Of Boyfriend and linux
Tuesday 05 February 2008 at 1:47 pm.Used tags: civfanatics, eggdrop, linux, teamspeak, ubuntu
At long last my boyfriend finally upgraded his computer. He started off with a 1.3 GHz cpu and a motherboard so old it didn't even have an AGP slot. Now the machine is screaming with a new motherboard sporting a Pentium D 1.8 GHZ cpu (so two of them), two gigs of ram, and an nVidia 8600 GT. Using his old hardware I upgraded the fileserver I run (which also supplies an eggdrop bot for the CivFanatics chat room). What knocked my socks off is that my boyfriend, Mr Vanilla himself, wanted to try something different.
*fans his readers* You awake yet? I passed out from the shock too when he asked me to install Ubuntu linux. So far it seems he likes it, mostly because World of Warcraft mostly works right out of the box. Running that with Teamspeak is a problem under linux. Teamspeak uses the antiquated OSS sound server which limits the number of programs that can use the sound device to one. We installed the alsa-oss wrapper, but it seems the buffer size for the wrapper is too small and it causes distortions in the audio.
Understandably Boyfriend wishes to install Windows XP as well. We did that and now I need to reinstall the GRUB bootloader. I'm going to symbolically link to his WoW installation ont he XP partition, that way he can play it in either operating system. The only major issue is that the main Windows partition is mapped to F:. A simple remap isn't possible due to the bazillion registry settings. That is one thing I love about the linux filesystems: no drive letters. That means if I want to put the programs onto another drive or partition, I can do so no problem.
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No worries about my little F: problem. :) In fact, I almost kind of like it. It is fitting after all. What with my use of frak, effing, and Foote, all of which have long been associated with my computer.
You know how you wanted to make a virtual drive for the server? that could be the C:!
Derek (Email) (URL) - 05-02-’08 15:03