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I don’t see anything that I need. So why do I have to upgrade? Time to rethink the paradigms and memes involved.
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HARDWARE: FIOS required update
Sunday, January 19, 2014
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HARDWARE: Changning Time zones
Wednesday, November 20, 2013Argh!
Why CAN’T we all use GMT?
The company issued blackberry doesn’t know time zones.
Apple does.
Amusingly the IPAD with only wifi capability know what time it is here.
Even my anchient Verizon cell phone knows.
And why is my body sit on EDST?
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HARDWARE: No signal on plane
Sunday, November 17, 2013Most interesting on today’s flight.
No signal on the iPhone and no signal on the mifi while in the air.
That surprised me.
With all the fluff about cell phones on planes, they are not much use without connectivity.
NO email; NO texting; NO voice.
Hmmm, have to rethink everything.
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HARDWARE: Changing my opinions …
Wednesday, October 30, 2013This last upgrade to Mac OS X Mavericks appears to break stuff and change things.
Not for the better.
So, Apple has disappointed me.
I now think they are in the same class as IOS7, Windoze, Linux, and Chromebook.
Each have their own advantages, disadvantages, and utility.
I really don’t know what I’m going to do.
Unfortunately, I just want to use the stuff to produce stuff. I don’t want to alpha test unless I volunteer.
Argh!
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HARDWARE: CFB on FOX on Channel 5 TV poor video quality
Saturday, October 26, 2013CFB on FOX on Channel 5 TV
The picture quality “stinks”!
I see jitter and very poor video quality.
(Not that anyone cares!)
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HARDWARE: Crony Capitalist Microsoft subtly restrains trade
Saturday, October 19, 2013http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-linux-basemosaic-ubuntu-parity,24519.html
Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows
By Kevin ParrishOCTOBER 3, 2013 1:28 PM – Source: Softpedia
The reason seems a little contradictory.
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Softpedia points to a Nvidia Developer Zone forum post revealing that the company has removed a specific Linux feature as of the v310 drivers due to the Windows platform. A BaseMosaic user on Ubuntu 12.04 noticed a change in the number of displays that can be used simultaneously after upgrading from the v295 drivers to v310.
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Yet in v295, the Ubuntu user was able to get four monitors up and running. So why was BaseMosaic altered to support only three monitors instead? Nvidia explains. “For feature parity between Windows and Linux we set BaseMosaic to 3 screens,” said “Sandpit” of Nvidia’s Linux team.
What’s interesting here is that Nvidia’s proprietary Windows driver has features not found in the Linux drivers, but the company will remove specific Linux-only features for “parity.” The comment indicates that the three-screen limit has nothing to do with a degradation of quality when using four screens, but a possible Microsoft request/demand.
Nvidia’s driver documentation states that BaseMosaic can be used to extend a single X screen transparently across all of the available display outputs on each GPU.
“This is like SLI Mosaic mode except that it does not require a video bridge connected to the graphics cards,” the notes read. “Due to this Base Mosaic does not guarantee there will be no tearing between the display boundaries. Base Mosaic is supported on all the configurations supported by SLI Mosaic Mode. It is also supported on Quadro FX 380, Quadro FX 580 and all G80 or higher non-mobile NVS cards.”
It will be interesting to see if Nvidia returns four-monitor support back to its Linux drivers, given that the reason for removing the feature seems a little contradictory.
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Yeah, dumbing down the free market competitor is fair. But don’t do the something equivalent to the big guy.
Nvidia is taking a gamble.
Hope they pay for that decision.
Personally, I have placed them on my “Toshiba” list. Technology I will never buy. (Toshiba sold the US Navy sub quiet propeller design to Red China.)
Like my “Jane Fonda” list, I have a very LONG memory.
Hope you all do too!
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HARDWARE: LIVESCRIBE (not recommended)
Friday, September 27, 2013http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/
Bought one on a lark.
Some minor issues, but worked through them.
Even liked it.
Can think of some stuff that could be better.
BUT now I have come up with the KILLER negative.
I lost the darn thing.
OK. It’s a $200 gadget. But it was “useful”.
So I ask the question, “if I buy a new one, can I link it to my old stuff.”
Answer, <cue Jeopardy theme>, …
… NO!
Are u kidding me?
There’s an obvious “use” case!
Oh well, let me slap a big NOTRECOMMENDED on this one.
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HARDWARE: Misplaced my LIVESCRIBE pen!
Wednesday, September 11, 2013All gadgets should have a find me feature.
Argh!
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HARDWARE: VERIZON FIOS reboot
Sunday, August 25, 2013At 1215, the beast dropped power are rebooted.
Lost the inet for a minute, tv took much longer to recover.
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HARDWARE: Kindle Paperwhite
Saturday, August 17, 2013Kindle Paperwhite
Wi-Fi, Paperwhite Display, Higher Resolution, Higher Contrast, Built-in Light
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OK, I relented and bought one. The IPADs, Mac reading app, and such are just too “heavy”.
I like it …
… BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), …
It needs some UI (User Interface) help with respect to Library Books.
It’s a PIA to get stuff off the Kindle that has expired.
It also doesn’t (easily if at all) differntiate between content I’ve borrowed and stuff I’ve bought.
Getting stuff emailed to it seems neat but width-wise doesn’t always fit.
More as I play with it.
“But choose wisely, for while the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.” Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097576/quotes
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