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| From | Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux.ubuntu, comp.sys.laptops |
| Subject | Re: scan apps fail to detect scanner device with headset plugged in - please help |
| Followup-To | alt.os.linux.ubuntu |
| Date | 2012-02-07 01:38 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Strider |
| Message-ID | <jgprpv$i85$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <jg9mms$e9m$1@dont-email.me> <jgodi1$ltu$1@reader1.panix.com> <jgp4fa$7fp$1@dont-email.me> <slrnjj08a0.8cm.jedi@nomad.mishnet> <jgpid5$sub$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
Followups directed to: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
On Monday 06 February 2012 22:57, BillW50 conveyed the following to
alt.os.linux.ubuntu...
> On 2/6/2012 12:51 PM, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>> On 2012-02-06, BillW50<BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/6/2012 5:29 AM, the wharf rat wrote:
>>>> In article<jg9mms$e9m$1@dont-email.me>, BillW50<BillW50@aol.kom>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Linux is an amateurish OS built with amateurish drivers.
>>>>
>>>> It's a poor workman who blames his tools.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is that what open source programmers use, poor tools? As that would
>>> explain a lot. Like why Linux won't let me use a larger desktop than
>>> my screen resolution, but Windows does.
>>
>> Sure it can. Although I am not sure how much interest there
>> would be for such a thing these days.
>
> The only way I ever got Linux to use a larger desktop than the screen
> resolution is with Xandros Linux (not free) by hooking up an external
> monitor. Then I can get the internal screen to scroll around the
> desktop like I can do with Windows.
You can do that on GNU/Linux (or any other UNIX) as well.
man xorg.conf
> So Linux can do this, but the option isn't there.
You do it by writing up an xorg.conf file, like the documentation says.
> And it should be.
It is. It just doesn't happen to be selectable via a GUI tool in
Ubuntu.
> I don't think I ever got Ubuntu to do this even with an external
> monitor.
That's because you're a pointy/clicky person, and you think that there
is no life beyond the GUI.
> This feature is wonderful for viewing web pages that are set for
> larger displays on smaller resolution screens like for 800x480. And
> this always worked well for me under Windows. Although Linux doesn't
> have a clue how to do this.
No, it is _you_ who doesn't have a clue. There is far more flexibility
in a UNIX operating system than there ever was or ever will be in
Microsoft Windows.
By the way, try KDE as a desktop environment, or the Compiz window
manager. They allow you to zoom in and zoom out. Same result, but even
more flexible and doesn't require any editing.
>>> Running Windows XP on a EeePC 701/2 with an external 1440x900
>>> monitor, it plays full screen videos and doesn't miss a beat. Trying
>>> Linux with the same exact hardware and it plays the same videos one
>>> fricken frame per 5 seconds. How wonderful! No video, just a slide
>>> show.
>>>
>>> And if you think that is bad, try using Linux as a game machine OS.
>>> Oops, most serious gamers wouldn't even consider using Linux. How
>>> about using Linux as a HTPC? Nope, it isn't very good multimedia
>>> department either.
>>
>> No. Linux is what you use when you want to rescue someone that's
>> trying to use MacOS or Windows as an HTPC. It might be wholesale or
>> just piecewise. However, it's still Free Software to the rescue.
>
> Not for me. Linux is the last thing I use.
That much is clear, but still it isn't GNU/Linux's fault. You are
blaming the operating system for your own intellectual shortcomings.
> To rescue Windows, I use BartPE or WinPE instead. I tried Ubuntu Live
> once and it screwed up the Windows install.
PEBKAC.
> After about 12 months of research it turns out that Ubuntu Live
> actually borrows the Windows swapfile for itself.
That would seriously surprise me, because unlike Microsoft Windows,
GNU/Linux doesn't do anything that you don't explicitly tell it to do.
So that's probably another PEBKAC situation.
Here's another clue. GNU/Linux /can/ use swapfiles, but normally
doesn't, because it prefers a swap _partition_ - which is an entirely
different thing.
> Well this Windows install didn't use a swapfile and Ubuntu Live
> created its own on the Windows System drive.
That's a bold-faced lie. A Live CD will never touch anything on a hard
disk installation unless you tell it to.
> And when Windows booted, it had gotten confused and thought it was
> suppose to install something and didn't know what and locked up.
Windows locks up whenever it feels like it. That's what you get with an
operating system that ships to the customer with approximately 50'000
fatal bugs still left in the kernel.
>> Troll harder.
>
> Boy are you lost! "I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth
> and they think it's hell."
You're the one who's lost. You are overtly displaying a total lack of
knowledge on how GNU/Linux works and just as overtly a lack of
understanding of computer technology. You are also stating that you
prefer Microsoft Windows and that you barely use GNU/Linux. And then
you go and make up lies - which are refuted each and every time you post
something here - to cover for your own intellectual inadequacies, and
you post these lies here with an attitude towards those who try to
rectify the misinformation you're spreading.
That makes you a troll, and if you don't want to be seen as one, then
I'd suggest you start looking into the facts _before_ you decide to
troll this newsgroup with your anti-GNU/Linux and pro-Microsoft
propaganda.
We've already got plenty of trolls here. We don't need any new ones.
--
= Aragorn =
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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Re: scan apps fail to detect scanner device with headset plugged in - please help Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 07:34 -0800
Re: scan apps fail to detect scanner device with headset plugged in - please help wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-02-08 17:18 +0000
Re: scan apps fail to detect scanner device with headset plugged in - please help MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2012-02-01 14:45 -0500
Re: scan apps fail to detect scanner device with headset plugged in - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2012-02-01 12:25 -0800
Re: scan apps fail to detect scanner device with headset plugged in - please help Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-01 22:02 +0100
Re: scan apps fail to detect scanner device with headset plugged in - please help wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-02-01 22:06 +0000
Re: scan apps fail to detect scanner device with headset plugged in - please help "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 17:57 -0500
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