Get a cheap LCD monitor. The cheaper they are, the larger the pixels. I've seen 1024x768 on a 17". Or, you could run at half-resolution, which should scale without too much problem (each display pixel = 4 real pixels)... get a 1600x1200 monitor running at 800x600.
I've actually found that reinstalling is safer on Ubuntu, rather than upgrading. It's also a lot easier to do on Linux than in Windows... just burn/copy/save/whatever your home directory, install the OS clean, copy all the stuff back, and boom, you're upgraded. App preferences saved, all your files exist, everything just works.
Thirded. That said, I have a custom ACPI script for my T61 that I use for the screen event that lets me do all kinds of nifty stuff with my Intel X3100 and xrandr, just using an xdialog prompt to select presentation or multi-monitor modes and such. Gotta make sure that there's a large enough virtual size, and force allocate more video memory, but it works alright.
Check your power supply... that's almost always been the cause of any "weird" errors I've gotten. Jitter in power causes all kinds of fun, unpredictable stuff to happen.
Well, yeah. But his LOOKS more random because we have an implicit assumption that randomness will make things different, rather than select the same thing every time. We're hard-wired as humans to recognize patterns;)
Oh, he's listening to someone. ARIA, the people who say that that kind of software is available, and claim that it works. Basically, the people who give him kickbacks. The people he's not listening to are the people who are even marginally technically competent.
According to Wikipedia, they're actually MORE efficient in cold water than hemoglobin is, which is why many marine animals (like horseshoe crabs and such) have hemocyanin-based blood.
Those "advised speed" signs are actually set by the people building the roads, rather than the local governments.
My dad used to work for road crews years ago and said they used to take the work truck around the curve about as fast as they felt OK doing, and then lop 10mph off of that and put that on the sign.
I don't have a problem with people getting cured by placebos. But I do want them to notice that, if they have TB, it's the "oh-my-god-they're-so-bad" antibiotics that will probably save them.
Says you. People die from TB due to all kinds of stupid reasons... they won't be saved by antibiotics if they don't "believe" in taking them.
What needs to go down is the fucking unions. They're bleeding the companies dry, they're the reason that GM/Ford/etc. can't compete with Toyota and Honda and Subaru.
Which only encourages people like me to not buy Dell, so Dell would lose the computer AND the power brick sale by not being standard.
Almost all of my devices will charge from a mini USB connection. I have refused to buy certain cell phones simply because of that. That's definitely an upcoming charging standard.
buy.com sells refurb monitors very cheaply sometimes. I think I saw a 24" 1900x1600 or something like that for just over $200 today. Smaller ones are even less expensive.
When manufacturing costs find a way to make the same item cheaper, do you really think that cost savings is passed on to retail or the consumer? Absolutely not. Consumer's don't even know, for the most part.
Unless there's, you know, competition in the market. If Company A and Company B are both selling a widget that does job X (they can replace each other), for $Y, if Company A figures out how to make their widget cheaper you can be damn sure the consumer will get a lower price, because Company A wants more of the market, and thus, more money.
The problem is when you run into monopolies and oligopolies, which is a different discussion.
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I'd like more people to call it the "Just 'cuz you said it doesn't make it so" precedent ;)
Damn you ironic moderators!
I think that's called "Stockholm Syndrome"...
Get a cheap LCD monitor. The cheaper they are, the larger the pixels. I've seen 1024x768 on a 17". Or, you could run at half-resolution, which should scale without too much problem (each display pixel = 4 real pixels)... get a 1600x1200 monitor running at 800x600.
Or, just install Linux and you don't even have to worry about malware. 99.9% of it just won't run without some serious work.
Did you submit a bug report? ;)
I've actually found that reinstalling is safer on Ubuntu, rather than upgrading. It's also a lot easier to do on Linux than in Windows... just burn/copy/save/whatever your home directory, install the OS clean, copy all the stuff back, and boom, you're upgraded. App preferences saved, all your files exist, everything just works.
Can I get the icon in cornflower blue, though?
Which is why you choose your notifications wisely, and give power users the capability to disable certain classes of them if they want.
Thirded. That said, I have a custom ACPI script for my T61 that I use for the screen event that lets me do all kinds of nifty stuff with my Intel X3100 and xrandr, just using an xdialog prompt to select presentation or multi-monitor modes and such. Gotta make sure that there's a large enough virtual size, and force allocate more video memory, but it works alright.
Check your power supply... that's almost always been the cause of any "weird" errors I've gotten. Jitter in power causes all kinds of fun, unpredictable stuff to happen.
I thought that Intel specifically did that, that if one core were loaded it would overclock that core and downclock the others to get a speed boost...
Yup, I thought I remembered correctly.
Well, yeah. But his LOOKS more random because we have an implicit assumption that randomness will make things different, rather than select the same thing every time. We're hard-wired as humans to recognize patterns ;)
Oh, he's listening to someone. ARIA, the people who say that that kind of software is available, and claim that it works. Basically, the people who give him kickbacks. The people he's not listening to are the people who are even marginally technically competent.
Get someone who can cook it right, then. It shouldn't taste like shoe rubber unless it's overcooked.
But I prefer squid to octopus...
Green blood is copper based (hemocyanin), red blood is iron based (hemoglobin).
According to Wikipedia, they're actually MORE efficient in cold water than hemoglobin is, which is why many marine animals (like horseshoe crabs and such) have hemocyanin-based blood.
Hell, they've got an intelligence that exceeds that of many people I've met.
Those "advised speed" signs are actually set by the people building the roads, rather than the local governments.
My dad used to work for road crews years ago and said they used to take the work truck around the curve about as fast as they felt OK doing, and then lop 10mph off of that and put that on the sign.
I don't have a problem with people getting cured by placebos. But I do want them to notice that, if they have TB, it's the "oh-my-god-they're-so-bad" antibiotics that will probably save them.
Says you. People die from TB due to all kinds of stupid reasons... they won't be saved by antibiotics if they don't "believe" in taking them.
A published author has an editor. A book review on Slashdot has Slashdot's typical editors (which is to say, none). Draw your own conclusions ;)
"The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now."
Dunno about that. We have a tomcat app as our main product, and we've found invariably that Linux performs better than Windows with it.
What needs to go down is the fucking unions. They're bleeding the companies dry, they're the reason that GM/Ford/etc. can't compete with Toyota and Honda and Subaru.
Which only encourages people like me to not buy Dell, so Dell would lose the computer AND the power brick sale by not being standard.
Almost all of my devices will charge from a mini USB connection. I have refused to buy certain cell phones simply because of that. That's definitely an upcoming charging standard.
buy.com sells refurb monitors very cheaply sometimes. I think I saw a 24" 1900x1600 or something like that for just over $200 today. Smaller ones are even less expensive.
When manufacturing costs find a way to make the same item cheaper, do you really think that cost savings is passed on to retail or the consumer? Absolutely not. Consumer's don't even know, for the most part.
Unless there's, you know, competition in the market. If Company A and Company B are both selling a widget that does job X (they can replace each other), for $Y, if Company A figures out how to make their widget cheaper you can be damn sure the consumer will get a lower price, because Company A wants more of the market, and thus, more money.
The problem is when you run into monopolies and oligopolies, which is a different discussion.