POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Just in case you missed it ... Server Time
4 Nov 2024 14:01:11 EST (-0500)
  Just in case you missed it ... (Message 46 to 55 of 95)  
<<< Previous 10 Messages Goto Latest 10 Messages Next 10 Messages >>>
From: math prof
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:40:00
Message: <web.4807b46b40015d2d26e6f6f40@news.povray.org>
How do I print an image in Wndows?  I am told in linux there is a program called
convert.  How can one do this in Windows?
Thanks
Vrunda

Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> St. wrote:
> > In fact, here's a screen of our viewers. I'm amazed some are still on w95!!
> > Gulp!
>
> Wait, WTF? Amiga??? What are they running, IBrowse?!
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


Post a reply to this message

From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:45:00
Message: <4807b6cc$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   Why would anyone want to run linux on an UltraSPARC? AFAIK linux still
> doesn't get even close to Solaris in scalability...
> 

Because of the usability and configurability (I'm not doing anything BIG 
with a Netra X1, more like something very small;). And most of all my 
laziness: because I already have working configurations etc for Linux 
for the stuff the machine will be doing. It'll just replace my ancient 
P200MMX -box, which is getting unstable (3 crashes in 2 years) and which 
has a HD that's keeping a hey-I-think-I'd-need-to-break-down -noise (and 
yes, the Sparc will be diskless installation).

If it wasn't Linux, it'd still most probably be OpenBSD, not Solaris.

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
    http://www.zbxt.net
       aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid


Post a reply to this message

From: Warp
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:45:04
Message: <4807b6d0@news.povray.org>
St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> In fact, here's a screen of our viewers. I'm amazed some are still on w95!! 
> Gulp!

  These are some of the coolest httpd requests I get:

xxx.xx.x.xx - - [05/Apr/2008:01:48:54 +0000] "GET /pics/th_screws.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200
1709 "http://warp.povusers.org/pics/" "Mozilla/4.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)"
290 2004

  (There's a total of 1267 requests with that architecture.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


Post a reply to this message

From: Warp
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:47:12
Message: <4807b750@news.povray.org>
math_prof <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> How do I print an image in Wndows?

  alt+printscreen copies the current window to the clipboard. Then just
launch your favorite image manipulation program and past (or "acquire
from clipboard", or whatever).

-- 
                                                          - Warp


Post a reply to this message

From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:47:45
Message: <4807b771$1@news.povray.org>
>> In fact, you know what? I challenge you to find a Google search term that 
>> finds my blog. :-P
> 
> You're the top one for this, silly boy :D
> http://www.google.com/search?q=secumbing+eventualy

O_O

My God... I didn't realise my total inability to spell words correctly 
was this unique on the Internet... [or that Google has trawled my blog 
in the last few days...]

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


Post a reply to this message

From: Warp
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:48:36
Message: <4807b7a3@news.povray.org>
Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> If it wasn't Linux, it'd still most probably be OpenBSD, not Solaris.

  I thought NetBSD was the more popular hacker OS.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


Post a reply to this message

From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:51:28
Message: <4807b850$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
> 
>> Now, all you M$ cheerleaders when are we getting Vista for UltraSPARC?
>> ROTFLMAO
> 
> SPARC still exists...?
> 

Yes, even though my Netra X1 ain't new (actually it's so old I got it 
for free).

-clip-
Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 400MHz), No Keyboard 

OpenBoot 4.0, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #XXXXXXXX. 

-clap-

So, 400MHz and 512MiB, with EOL-lined chassis (2002). Not exactly a new 
HW, but more than powerful enough for the job.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/Netra_X1/Netra_X1

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
    http://www.zbxt.net
       aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid


Post a reply to this message

From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:53:12
Message: <4807b8b8@news.povray.org>
>> Yeah, but aren't they all just implementations of the POSIX standard 
>> which basically defines exactly how everything has to work anyway?
> 
>   Posix defines some minimum requirements, it doesn't say what else the
> OS may also implement.
> 
>   Also, I don't think the posix standard says much about how the kernel
> should internally be implemented (only about some of its interfaces).

Mmm, OK.

>   Yes, I know you don't read current events on almost anything.

What, you're not impressed that I have actually *heard* of Solaris? :-P

> Solaris
> has worked on Intel hardware for quite some time, and Sun made it open
> source also some time ago.

Any idea what the motivation behind this is? It seems to be quite 
fashionable for people to suddenly release the sources for large 
commercial applications these days, and I'm never really sure what it is 
they're hoping to gain...

>   The computing world consists of more than just desktop PCs. Those
> mythical big servers out there somewhere don't run by themselves, and
> they don't all have fancy graphical user interfaces (many of them don't
> have a graphics card at all).

Well, my servers have a "fancy" graphical web browser installed. 
However, since that browser is *cough* Internet Explorer, I never run 
it. What I do is go to the PC at my desk, use Firefox to download what I 
want, and then send it to the server from my desk.

Anyway, I would think that you wouldn't need a server to physically have 
graphics hardware to access it remotely and get a graphical display of 
some kind...

>   Of course there are also a few purist unix gurus out there in their
> caves who think that late 70's is the only real computer era and that
> current computers are just toys for kids.

Yeah - but I doubt my blog attracts any of those.

[OTOH, I do sometimes mention Haskell...]

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


Post a reply to this message

From: Warp
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 17:13:47
Message: <4807bd8a@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > Solaris
> > has worked on Intel hardware for quite some time, and Sun made it open
> > source also some time ago.

> Any idea what the motivation behind this is?

  I don't know, but I guess decreased sales in the last decade.

> It seems to be quite 
> fashionable for people to suddenly release the sources for large 
> commercial applications these days, and I'm never really sure what it is 
> they're hoping to gain...

  Improving public image, hopefully also popularity. There are ways to
make money with open source software too.

> Anyway, I would think that you wouldn't need a server to physically have 
> graphics hardware to access it remotely and get a graphical display of 
> some kind...

  Why install useless windowing software in a server that doesn't need it?

> Yeah - but I doubt my blog attracts any of those.

> [OTOH, I do sometimes mention Haskell...]

  Well, there you go. Haskell *is* a pet of many unix gurus too.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


Post a reply to this message

From: math prof
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 17:15:00
Message: <web.4807bc9d40015d2d26e6f6f40@news.povray.org>
Thanks very much.  So smooth.  I can print it in word, for example now and save
it.  I still have to think of an "image manipulation program", since I have
none that I use.
Thanks.
Vrunda

Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> math_prof <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > How do I print an image in Wndows?
>
>   alt+printscreen copies the current window to the clipboard. Then just
> launch your favorite image manipulation program and past (or "acquire
> from clipboard", or whatever).
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp


Post a reply to this message

<<< Previous 10 Messages Goto Latest 10 Messages Next 10 Messages >>>

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.