Steve Gibson has a demo program http://www.grc.com/ct/freeandclear.htm that shows how ClearType works.
"The Genesis of these pages was Microsoft's Comdex announcement of their new breakthrough font rendering technology, dubbed 'ClearType'. This announcement gave the industry a much needed wake-up call. Although Microsoft mistakenly believed that they had discovered something new, they certainly deserve the credit for helping to bring years of prior display system research and development into the forefront of personal computing practice."
Click the Tune button and use the Magnify slider to see the effects of various render modes.
It it practical to use an HD in write-protect mode? (Some hard drives have a write-protect jumper: Google "ide hd write protect jumper".) Put the system software on the WP'd drive and use a second HD for the remainder.
This topic raises another question: I wonder how Google is able to crawl the web while protecting its own systems from malware.
I think so. I used made-up name, address, etc., for a Safeway savings card. Of course, I used it with my debit card. Now, when I use it and pay cash the clerk always says "Thank you, Mr. Myname."
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$30,000,000 / 1000 laptops = $30,000 per laptop. A mere few seconds in Iraq.
Steve Gibson has a demo program http://www.grc.com/ct/freeandclear.htm that shows how ClearType works. "The Genesis of these pages was Microsoft's Comdex announcement of their new breakthrough font rendering technology, dubbed 'ClearType'. This announcement gave the industry a much needed wake-up call. Although Microsoft mistakenly believed that they had discovered something new, they certainly deserve the credit for helping to bring years of prior display system research and development into the forefront of personal computing practice." Click the Tune button and use the Magnify slider to see the effects of various render modes.
It it practical to use an HD in write-protect mode? (Some hard drives have a write-protect jumper: Google "ide hd write protect jumper".) Put the system software on the WP'd drive and use a second HD for the remainder. This topic raises another question: I wonder how Google is able to crawl the web while protecting its own systems from malware.
I think so. I used made-up name, address, etc., for a Safeway savings card. Of course, I used it with my debit card. Now, when I use it and pay cash the clerk always says "Thank you, Mr. Myname."
...what about performance and cost?