And it stil doesn't run Mac OS X.
Mac Mini!
- Thread starter stinkyboy
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I'm going to put this whole thing to rest right here:
Mac OSX is the best operating system.
Windows XP and Vista are the best too. Way better in fact.
However, OSX is much better as an OS to run on a computer if you want to do things on the computer.
Windows XP and/or Vista are the better choice here for doing things as well.
There, that settles it.
Oh hell no. What are you, high?You don't say? Can you fix bikes with Park, Snap-on, or Craftsman tools too
I had Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on my 486 cause I liked the startup screen.
I had 8mb of RAM, my dad bought a "multimedia kit" for it one fine day in 1992...inside was a 1x CD-ROM drive, SB ripoff card, speakers, and the Journeyman Project. All to go with the 1mb Trident VGA card. Good stuff.
It had a Bernoulli drive at one point. Mmmm. Bernoulli.
Man you could get WFW 3.11 to run blazing fast on a 486. But the way "old skool" windows managed gdi resources was pretty ignorant.
I think mine wasn't setup to boot Windows...it booted DOS. 6.0 I think?
I had Windows, but I don't know why.
I had Windows, but I don't know why.
holy crap!, i didnt have a sound card until 1994-95... before then, it was all finely done with the cpu speaker.
then, another great day, at age 10, i figured.. "the speaker rocks the racing games!!, but they are too quiet!", so i popped the cpu open and noticed there were 2 wires coming from the speakers to the motherboard... then i remembered.. "there are two wires coming from the speakers in my room too!". so i got a set of pliers and masking tape, and rigged a bigger 10" speaker from the stereo in my room to the 2 cables. the booting beep was loud!, and oh! the monophonic sound of the engine roar at 70db!!
it took me a few more years to figure out variable resistances.
another time, age 10 or 11, dont remember.... i wanted a cd-rom drive (i got this pretty awesome magazine with a "nascar racing demo" cd... but i didnt have a cdrom!!!). i asked my mom, and she said "what, 300 bucks???? (they were that expensive in peru back then). hell no!, get good grades and wait until the summer, we´ll get one in miami". i couldnt wait until summer!!!!!!!. it was over 6 months away!
necesity is the matter of ingenuity, so i had to engineer my way around that.
there was a stereo in the living room with a 5cd roullete. i thought "hey!, if the stereo speakers had 2 wires, just like the computer speaker... then the same must hold true for cdroms!!!". i was ambitious... i knew a single cdrom like the one in my room wouldnt cut it. i HAD to have the bestest!. it HAD to be the living room´s.
unfortunately, it didnt work quite as well. it actually intrigued me for days the cd player didnt have an ide ribbon.
tried to figure out an interface, but the number of cables wasnt the same! that broke my will. had they been the same number, i´d have probably been willing to do combinatorial of 40! ide pins.
surprisingly, the living room stereo actually worked after that...
yeah, i´m ghetto like that.
GIMP is probably the best free option out there.Damn...
Hey Reactor, nothing comes close to Photoshop. I let ya demo it, but to activate longer than a few days, you have to let Adobe see your machine online.
When we find a decent source in the US that makes 100% cotton in colors that is a reliable vendor. Our current vendor offers only white.
Hey, when ya gonna print me some black on tan pillow cases?
I think we're going to make our own in-house eventually. Textiles are dead in the US.
Not gonna happen shortly I think too
Aren't you an I.T. guy? Should not take more than that on any computer
So far I'm liking the whole thing. The remote is cool for when I have to use the windows computer and want to listen to I tunes while I progam.
Which flavor of photoshop do you have? I might consider buying one of the versions of photooshop (possibly the lower edition of CS)
I hadn't thought of GIMP, but it works pretty good on Linux.
Between GIMP, Inkscape and PDFCreator, you can do alot for free. The UI is not as slick as Adobe stuff but the basics are there.
Gimpshop is better - on both PC and Mac.
I've installed it and it looks interesting, I'll paly with it tomorrow afternoon when I have a little time....
Thx.
Photoshop 8 is CS1. Let me know when you outgrow Gimp and I'll hook ya up.
I might try that again. I used it a long time ago and found it to be buggy and slow. Hopefully they improved it.
Cool, thanks!
I'm going to play with gimp for a couple of days, I've used it before, but want to look at photoshop too. To me ease of use and lack of frustration are more important than money.