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(...) MS's Cleartype and the way Woz did Apple ]['s hires graphics mode are a world apart, actually. And the Apple ]['s 1/2-pixel horizontal shifting was the same on color monitors as green/black monitors -- that is, from the same video signal if (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm not a TV engineer, but I recall the Apple ][ color distribution was made possible by a trick that used the luminance signal to gate an oscillating chroma signal. The transition from 1 to 0 (or from 0 to 1) was the key that produced a color (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Check this out: (URL). The "pixels" as you describe above aren't really whole pixels at all; rather they are subpixels, much like the red, green, and blue subpixels on a LCD display. This is exactly the concept Microsoft's Cleartype takes (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Mein Gott! Someone who actually remembers graphics programming on the Apple II! But I remember things a little differently. A pixel was defined in a rather slippery fashion in Apple II "high-resolution" graphics. A pixel was either one bit or (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ohh, lets. No drawing one-pixel wide white lines -- one lone pixel is either blue or yellow, depending if it's in an even or odd column. (This is due to the techniques Microsoft invented 20 years later for their ClearType technology...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't believe that there is a standard limit for name length, although I could be wrong. However, there is a clear specification for hostnames: they must begin with a letter, followed by any number and combination of letters or numbers or (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Full disclosure: I have heard anecdotally that PCI modems can work, and it certainly seems logical. However, I don't have any experience with them myself. (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah. It is a USR 56K Faxmodem (cost almost twice as much as the USR 56K Winmodem) and dosent require Win to operate. But the RH compatability stated that PCI modems were not supported under RH 6.2. However based on your information I will try (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you positive that it's not a winmodem? There's no particular reason why a PCI "real" modem wouldn't work. (...) :) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Kevin, Matt, Tom: Thanks for your help with my Linux questions. It turns out that my modem is not supported under Linux because it is a PCI card. So an ISA or external modem 'upgrade' is in the works. Once I switch over I imagine installation should (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) See the Serial HOWTO for setting up serial ports. You should do this in your boot process. I use Slackware and the setup scripts are in /etc/rc.d but Redhat is different. You'll want to run setserial in your boot process. Lots of examples are (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Weird. I have not used in Compac's in many moons, we are using Dell's here. Gateway is pretty good as well. I have had problems with Hewett Packard computers, and Packard Bells, but that is just me. Some had good experiences with certain (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :-) I've tried accessing various configuration menus and restarted the system many times. But the CD-ROM was still unavailable. What finally appeared to do the work, though, was simply opening the CD drive and poking on the read head slightly, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) get a (...) part. (...) hours (...) I (...) (I (...) see (...) Russian (...) I (...) Institute (...) major (...) require... Wow, I could never imagine getting that many language classes, although I wish I could have picked up German, since (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Boston-area geeks: we need to hire some more people in our group here at Boston University. We work with various flavors of *nix, primarily Solaris, IRIX, and Linux. (Experience in any of those would be good.) It's a really fun and low-stress (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heh, I have a BA in Classical Languages - Latin and Greek. I had more hours than were required to get a double major in English but I knew by the time I graduated that my degree wouldn't mean anything in my newly chosen field (I was going to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) get (...) better (...) say NT (...) Just run of the mill PC's, a few printers, a plotter, and a server. We tried TCP/IP printing here with Windows 95, ugh! (...) place (...) moderately (...) just as (...) As always, I guess. I am learning a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If I remember correctly, and don't bet the farm on this, the only way a normal CDROM can read CDs that are written with Direct CD is to have a UDF driver installed. If you don't have administrator access on your own workstation (not uncommon (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Depends on the hardware you're running it on, but yeah, I'd say NT is more functional network-wise than 9x. The tcp/ip printing alone makes it more valuable in my opinion, not to mention the increased stability. Not to say NT doesn't crash or (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, that's the part I disliked about it. I had to burn a lot of files at work, and with Adaptec Direct CD this took ages, since each file was done separately. I actually used three hours to burn a single CD. On a 2x drive! And it failed to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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