I understand there are tons of VGA-only displays around. That's not a reason to have an analogue-only output on a new digital computer. I don't want to have my display blurred in back-and-forth conversions because someone somewhere is using a CRT.
DVI-I includes the VGA signals, so it only needs a passive adapter. There are other possibilities for converting signals, and it's not like we've never needed adapters before, to connect old and new stuff together.
It's 2009. Our computers and displays are digital. I for one would be glad to see VGA go away.
Of course, you probably mean an external display connector in general. It's pretty sad that VGA remains the most common display connector, so we can use the analogue signals designed for a CRT to drive a digital display.
Developers are also users, there's the old argument about scratching your own itch. I've written stuff solely for my own use, and it's been a nice bonus to find that others are using it too.
I'm doing just that with a Buffalo Linkstation Live. It's sold as a network drive, but it is a complete ARM server running Linux, at least after you install a proper distro. At 400 MHz and 128 MB, it's not as powerful as this wall wart, but on the other hand it has a proper SATA drive.
And the only sad part is, that the desktop environments completely ignore that [unix] philosophy, and fight over who imitates Windows the best.
This is my pet peeve with the "ready for the desktop" discussions. I remember a related point I read in an article many years ago, that Linux lets you do things that Windows users cannot even dream of. It compactly describes the fact that, while Linux is much more capable in many ways, it is hard to convince a typical Windows user to switch.
Even the Redmondites can't throw an ad campaign accusing tabs of being evil after being the final adopter of the technology. . ..
This is funny as the first place I remember seeing a tabbed interface was MS Office, back before I knew of Linux. For example, the different sheets in a spreadsheet program are exactly like tabs, both in look and feel, and function. It's funny how much hype and 'innovation' it has taken to bring such a common UI element into web browsers.
Perhaps the fatal flaw of Itanium was that the chip did not support 32-bit code. Given that very little software at the time was optimized to run on 64-bit chips, this left many of Itanium's would-be adopters to hold off on upgrading until developers decided to optimize their software for the new chips.
Itanium's fate was sealed when AMD brought out the Opteron, a crossover 32/64-bit processor which, while not quite as powerful as Itanium, was a product IT managers could buy without having to upgrade their entire infrastructure. The market loved it and suddenly Intel was getting beaten like a red-headed stepchild by its chief rival.
So the only difference between CPU architectures is their bitness. I wish I'd read this gem of information before installing cross compilers for PPC and ARM.
(Posted on a 64-bit Intel machine, so it must be an Itanium, right?)
GnomeHack was a very nice version of the game... But the GUI-ness of it (popup windows, scrollbars, etc..) really wasn't to my taste. So I started work on glHack, to make it feel very similiar to the text-terminal version (nice & snappy). but with graphical tiles.
Do you have a VGA connector (or whatever that newer type of connector is called)
I don't know if it's funny or sad that most laptops still come with VGA, ten years after the introduction of DVI, and with most displays being digital.
I have aMule with Kad and a bunch of other things running on an ARM-based NAS. Of course, since it has a full-size hard drive, it takes somewhat more power than a flash drive, but I think it only makes sense to have some disk space when you're running these applications.
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Buy a server instead. These usually come with no operating system.
For example
Is that an example of no operating systems?
Software problem: The autorun feature in Windows only works for CD drives.
Hardware solution: Make a flash drive with an extra partition that presents itself as a CD drive to the OS.
Aren't terminates hermaphrodites?
Dunno about terminates, but thermites are thermaphrodites, at least when in heat.
I understand there are tons of VGA-only displays around. That's not a reason to have an analogue-only output on a new digital computer. I don't want to have my display blurred in back-and-forth conversions because someone somewhere is using a CRT.
DVI-I includes the VGA signals, so it only needs a passive adapter. There are other possibilities for converting signals, and it's not like we've never needed adapters before, to connect old and new stuff together.
It's 2009. Our computers and displays are digital. I for one would be glad to see VGA go away.
Of course, you probably mean an external display connector in general. It's pretty sad that VGA remains the most common display connector, so we can use the analogue signals designed for a CRT to drive a digital display.
Developers are also users, there's the old argument about scratching your own itch. I've written stuff solely for my own use, and it's been a nice bonus to find that others are using it too.
I'm doing just that with a Buffalo Linkstation Live. It's sold as a network drive, but it is a complete ARM server running Linux, at least after you install a proper distro. At 400 MHz and 128 MB, it's not as powerful as this wall wart, but on the other hand it has a proper SATA drive.
http://www.nas-central.org/index.php/Main_Page
I don't know about these touch screens, but there are USB video adapters for full-size displays: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzI3NA
And the only sad part is, that the desktop environments completely ignore that [unix] philosophy, and fight over who imitates Windows the best.
This is my pet peeve with the "ready for the desktop" discussions. I remember a related point I read in an article many years ago, that Linux lets you do things that Windows users cannot even dream of. It compactly describes the fact that, while Linux is much more capable in many ways, it is hard to convince a typical Windows user to switch.
Google has made its fortune using Linux and other open source software. Therefore not catering for Linux users seems unfair.
If you are referring to condoms, then yes. *whines*
I don't have a task bar (you insensitive clod).
Even the Redmondites can't throw an ad campaign accusing tabs of being evil after being the final adopter of the technology. . . .
This is funny as the first place I remember seeing a tabbed interface was MS Office, back before I knew of Linux. For example, the different sheets in a spreadsheet program are exactly like tabs, both in look and feel, and function. It's funny how much hype and 'innovation' it has taken to bring such a common UI element into web browsers.
Perhaps the fatal flaw of Itanium was that the chip did not support 32-bit code. Given that very little software at the time was optimized to run on 64-bit chips, this left many of Itanium's would-be adopters to hold off on upgrading until developers decided to optimize their software for the new chips.
Itanium's fate was sealed when AMD brought out the Opteron, a crossover 32/64-bit processor which, while not quite as powerful as Itanium, was a product IT managers could buy without having to upgrade their entire infrastructure. The market loved it and suddenly Intel was getting beaten like a red-headed stepchild by its chief rival.
So the only difference between CPU architectures is their bitness. I wish I'd read this gem of information before installing cross compilers for PPC and ARM.
(Posted on a 64-bit Intel machine, so it must be an Itanium, right?)
Note to mods et al, my original post is meant somewhat tongue in cheek. Note especially the spacing as Direct_X11, not DirectX_11.
Duh, of course the net has a net benefit. But with all the scheisse on the internet, imagine the possibilities of the intergross.
You can already get Direct X11 on Linux...
To the developing countries?
More precisely, I imagine it's their partners who wanted to have children, and the nice submissive males bowed to the pressure.
While this isn't answering your question, I'd like to point out my favourite Nethack interface:
http://glhack.sourceforge.net/
GnomeHack was a very nice version of the game... But the GUI-ness of it (popup windows, scrollbars, etc..) really wasn't to my taste. So I started work on glHack, to make it feel very similiar to the text-terminal version (nice & snappy). but with graphical tiles.
And all these years later in 2009, I still have /* No Comment */
In society, only losers have foes.
So, Bill Gates is a loser? I recall a saying, if you're not on somebody's shit list, you're not doing anything worthwhile.
Do you have a VGA connector (or whatever that newer type of connector is called)
I don't know if it's funny or sad that most laptops still come with VGA, ten years after the introduction of DVI, and with most displays being digital.
Yo dawg, we heard you like toast, so I propose a toast to your toaster.
I have aMule with Kad and a bunch of other things running on an ARM-based NAS. Of course, since it has a full-size hard drive, it takes somewhat more power than a flash drive, but I think it only makes sense to have some disk space when you're running these applications.
http://kasj.homeunix.net/~teknohog/hardware/kasj/