They used to come with 1920x1200 and 1680x1050. Now, most have decided that the 16:10 aspect ratio is bunk. Now you're looking at 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 is being replaced more often than not by 1600x900 (a loss of pixels on both the horizontal and vertical fronts.)
...sounds like the perfect book for the holiday season. Of course, I could give it to a few "friends" of mine...
Honestly though, it sounds like an interesting enough book. Yes, my cubicle sucks, and most of the time my job, but hey: It's a job. I leave it at work when I go home and for now it lets me buy the bright, shiny stuff that I geek out on. I don't need a book to compare how good I've got it to the subject in the book. That's what my parents are for.
...is this a suprise? A mega-corporation trying to make money by expanding it's IP portfolio. I'm not sure what is worse, the fact that I'm responding to a story about how Microsoft is trying to invade into another part of my life, or the fact that someone else has decided that they have a better reason to "own" the Internet...
C'mon. This has gotta be useful for all the bachelors out there. Nothing like surfing the net at home while warming the house at the same time. You know that Intel is just waiting for the right time to unleash the hot-plate add on so I don't even have to leave my computer to cook the vast stores of Top Ramen.
...is basically the same thing that most people have said so far. Either find a copy of VMWare or a personal computer and spin-up a copy of RedHat or Fedora and start playing with it. Once you feel comfortable with it, start branching out.
Online courses (atleast for me) don't work that well. I'm more of a hands-on person which means that I need to install the OS, play with the OS, destroy the OS, rebuild the OS atleast a few times before I get really familiar.
Oh, and pray to the penguin...he is all knowledgeble.
Recently coming over from the Dark Side (a.k.a. Windoze) I agree...
I'm not an idiot, and I don't mind a learning curve--just as long as it isn't a mountain. For the longest time now it seems like every year is the year that Linux breaks into the Desktop market and start to give Micro$oft a run for their money......but I'm still waiting.
I'm a desktop Linux user, and being a new user to Linux, frustration is a common thing. UI is marginal at best for alot of things (i.e. sharing files and printers across my network) which means you can multiply the time it takes to do these tasks by a factor of 10.
Maybe the reason why we continue to hear that the "Linux Destop Revolution" is always a year away is largely due to the fact that the overall power of Linux is there, ready to be unleashed. However, until the UI is not directly based on the number of times I've Googled the subject or read a "help page" written in a language that even when viewed in English is as foreign as Mars, expect to keep hearing about the revolution instead of witnessing the fall of an empire.
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They used to come with 1920x1200 and 1680x1050. Now, most have decided that the 16:10 aspect ratio is bunk. Now you're looking at 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 is being replaced more often than not by 1600x900 (a loss of pixels on both the horizontal and vertical fronts.)
Wouldn't that make it the Pimp?
...sounds like the perfect book for the holiday season. Of course, I could give it to a few "friends" of mine... Honestly though, it sounds like an interesting enough book. Yes, my cubicle sucks, and most of the time my job, but hey: It's a job. I leave it at work when I go home and for now it lets me buy the bright, shiny stuff that I geek out on. I don't need a book to compare how good I've got it to the subject in the book. That's what my parents are for.
...is this a suprise? A mega-corporation trying to make money by expanding it's IP portfolio. I'm not sure what is worse, the fact that I'm responding to a story about how Microsoft is trying to invade into another part of my life, or the fact that someone else has decided that they have a better reason to "own" the Internet...
C'mon. This has gotta be useful for all the bachelors out there. Nothing like surfing the net at home while warming the house at the same time. You know that Intel is just waiting for the right time to unleash the hot-plate add on so I don't even have to leave my computer to cook the vast stores of Top Ramen.
...is basically the same thing that most people have said so far. Either find a copy of VMWare or a personal computer and spin-up a copy of RedHat or Fedora and start playing with it. Once you feel comfortable with it, start branching out. Online courses (atleast for me) don't work that well. I'm more of a hands-on person which means that I need to install the OS, play with the OS, destroy the OS, rebuild the OS atleast a few times before I get really familiar. Oh, and pray to the penguin...he is all knowledgeble.
Recently coming over from the Dark Side (a.k.a. Windoze) I agree...
...but I'm still waiting.
I'm not an idiot, and I don't mind a learning curve--just as long as it isn't a mountain. For the longest time now it seems like every year is the year that Linux breaks into the Desktop market and start to give Micro$oft a run for their money...
I'm a desktop Linux user, and being a new user to Linux, frustration is a common thing. UI is marginal at best for alot of things (i.e. sharing files and printers across my network) which means you can multiply the time it takes to do these tasks by a factor of 10.
Maybe the reason why we continue to hear that the "Linux Destop Revolution" is always a year away is largely due to the fact that the overall power of Linux is there, ready to be unleashed. However, until the UI is not directly based on the number of times I've Googled the subject or read a "help page" written in a language that even when viewed in English is as foreign as Mars, expect to keep hearing about the revolution instead of witnessing the fall of an empire.