Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 09 September 2015 14:41:19 Mick wrote: > Would you mind explaining how it works? You measure the icc of a monitor - > what do you do with this then? Do you need to be running something like > colord all the time to feed some correction data to xranrd? You get a live DVD (Fedora)

[gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread james
Fernando Rodriguez outlook.com> writes: > > albeit in it's infancy. Naturally it's going to take a while to > > become mainstream useful; but that more like a year or 2, at most. > > The value I see on that technology for desktop computing is that we get the > GPUs for what they're made

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:20 AM, james wrote: > I think most folks when purchasing a workstation include a graphics > card on the list of items to include. So my suggestions where geared > towards informing folks about some of the new features of gcc that > may intice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:20:39 + (UTC) james wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez outlook.com> writes: > > > > albeit in it's infancy. Naturally it's going to take a while to > > > become mainstream useful; but that more like a year or 2, at most. > > > > The value I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:12:37 + (UTC) james wrote: > Gevisz gmail.com> writes: > > > on-board video card. Just to avoid extra heating and aircraft noise > > produced by R4770. > > Fanless video cards are wonderful. I have had many over the years but this > one is

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-10 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > On the same hardware I noticed that a CMYK photograph converted to > sRGB looked mostly the same (indistinguishable) on Linux, but the > sRGB colours were brighter on MSWindows. > > I tried this by dual booting between MSWindows and Linux. > > Then I

[gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread james
Gevisz gmail.com> writes: > on-board video card. Just to avoid extra heating and aircraft noise > produced by R4770. Fanless video cards are wonderful. I have had many over the years but this one is still my (silent) favorite:: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[gentoo-user] Re: dec-terminal fonts

2015-09-10 Thread Harry Putnam
the...@sys-concept.com writes: > On 09/09/2015 03:04 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've got to liking this font: >> -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 >> >> But, after checking with xlsfonts... I don't see it available >> >> Can anyone tell me which font package would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, September 09, 2015 9:52:55 PM james wrote: > Jeremi Piotrowski gmail.com> writes: > > > No, and yes. Compilation is not affected in any way and runtime > > performance can only be improved _if_ this stuff is explicitly used within > > the code. > > Yes this is all new and a work