It took less than 5 minutes to install, and all of the above features work out of box. In fact, sleep/resume is even faster than windows. I would argue it is as fast as my old macbook running OSX. It's certainly a lot less buggy than the last version of OSX.
which prompted trading in the macbook for a thinkpad in the first place...
Years of using Apple products have reduced my tolerance and patience levels below what is required for getting FreeBSD going on a laptop, at least a thinkpad.
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Just seeing the beautiful italicized fonts in toolchest warms my heart.
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4 1000 MHz GenuineIntel Processors PF 6
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz Processor Chip Model 42 Stepping 7
FPU: yes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 3.0 MBytes
Main memory size: 3836 Mbytes
Audio Processor: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
Graphics board: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
13 additional PCI devices
5 USB devices
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Warning: Cannot convert string "-sgi-screen-medium-r-normal-*-*-150-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
/opt/MaXX/bin/mxterm: symbol lookup error: /opt/MaXX/bin/mxterm: undefined symbol: getColorResource
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./ideas: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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I just fitted a new stereo in mine.
pentium wrote: it's burned into my mind what another forum said to me.Best of luck with whatever you got."b", in regards to asking about for a PDP-12 wrote: You're not good enough for that machine.
) don't really have anything worthwhile to do with their toys, either. They have just deemed your pursuits less worthy than theirs
tho it seems ridiculous to have to pay for such basic functionality that should be part of the system... and it doesn't enable the GPU. (tho, if the power savings are significant, maybe I am better off with the GPU disabled as that sucker puts out a lot of heat!)
http://www.the-stand-up.comhamei wrote: The important things, those they own forever and you just get to make payments. For your entire life.
Now my roof is leaking and the ceiling in our spare closet is mouldering, and I know roofing is expensive. I don't know if I ever want to own a house
A modern refrigerator has a lifespan of about 4 years, I would rather the landlords have to pay for that crap.
hamei wrote:vishnu wrote: ... they were saying that the entire US stock market in 1980 was worth something like 1 trillion dollars, and today it's worth something like 60 trillion ...
I wonder what that is worth in real Things of Value ? Even the "That's $ 19.95 in 1970 dollars" (Notice they never do it in that direction ?) doesn't really tell you anything. The dollars are all distributed differently now.
The exact same 1906 house with the rotty post and pier foundation over the creek that floods - the exact same house we were paying $50,000 for - sold a few years ago for $700,000.
At the time, I made $5 an hour. This was a plain old middle-class job, not highly-educated techie stem wonderfulness. So if a rising tide lifts all boats, why aren't twenty year old kids earning $70 an hour to start ? That would be a salary of ... oh, $582,000 a year ?
Something is rotten in the state of danemark
And the customers don't care so long as they keep up their insurance premium payments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript wrote: Apple's Mac OS X operating system uses a central window server (created entirely by Apple) that caches window graphics as PDF, instead of storing and executing PostScript code. A graphics library called Quartz 2D provides PostScript-style imaging using the PDF rendering model (a subset, plus tweaks, of the PostScript model), but this is used by application frameworks—there is no PostScript present in the Mac OS X window server. Apple chose to use this model for a variety of reasons, including the avoidance of high Adobe-imposed licensing fees for DPS, and more efficient support of legacy Carbon and Classic code; QuickDraw-based applications use bitmapped drawing exclusively
hamei wrote: What would happen if I started selling blenders that ran on 93 volts, 35 hz ac ? "Well, once upon a time in Bumfuck, Idaho, the electricity used that voltage and frequency ..." Yeah right. Good luck with that, Bunky.
hamei wrote:guardian452 wrote: As an optional download. I fire up X once every few weeks... in a window... only when I *really* have to.
Okay le, sorry for the misdirection. It appears from the poorly-written crap at Wikipedia that Apple does not use X at all.
Grandpa actually had a mirror hanging in the garage for a long time. At some point I asked them about it, but they had given it away by then
ClassicHasClass wrote: No idea, actually. All of my VNCable systems (two Power Macs, one Intel) are hooked up to KVMs anyway, and none of them are later than 10.6.
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No I don't think you will find much of that here, but I do expect this thread to be locked/deleted fairly soonish.Safe your "Omg you need help" twatshitfuck.
spiroyster wrote:uunix wrote: I found this interesting looking CD ROM
I always thought it was some homage to a Friesian cow... Is a Friesian cow classified as Piebald? or is it just horses?
Dennis Nedry wrote: Yup.
I've filed so many bug reports on this issue alone it's ridiculous. The few responses I got back from Apple Engineering were all along the line of "we're doing things the way we think they should be done and you're clearly wrong".
OS X won't enable a GPU unless it has a monitor plugged into it. There is no way around this, short of hex editing the kernel extensions, but even then I never got anywhere with that. If the local GPU is disabled, then OS X will default to a software rendering system which is capped to 1280x1024 due to severe performance issues (as you've already found out). Those issues are so bad under 10.9 and 10.10 that VNC is virtually unusable without a GPU installed and active in the system.
You can either plug in a monitor, or invest in one of those fake HDMI or Mini DisplayPort "monitor emulators" that trick OS X into thinking a display is connected. HOWEVER , there is a pretty serious caveat with this- if your dongle emulator reports a display size greater then 2560x1600, OS X 10.9 and above will think that it's a HiDPI display and completely screw up your VNC connection to the point of being utterly worthless. There is no way to disable that functionality, so if you're buying a dongle make sure it's not a 4K model (like the CompuLab fit-Headless 4K).
TLDR; remote controlling OS X is a huge bag of hurt. Apple don't give a shit, and there are no workarounds
-DN
uunix wrote: I'm using the old standard theme.
uunix wrote: She now has a wedding to plan, which we talk about, but she already has it sorted, so I throw in comments and suggestions (that I know are not going to fit) and I'm greeted with a "that's a good idea, maybe.. but [THAT'S NEVER HAPPENING]" responses.
commodorejohn wrote:ClassicHasClass wrote: Given all the crap Lenovo's pulled of late, I'd love one ... from some other company under license.
Yeah, there's that...on the other hand, I'd kill for a 4:3 laptop in this era of inevitable widescreen crap.
commodorejohn wrote:guardian452 wrote: Why? It's a windows machine, it plays my xbox when I'm in bed and watch movies on. What else are you doing in windows that you would need a bigger screen for?
It's not about the screen resolution , it's about the aspect ratio . 16:9 makes sense for a movie theater because the whole point is to fill the entire field of view, but on a computer it sucks. Maximizing a document on a widescreen laptop means that reading it requires way too much left-to-right-to-left travel for my eyes (since most paragraphs are now two or three lines of ~120-200 characters,) or requires me to crank up the font size to the point where the information density is roughly on par with an Atari 2600 game (since there's so little vertical room.) And not maximizing it isn't a good option, either, since the only OS that does tiling all that well is *nix (and even that could be a lot better.) 4:3 just works better than other aspect ratios (5:4 is pretty alright too, but I doubt anybody's ever done that on a laptop.)
But naturally, since everybody is buying 16:9 TVs to win the dick-measuring contest against their neighbors, we have to make computers fit the same pattern, no matter what. And hey, computers are just glorified TVs for a whole bunch of people now, so who cares about anybody actually trying to do work on them!?
Right, but we are talking thinkpad here, which means windows, which means games (at least to me). Most games are made for 16x9. I love the streaming feature in the new xbox app and that alone makes up for all of the thinkpad's other shortcomings.Personally, I despise 16:9. It's a nasty and unpleasant aspect ratio designed for watching TV on, not for doing proper work. If Lenovo finally decide to buck the current trend and design a new laptop for proper work, rather than just watching Netflix on then I think that would be fantastic. Currently, if you want a new laptop with a screen designed for proper work, the only company making them still is Apple (the Macbook Pro is 16:10, as is the new Macbook).
I still consider myself a grunt of sorts although I am salaried and get to do what I love it does involve a lot of driving on test tracks and climbing over/under cars and all of the grittyness that comes with. I am definitely not going to be wearing a tie and jacket to work anytime soon!
Big Ouchhamei wrote:guardian452 wrote: ... we are talking thinkpad here, which means windows, which means games ...
Ouch ! InDesign, Catia, Illustrator, Photoshop, Framemaker, NASTRAN, lookout ! The end is nigh
I've been sticking the taskbar on the right side for years. My thinkpad however has such a shortage of pixels I have it set to auto-hide completely.hamei wrote:Most games are made for 16x9.
You run full-screen ? You'd fit right in here. Why do they make such a big deal about "it's multi-tasking !" if people are going to run everything fullscreen ? May as well use DOS. i also think 16:9 sucks, especially with that dumb taskbar wasting an inch off the bottom.
Trippynet wrote: However, as armanox rightly said, ThinkPads are supposed to be professional machines for work, not gaming machines. If you want a gaming laptop, you'd be better off with an XPS, or a cheaper "consumer grade" laptop than a ThinkPad. And if you just want to watch TV and play the odd game, then of course a cheaper 16:9 laptop will be fine. But if you're trying to do proper work (coding and whatnot), the lack of vertical space on a 16:9 laptop is really annoying.
Trippynet wrote:guardian452 wrote: Bullshit, my thinkpad plays games and movies great.
I never said they couldn't do it, I said it's not what they're primarily designed for.
I watch movies and play games on my ThinkPad as well from time to time, and it does a surprisingly good job too. But when I stop doing that and fire up some real work such as programming on it, the extra screen height of the 16:10 screen makes a real difference over the crappy 16:9 panel in my work laptop.
Apple laptops aren't too bad, but I have gone off them somewhat lately after they started soldering everything in and sealing them together with large quantities of glue. I like to be able to meddle and tweak with my computing kit