On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 10:20 PM, Tom Rittenhouse wrote:
If you had my printer you would want to change the halftone screen. Or
don't
you think inkjets use a halftone screen. If that is so, I have news for
you.
Okay, I'll bite. What printer do you have, and what is the issue
A scroll of mail from Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 12 Nov 2001
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Read it? y
These days it's more to do with what you're weened with, computer-wise.
If you grow up with PCs, you tend to stay with them.
I've found that people who are weaned with only PCs tend to be very
wary of
That's funny, when I told my graphics software I wanted to change the
printer halftone, it told me that requires a Postscript printer.
--graywolf
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On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 06:43 PM, Tom Rittenhouse wrote:
That's funny, when I told my graphics software I wanted to change the
printer halftone, it told me that requires a Postscript printer.
Once again, I'm talking about photographic printing here.
-Aaron
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Aaron Reynolds wrote:
Ha ha! I'd probably be running Linux if I didn't need all the stinking
MS
Office applications to be compatible with the rest of the world.
Photoshop is the other app I use primarily. Of course that's readily
available for the Mac.
So's MS Office. :)
Now
That makes two of us.
On Monday 12 November 2001 00:52, Doug Franklin wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:15:33 +1300, David A. Mann wrote:
I'm configuring a new installation on a 6Gb disk for that machine
at the moment because I haven't kept the old installation up to
date (and the drive that
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 12:21 AM, David A. Mann wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A $4,000 PC ~does~ exceed a $4,000 MAC.
Of course it does. A combination of economies of scale, and healthy
competition in the hardware sector.
One should not shop on price alone, however.
On Sunday, November 11, 2001, at 03:08 PM, aimcompute wrote:
Just curious, how compatible MS office applications are between Mac and
PC
and what kind of time lag there is between release of the Windows
version
and when a Mac version is released.
There are no compatibility issues between
In a message dated 11/12/01 10:18:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It all depends on what you're doing. For me, the Mac OS is the right
choice.
Anyone like yourself who deals with a ton of graphics or CAD work might very
well be better off with MAC/Apple. But your
It so happens Office and Photoshop, like malevolent viruses, have invaded
and
conquered PC computerdome-ask Apple/Mac folk if that isn't true?
Mafud,
This is entirely true. My sister's bloke (shoots wildlife with Canon and
Bronica) uses Photoshop an a PC and swears by it. In fact, most of
Just curious, how compatible MS office applications are between Mac and PC
and what kind of time lag there is between release of the Windows version
and when a Mac version is released.
Office 98 was released for the Mac well before the Windows version...
Signed,
A. Fanatic
it's called Postscript. Or the free version Ghostscript. And yes you can use
a Postscript printer on a PC.
--graywolf
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was there an office 98?
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From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer question...)
Just curious, how compatible MS office applications are between
I guess so! Since there never was an Office 98 for Windows. I suspect that
Office 98 for Mac was the same as Office 97 for Windows. Which would
indicate that the run about a year behind.
--graywolf
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If there was, it was the bug fixes for Office 97, with more bugs included,
so there could be a good reason for Office 2000.
Tom C.
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From: Nicolas Colarusso, CGA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Windows XP -
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 03:08 PM, Tom Rittenhouse wrote:
it's called Postscript. Or the free version Ghostscript. And yes you
can use
a Postscript printer on a PC.
I was talking about ColorSync. Postscript is not particularly important
in photographic imaging.
-Aaron
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On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 03:19 PM, Tom Rittenhouse wrote:
I guess so! Since there never was an Office 98 for Windows. I suspect
that
Office 98 for Mac was the same as Office 97 for Windows. Which would
indicate that the run about a year behind.
I don't know if in this situation
On 12 Nov 2001, at 19:50, Cotty wrote:
These days it's more to do with what you're weened with, computer-wise.
If you grow up with PCs, you tend to stay with them. The 2 graphic
designers at our place grew up with PCs, and feel uneasy using the Mac.
But that's only because they're used to
In a message dated 11/12/01 2:52:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
People use the Mac because they *want* to. Most people use a PC because
they have to...
I actually bought a MAC back in 1989. Went back to PCs in a little over a
year, selling the MAC for a profit.
With this I would have to agree. In newspaper (prepress) I work with Macs
all the time. Then I come home and do it for myself better and faster with a
PC whose processor isn't supposed to be as up-to-date as the one in the G4 I
work on. My lowly 400 mhz emachine can stay up for weeks on end
From: Mafud
We're not disagreeing Bill.
I think I've died and gone to heavenVBG
Bill
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:15:33 +1300, David A. Mann wrote:
I'm configuring a new installation on a 6Gb disk for that machine at the
moment because I haven't kept the old installation up to date (and the drive that
holds my root partition has given a few errors).
I love Mandrake! :-)
TTYL,
At 11:36 10.11.2001 +1100, Kevin wrote:
Yes, Linux is good for the servers:
2:55pm up 102 days, 2:27, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
But there is not enough software available for workstations to
use Linux only.
I use Linux only. What is missing?
Most of the softwares I am
In a message dated 11/10/01 11:37:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subj:Re: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer question...)
Date:11/10/01 11:37:10 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (aimcompute)
Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In a message dated 11/10/01 1:25:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
. Another
words,
Windows, over time, degrades. No one knows why, and Microsoft prolly
ain't
gonna fix it.
Couldn't it simply be that operators, new and old, fearing the unknown,
refuse to or
Disk Mangler is what Dell used to prepare and format the
drive. They didn't include the program in the deal. I guess
I'll have to contact the OnTrack folks and see what they say
about removal. I'm not sure how I got rid of it years ago.
Maybe FDISK / mbr can do the trick but I suspect I'll
Actually Mafud,
I think Microsoft IS partly to blame. The fact is most people that have a
computer don't have it because they're computer buffs. They have it because
it's a tool that let 's accomplish a task. They have know desire to be
computer geeks.
Microsoft of course advertises to sell
David A. Mann wrote:
I wonder how much the stability problems depend on drivers, hardware etc.
The thing is, nobody knows. We've had a pile of anecdotal evidence
about
Windows the last 24 hours or so.
I've been programming PC's since before the original IBM-PC. The only
thing
my brain
This made me switch over to the Linux box and type 'uptime. 30 days, 2
hours, 5minutes.
Anyone seen the new IBM Server ads on TV? IBM Servers with the Linux
operating system. Must be giving Bill Gates chest pains grin.
--graywolf
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IMHO, ME`s downfall was not being able to recognize incompatible
programs. I was very happy with it till I installed Norton Utilities (worked
fine with 98SE), then the OS went downhill fast. Win2000 Advanced
Server is now my OS of choice.
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
David A. Mann
At 08:20 9.11.2001 -0500, graywolf wrote:
This made me switch over to the Linux box and type 'uptime. 30 days, 2
hours, 5minutes.
--graywolf
Yes, Linux is good for the servers:
2:55pm up 102 days, 2:27, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
But there is not enough software available for
I got so frustrated yesterday that I broke down and got Norton Systemworks.
After putting it through its paces, so far everything is working normally.
Guess I had some conflicts somewhere that Systemworks was able to resolve.
I also picked up some cheap memory chips at Best Buy (I know, they may
Todd,
If you run Office or any other Microsoft apps, you may be using part
of IE already. Microsoft shares many dlls across their software. And
many other programs also take advantage of the Microsoft dlls.
Bruce
Friday, November 09, 2001, 11:05:18 AM, you wrote:
TS I recently had 19
Bruce,
One other thought I had.
On Microsoft's part, while maybe not a deliberate *conspiracy*, but surely a
deliberate act, operating systems are written with little attempt to
optimize efficiency, with the knowledge that they will require new hardware.
New hardware will necessarily come with
Then you need 98lite. It installs my 98SE without IE and all the other
junk that makes it slow and unstable. I normally use Linux, but also
dual boot to 98lite on the same box and both or rock solid. Find it at:
http://www.98lite.net/
On Friday 09 November 2001 13:05, Todd Stanley wrote:
Tom,
You may have noticed how the amount of support has diminished and the
cost of support has increased. I can't even imagine attempting to
support something on the scale of Windows running on almost any
mish-mashed hardware. Maybe the bigger rejoicing is the ability to
say Try upgrading,
Bruce,
It makes you wonder how we made it to the moon, doesn't it?
I guess it also explains why no one's there right now.
Horrifying thought... What if Apollo missions had used on-board computers
running Windows?
Tom C.
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From: Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
The use of toolkits and other forms of reusable code has
brought us to a programming by committee approach and resulted
in a lot of program bloat. Not many folks still code in
assembler, which made very compact, fast executing programs.
Those programmers had to write code that would run in the
lbparis,
I would check into Partition Magic and see if that can straighten
things out.
Bruce Dayton
Friday, November 09, 2001, 12:21:09 PM, you wrote:
l I'm a little frustrated here. Dell shipped my system with a
l 60GB hard drive but no partitioning. They installed Ontrack
l Disk
The only thing I'm concerned about is that damned Disk Mangler
boot sector. Is Partition Magic able to take care of that? Or
does it just ignore it and repartition the drive anyway? That
ontrack boot sector shows up as boot sector errors in
Systemworks.
Len
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len,
It would certainly be worth an email to them to see if Partition Magic
can deal with it. I have had to fight
that same problem before and it is a real pain.
Bruce Dayton
Friday, November 09, 2001, 1:09:40 PM, you wrote:
l The only thing I'm concerned about is that damned Disk Mangler
Brendan wrote:
Oh give up and get Linux, no more worries ever again
:)
I see Microsoft now wants hacking classes as an act
of terrorism
seems their security model relies more on legislation than
on security audits.
/shrug
Kevin
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David,
Yeah, if only Microsoft would make them fully backward compatible like
they tell everyone else to do. In the early Windows days (286 and
first 3.0) days, when memory was very expensive, dlls were quite handy and
I used and created them quite often. Nowadays, backward compability
and
Is there a Linux version of PhotoShop?
Len
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From: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer
question...)
I use Linux only. What is missing?
I guess that's because their lawyers have more experience than
their programmers, what with all the defending against the
Government they have to do.
Len
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Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:48 PM
Yes, its called Gimp...Graphic Image Manipulation Program. It comes
free on just about any Linux CD package.
On Friday 09 November 2001 19:48, lbparis wrote:
Is there a Linux version of PhotoShop?
Len
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I had this same challenge a couple of years ago. I seem to remember
finding instructions on the mangler installation disk for cleaning up
the boot sector. Unfortunately, I can't check this as I took great
pleasure in tossing mangler bits a few weeks after reinstalled the
software on that
Gimp is an equivalent. The price is better (free) and the source code is
included so you can fix anything you think is broken. I find a lot of
windows software broken, but you can't fix it. I hate idiot proof user
interfaces, they are also expert proof and just drive me nuts.
--graywolf
A former IBM programer once told me that they programed bugs in to MS
software so they could sell corporations fixes for them. No one cared one
way or the other about the casual user. Of course he may have just been
pissed at his former employer, but since he was making more working for
someone
And the box setting on my desk is more powerful than a mainframe of that
time. Luckily, because you couldn't have run this bloatware on those old
mainframes.
--graywolf
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The pessimist's is half empty,
The wise man
Well of course you have Win95 on that Thinkpad. Nothing newer from MS will
run on it. I have a 750C myself, but it is running Linux like the new IBM
e-servers. Old computer, up to the minute OS.
--graywolf
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The
I do think that some MS software just does not perform as specified: for
example, Outlook continues to want to spell-check the text of the message
included in my replies, even though I have set this off. Nor will it
automatically check for new mail on the modem connection, although I know
it
Bill Owens writes:
Don't try it. ME is on this machine and is unstable as hell. Frequently
locks up for no apparent reason, won't close properly without turning power
off and just generally a real pain in the ass.
The only troubles I've had with ME so far is the occasional freeze-up
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