I wasn't talking about Win7 and memory expansion. I was talking about Vista. Re-read what I wrote.
>>>As for the stealing OS part, you have to reactivate which I think is personally fine given the amount of piracy Microsoft has been/are subject to. >>>
I've already paid for Vista once. I shouldn't have to pay a second time, just because I upgrade my PC's RAM from 0.5 to 1.5 gig. That's pure greed on Microsoft's part.
It is if you have "merged" system + graphics memory. Then turning-off Aero releases the space that would normally be used for graphics, and gives it to the CPU. That's why I adjusted my brother's Vista to use the simplest graphics possible. He only has 1/2 gig to work in.
Even on a machine with lots of RAM, using simpler graphics reduces slowdown from hard drive thrashing... I mean, caching.
No. There is English. And then in 1066 the damn French invaded the island and polluted the language with their messed-up words. True English died with Beowulf.
What exists today in both Britannia and America is a mongrel mess of Germanic and Latinate words. No wonder the spelling and rules make no sense. Damn French.
(I'm chust joking. Put down the guillotine Mr. Frenchman.)
If I lived in the UK I'd get rid of my TV rather than pay some stupid ~$300/year BBC fee. I can watch my favorite shows on my laptop, and take-up reading to fill in the rest of the time.
Your country is really messed up with overzealous government control.
I just heard last night that the UK is measuring trash via some fancy-new chip-embedded cans, which will gradually be distributed to the populace. Purpose? To see how much waste you throw-away and eventually start charging you per pound. It's a way to encourage recycling instead of trashing.
I learned the tricks from my Computer's User Manual (yes they used to come with those) which taught me programming. I garnered other ideas from RUN and AmigaWorld magazines which had all kinds of tips'n'tricks for hackers.
As for events/conventions I rarely went to those things. But when I did, it was because somebody announced it on the BBS forum - kinda similar to this one. We also arranged illegal copying parties via the forums. Ahhh... cassettes and floppies galore.
"Hello officer. Yes of course you can come in. Please bring your 20 FBI agents with you. Everybody inside? Good." (presses button to setoff bombs in basement & blow up house)
If I'm going down, I'm going to take as many of "them" with me as I can.
She's not hot, but she's definitely cute. She's the girl-next-door type who geeks like us might actually have a slim chance of getting. (As opposed to the SI swimsuit or Victoria's Secret models who just see an area of blank space when we walk by.)
Honestly? I grew-up without the internet, and I could live without it again:
- I'd upgrade to Digital cable (200+ channels) to help with the youtube and hulu withdrawal symptoms of not having my favorite TV shows on demand.
- Next I'd setup one of those old-fashioned BBSes where people can dial-in at 50k to download illegal warez. Call it PirateBay BBS. Or they could just chat with one another via the forums. I would use HTML to give my BBS a web-like appearance.
- AOL, GEnie, and other national services would experience a resurrection.
- Usenet newsgroups like rec.arts.tv would be unaffected. Being text-only they are perfectly suited to phoneline-based distribution, as was done back in the 80s.
>>>Bluetooth, a wireless card, built in mic, built in webcam
What do I want all that worthless shit for? Besides if I did want that stuff, I could get a lot cheaper from Walmart or Amazon than from Apple/Mac .
>>>no monitor, or a fancy multi-touch wireless mouse?
I've got 5 monitors; I don't really need any more. I already have a wireless mouse; don't need another one. ----- The 500 GB HDD may seem small to you, but it's twice what I've got now, and the 3 gigabyte RAM is six times what I have now. I would choose the $300 machine if I needed a new one, not the Mac. (Why pay more than I have to? That's how we go into this economic mess. Overspending.)
>>>assuming typo and meant $400
No. Today the Staples AMD X2 Win7 machine is $330; tomorrow it will drop to $300; see Sunday's flyer.
This is precisely where your "solution" falls apart. The OK button is not on the screen. You cannot click that which you cannot touch. The fix is so ridiculously simple. All you need to do is copy Windows or Mac OS:
- You press the Enter key on Ubuntu and it does nothing..... - But on Windows/Mac is auto-selects "OK" and you escape from 640x480.
>>>If you didn't use 'secret hidden commands' then can you not use the nonsecret method you used to change the resolution to 640x480 to change it to something else? >>>
I have already answered this fucking question 20 times today. Go look it up. Brief answer: You can't access the "OK" button in 640x480 so you're stuck.
FALSE fucker. On Windows all you have to do it press Enter. Ditto Mac. Windows/Mac doesn't hide their commands in obscure locations.
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The more I read, the more I realize the Linux motto is: "It's not a bug. It's not poor documentation. It's not unfriendly design. It's the user's fault. Every time. It's the idiot user, not Linux."
I obviously disagree. It's the programmers' fault, not the user.
(1) Didn't know that Alt was a key command. (2) On Windows you don't have to hold down anything. You just press Enter and it auto-selects the okay button so you can exit 640x480 mode. Windows (and Mac) is idiot-friendly.
>>>Windows XP/Vista/7 shortcut to move the focused window is ALT+SPACE+M and use the arrow keys.
Why???
If you find yourself stuck in 640x480 mode, with no way to click the "OK" button, just press Enter. Simple. Even an idiot consumer could do it.
>>>step away from the computer, it's not your cup of tea.
Yeah I just design FPGAs and CPLDs for a living. I couldn't possibly know anything about computers. ---or--- It could just be possible that, dare I say it, there's a flaw in the Ubuntu code. It ain't user-friendly.
>>>Its hold alt and drag. Its hardly a "secret key combo".
It's certainly not documented anywhere inside Ubuntu's Help Files. I looked. It wasn't there. I swore at being stuck in 640x480 and then reinstalled from CD .
>>>you think the typical user is going to change screen resolutions?
Yes. (This is the problem with talking to geeks. They assume if a user has a problem, it's the USER who is the idiot. It couldn't *possibly* be a flaw in the precious code.) Why wouldn't a user change screen resolutions? It's one of the easier-to-access settings on a computer.
IMHO *all* functions on a computer should be controllable with a mouse and ONE single key "Enter". If an OS can enter a state where it can't be controlled with the mouse/enter combo, then the OS is not consumer-friendly. It needs to be updated.
No it isn't. Change Windows to 640x480 and the "OK" is off the screen. But if you select 1280x1024 and press enter, it's the same as a mouse click on the "OK", so you'll be back to a standard-sized screen.
Windows has an escape mechanism. Ubuntu doesn't. Well Ubuntu does, but it's some obscure hidden key combo that your average consumer would not know. Which is why I ended-up reinstalling my Ubuntu from scratch.
On Windows you don't need the Secret "alt window drag" because it you switch to 640x480, even though the "apply" button is off the bottom of the screen, you can still select it just by pressing Enter. That doesn't work on Ubuntu's display preferences window, so you're stuck.
No it's called, "Some people call themselves libertarians, but they are actually communists." Or like President Bush who claimed to be "for freedom" but signed laws that took it away & enabled government to spy on all of us.
Please learn to read. I said, quote, "competitors like Time-Warner, Cox, Cablevision, Verizon, et cetera can lay fiber optics in parallel to Comcast's already-existing lines." See? Not sharing. Separate.
It's just the same as if you have one sucky car (like GM) than you can switch to another car with better customer service (like Toyota).
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I wasn't talking about Win7 and memory expansion. I was talking about Vista. Re-read what I wrote.
>>>As for the stealing OS part, you have to reactivate which I think is personally fine given the amount of piracy Microsoft has been/are subject to.
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I've already paid for Vista once. I shouldn't have to pay a second time, just because I upgrade my PC's RAM from 0.5 to 1.5 gig. That's pure greed on Microsoft's part.
>it isn't a perf hit!)
It is if you have "merged" system + graphics memory. Then turning-off Aero releases the space that would normally be used for graphics, and gives it to the CPU. That's why I adjusted my brother's Vista to use the simplest graphics possible. He only has 1/2 gig to work in.
Even on a machine with lots of RAM, using simpler graphics reduces slowdown from hard drive thrashing... I mean, caching.
I think of desktop graphics as being like T&A.
Looks good, might even provoke a physical response, but doesn't really contribute much in the long term. As long as my desktop is easy-to-use it could be black-and-white as far as I am concerned. Like so: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Macintosh_System_7.5.3_screenshot.png
Velma? The cute girl from Scooby Doo?
Wine
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Wine
Wine
Wine
Wine
Wine
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Glorious wine!
No. There is English. And then in 1066 the damn French invaded the island and polluted the language with their messed-up words. True English died with Beowulf.
What exists today in both Britannia and America is a mongrel mess of Germanic and Latinate words. No wonder the spelling and rules make no sense. Damn French.
(I'm chust joking. Put down the guillotine Mr. Frenchman.)
>>>They make the episodes for next to nothing then boast that people will pay $10 each.
So the BBC is your typical government program (or monopoly). Produces cheap results at exorbitantly high cost. I am not shocked.
>>>Sneaky little habbitses.
Nuns? Check out this hot little number (Audrey Hepburn) http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTE5MjgxMDcxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDU3MzQ2._V1._SX259_SY400_.jpg
If I lived in the UK I'd get rid of my TV rather than pay some stupid ~$300/year BBC fee. I can watch my favorite shows on my laptop, and take-up reading to fill in the rest of the time.
Your country is really messed up with overzealous government control.
I just heard last night that the UK is measuring trash via some fancy-new chip-embedded cans, which will gradually be distributed to the populace. Purpose? To see how much waste you throw-away and eventually start charging you per pound. It's a way to encourage recycling instead of trashing.
I learned the tricks from my Computer's User Manual (yes they used to come with those) which taught me programming. I garnered other ideas from RUN and AmigaWorld magazines which had all kinds of tips'n'tricks for hackers.
As for events/conventions I rarely went to those things. But when I did, it was because somebody announced it on the BBS forum - kinda similar to this one. We also arranged illegal copying parties via the forums. Ahhh... cassettes and floppies galore.
>>>a bullet in the head of all of us.
"Hello officer. Yes of course you can come in. Please bring your 20 FBI agents with you. Everybody inside? Good." (presses button to setoff bombs in basement & blow up house)
If I'm going down, I'm going to take as many of "them" with me as I can.
You mean like Carrie Fisher? Uh... no.
Look: http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/1/2008/12/carrie-jabba.jpg
Natalie's appearance has gone downhill a bit, but here's photos from when she was still a fashion model -
http://www.theforce.net/episode1/oldPreq/pics/natalie_w.jpg
color - http://thebosh.com/upload/2007/10/29/Natalie-Portman-has-filmed.jpg
lingerie - http://scifisizzle.com/imagegallery/images/natalie_portman/natalie_portman_2.jpg
closeup - http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebs/natalieportman/natalie_portman_2.jpg
She's not hot, but she's definitely cute. She's the girl-next-door type who geeks like us might actually have a slim chance of getting. (As opposed to the SI swimsuit or Victoria's Secret models who just see an area of blank space when we walk by.)
Honestly? I grew-up without the internet, and I could live without it again:
- I'd upgrade to Digital cable (200+ channels) to help with the youtube and hulu withdrawal symptoms of not having my favorite TV shows on demand.
- Next I'd setup one of those old-fashioned BBSes where people can dial-in at 50k to download illegal warez. Call it PirateBay BBS. Or they could just chat with one another via the forums. I would use HTML to give my BBS a web-like appearance.
- AOL, GEnie, and other national services would experience a resurrection.
- Usenet newsgroups like rec.arts.tv would be unaffected. Being text-only they are perfectly suited to phoneline-based distribution, as was done back in the 80s.
>>>Bluetooth, a wireless card, built in mic, built in webcam
What do I want all that worthless shit for? Besides if I did want that stuff, I could get a lot cheaper from Walmart or Amazon than from Apple/Mac
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>>>no monitor, or a fancy multi-touch wireless mouse?
I've got 5 monitors; I don't really need any more. I already have a wireless mouse; don't need another one. ----- The 500 GB HDD may seem small to you, but it's twice what I've got now, and the 3 gigabyte RAM is six times what I have now. I would choose the $300 machine if I needed a new one, not the Mac. (Why pay more than I have to? That's how we go into this economic mess. Overspending.)
>>>assuming typo and meant $400
No. Today the Staples AMD X2 Win7 machine is $330; tomorrow it will drop to $300; see Sunday's flyer.
>>>click on 'OK'.
This is precisely where your "solution" falls apart. The OK button is not on the screen. You cannot click that which you cannot touch. The fix is so ridiculously simple. All you need to do is copy Windows or Mac OS:
- You press the Enter key on Ubuntu and it does nothing.....
- But on Windows/Mac is auto-selects "OK" and you escape from 640x480.
>>>If you didn't use 'secret hidden commands' then can you not use the nonsecret method you used to change the resolution to 640x480 to change it to something else?
>>>
I have already answered this fucking question 20 times today. Go look it up. Brief answer: You can't access the "OK" button in 640x480 so you're stuck.
>>>Alt-drag a window then
And I was supposed to know to do that - How???
>>>similar as you did in Windows on 640x480
FALSE fucker. On Windows all you have to do it press Enter. Ditto Mac. Windows/Mac doesn't hide their commands in obscure locations.
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The more I read, the more I realize the Linux motto is: "It's not a bug. It's not poor documentation. It's not unfriendly design. It's the user's fault. Every time. It's the idiot user, not Linux."
I obviously disagree. It's the programmers' fault, not the user.
>>>holding down Alt key is sooo hard
(1) Didn't know that Alt was a key command. (2) On Windows you don't have to hold down anything. You just press Enter and it auto-selects the okay button so you can exit 640x480 mode. Windows (and Mac) is idiot-friendly.
>>>Windows XP/Vista/7 shortcut to move the focused window is ALT+SPACE+M and use the arrow keys.
Why???
If you find yourself stuck in 640x480 mode, with no way to click the "OK" button, just press Enter. Simple. Even an idiot consumer could do it.
>>>step away from the computer, it's not your cup of tea.
Yeah I just design FPGAs and CPLDs for a living. I couldn't possibly know anything about computers. ---or--- It could just be possible that, dare I say it, there's a flaw in the Ubuntu code. It ain't user-friendly.
>>>Its hold alt and drag. Its hardly a "secret key combo".
It's certainly not documented anywhere inside Ubuntu's Help Files. I looked. It wasn't there. I swore at being stuck in 640x480 and then reinstalled from CD
.
>>>you think the typical user is going to change screen resolutions?
Yes. (This is the problem with talking to geeks. They assume if a user has a problem, it's the USER who is the idiot. It couldn't *possibly* be a flaw in the precious code.) Why wouldn't a user change screen resolutions? It's one of the easier-to-access settings on a computer.
IMHO *all* functions on a computer should be controllable with a mouse and ONE single key "Enter". If an OS can enter a state where it can't be controlled with the mouse/enter combo, then the OS is not consumer-friendly. It needs to be updated.
>>>Yeah, except that it's a windows bug too.
No it isn't. Change Windows to 640x480 and the "OK" is off the screen. But if you select 1280x1024 and press enter, it's the same as a mouse click on the "OK", so you'll be back to a standard-sized screen.
Windows has an escape mechanism. Ubuntu doesn't. Well Ubuntu does, but it's some obscure hidden key combo that your average consumer would not know. Which is why I ended-up reinstalling my Ubuntu from scratch.
On Windows you don't need the Secret "alt window drag" because it you switch to 640x480, even though the "apply" button is off the bottom of the screen, you can still select it just by pressing Enter. That doesn't work on Ubuntu's display preferences window, so you're stuck.
No it's called, "Some people call themselves libertarians, but they are actually communists." Or like President Bush who claimed to be "for freedom" but signed laws that took it away & enabled government to spy on all of us.
>>>all ISPs share the same infrastructure
Please learn to read. I said, quote, "competitors like Time-Warner, Cox, Cablevision, Verizon, et cetera can lay fiber optics in parallel to Comcast's already-existing lines." See? Not sharing. Separate.
It's just the same as if you have one sucky car (like GM) than you can switch to another car with better customer service (like Toyota).