Hot off the keyboard ...

http://blog.eracc.com/2008/04/03/a-b...t-vista-ready/

Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:54:57 +0000, ERACC wrote:

> Hot off the keyboard ...
>
> [..]
marketed-and-sold-as-microsoft-vista-ready/
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> Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)

Is a human supposed to be able to read that page? The color scheme is the
best I've ever seen to make a page unreadable. I think I'm gonna puke.

David 01 wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:54:57 +0000, ERACC wrote:
>
>> Hot off the keyboard ...
>>
>> [..]
> marketed-and-sold-as-microsoft-vista-ready/
>>
>> Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
>
> Is a human supposed to be able to read that page? The color scheme is the
> best I've ever seen to make a page unreadable. I think I'm gonna puke.
I made it half way through.... before I went cross-eyed... if someone could
give me the gist of the second half?

:
: Is a human supposed to be able to read that page? The color scheme is the
: best I've ever seen to make a page unreadable.

It looks lovely.

David 01 wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:54:57 +0000, ERACC wrote:
>
>> Hot off the keyboard ...
>>
>> [..]
> marketed-and-sold-as-microsoft-vista-ready/
>>
>> Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
>
> Is a human supposed to be able to read that page? The color scheme is the
> best I've ever seen to make a page unreadable. I think I'm gonna puke.

Other than the type is a little small, its fine. Must be the way you have your
browser configured or something or maybe your monitor. I have seen pages
where the color selection makes it nearly impossible to read but white on
very dark gray, as used here, looks ok to me.
Eric

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.ubuntu, in article
<d98aa$47f56b14$471f2cf1$5057>, David 01 wrote:

>ERACC wrote:
>
>> Hot off the keyboard ...

How about setting a "Followup-To:" header as I have? In truth, this is
probably more appropriate to comp.os.linux.advocacy.

>> [..]
marketed-and-sold-as-microsoft-vista-ready/

>Is a human supposed to be able to read that page? The color scheme is the
>best I've ever seen to make a page unreadable. I think I'm gonna puke.

Looks fine in lynx - I really don't care about colors and images anyway.

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My question is why are these companies (like Acer, Dell and others)
selling these memory anemic systems with Vista pre-loaded? It seems to
me to be misleading to sell a laptop with Microsoft Vista and less than
2GB of RAM when everyone I know personally in the personal computing
technical community seems to agree that 2GB is really the minimum RAM
one needs to have a good experience with Microsoft's Vista.
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Have you looked at the inside cover ad in the April and May issues of
Linux Journal? The ad is from HPC Systems Inc (San Jose, CA.) and is
advertising their "HiPerSTATION 8000" as an upscale _desktop_ system.
The ad gives the system highlights as 8 Quad Core Opterons with 2 TB of
storage and_up_to_ 256 GB of DDR2-667 RAM. No mention of price, or what
the BogoMIPs (see the BogoMips mini-howto) might be. ;-)

As far as vista and it's problems, perhaps the article at

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/
09digi.html?em&ex=1205380800&en=89901eb2917ab280&e i=5087%0A>

(WATCH THE LINE WRAP) which includes this tidbit:

Dell, which gave Microsoft a postmortem report that was also
included among court documents, dryly remarked: "Customers did
not understand what 'Capable' meant and expected more than
could/would be delivered."

will give a chuckle. (The NY Times article is reporting on a Class
Action lawsuit against ms for implying that a 'Windows Vista Capable'
logo means it will actually run. The article includes some internal
ms documents that were subpoenaed by the plaintiffs.)

Old guy

Moe Trin wrote:
><[..]
> 09digi.html?em&ex=1205380800&en=89901eb2917ab280&e i=5087%0A>
>
> (WATCH THE LINE WRAP)

The website wanted me to login, but I was able to read the article at
the above URL by enabling cookies. Opera 9.26 here.