Survey posted 2003-06-15 17:46 by Henrik.

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Whoa, they changed the poll as I was reading it!

Well, I don't use Linux (as most of you know), but I do use my calculator linking software quite often. I use Win98 and TI-Graph Link. I like it more than TI-Connect.

I use both USB and black serial. I use TI connect to send files to my VTI via the gray and black cables. It sounds weird, but it is easier than setting the VTI to recieve for every file.

-W-

You can use the cable to send VTI files from TI-Connect?

Isn't it easier just to hit F11 (Send file to VTI)?

You should know as well as I do, that if you want to sent a file to the VTI-89 you have to set it to recievebefore every file, the thing cannot hadnel more than one at a time. That is unless you send to it from your calc, or even TI Connect.

-W-

It uses silent-link, so you don't have to set up anything... plus, you can select multiple items in VTI, hold Ctrl while you click on another file to do a multiple select. I just tried it on mine- it worked.

My dad doesn't trust that penguin. He says it has evil eyes. So I'm not allowed to either.

LOL!!!! Tux is evil! That's great :)

heh.. the BSD mascot looks a tad bit more evil than Tux.. openly anyway ;)

He is if you're a herring. It all depends on your perspective.

I play Quake3 Arena with a Tux bot (OK, all the bots are Tuxes) and with him on the lowest skill level, so I can kick some penguin backside! (He's only half the height of a normal bot though)

That's great too!!!! LOL LOL!!!!!

For Linux bashers (like myself), download the model from here: (remove spaces!)

http://www.planetquake3.net
/download.php?
op=viewdownload
details&lid=678&ttitle=Tux

Linux users- can you run Q3 on Linux yet? If you can, you might be interested in it too - you can cheat due to him being so short!

Yea, Quake 3 Arena has been available for Linux for a few years now (I know they had it in september 2000)

Whats Linux??
No seriously, I've heard of it, but don't know how it's different

Windows 95 all the WAY!!!

Linux is the second best OS out there, second only to Lindows. It is very stable, and looks kinda like windows.

Lindows is Linux. When will you get that through your head?

Linux is just a kernel like Mach.

GNU/Linux such as Mandrake, Debian, RedHat are OSes.
Windows is an OS based on an NT kernel.

There is difference between kernel and OS. Kernel is just the core.

Choice of OS depends totally on the one's needs, do don't start a flame war, please :p

If you like Windows 95, then you might also like Windows 98. It's more advanced, it runs more software, it crashes less often (for me, anyway), and it's extremely similar to Win95. It's the "much better" version of Win95, in my opinion. I've used both quite a bit, and I think that Win98 is much better, but the GUI is very similar, so I think you'd like it.

And Linux is an open source OS that's made by Windows-haters (they will assassinate you if you'e not careful j/k). I don't use it, so I can't make a fair comparison, but I do know that there is MUCH more compatible software for Windows than there is for Linux. On the other hand, there's a heck of a lot more viruses for Windows then Linux, but then again, get Norton Antivirus 2002 (or 2003- did it come out yet?), and you're fine.

The other option (if your computer can handle it) is to go all the way to buying yourself Windows XP. The downside is that it exceeds the capabilities of Windows 95 so well that it may be hard for you to adapt to the newer features, <secretive voice> especially the back doors for hacking </secretive voice>

Don't use 98. It crashes every other button press and it has huge memory leakage. Just install Active Desktop onto Win95, and you've got a reliable, fast, Win98 box! We've upgraded from 98 to XP, and the machines here run 2-3x as fast.

That's the funny thing... a lot of people complain about how unstable Win98 is and all, but ours is nothing like what other people say. It's very strange. I wonder why everybody else's 98 crashes and ours doesn't. Perhaps they made lots of different versions of Windows 98 and we got a stable one...

You might have 89 SE. That is what I had, it it hardly ever crashed. It only crashed when it was on for more than 8 hours, and there were no more system resources left.

-W-

That's the other thing, we leave ours on all day (from the morning until night) and I've never noticed a decrease in the performance.
The only odd thing that happens every now and then is when the icons screw up. They all get switched. This happens once every week, usually. It's different every time. It's confusing because you can see a text file and the icon could be the My Computer icon. It's really weird. But if you restart the computer, it's okay. That's the only problem that I have with our OS... otherwise, it's fine. Did you ever get that icon switch screw-up?

It seems as though the OS is overloading its stacks and heaps, causing pointers to values in the stacks to extend beyond stack memory and into the next block, which may contain something to do with icon organization. It's pretty dangerous, allowing the machine to overlap its memory. This is why I use WinXP.

Whoa, seriously? I never thought about it from a more technical view, like that. Nothing odd has happened when the icons are like that, no memory loss or glitches or anything. I still restart the computer whenever it happens, mostly because it's annoying. Now I have another reason :)

It's a little bug in Active Desktop - it never appeared for me unless I ran a full-screen DOS game. WHat you need is a util called TweakUI, 'cos that has a 'repair icons' feature. The icons are held in a cache, and some things can screw that up.

Alright, I'll have to check that out sometime :)

Now that you mention it, I have noticed it sometimes after playing with QBASIC for long periods of time.

There are a few important differences:
1. Linux is free (think speech, not beer.) This is good in that you can get the source to it, modify it however you like, redistribute it, etc. etc. It's also bad in that it doesn't have the support of huge American corporations, and therefore lacks the sheer power of the massive numbers of programmers that Microsoft employs.
2. Linux is based on (in fact could be called an implementation of) the Unix environment, which is by its nature more stable, more flexible, more secure, and vastly more complicated than DOS. This is generally a good thing, though it can take a while for MS users to get used to.
3. While Microsoft * is, for the most part, designed as one-size-fits-all, you will find that you can (if you dare) adapt your "Linux" system to meet your needs. If you've only used Windows, you really have no idea what I'm talking about.
4. You must decide for yourself whether you want to trust a large, evil software company. They've done enough already that ought to worry you.
5. On the other hand, can you really expect that a loosely knit group of hackers from all corners of the world, for the most part only working on their projects in their spare time and receiving no compensation, will produce a reliable and secure operating system?

Think about it.

No flames, please. I can't convince you and you can't convince me. Enough said.

At last a person who answered the question.
Another sort of quick and easy answer is look for / download a Knoppix CD www.knoppix.org

It will not show you the full capabilities of Linux, it probably won't encourage you to use it, but it will let you see what all this talk is about.
Just shove CD in drive and boot off CD. If it goes wrong and you don't know how to kill it hit 'ctrl-alt-BACKSPACE' this will safely kill it for you.

If you do try it please remember that it is only a small part of what you can get. So don't base rash decisions on it.