree86 a couple of months ago, and BROKE support for ET somehow....not sure how. Maybe one of these weekends I'll put some time into it. I'll have to look into Cedega, I haven't heard of it yet....is it a Linux distro?

[melbell]

Cedega is the paid version of Wine. You have to pay for it because they use actual windows DLLs to better support Windows applications. But it's like $15 for a 3 month access to the software and upgrades. We usually just let it lapse and pay the $15 anytime we need an upgrade. It's really not a bad deal...it's worth $15 to me to be able to play World of Warcraft in Linux.

[hiredhand]

Cedega is the paid version of Wine. You have to pay for it because they use actual windows DLLs to better support Windows applications. But it's like $15 for a 3 month access to the software and upgrades. We usually just let it lapse and pay the $15 anytime we need an upgrade. It's really not a bad deal...it's worth $15 to me to be able to play World of Warcraft in Linux.

OH! Thanks for telling me about it! I've had to use Wine before....and setting it up was brutal :-).

[jdm]

One (simple) way to speed up your PC is to download and run Crap Cleaner. Also, a good registry software like Registry First Aid never hurts either.

[ChefKeith]

Will do, I'll be back after I get out of work tonight.