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  • Those Crappy Apple Fonts

    03/15/2008 12:46:45 AM PDT · by Swordmaker · 21 replies · 552+ views
    Yeah they're really bad all right. A while back George Ou was ouing about how Microsoft fonts were so much better than Apple's. Maybe it's about time for a side by side comparison. Same page but first with Microsoft's tugboat browser Internet Explorer and then the same page with Apple's Safari running not under the latest but under the next to latest - Tiger. First a screenshot taken with Internet Explorer from a page off the web. It's from a segment Brian Krebs offered on a bit of a scandal presumably involving Microsoft again. Note the font has no antialiasing...
  • Help! Installing external DVD-RW slows computer down horribly

    03/09/2006 10:05:48 PM PST · by GB · 12 replies · 384+ views
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    I am hoping some of my Freeper brethren can help me out here. We have a Dell Dimension 2350 (I think that's the model, it's a 2300 series), 2.2 ghZ P4, 512 MB of RAM. I recently added an external Lite-On DVD-RW drive, that is connected into one of the back USB ports. I love the drive, I went with the external rather than the internal because we're probably going to get a new computer pretty soon, that I hope will be equipped with an internal drive, in which case I'll pass this drive along to my wife whose Dell...