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Is there a setting on Macs to sharpen screen fonts, for use with an LCD screen, much like mine? (I'd found and implemented the same setting on my PC)
Just be careful with all the settings like font smooth on that box. It's a geriatric G3 and all of those little settings are hits against your processor speed. If it starts to feel overly sluggish those are the things to start to turn off.
It's a geriatric G3 and all of those little settings are hits against your processor speed.
Good to know. I'm not animating the dock at all, and I won't use any of the other tricks like that, but I need font smoothing. It was making my eyes hurt from the strain of reading blurry fonts after only twenty minutes.
Font-smoothing is proof of God's existence. Or that of very cool programmers.
My 900 mhz G3 iBook seems to still perform well with font smoothing. Mabye it'd be noticably better with font smoothing turned off, but like Sean, I find lack of font smoothing on LCD screens to be incredibly annoying.
I've been having connectivity problems all day (Comcast's fault, I'm pretty sure) - for a while, the times when I could connect to the internet I seemed to be having DNS problems - I could get to some sites but not others (b.org wasn't down, was it?). Anyway, when I tried to get to b.org in either Mozilla or Safari, I got redirected (or something) to 0.0.0.0. What's going on? (I don't need to know - I'm just curious.)
0.0.0.0 means your local machine, right? Is it the same as localhost?
0.0.0.0 means your local machine, right? Is it the same as localhost?
It means your computer could not pull an IP address from the DHCP host.
0.0.0.0 is a reserved default IP for when things go craxy.
0.0.0.0 is the official IP adress for Nowhere.
Except sometimes, 0.0.0.0 is the IP address for Anywhere.
255.255.255.255 is, of course, the IP address for Everywhere.
If, hypothetically speaking, somebody's i!pod broke badly, will App*le warranty service repair it even if ap*ple is not at fault?
tommy, comcast was really fucking up for us this morning.
Was it preceded by a synthesized female voice saying, "Warning. Magic smoke containment failure in one minute."?
Maybe he should have just reversed the polarity of the neutron flux.