Tuesday, April 20, 2004 7:28 PM bbales > The point I am trying to make is if I fire up my windows98 box > and use internet explorer to go to a site with sound, I can hear > the sound. I've installed Linux on probably 40 or 50 boxes and > I can't get sound on my own box. I correspond with folks who > can't even tell me what browser they are using, but they can get > sound with it. > > Linux is great, but it ain't easy. Yet. And the point I was trying to make, along with having a little fun, and this is especially poignant if Mr. Langa has been around for as long as he has, is that I'm tired of hering IT people complain about something being difficult to configure. If this stuff were simple, and any joe off the street could make it all work, then most of us wouldn't be employed. And anyone who not only expects that everything should work correctly after a vanilla install but gets angry at the fact that it doesn't, shouldn't be employed in the first place (at least not in this field). If Mr. Langa had stopped at his first distro and spent any time at all researching the driver situation for his card, then he probably could have gotten it working before he could have finished his second install and definitely would have by the time he could have finished his third. By that time he would have found either an appropriate driver or conclusive evidence that one didn't exist. For that matter, why in the world would anyone undertake to install an OS on ANY machine without researching the hardware first and collecting all the drivers and software necessary to achieve the desired configuration before he started the install. In my mind, that in itself is invalidates both the mans test and his abilities. Eric Diamond eDiamond Networking & Security 303-246-9555 eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx
