Re: Linux is not for consumers!
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:26:39PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> 1. Connecting ADSL -- edited everything including ppp_on_boot, dsl_provider,
> pap_secrets, all that stuff. No go. Running "pon ppp_on_boot" gives me a bad
> tdb and quits. The only tdb reference is from Openoffice so is irrelevant
> here. (All of the little utilities for adding "connections" assume dialups.
> Windows has a virtual VPN adapter to handle that--says it's dialing but it
> ain't.)
Did you bother to look at the PPPoE howtos out there? Or consider
that maybe PPPoE really is used to screw you out of service you're
paying for and to find an ethical ISP?
> 2. Running Java stuff--Open office works. I installed netbeans (a Java
> programming IDE) but cannot get it to run.
Did you bother googling about this?
> 3. The Adobe Acrobat reader looks gosh-awful. Like Windows 2! I have a
> version 5.08 linux distribution--maybe this will look better?
Which distribution? Did you bother trying to apt-cache search pdf to
find better pdf viewers, like kghostview?
> 4. Oldie-but-goody hardware which I really would like to use:
>
> sw60xg MIDI sound generator--no IRQ, no DMA, just a port address. This card
> should be accessable from MPU401 (done this way under W2K). That driver is
> there but I havent the foggiest on how to get it running and set it up. I
> would then like to control it through a WINE session (lot's of luck!).
Did you bother reading the Sound howto?
> USB -- have a roland MIDI device on this, correctly detected but not shown
> on KINFO. This is of recent vintage and there should be some way of using
> it. I also need some sort of "hot-plug" support for a development project on
> which I am working, also in various windows flavors.
apt-get install hotplug discover
> I would like to go over to Linux for everything except music production
> (since there is no appropriate software yet).
I'd be surprised if this is actually the case. Linux has pretty much
everything else.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' :
`. `'` proud Debian admin and user
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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