Just Upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10...Won't even boot....

JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2010-01-26, Hadron wrote:


JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2010-01-26, chrisv wrote:


Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

JEDIDIAH pulled this Usenet boner:

So then, what's the minimum cost of a card and an extra monitor?
What do I personally need to spend in order to dabble in this nonsense?
What's the minimum buy in?

Probably about $100. More realistically, around $150.

And a fair amount of desktop real estate, assuming a pair of 22"
widescreen monitors (the "sweet spot" monitor, IMO).

There is also the physical upgrade of the PC itself to consider without
even getting into any software issues. That will of course constrain what
card you can get. This is why PCI cards are still plentiful.

Except of course they are not.

You need to get out more.

I do Jed. I know. And as a poor SW type who constantly gets calls from
friends and colleagues about their Windows systems I know what HW they
are using. And PCI video is nowhere to be seen anymore give or take. On
modern developers/desktops that is.



You've been soundly drubbed once more.

You really should ask your Mom to let you out of the basement. Times
have changed. PCI cards are a rarity these days for developers/home
users and dual head is VERY, VERY common.

You keep on saying that but you don't really back it up with anything.

Other than the fact that PCI cards are almost nonexistent now? BTW, you
DO know PCI cards came with dual head too dont you?

I bet you that if you walk into a Sw development firm then not one in a
100 of the frontline developers will be using a machine with a PCI video
card.

As I said. You're a clueless on this subject. You really must learn not
to talk about things you are clearly unable, or unwilling, to
understand.

But since you frustrate me so much with your nonsense, I'll do the
legwork that you are incapable of doing:

,----
| http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/AGP.htm
|
| PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) video cards are still available
| new, but this will soon be redundant technology.
`----

,----
| http://www.playtool.com/pages/vidslots/slots.html
|
| The worst choice for a video card is a PCI slot
`----

,----
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periphe...t_Interconnect
`----

Jed, you're almost nice in your clueless kind of way. From HW to Gaming
to .... just don't comment until you learn something about it. You might
be the oracle in your cellar, but out here in the real world things have
moved on since you started to grow your beard ....

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]
JEDIDIAH pulled this Usenet boner:

On 2010-01-26, Hadron wrote:

You've been soundly drubbed once more.

Another gratuitous insult from the IQT.

You really should ask your Mom to let you out of the basement. Times
have changed. PCI cards are a rarity these days for developers/home
users and dual head is VERY, VERY common.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...e=Motherboards

You keep on saying that but you don't really back it up with anything.

You can find mobos w/out PCI slots, but "Hadron" is crazy if he thinks
they are a rarity. You can even get them at Office Depot.

Dual head is common in the office and with geeks. Not with the average
consumer.

--
The notes blatted skyward as they rose over the Canada geese, feathered
rumps mooning the day, webbed appendages frantically pedaling unseen
bicycles in their search for sustenance, driven by cruel Nature's maxim,
'Ya wanna eat, ya gotta work,' and at last I knew Pittsburgh.
-- Winning sentence, 1987 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.