[ale] My iBook

[James Sumners]

I most certainly agree that things have gotten a lot better since I
switched from Windows to Debian/Slink. However, things still have a
long way to go to fully catch up to the other two big players. I can
stream stuff fairly well on my home machine using the mplayer plugin,
I loathe Xine, but on this machine, my laptop, it just won't work. The
audio and video drivers are the major culprits. I only have one audio
channel to work with and the drivers for the ATi card just plain suck.
Whereas Real streams will play flawlessly on my home machine they
don't play at all, like it is constantly buffering, on my laptop using
the same network connection.

Your network drawer looks like a rather handy solution. The waproamd
package is too flaky so right now I am just associating with networks
by hand. If I get the motivation I think I will set up something like
what you have going; I just never thought of it before :)

For my office needs I use OpenOffice. It works well for what I need:
taking notes and writing essays. I do, however, look forward to trying
out iWork '05.


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:48:29 -0500, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:28 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
>
> Your assessment is pretty valid, just keep thinking of the glass being
> half-full.  Things have gotten a LOT better in the past two years, the
> next year can only improve.  Have you looked at GXine for streaming
> media (i listen to online stations all the time, video feeds too)
>  
> My activities mimic that.  I frequent various wifi networks, customers,
> public, home, work, etc. Some secure (not really), some not.  I created
> a user ifup script in ~/bin that uses sudo to load modules ect.  Then I
> created ~/.network-connections that has 6 or 7 .desktop files in it.  I
> dragged a copy of it to my Desktop panel and it created a drawer like
> this:  http://jimpop.net/stuff/debian-wireless-select.jpg  (let me know
> if you want more info on how to do this)
> 
> While i do have VMWare, I only use it to run other Linux distros.  I use
> Crossover Office to run MS Office, chiefly because it works, it works
> well, and everyone i work with uses it (on CXO or otherwise).

-- 
James Sumners
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