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From: Gavin on 22 Mar 2010 13:20 On 2010-03-22 17:19:39 +0000, Gavin <gwilbyREMOVE(a)stoof.co.uk> said: > On 2010-03-22 17:17:10 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > >> On 2010-03-22 16:54:57 +0000, Ian Piper said: >> >>> The latest was just two days ago, when Fedora 10 just refused to accept >>> resizing of the display to 1280 x 1024. >> >> To be fair though, Fedora 10 is pretty ancient. Aren't they up to 12 or so now? > > So is 10.1, but that seems to "just work" A little cryptic even by my standards, I meant of course, OSX10.1 -- Gavin. ACSP 10.5 http://www.stoof.co.uk http://www.twitter.com/gavin_wilby
From: Elliott Roper on 22 Mar 2010 13:28 In article <80pln1Fk15U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-03-20 15:11:47 +0000, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> said: > > > On 20/03/2010 13:32, Jim wrote: > >> Conor<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >>> As a newcomer to Mac OS X, I'm more than a little pissed that it is > >>> barely much better than Ubuntu and in some cases it is worse, especially > >>> with Apples reluctance to even acknowledge yet alone fix 20 exploits > >>> currently out in the wild. > >> > >> Because for all its faults OS X is still about 100x easier to use than > >> any Linux. > >> > >> And yes, I've tried a few. > >> > > Any recently? > > <churchill>ohhhhhhh yuss</churchill> <snip> > Goodness me I needed that. Sheer brilliance! Loved it! -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Woody on 22 Mar 2010 13:31 Gavin <gwilbyREMOVE(a)stoof.co.uk> wrote: > On 2010-03-22 17:19:39 +0000, Gavin <gwilbyREMOVE(a)stoof.co.uk> said: > > > On 2010-03-22 17:17:10 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > > >> On 2010-03-22 16:54:57 +0000, Ian Piper said: > >> >>> The latest was just two days ago, when Fedora 10 just refused > > > > > > to accept >>> resizing of the display to 1280 x 1024. > >> >> To be fair though, Fedora 10 is pretty ancient. Aren't they up > > > > > to 12 or so now? > > > So is 10.1, but that seems to "just work" > > A little cryptic even by my standards, I meant of course, OSX10.1 I installed the latest ubuntu on my new i7 pc and it couldn't give me 1600x1200 resolution, topping out at 1480xSomething. -- Woody
From: Adrian on 22 Mar 2010 13:36 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > I installed the latest ubuntu on my new i7 pc and it couldn't give me > 1600x1200 resolution, topping out at 1480xSomething. Blame the video card manufacturer for not writing the drivers. It happens to all OSs where the OS publisher doesn't have an effective monopoly on the hardware... <glares at Dell laptop with NVidia card unsupported under Win7, max 1600 4:3 on generic drivers instead of 1920x1200>
From: Bernard Peek on 22 Mar 2010 14:24
On 22/03/10 17:20, Ian Piper wrote: > I wonder whether that was just ignorant or intentionally offensive. > Making computer systems is no more about working with a screen reader or > printing Braille and improved visibility than usability is about putting > lipstick on a pig. Have you never heard of accessibility design? The way > that a blind user interacts with a computer program is much more than > just pointing a screen reader at it. Programs designed for good > accessibility on the Mac will interact well with VoiceOver for example, > having a predictable process for navigating around a user interface with > the keyboard and describing the controls based on informative text built > into the application. Maybe you should try turning on VoiceOver and > running a few programs through it. It will be an eye-opener (no pun > intended) to learn how well some programs cope, and how badly others do. > I would be absolutely staggered if Linux has one percent of the > capability of Mac OS X in providing genuine accessibility. There's at least one distro (Knoppix) which has been designed for blind users, including the OS installation. I don't know how many applications also have support for screen-readers. -- Bernard Peek bap(a)shrdlu.com |