Surely the fact that the default font is unreadable on high resolution screens, is the fault of windows and not of the screen. X11, and i`m sure OSX too, takes the DPI of the screen into account, and sizes the fonts accordingly, so they're still readable.
The A500 was not the first Amiga, the A1000 was but i`m not sure how much earlier it came out... The A1000 had exactly the same audio/video hardware as the A1000, and came in a bigger box, but shipped with less RAM by default and an older version of AmigaOS.
Both machines could display 4096 colours at once, using a mode called HAM (Hold And Modify), but which only worked in low-resolution (320x256 perhaps 320x512) and introduced ugly ramping effects if adjacent pixels tried to change more than just a single RGB component (HAM let you modify one of the three components per pixel)
The amiga could only display the full 4096 colours at once in HAM mode, which only worked in 320x256 mode on the earlier models. Otherwise you were limited to 32 colours in 320x256, and 16 colours in 640x512
You can always use the first-child: display:none element of CSS, which IE will completely ignore and display anyway... See www.ev6.net for an example (even ie7 still displays it, tho it gets the rest of the page right unlike earlier versions, interestingly mac ie works fine)
Apple's way makes a lot more sense.... The OS shouldn't need to be restored, and trying to do it this way will always be flawed, for instance what if you corrupt the restore program? how will it restore itself then?
MacOS prevents you from overwriting core system files by not giving you privileges to do so, a far more sensible approach than the kludge of letting you run riot and trying to clean up after. In such a situation, where your user is unprivileged, the worst thing you (or a piece of malware you run) can do, is delete all your personal files. So here we have a feature that lets you recover those files if the worst happens, it makes a lot of sense.
Nextstep had a dock long before windows had a taskbar (actually a windowbar, because it doesnt really show tasks so much as open windows)... The nextstep dock was on the side of the screen tho. There were also third party addons for the amiga which had docks both at the side and at the bottom of the screen, around about the same time.
Actually, the fastest machine on which it is currently possible to run photoshop, would be a multi chip multi core opteron, which you can't get from either dell or apple.
T42 (last IBM design i believe) T43 (First lenovo ?)
T42 has a radeon card with 32mb dedicated videoram T43 has an intel integrated video chipset
T42 has an intel 1gbps ethernet controller T43 has a broadcom 1gbps ethernet controller (far less stable than the intel one, slower, and causes more cpu usage)
T42 has standard ide drives T43 has SATA, a step forward i guess
and the external flat panels that came with them, the newer lenovo one seems a lot cheaper in terms of casing
Dont do that... Atheros cards are really well supported, the drivers are called "madwifi" and support 802.11a/b/g (on supported cards), are very stable (im using one right now) and support monitor mode properly (wardriving!)
Because designs are finalised well in advance of manufacture (ie, the designs are still IBM designs...) just wait
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You can do that... Look at the kde-meta ebuilds, they split kde up into all of it's constituent apps, so you can emerge konqueror seperately etc... If you emerge kde-meta, you get the entire of kde, but as seperate packages so you can remove unwanted ones later.
Piracy has in many ways helped the industry... The Amiga was hugely popular in Europe as a games playing machine, mostly because the games were so easy to pirate... Everyone i know who had an Amiga had a huge selection of pirated games and a moderately sized collection of legitimate games. Despite what certain amiga commercial software authors will tell you, piracy did not kill the amiga, commodore killed the amiga through poor marketting and complacency. Contrast this to console owners, who typically had quite a small selection of games, and quite rapidly got bored of the entire system because they didn't have enough games to keep their interest.
Games and non-gaming software on the PC have also been massively successful, despite easy and widespread piracy taking place.
That's the fault of redhat and epson... RedHat is very much designed around you updating the entire distro every year, and there's really nothing to stop you either, contrast that with windows where an upgrade will cost you. Also, XP may be 5 years old now, but it's yet to be replaced with a newer version.
You could always use a rolling distro, like debian or gentoo, where the entire system gets updated gradually as you go along, instead of in one large jolt like redhat. (for comparison, my machine was originally installed using one of the very earlier versions of gentoo - from before there was really an installguide, and you had to follow help on irc... and it has all the latest packages on it now)
On another note, why wouldnt you want to upgrade the entire os? the new versions will have many things to offer you (and you can always remove stuff you dont want) and unless your running some very strange third party kernel modules, it's not going to break anything your already using.
So basically, it's not expected for people to be running old versions of linux, since upgrading is free and painless, there's really no reason not to have the latest versions.
Well then your running a distro which is too old, i imagine a current version would have this driver by default. You'd have the same problem trying to use this printer on an old version of windows too, only the fix (to upgrade to a newer version) would cost you money and might force you to upgrade other parts of your system.
Here's the biggest problem with schools right now. They teach you a single application, instead of the general concept of how such applications work.
when i went to school, we had Acorns running various word processing and spreadsheet apps, and later we had intel boxes running first wordperfect for dos, and later wordperfect for windows 3.1 (tho the dos version was still installed too).
Because all the computer rooms in the school had different software and different machines, they had to teach us generally how these apps worked, rather than the recent trend of teaching people by a single app by repetition.
However, if your in an organisation your likely to have a single printer for a large number of workstations, in which case it's much easier:
If your print server is running CUPS in the same subnet as the workstations, and is configured to share it's printers, all the workstations which are running cups (including osx by default) will automatically detect the printer and add it to the list of available printers, you don't need to install any drivers on the workstations because the server handles the translation of postscript into whatever the printer is expecting.
As for difficulty setting up a printer on linux, pretty much all modern printers from reputable manufacturers are USB based, and get detected automatically by a modern linux system when connected, no need to install drivers from a cd or anything, and this is just lowend consumer printers... When you get to high end printers, they virtually all support postscript which has been the native printing protocol of unix for years.
Better than being forced to use ie6, which is far more outdated than firefox 1.0.4. The only differences between 1.0.4 and 1.0.8 are security fixes, but if it's not your machine then it's not your problem.
A lot of these machines are... The Nokia IP650 is just a P2 motherboard, complete with video ports and an onboard nic that you can access if you take the lid off the machine.
It's not just raw bandwidth to contend with... You also need to worry about interrupts, many cards generate 1 interrupt per packet, which will quite quickly saturate the bus when you have lots of small packets coming in.
Well, that was xfree86, and a lot of people had problems with the xfree86 developers... So how about xorg? are they any better? and would ATI work with them?
Consider again that report feature, reports may not be printed and you might have to run thousands of them on a single machine. That 0.7 seconds saved, multiplied over 100,000 transactions becomes 70000 seconds (about 19 hours)
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Surely the fact that the default font is unreadable on high resolution screens, is the fault of windows and not of the screen.
X11, and i`m sure OSX too, takes the DPI of the screen into account, and sizes the fonts accordingly, so they're still readable.
The A500 was not the first Amiga, the A1000 was but i`m not sure how much earlier it came out... The A1000 had exactly the same audio/video hardware as the A1000, and came in a bigger box, but shipped with less RAM by default and an older version of AmigaOS.
Both machines could display 4096 colours at once, using a mode called HAM (Hold And Modify), but which only worked in low-resolution (320x256 perhaps 320x512) and introduced ugly ramping effects if adjacent pixels tried to change more than just a single RGB component (HAM let you modify one of the three components per pixel)
The amiga could only display the full 4096 colours at once in HAM mode, which only worked in 320x256 mode on the earlier models. Otherwise you were limited to 32 colours in 320x256, and 16 colours in 640x512
You can always use the first-child: display:none element of CSS, which IE will completely ignore and display anyway...
See www.ev6.net for an example (even ie7 still displays it, tho it gets the rest of the page right unlike earlier versions, interestingly mac ie works fine)
Apple's way makes a lot more sense....
The OS shouldn't need to be restored, and trying to do it this way will always be flawed, for instance what if you corrupt the restore program? how will it restore itself then?
MacOS prevents you from overwriting core system files by not giving you privileges to do so, a far more sensible approach than the kludge of letting you run riot and trying to clean up after.
In such a situation, where your user is unprivileged, the worst thing you (or a piece of malware you run) can do, is delete all your personal files.
So here we have a feature that lets you recover those files if the worst happens, it makes a lot of sense.
Nextstep had a dock long before windows had a taskbar (actually a windowbar, because it doesnt really show tasks so much as open windows)... The nextstep dock was on the side of the screen tho.
There were also third party addons for the amiga which had docks both at the side and at the bottom of the screen, around about the same time.
Actually, the fastest machine on which it is currently possible to run photoshop, would be a multi chip multi core opteron, which you can't get from either dell or apple.
Windows users also have to delve into the registry from time to time, which is actually far more arcane and hazard-prone than editing config files.
Also, it's not unheard of for mac users to edit configuration files by hand occasionally.
T42 (last IBM design i believe)
T43 (First lenovo ?)
T42 has a radeon card with 32mb dedicated videoram
T43 has an intel integrated video chipset
T42 has an intel 1gbps ethernet controller
T43 has a broadcom 1gbps ethernet controller (far less stable than the intel one, slower, and causes more cpu usage)
T42 has standard ide drives
T43 has SATA, a step forward i guess
and the external flat panels that came with them, the newer lenovo one seems a lot cheaper in terms of casing
Dont do that...
Atheros cards are really well supported, the drivers are called "madwifi" and support 802.11a/b/g (on supported cards), are very stable (im using one right now) and support monitor mode properly (wardriving!)
the site is www.madwifi.org
Because designs are finalised well in advance of manufacture (ie, the designs are still IBM designs...) just wait
You can do that...
Look at the kde-meta ebuilds, they split kde up into all of it's constituent apps, so you can emerge konqueror seperately etc...
If you emerge kde-meta, you get the entire of kde, but as seperate packages so you can remove unwanted ones later.
Piracy has in many ways helped the industry...
The Amiga was hugely popular in Europe as a games playing machine, mostly because the games were so easy to pirate... Everyone i know who had an Amiga had a huge selection of pirated games and a moderately sized collection of legitimate games. Despite what certain amiga commercial software authors will tell you, piracy did not kill the amiga, commodore killed the amiga through poor marketting and complacency.
Contrast this to console owners, who typically had quite a small selection of games, and quite rapidly got bored of the entire system because they didn't have enough games to keep their interest.
Games and non-gaming software on the PC have also been massively successful, despite easy and widespread piracy taking place.
That's the fault of redhat and epson...
RedHat is very much designed around you updating the entire distro every year, and there's really nothing to stop you either, contrast that with windows where an upgrade will cost you. Also, XP may be 5 years old now, but it's yet to be replaced with a newer version.
You could always use a rolling distro, like debian or gentoo, where the entire system gets updated gradually as you go along, instead of in one large jolt like redhat.
(for comparison, my machine was originally installed using one of the very earlier versions of gentoo - from before there was really an installguide, and you had to follow help on irc... and it has all the latest packages on it now)
On another note, why wouldnt you want to upgrade the entire os? the new versions will have many things to offer you (and you can always remove stuff you dont want) and unless your running some very strange third party kernel modules, it's not going to break anything your already using.
So basically, it's not expected for people to be running old versions of linux, since upgrading is free and painless, there's really no reason not to have the latest versions.
Well then your running a distro which is too old, i imagine a current version would have this driver by default.
You'd have the same problem trying to use this printer on an old version of windows too, only the fix (to upgrade to a newer version) would cost you money and might force you to upgrade other parts of your system.
Here's the biggest problem with schools right now.
They teach you a single application, instead of the general concept of how such applications work.
when i went to school, we had Acorns running various word processing and spreadsheet apps, and later we had intel boxes running first wordperfect for dos, and later wordperfect for windows 3.1 (tho the dos version was still installed too).
Because all the computer rooms in the school had different software and different machines, they had to teach us generally how these apps worked, rather than the recent trend of teaching people by a single app by repetition.
However, if your in an organisation your likely to have a single printer for a large number of workstations, in which case it's much easier:
If your print server is running CUPS in the same subnet as the workstations, and is configured to share it's printers, all the workstations which are running cups (including osx by default) will automatically detect the printer and add it to the list of available printers, you don't need to install any drivers on the workstations because the server handles the translation of postscript into whatever the printer is expecting.
As for difficulty setting up a printer on linux, pretty much all modern printers from reputable manufacturers are USB based, and get detected automatically by a modern linux system when connected, no need to install drivers from a cd or anything, and this is just lowend consumer printers...
When you get to high end printers, they virtually all support postscript which has been the native printing protocol of unix for years.
Better than being forced to use ie6, which is far more outdated than firefox 1.0.4.
The only differences between 1.0.4 and 1.0.8 are security fixes, but if it's not your machine then it's not your problem.
A lot of these machines are...
The Nokia IP650 is just a P2 motherboard, complete with video ports and an onboard nic that you can access if you take the lid off the machine.
It's not just raw bandwidth to contend with...
You also need to worry about interrupts, many cards generate 1 interrupt per packet, which will quite quickly saturate the bus when you have lots of small packets coming in.
Apple could still turn to AMD if Intel truly shafted them...
CPUs and FPUs used to be entirely different chips too.
Well, that was xfree86, and a lot of people had problems with the xfree86 developers...
So how about xorg? are they any better? and would ATI work with them?
So how about an os-independant binary interface (native code, but with a portable runtime, like wine, or *bsd's ability to run linux binaries etc)
- www.x86abi.org
Consider again that report feature, reports may not be printed and you might have to run thousands of them on a single machine.
That 0.7 seconds saved, multiplied over 100,000 transactions becomes 70000 seconds (about 19 hours)