Brett Parker wrote:
On 06 Dec 13:29, Anthony Anson wrote:
BAH! Just hit 'send' innit!
Sorry Brett
Brett Parker wrote:
On 06 Dec 12:34, Anthony Anson wrote:
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Remembering that a Mac is just a piece of hardware, and is x86 based...
ITF those are a bit passé now.
Assuming you mean x86 is passé, I'm using x86 to cover both ix86 and x86_64 architectures. If x86_64 has suddenly become passé it's news to me.
Have I been reading too many computing mags?
Do you mean "there are things available in OSX that are difficult in Linux and Windows", in which case, the usual one I hear about is "networking just works, it's lovely!" right up until they hit a network that OSX doesn't know much about, or it's having an off day, or the winds blowing in the wrong direction - at which point it's a complete PITA.
No. Never used a network apart from connecting to wifi.
And it's the wifi connecting that most mac users ooooh and aaaah over at me. Until it doesn't work.
Huh! Nev! Are you paying attention?
I go into the Fat Cat and get their key. I fire-up the Eee and it 'finds wap'. I connect to it and feed it the key. It just sits there pondering. It *SAYS* it's connecting, but it never does. That's Xandross
It works on my brother's wireless, and on my bro'-in-law's.
Using the flaptop (Debian), it just connects, even in the Fat Cat.
Haven't tried it using windows - I tend only to use that for Irfanview.
What I want it for is probably developed up to the hilt anyway, and like other OSs I rarely consider 'upgrades', mainly becaus they aren't...
So, you don't like security updates, then? Or ongoing security support? These are the bits that I don't like with non-free systems.
Don't bother with them - they don't go online. Last time I updated AVG it took several hours, so I considered how many times I'd been online since I'd last updated it, and counting on the digits of one hand I still had four fingers and a thumb to spare...
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I can't remember what it was I wanted to do in Gimp some time ago - I think it was some cloning from one pic to another, but I spent an afternoon trying to get it to do it, and failed. I threw together a load of bits: 400 MHz CPU, old m/board, old HDD, installed Win 2000 and PSP 4 and did that lot faster than sraping round Gimp.
That's just a case of using the clone tool, from what I remember.
Oh yeah?
Infact, having just tested, yup... it's "click on source image whilst holding control with the clone tool selected", followed by clicking on the destination image where you want the cloned bit to go. The button is directly available in the toolbox too.
Well, I'm sure I must have tried that *SOMETIME* during the afternoon. I trid everything else, ven going so far as to read the help^h^destructions.
Something, many years ago, were complicated, yes. Gimp 2.6 is actually *really* rather good at doing what you'd expect.
Well, my Gimp came bundled with Lenny...