If only a screen and a photodiode are necessary to capture images, how difficult will it be to hack a normal TV (with a photodiode in the form of an IR-sensor) into a camera without *any* outside changes (or even complete software-based in newer tv's)? or even into a 'telescreen'-like device? Or what about adding one $0.10 photodiode to a laptop and have an integrated webcam?
Isn't this some kinda psychological warfare where Apple releases apps to fill the missing functionality of Windows, only to make Windows XP look outdated and to promote Tiger? What will be their next step? Some neat windowmanagement tricks like Exposé ported to Windows?
in the Desktop Preferences -> Font dialog, select 'Subpixel Smoothing (LCDs)' to get the same effect, and with the 'details...' button you can select the order of the rgb-pixels.
it wasn't a troll:). I'm not very familiar with Apple's policies. It could be that they design an OS only for their current and future computers, but I'm glad to see that they also support older hardware.
It's better than a year ago, but still I get confused about too many options, where 90% of the options aren't usable anyway. Configurability isn't everything. And that's because I think that they still try to satisfy the 5% of all users who want everything different. If there's one setting that satisfies 95% of the users, don't let them edit it (or only throug configuration scripts or so, because the zealots who really want to configure it, will find these scripts, or write a 'TweakUI'-like tool for it anyway).
I installed Dropline GNOME 2.6 yesterday, and the only experience with device configuration was when I wanted to configure my eth0. The first thing I saw was a warning about gnome-system-tools being 'under heavy development', and after that it said that 'eth0' didn't exist. But I think that a tool like that is better when it's integrated with the distribution (and Slackware is quite odd in some ways). I'll check out Fedora Core 2 when it's released. The projects at freedesktop.org are also very promising.
I don't like the way all this functionality is brought to the user. It's much too chaotic, with much-used items mixed up with never-used items, wasting much time and resources with searching through options you won't use anyway. I booted up KDE 3.2 yesterday, and after five minutes I was starting to get annoyed by the huge number of menu items in Konqueror, the filebrowser that tries to be virtually everything. I think we can learn a lot from the success Microsoft has had with a much less configurable interface. A desktop doesn't need to do everything. The missing functionality will be delivered by third parties anyway, and if there are tools virtually everybody uses, you can consider it as missing functionality, and try to build it into the desktop. I think GNOME is starting to work this way now, but with GNOME the gap between the kernel and the GUI is too large (it misses things like device management).
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If only a screen and a photodiode are necessary to capture images, how difficult will it be to hack a normal TV (with a photodiode in the form of an IR-sensor) into a camera without *any* outside changes (or even complete software-based in newer tv's)? or even into a 'telescreen'-like device? Or what about adding one $0.10 photodiode to a laptop and have an integrated webcam?
Isn't this some kinda psychological warfare where Apple releases apps to fill the missing functionality of Windows, only to make Windows XP look outdated and to promote Tiger? What will be their next step? Some neat windowmanagement tricks like Exposé ported to Windows?
Maybe it helps if you buy two of them?
Also add an old 486 with Linux+SAMBA to let both computers access the same drives over SMB :)
pr0n?
in the Desktop Preferences -> Font dialog, select 'Subpixel Smoothing (LCDs)' to get the same effect, and with the 'details...' button you can select the order of the rgb-pixels.
it wasn't a troll :). I'm not very familiar with Apple's policies. It could be that they design an OS only for their current and future computers, but I'm glad to see that they also support older hardware.
...of the Mac Mini's that are produced after Q2 2005? Or will it only run on G5 hardware?
...that wearing this fin for too long makes the dolphin tyred.
I expected that dolphin to be red with 'Marlboro', 'Shell' and 'Vodafone' painted on its other fins...
Congrats!
one tear for every x
:h :h :h
:q!
I cry at every dd
1GdG
...more Slashdotters than politically inclined people.
Yes. There are also 3D versions, and you don't need a GeForce 6800 to view them.
on /. is CRUEL!!!!
Oops, I divided the size in kB's by 1000 not 1024. RAR will make the file 7066 kB, that's 6.89 MB :)
PNGOUT.EXE reduces the png from 4826114 to 4227666 bytes.
wget -c
Iceows (http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html) opens it too (and has nice Explorer integration :)).
The best compression I could achieve was 7.066 MB (RAR). A 24 bit PNG with best compression reduces its size to only 4.7MB.
...and within five minutes Firefox is responsible for >50% of the visits of the last month :P
What kind of geek are you if you don't know the difference between nothing (null, undef) and zero (0)??
On Windows:
- WinRAR
- IrfanView
- Cygwin + rxvt
- The GIMP
- PuTTY
- Vim
- OpenOffice.org
- Mozilla FireFox
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Winamp
- ActivePerl
And of course updates, drivers, j2sdk, and so on
I think I forgot some, I'm Linux-only for about half a year now...
On Linux (Slackware):
- Dropline GNOME
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Vim
- OpenOffice.org
- Eclipse IDE
- Rar
- NVidia drivers
But in Dutch, his last name is quite scary....
It's better than a year ago, but still I get confused about too many options, where 90% of the options aren't usable anyway. Configurability isn't everything. And that's because I think that they still try to satisfy the 5% of all users who want everything different. If there's one setting that satisfies 95% of the users, don't let them edit it (or only throug configuration scripts or so, because the zealots who really want to configure it, will find these scripts, or write a 'TweakUI'-like tool for it anyway).
I installed Dropline GNOME 2.6 yesterday, and the only experience with device configuration was when I wanted to configure my eth0. The first thing I saw was a warning about gnome-system-tools being 'under heavy development', and after that it said that 'eth0' didn't exist. But I think that a tool like that is better when it's integrated with the distribution (and Slackware is quite odd in some ways). I'll check out Fedora Core 2 when it's released. The projects at freedesktop.org are also very promising.
I don't like the way all this functionality is brought to the user. It's much too chaotic, with much-used items mixed up with never-used items, wasting much time and resources with searching through options you won't use anyway. I booted up KDE 3.2 yesterday, and after five minutes I was starting to get annoyed by the huge number of menu items in Konqueror, the filebrowser that tries to be virtually everything. I think we can learn a lot from the success Microsoft has had with a much less configurable interface. A desktop doesn't need to do everything. The missing functionality will be delivered by third parties anyway, and if there are tools virtually everybody uses, you can consider it as missing functionality, and try to build it into the desktop. I think GNOME is starting to work this way now, but with GNOME the gap between the kernel and the GUI is too large (it misses things like device management).