just remembered, just for catalog purposes (MP3s, movies, documents, etc), I'd love to see the roman numerals available on a layout, like alt-shift-ctrl 1 though 0 and a few extras. I really don't like typing them out as that way they don't sort properly
Hey, I've never learned to type (properly) and chug along quite nicely at 35WPM.
I've never really liked laptop keyboards (which is what that happy hacker is really), and think apple were idiots to not include a full sized keyboard in the new 17" powerbook (They have tha space for bugger's sake, just move the speakers down)
yes:)
It's very easy and convienient for me to mouse around some, and hit the numpad-enter key when necessary with just my thumb. I get quite alot done just by that. So leave my numpad alone, thank you very much.
I do agree that the arrow and edit keys would work nicely to the left side of the qwerty field though. with horizontal and vertical scroll wheels above and next to it.
I'd also love to see more shifters other than just shift and altgr, I personally use quite a bit more of the english language (punctuation and lettering) than the US and international english layouts allow for.
As it sounds, DeltaChrome supports dual displays via its DuoView technology. But what really separates it from all other graphics architectures is that it natively supports outputting to your HDTV thanks to its Hi-Def HDTV encoder.
This gives S3 quite an edge over the competition: could you imagine outputting straight from your PC or laptop straight to your HDTV? With DeltaChrome, you can!
Resolutions of 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p are supported via a component (YPbPr) output, while 480i is supported via standard S-Video/Composite output. DeltaChrome will offer full range RGB to YUV color space conversion with hue, saturation, and contrast adjustment.
I'm sorry I'm pretty sure, if I actually had an HDTV, that I'm currently able to, with my ~1 year old DX8.1 ATi Radeon All-in-Wonder 8500DV, output to an HDTV, using either the DVI-to-component adapter, or, with newer sets, directly by DVI.
From the earliest days of people recieving AOL CDs in the mail, there has been a need to cleanse these foul devices of their evil, and this is the only true way of excorcising the beast from the essentially innocent soul of the acryllic disk.
What you will need for this ritual: 1 (or more) AOL CD 1 Holy Urn of Isanël Umâhar of the proper diameter to fit a CD (suficiently sized and pre-blessed mixing bowl may be substituted) 1 (or more, proportionat to the number of CDs) bottle of holy water (religion of blessing entirely by choice of the person perfoming the cleansing) 1 Unholy Priestess (may be substituted by a suficiently versed hooker, or the pink ranger) 1 wooden alter (may be substituted by cheap IKEA knockoff microwave shelf) 1 2.4ghz radio frequency cooking device (microwave oven)
making sure the microwave is sitting on the altar, first place the CD into the Urn, fill the Urn with the holy water, while having the Unholy Priestess dance around the chanting the words "pa limat wi vuim irumo uv tajelac" five times, while the Unholy Priestess is chanting, place the Urn within the microwave, and with the chant "Ë lamacha dra drui sucud vuim uv taisuk", set the microwave for 1 minute and press "Start". Afterwards do as you will with the Unholy Priestess.
what exactly are you supposed to do if, like me, you rotate your pen while you're writing, is it able to compensate being turned over on it's side or back when writing? I seriously doubt it.
why is it that, other than to get air clearance to avoid crashing into planes or satalites, does anyone need to get permission from the US government (or any other government for that matter) to launch something to the moon? they don't own the moon, just like that idiot who was selling plots on the moon doesn't. there's a particular document (don't ask me, I don't remember what it's called), signed by every country in the UN, stating "no government or corporation may claim the moon for their own" (in much more than those words).
What bait, the guy is an obvious Linux Zealot who is trying to bash windows mare than windows needs to be. windows ain't the best out there, but it's what most people are able to use (by people's abilities, before everyone jumps on that), whereas Linux is a royal pain in the assh and tends not to support anywhere as much hardware as windows, which is a BIG BIG 10 up in favor of windows.
But if you're gonna pick an OS on just how hard and how long it takes to install the thing, GO USE A MAC.
Whether he's lying or not is another problem, but this guy's an idiot.
Firstly, he's basing his comparison on Sony's Vaio Restore disk set, which does not set up like a normal win2k install in the least.
Then by his own admission:
First came SP2 for IE 5.01, then came IE 5.5, and then Windows 2000 SP3. The SP3 update took the longest -- 30 minutes for that update alone. Finally, the remaining three critical updates could all be installed together: two security updates for IE 5.5 and one for the Windows Media player.
Why even bother upgrading to IE5.01SP2 when you're upgrading to IE5.5 Why even bother with IE5.x at all when IE6 is out And I'm sure that being a Linux guy, he'd rather install Mozilla of some flavor anyway, I actually like NS7 so far, but it doesn't work with iframes properly.
Also by his own admission:
I was attacked by a flurry of competing screens. One was a hardware wizard, another wanted me to register the Sony Vaio, and yet another was a sales pitch for McAfee's Virus Scan. But that's not all. There were three more under all those: a guided tour for getting started with W2K, a second hardware install wizard, and a request for me to insert the first Application Recovery CD.
Sticking to my game plan, I closed everything but the Applications Recovery process.
The rest be damned, but he could've taken care of both hardware wizards and the Application Recovery CD right there and then, with no reboots, until done all 3 tasks, and the first Windows Update could've been done before then also
After all that (assuming use of a real win2k disk, and high speed connection), there should only've been 4 reboots, 5 EULAs (still not great), 6 EULAs counting the extra one Sony threw in for the Recovery Set, and a grand total of between 40mins to 1 hour to install everything.
Windows itself: 1 reboot, 1 EULA, 30 minutes
First Boot (hardware, AppRecCD, first WU[SP3]): 1 reboot, 2 EULAs, 5 to 10 minute
---INSERT--- I entirely forgot DX8.1, and so did he. Anyway: DX8.1: 1 reboot, 1 EULA, 2 to 4 minutes new totals: 5 reboots, 6 EULAs, 45 to 62 minutes ---/INSERT---
The article is as invalid as a Mac zealot doing the same comparisson between Mac and Windows, or Mac and Linux.
Has anyone noticed they don't sell from their web page, and they don't give you info on where to get one either. does anyone here know where they're sold?
Problem is, the web server seems to have crashed, I can't get on the site, could someone either post another site here, or email me a copy (if you have a quick connection) if it's less than 10MB sarreq@mailandnews.com
Of course if you do happen to have one of these antiquated BIOSes, you should probably get a new computer (or at least motherboard or BIOS chip itself) anyway. That problem really only applies to BIOSes older than 2 or so years (unless you happen to get a really crappy motherboard manufacturer of course)
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just remembered, just for catalog purposes (MP3s, movies, documents, etc), I'd love to see the roman numerals available on a layout, like alt-shift-ctrl 1 though 0 and a few extras. I really don't like typing them out as that way they don't sort properly
Hey, I've never learned to type (properly) and chug along quite nicely at 35WPM. I've never really liked laptop keyboards (which is what that happy hacker is really), and think apple were idiots to not include a full sized keyboard in the new 17" powerbook (They have tha space for bugger's sake, just move the speakers down)
yes :)
It's very easy and convienient for me to mouse around some, and hit the numpad-enter key when necessary with just my thumb. I get quite alot done just by that. So leave my numpad alone, thank you very much.
I do agree that the arrow and edit keys would work nicely to the left side of the qwerty field though. with horizontal and vertical scroll wheels above and next to it.
I'd also love to see more shifters other than just shift and altgr, I personally use quite a bit more of the english language (punctuation and lettering) than the US and international english layouts allow for.
buy a laptop if that's all you want
Was this meant to be a stunning new feature © , or am I missing something
And then you cut off the majority of your potential page hits
But then you have to worry about all that AOL garbage you're ingesting, and how it could affect your love life, and ...... welll, I think not
The Cleansing Ritual for AOL CDs
From the earliest days of people recieving AOL CDs in the mail, there has been a need to cleanse these foul devices of their evil, and this is the only true way of excorcising the beast from the essentially innocent soul of the acryllic disk.
What you will need for this ritual:
1 (or more) AOL CD
1 Holy Urn of Isanël Umâhar of the proper diameter to fit a CD (suficiently sized and pre-blessed mixing bowl may be substituted)
1 (or more, proportionat to the number of CDs) bottle of holy water (religion of blessing entirely by choice of the person perfoming the cleansing)
1 Unholy Priestess (may be substituted by a suficiently versed hooker, or the pink ranger)
1 wooden alter (may be substituted by cheap IKEA knockoff microwave shelf)
1 2.4ghz radio frequency cooking device (microwave oven)
making sure the microwave is sitting on the altar, first place the CD into the Urn, fill the Urn with the holy water, while having the Unholy Priestess dance around the chanting the words "pa limat wi vuim irumo uv tajelac" five times, while the Unholy Priestess is chanting, place the Urn within the microwave, and with the chant "Ë lamacha dra drui sucud vuim uv taisuk", set the microwave for 1 minute and press "Start".
Afterwards do as you will with the Unholy Priestess.
what exactly are you supposed to do if, like me, you rotate your pen while you're writing, is it able to compensate being turned over on it's side or back when writing? I seriously doubt it.
why is it that, other than to get air clearance to avoid crashing into planes or satalites, does anyone need to get permission from the US government (or any other government for that matter) to launch something to the moon? they don't own the moon, just like that idiot who was selling plots on the moon doesn't. there's a particular document (don't ask me, I don't remember what it's called), signed by every country in the UN, stating "no government or corporation may claim the moon for their own" (in much more than those words).
What bait, the guy is an obvious Linux Zealot who is trying to bash windows mare than windows needs to be. windows ain't the best out there, but it's what most people are able to use (by people's abilities, before everyone jumps on that), whereas Linux is a royal pain in the assh and tends not to support anywhere as much hardware as windows, which is a BIG BIG 10 up in favor of windows.
But if you're gonna pick an OS on just how hard and how long it takes to install the thing, GO USE A MAC.
but you can install IE5.5 without installing IE5.01 first, so why do what he did and waste the time installing IE5.01 first?
Firstly, he's basing his comparison on Sony's Vaio Restore disk set, which does not set up like a normal win2k install in the least.
Then by his own admission:
Why even bother upgrading to IE5.01SP2 when you're upgrading to IE5.5
Why even bother with IE5.x at all when IE6 is out
And I'm sure that being a Linux guy, he'd rather install Mozilla of some flavor anyway, I actually like NS7 so far, but it doesn't work with iframes properly.
Also by his own admission:
The rest be damned, but he could've taken care of both hardware wizards and the Application Recovery CD right there and then, with no reboots, until done all 3 tasks, and the first Windows Update could've been done before then also
After all that (assuming use of a real win2k disk, and high speed connection), there should only've been 4 reboots, 5 EULAs (still not great), 6 EULAs counting the extra one Sony threw in for the Recovery Set, and a grand total of between 40mins to 1 hour to install everything.
Windows itself: 1 reboot, 1 EULA, 30 minutes
First Boot (hardware, AppRecCD, first WU[SP3]): 1 reboot, 2 EULAs, 5 to 10 minute
WU2[IE6]: 1 reboot, 1 EULA, 2 to 5 minutes
WU3[postSP3/IE6 security updates]: 1 reboot, 1 EULA, 2 to 5 minutes
Reboot Times: 1 to 2 minutes * 4 = 4 to 8 minutes
Totals: 4 reboots, 5 EULAs, 43 to 58 minutes
---INSERT---
I entirely forgot DX8.1, and so did he. Anyway:
DX8.1: 1 reboot, 1 EULA, 2 to 4 minutes
new totals: 5 reboots, 6 EULAs, 45 to 62 minutes
---/INSERT---
The article is as invalid as a Mac zealot doing the same comparisson between Mac and Windows, or Mac and Linux.
Has anyone noticed they don't sell from their web page, and they don't give you info on where to get one either. does anyone here know where they're sold?
Problem is, the web server seems to have crashed, I can't get on the site, could someone either post another site here, or email me a copy (if you have a quick connection) if it's less than 10MB
sarreq@mailandnews.com
next step? Windows on dual-sided, dual-layered DVD
I saw somewhere (thought it was IBM's harddrive page) that the 75gig drive will be released at about us$760, so that's the biggie
Of course if you do happen to have one of these antiquated BIOSes, you should probably get a new computer (or at least motherboard or BIOS chip itself) anyway. That problem really only applies to BIOSes older than 2 or so years (unless you happen to get a really crappy motherboard manufacturer of course)