That feature is configurable in advanced/general options, and seems to often be off by default. I like it and actually made decent use of a three-button mouse (PS/2, ball mouse) in semi-recent times.
That's a pain in the butt but there are several solutions : a little "x" or sweeping broom that clears the URL bar when you click it, a clipboard manager accessible from the tray icons to get lost selections back, or opening a new tab and closing the old one.
More accurately, you need some address space to access the hardware. I/O between the CPU and the keyboard, PCI devices, real-time clock, interrupt controllers etc. One some 8bit computers with 16bit address space you might be able to use up to 48KB RAM instead of 64K, for the same reason, unless memory banking is used. On PC you typically have a 256MB window to interface with the graphics card, so in fact you had 256MB taken for the graphics card and 256MB for everything else. If you had used two graphics card (whether with 512MB or 1GB or 2GB graphics memory) you'd have got 3.25GB max usable RAM.
I've used MS-DOS 7.10 (though not very recently), it gives crazy conventional mem just with himem and emm386 without even trying, but that's without a cdrom driver. One nice surprise was that 4DOS is now freeware, and off course ctmouse is crazy small and makes the mouse smoother. So you get fat32, tab completion, aliases. Even the ssh client is nice to use (login to a unix-like box and attach to a screen, that's powerful) and I get to run it in 80x50 full screen mode - I can't manage to do that in linux, and Windows Vista/7/8 removed the feature.
I failed to boot from iSCSI when I tried, but it is possible and gives r/w access. The universal packet driver (universal when you boot from PXE) did work. Holy grail would be universal sound support (a possibility is an application supporting a subset of modern PCI sound cards and chipsets by itself), a driver for USB audio class 1 would be a nice workaround. I do want to reboot my PC under DOS to play games the old way.
Will the displays calibrate themselves?, and provide some useful fudge setting for people that like their display brighter to see the details easily. Most people badly set their brightness or whatever it is (and they don't want me to turn it down) whereas that's really glaring to me as I'm used to deep blacks. If there were gamma in the TV manus instead of just "brightness" it would be a good thing already (that's what I like anyway, in small amount). With HDR, you'll vitally need some "smart" setting I believe as we risk to be aggressively blinded by other people's TVs instead of just being annoyed:-)
You have Alpine Linux that uses musl instead of glibc, and busybox but it uses GCC. It's a small box/router/embedded kind of thing but with desktop packages too. I shall try it on some computer garbage with 128MB ram if/when I come across one, with dillo as the browser because hell, you won't be allowed to use the big stuff.
Don't forget to use OSSv4 for the sound if you want to got all reactionary punk and stick it to the gnu.
Indeed that's what happened to Silverlight, they built a better Flash than Flash but people weren't interested. RT may live on (as runtime not OS) for some people who want to run tablet/phone apps as long as they don't miss the one for the train company, the bank and so on.
RT a.k.a. Metro is an emulation layer already? it's about running touchy apps on.NET, or html/javascript. So the compatibilty seems easy and they can quietly update a few things behind the scene (.NET version, Metro/RT libraries)
That HDMI 2.0 is bleeding edge, not on that laptop. Obvious solution was to have both HDMI and DP on the laptop, though that didn't come to be. Also, direct support for single-link DVI is a basic feature of DP, requiring a passive adapter (i.e. just a connector) and single-link DVI is what most HDMI stuff is.
It's over 20-year-old now, how can they own it? Nintendo has just launched a mobile console with a secondary "joystick" very similar to the trackpoint too.
If you want to run a few games while not worrying about running the wrong driver (and face it, on linux you'll run a couple Valve games, an emulator and some old stuff that doesn't crash in Wine) then the Intel 5200 Pro is a "drawforward". The thing has a GPU double the size of Intel's usual higher end one and 128MB L4 which the GPU is allowed to use. That puts it in the "more powerful than Xbox 360" category at least, though perhaps hardly.
No, the card in question is Radeon R9 280X, which is a rebranded and high clocked 7970, does over 3 teraflops. It's priced cheaper, but is significantly faster (depending on game) and has 3GB memory not 2GB. Sure, it uses about 200 watts.
No, a CUDA core is better thought of an ALU or sub-ALU, speaking in terms of cores is clear abuse because AMD or nvidia once started to use that term. As a limited analogy, the original Pentium has two integer pipelines but is not called a dual-core CPU.
"CUDA cores" are organised into units that house 128 of them here, called an "SMM". But to understand how things are dealt with from the software point of view (threads, warps) some extensive reading is needed.
About every PC still emulates ISA and even if you don't use the legacy I/O such as PS/2 you need it at least to store BIOS setting (not sure what UEFI motherboards do), or even for that hated Trusted Platform Module!
You have many motherboards options with latest gen hardware and a parallel port, still. That may work if your software is so backwards it needs to think the parallel port is attached to the ISA bus.
Old BASIC with only if, goto and line numbers looks like Assembly I believe. Gosub is your call/ret. Of course it is a bit crap for something other than seeing your results in a debugguer or in blinking LEDs.
Easy : use that older language version, have your students install Mono on Windows if that even makes a difference (or a linux VM, whichever they choose), don't use lambdas, iterators or asynchronous programming in an introductory programming course, I mean in C you would still do that crappy for loop with i = i +1 the same as a random BASIC from 1982.
I want to report that story as false, there's no way a single company with perhaps final decisions taken by a very small amount of people can change a policy on a whim or at random and that this will affect the content of every damn newspaper, radio station and TV news.
Talk about a disappointing story. The banchmark is crappy : Antutu, and that's all, CPU wise. That is a preview of a review, though : the article is unfinished. I prefer when slashdot is late.
There are 2-pin power sockets in my grandma's house, but everything renovated in the last two decades at least has 3-pin ones. It's been increasingly common to find homes and businesses fitted with 3-pin sockets exclusively (that is what's compliant). The house from when I was a kid had both.
I made a friend get the current cheap Microsoft keyboard and mouse, USB only these days but still available in white. The mouse is just a mouse (that is a good thing alread), the keyboard feels really great. It's a rare thing to use a keyboard that's both good and new, it's amazing how it leaves every laptop and some "gamer keyboards" (logitech) in the dust, even though it's a cheap keyboard.
Best of all, people get the joke when you say that "Microsoft is a great manufacturer of input peripherals"
I remember some networking nightmare with a linux client PC that needed to go through a portal to get any networking, access to web pages was very limited : certificate failures everywhere, youtube that looked like you've loaded it in a text mode browser. Swapping NIC did nothing. It occurred to me that the PC was forgetting its BIOS settings, I found out in the summer when it overheated because the underclocking was not set anymore. the PC was an off-line music player (which no longer had a fan on the CPU). So the coin battery was replaced, but the networking still was wrong. Then I don't remember how I did think of it but I finally set the damn time to the current year, by using rdate (a local time server was reachable) then bam! everything flawless.
It would have been possible to run the PC without battery by attaching a fan and running rdate at start up, but damn : I learned how networking is brittle if you don't have accurate time.
As a FOSS user, crashy software makes me give up things. Crashy games make me give up gaming (or well, most FOSS games are either from 1979 or are empty shells or have terrible artworks that would have been rejected in 1994), crashy music-player-with-library makes me stay with playlist based music players, quirky combination of dosbox and software midi synth makes me give up using dosbox.
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That feature is configurable in advanced/general options, and seems to often be off by default.
I like it and actually made decent use of a three-button mouse (PS/2, ball mouse) in semi-recent times.
That's a pain in the butt but there are several solutions : a little "x" or sweeping broom that clears the URL bar when you click it, a clipboard manager accessible from the tray icons to get lost selections back, or opening a new tab and closing the old one.
More accurately, you need some address space to access the hardware. I/O between the CPU and the keyboard, PCI devices, real-time clock, interrupt controllers etc.
One some 8bit computers with 16bit address space you might be able to use up to 48KB RAM instead of 64K, for the same reason, unless memory banking is used.
On PC you typically have a 256MB window to interface with the graphics card, so in fact you had 256MB taken for the graphics card and 256MB for everything else. If you had used two graphics card (whether with 512MB or 1GB or 2GB graphics memory) you'd have got 3.25GB max usable RAM.
I've used MS-DOS 7.10 (though not very recently), it gives crazy conventional mem just with himem and emm386 without even trying, but that's without a cdrom driver.
One nice surprise was that 4DOS is now freeware, and off course ctmouse is crazy small and makes the mouse smoother. So you get fat32, tab completion, aliases. Even the ssh client is nice to use (login to a unix-like box and attach to a screen, that's powerful) and I get to run it in 80x50 full screen mode - I can't manage to do that in linux, and Windows Vista/7/8 removed the feature.
I failed to boot from iSCSI when I tried, but it is possible and gives r/w access. The universal packet driver (universal when you boot from PXE) did work.
Holy grail would be universal sound support (a possibility is an application supporting a subset of modern PCI sound cards and chipsets by itself), a driver for USB audio class 1 would be a nice workaround.
I do want to reboot my PC under DOS to play games the old way.
Will the displays calibrate themselves?, and provide some useful fudge setting for people that like their display brighter to see the details easily. :-)
Most people badly set their brightness or whatever it is (and they don't want me to turn it down) whereas that's really glaring to me as I'm used to deep blacks.
If there were gamma in the TV manus instead of just "brightness" it would be a good thing already (that's what I like anyway, in small amount).
With HDR, you'll vitally need some "smart" setting I believe as we risk to be aggressively blinded by other people's TVs instead of just being annoyed
You have Alpine Linux that uses musl instead of glibc, and busybox but it uses GCC. It's a small box/router/embedded kind of thing but with desktop packages too.
I shall try it on some computer garbage with 128MB ram if/when I come across one, with dillo as the browser because hell, you won't be allowed to use the big stuff.
Don't forget to use OSSv4 for the sound if you want to got all reactionary punk and stick it to the gnu.
Indeed that's what happened to Silverlight, they built a better Flash than Flash but people weren't interested.
RT may live on (as runtime not OS) for some people who want to run tablet/phone apps as long as they don't miss the one for the train company, the bank and so on.
RT a.k.a. Metro is an emulation layer already? it's about running touchy apps on .NET, or html/javascript. So the compatibilty seems easy and they can quietly update a few things behind the scene (.NET version, Metro/RT libraries)
That HDMI 2.0 is bleeding edge, not on that laptop.
Obvious solution was to have both HDMI and DP on the laptop, though that didn't come to be.
Also, direct support for single-link DVI is a basic feature of DP, requiring a passive adapter (i.e. just a connector) and single-link DVI is what most HDMI stuff is.
It's over 20-year-old now, how can they own it?
Nintendo has just launched a mobile console with a secondary "joystick" very similar to the trackpoint too.
If you want to run a few games while not worrying about running the wrong driver (and face it, on linux you'll run a couple Valve games, an emulator and some old stuff that doesn't crash in Wine) then the Intel 5200 Pro is a "drawforward". The thing has a GPU double the size of Intel's usual higher end one and 128MB L4 which the GPU is allowed to use. That puts it in the "more powerful than Xbox 360" category at least, though perhaps hardly.
The only drawback is the cost of the damn thing.
No, the card in question is Radeon R9 280X, which is a rebranded and high clocked 7970, does over 3 teraflops.
It's priced cheaper, but is significantly faster (depending on game) and has 3GB memory not 2GB. Sure, it uses about 200 watts.
No, a CUDA core is better thought of an ALU or sub-ALU, speaking in terms of cores is clear abuse because AMD or nvidia once started to use that term. As a limited analogy, the original Pentium has two integer pipelines but is not called a dual-core CPU.
"CUDA cores" are organised into units that house 128 of them here, called an "SMM". But to understand how things are dealt with from the software point of view (threads, warps) some extensive reading is needed.
About every PC still emulates ISA and even if you don't use the legacy I/O such as PS/2 you need it at least to store BIOS setting (not sure what UEFI motherboards do), or even for that hated Trusted Platform Module!
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You have many motherboards options with latest gen hardware and a parallel port, still.
That may work if your software is so backwards it needs to think the parallel port is attached to the ISA bus.
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http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A...
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel...
Old BASIC with only if, goto and line numbers looks like Assembly I believe. Gosub is your call/ret. Of course it is a bit crap for something other than seeing your results in a debugguer or in blinking LEDs.
Easy : use that older language version, have your students install Mono on Windows if that even makes a difference (or a linux VM, whichever they choose), don't use lambdas, iterators or asynchronous programming in an introductory programming course, I mean in C you would still do that crappy for loop with i = i +1 the same as a random BASIC from 1982.
I want to report that story as false, there's no way a single company with perhaps final decisions taken by a very small amount of people can change a policy on a whim or at random and that this will affect the content of every damn newspaper, radio station and TV news.
no, that may teach them to go with a mainframe, for the better or the worse.
Talk about a disappointing story. The banchmark is crappy : Antutu, and that's all, CPU wise. That is a preview of a review, though : the article is unfinished. I prefer when slashdot is late.
Ceiling iot is watching you masturbate.
There are 2-pin power sockets in my grandma's house, but everything renovated in the last two decades at least has 3-pin ones. It's been increasingly common to find homes and businesses fitted with 3-pin sockets exclusively (that is what's compliant). The house from when I was a kid had both.
I made a friend get the current cheap Microsoft keyboard and mouse, USB only these days but still available in white. The mouse is just a mouse (that is a good thing alread), the keyboard feels really great. It's a rare thing to use a keyboard that's both good and new, it's amazing how it leaves every laptop and some "gamer keyboards" (logitech) in the dust, even though it's a cheap keyboard.
Best of all, people get the joke when you say that "Microsoft is a great manufacturer of input peripherals"
I remember some networking nightmare with a linux client PC that needed to go through a portal to get any networking, access to web pages was very limited : certificate failures everywhere, youtube that looked like you've loaded it in a text mode browser.
Swapping NIC did nothing. It occurred to me that the PC was forgetting its BIOS settings, I found out in the summer when it overheated because the underclocking was not set anymore. the PC was an off-line music player (which no longer had a fan on the CPU). So the coin battery was replaced, but the networking still was wrong. Then I don't remember how I did think of it but I finally set the damn time to the current year, by using rdate (a local time server was reachable) then bam! everything flawless.
It would have been possible to run the PC without battery by attaching a fan and running rdate at start up, but damn : I learned how networking is brittle if you don't have accurate time.
As a FOSS user, crashy software makes me give up things. Crashy games make me give up gaming (or well, most FOSS games are either from 1979 or are empty shells or have terrible artworks that would have been rejected in 1994), crashy music-player-with-library makes me stay with playlist based music players, quirky combination of dosbox and software midi synth makes me give up using dosbox.