On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > Whenever somebody has an "Axis no longer runs on my system" problem, > that is the > first thing that comes to mind, either video card or the drivers for it. Although I should have realized the problem was video related because Tkemc ran, I knew that Axiom doesn't build video cards, so I assumed it either wasn't video or it wasn't the axiom card. This still seems really weird to me, it seems like the proprietary software that the video card companies are putting out is really bad nowadays. I'm happily avoiding it with my desktop. I had installed some proprietary Nvidia software on a previous installation of Ubuntu, and that same system was horribly unstable.
I think it's intuitively obvious that a computer used to interface to the real world shouldn't have a lot of unnecessary software installed, but apparently this isn't obvious to everyone. One of the grad students was complaining that his computer was slow, I uninstalled all the extraneous software on the system and it sped right up. I think the main culprit was the software that only allows you to remain logged in to facebook for less than 4 hours. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
