Recent content by Mercutio

Oddly enough, I think I've encountered exactly three Windows ME systems in my life, meaning it was far less common in my experience than OS/2 v3. I never ran it myself; pretty much every business system was either Win98 + Netware, or NT4 migrating to 2000 by then, so it was just the very small...

Rather than extension cables, have you considered using a USB hub with a short cable? Anker, for example? These guys are the USB extension cables I use. They're a no-name nothing company, but almost every use I have for actual USB extension is just to get low-speed devices across a room. They...

x86SX CPUs were just mildly defective x86 CPUs. The "Co-Processor" was a second CPU socket for installing a fully functional DX processor. I like to explain this to people when I talk about legacy hardware, because it really sounds made up until you look at pretty much every 386 or 486...

If you have phone with enough testicular fortitude, you can now run Steam directly on it. You need a Snapdragon 8 gen something with Adreno graphics, which we can more or less shorten to "Samsung Ssomething from this decade" but yes it works. I don't mean for buying games or chatting. I mean...

Yes. Several. None in more than occasional use, but I have an old-ass Pentium 4 set up for Windows 98 stuff and I believe every Thinkpad I've ever bought can still be powered on and used.

My last Intel X25M didn't survive the most recent power whoopsie. My power blinked off for maybe 15 minutes and the boot drive in one of my systems stopped being. Lame.

I'll be 51 in a couple months. I think dd is ~46? jtr is in his 60s someplace. Tannin's probably... right there with you someplace. He's still posting photos on his personal web site as of a couple weeks ago.

Actually I messed with Lightcraft and Filmcraft for a bit. 1. They are both VERY, CRAZY fast. 2. They both seem to have file format limitations; Lightcraft for example can handle a DNG just fine but doesn't like my Sony or Canon RAW file types, although it will interact with the embedded JPG if...

https://getartcraft.com/apps Some people have developed an effective suite of Adobe Creative Suite replacement tools. I've only messed with Lightcraft, but it seems to be fairly feature complete and it works on Linux as well as Windows and Macs.

I am not absolutely certain of it because I never messed with it on a "gaming" system, but I remember S3 Virge hardware as famously slower for rendering than decent systems could manage by brute forcing everything in software.

Why such an old release? 20.04 has been out of support for what, a year? Since KDE is purportedly dropping support for Xorg in version 6.8, and GNOME is working on that as well and I'm absolutely convinced that Wayland has never done a single thing right in all of history, I spent last night...

I wasn't looking at what cars have little cubby holes around the interior when I went out and looked at cars before. The CRV has a slightly more agreeable setup, but it's also a more expensive car if someone wants a hybrid drive train. Most new cars put some kind of lump between the driver and...

I'm still waiting for Microsoft's fix for Windows losing track of tunneled RDP sessions. I haven't seen anything, bug-wise, but in general, I wouldn't want to be first to take up the new version on my primary PC, either.

RAV4 might be going back. I absolutely can't stand the interior. There's no place to put things. No recessed places for change, let along keep pens, lip balm or small tools. I can't keep a tablet anywhere that it doesn't fall off or block the windshield. So far I've put around a car payment in...

There's some security nice to haves. Better biometric options. You can move the taskbar and there's some options to customize the start menu. Nothing you'd care about in terms of features unless you're excited about other than that. I installed it on my laptop and had to go look at what changed.