{"id":394,"date":"2004-03-07T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parnes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2004\/03\/07\/sun_java_desktop_system\/"},"modified":"2004-03-07T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2004-03-07T14:40:15","slug":"sun_java_desktop_system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/03\/07\/sun_java_desktop_system\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Java Desktop System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I installed Suns Java Desktop System yesterday and took it out for a spinn. Here are my reflections. Feel free to ask more questions!!<br \/>\nSUN Java Desktop System<br \/>\nHardware: Dell Dimension 8300, 3.2GHz with 2GB RAM, Hyper threading enabled (virtual dual CPU), dual graphics card (NVidia Quadro4 dual DVI AGP and NVidia DVI PCI).<br \/>\n*** Installation<br \/>\nThe installation was very smooth and extremely fast. Full installation occupied about 2.8GB disk.<br \/>\n* Problems<br \/>\nIf serial ATA disk was enabled then the system (and installer) would not boot. Solution: disable SATA disk in BIOS.<br \/>\nInstallation in graphics mode did NOT work. Just blank screen.<br \/>\nIf Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 sound card was in the system, then once again the system wouldn&#8217;t boot.<br \/>\nCould not get dual display output from Quadro4 Nvidia card. It only saw one screen.<br \/>\nCould not get Dell 2001FP (newest 20&#8243; TFT from Dell) to work. No matter what frequencies I tried, all I got was flicker.<br \/>\nCould not get higher resolution than 1600&#215;1200 on a Apple 23&#8243; TFT screen (1920&#215;1200).<br \/>\nThe only sound card I could get working was an Griffin iMic.<br \/>\nI have to manually enable USB mouse support every time I boot.<br \/>\n*** Usage<br \/>\nThe system is very responsive and fast and most functionality needed for a basic system is there. EMail, Web, Staroffice 7 for word, excel, powerpoint.<br \/>\nThe system crashed once (hanged hard really) when running the default screen saver (the flag which looked rather ugly on my system by the way).<br \/>\n* Annoyances<br \/>\nStarOffice couldn&#8217;t open files that were on SMB disks (i.e. on a disk server) which I found rather strange.<br \/>\n**************<br \/>\nBut to summarize, the system is very nice. Simple install and easy to use. Might be enough for basic users but I think most users would want something with more applications but compared to a bare Windows XP installation it was ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed Suns Java Desktop System yesterday and took it out for a spinn. Here are my reflections. Feel free to ask more questions!! SUN Java Desktop System Hardware: Dell Dimension 8300, 3.2GHz with 2GB RAM, Hyper threading enabled (virtual dual CPU), dual graphics card (NVidia Quadro4 dual DVI AGP and NVidia DVI PCI). *** &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/03\/07\/sun_java_desktop_system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sun Java Desktop System<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}