[NTLUG:Discuss] Bye Bye Mickeysoft

[terry]

TJ Davis wrote:

> Here's the deal.  I just upgraded my machine at home to an Anthon XP 
> 2000+ and it is performing WAY better than my celeron 1.7ghz was.   I 
> am dual-booting Windows and RedHat Linux 8.0 and Linux runs fine but 
> Windows is messing up on me.  It freezes up and reboots on its own 
> free will and various other things that should never happen in any 
> operating system.  Well I have finally decided that it is time to just 
> wave adios and take the Windows boot line out of grub.conf (I know a 
> lot of you still swear by lilo but I'm trying to stay with the times) 
> and convert /dev/hda1 from to ext3, recovering the wasted disk space.  
> However I have a dilemma.  There are two things that I cannot do 
> effeciently in Linux yet so I am turning to NTLUG for some advice.
>
> (1)  I love playing around with video capturing and I have been 
> playing around with XAWtv but it just is not doing the trick.  I am 
> going to check out Broadcast 2000 when I get   home this evening but I 
> am not even sure if it supports video capturing and it is not being 
> developed any longer according to what I have read.
>
> (2)  This is pretty cheesy but I have not had much luck with cd 
> burning in Linux.  I know you have to install what seems to be a scsi 
> compatibility layer if you are using IDE drives, which I am but I have 
> only been able to burn audio tools.  The only catch is that I refuse 
> to use the command line to burn cds.  I love it for most things but it 
> just is not convenient when burning cd's ( I dig the drag-n-drop feature).
>

I use xcdroast and it works rather well.  It's very user friendly and 
I'm sure you'll like it.  
I too have an IDE drive but the ide-scsi module does a very good job of 
scsi emulation.  (I think that's the right terminology.)

Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: LITE-ON  Model: LTR-12101B       Rev: LS38
  Type:   CD-ROM

> Anyways, I am asking for suggestions on these two things.  I'm even 
> open for another distro if someone knows of one that is geared towards 
> multimedia.  Thanks in advance as I know y'all will be a big help!  :-)
>
> T.J. Davis
> Southwestern A/G University
> Computer/Network Technician
> tjdavis at sagu.edu
> 1 Timothy 4:12
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