What OS are you running?

I am running--amongst the computers in my house--Windows Server 2003, Gentoo Linux, Slackware Linux, and Windows 3.11.
Slackware and Windows 3.11 are on a machine that I don't really use anymore; it sits in my closet.
Server 2003 is on my "main" PC, and Gentoo is on my server-thing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by quazi

XP SP2

It's orking fine, but it's giving me a hell of a time setting my DVD-RW to Ultra DMA mode instead of its PIO setting.

I had this problem on another machine recently; it would randomly switch back to PIO after time. The resolution, in this case, was to get the proper driver for the computer's IDE controller. (I doubt you have that issue, though.)

You might want to try uninstalling the device to see if Windows fixes that issue if you haven't done so already.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Gilmour

XP Pro SP2

I dont really understand peoples problems with Windows XP, as long as you treat it with due care and attention and not let it get riddled with spyware and virus's then it performs quite well with a yearly reformat

There are many people, however, that cannot afford a yearly format. Even so, a yearly format shouldn't be so necessary to keep an OS working the way it should.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

DOSBox has similar results to running DOS games under VMWare. Though if you could find me a link to running Wine under Damn Small Linux, I'd be glad to give that a try. Foobar2000 under the rock solid Linux sounds very appealing, though I still don't trust running EAC under Wine yet (call me pessimistic), I don't know how Linux handles CD-ROM commands.

While I will not attest that DOSBox is perfect, it is in 98% of the cases I hear about. What super-obscure games do you want to play that fail to run well in DOSBox? (I've never had trouble, and that's with something like 150 games.)

Also, what on earth does, "I don't know how Linux handles CD-ROM commands" mean? Could you elaborate a bit? As far as I've been able to tell over the years I've used Linux (or Unix, for that matter), it handles CD-ROM commands much like any other OS, unless I've been missing something. (Sure, the underlying code is different, but the same effects occur.)

How ya doing, buddy?

ASPI !== ultimate ripping security.

Things can be ripped 'excellently' with things like grip on Linux. As a matter of fact, you don't even need ASPI on Windows: an ASPI layer only provides a standard method of communication between the SCSI/ATAPI host adapter and the devices on it, which may or may not result in more desirable performance.

Also, what version of DOSBox have you tried D3D on? It works fine with 0.63 (for me, anyway).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by T1249NTSCJ

I do remember hearing about that sometime in the past, this is what google turned up though. Pretty Cool.

http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/dreamcast/

I wonder if twm is the only window manager that will run on that distro. If so, that's a tad bit depressing. Though, I suppose, it's not meant to look nice; it's a proof of concept.

I ought to try it out with a friend's Dreamcast...

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

Hmm, this is what I like about the Dreamcast, it's so much more hackable than any other console system. Too bad I lack the DC cable modem, the I could try GFF on a Dreamcast...

Of course, Xbox Linux and Gamecube Linux and PS2 Linux exist, too.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Kairyu

More or less, here a list of things that windows xp pro has over windows xp home:

- SMP support (multi-processor support)
- Roaming user profiles
- Remote desktop
- Access control
- Encrypting file system
- Offline files and folders
- Remote installation service
- Windows server domain support
- Group policy
- Software installation and maintenance
- Multi-lingual user interface support

Wait a minute...
Theoretically, in virtue of the fact that Home can use NTFS, shouldn't it have an "encrypting file system"?

Also, as a note, group policy in XP affects all users: don't expect to restrict specific users from things with it. (Granted, the policy editor in XP can be very useful for modification purposes alone.)

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Myst'

I use Windows XP for gaming and chatting with my people and offline I use ubuntu because its just cool when I get all those "WTF Looks" when I start ubuntu

Those same looks, when compiling something in Gentoo, get magnified ten times. "Did you write all that?!?!?!?"
"Uhh... no."

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by OnlyJedi

Or I should say that all the problems I have had are from me experimenting with cutting edge pre-alpha software (can anyone say xgl + compiz?)

A lot of people I know have various issues with Compiz, for example, so I think that's fine.
Granted, it took ages for rtorrent to compile for me...

There's nowhere I can't reach.