AladainAF
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Yeah unfortunately, I'm not able to do that because I keep getting sent shit that gimp can't figure out how to open.
But at least gimp can save a BMP.
high tech shit.
Modern software sucks, and computing is garbage while hardware is blazing new frontiers.
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Yeah unfortunately, I'm not able to do that because I keep getting sent shit that gimp can't figure out how to open.
But at least gimp can save a BMP.
high tech shit.
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I'm assuming you have the mac version so not sure if you want to try Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing
The only i can find for you is to resize the image and make it 16 bits
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What Image mode and bit depth is your document? You will not see .bmp in Save As if your are using 16 bits/Channel or your image mode is anything other than RGB or BitMap
I had the same issue. I resized the bitmap as it was huge (30inchesx20inches)
This worked
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Also the reason why people are still using windows XP in a business is because cost. It cost money to upgrade the apps they use. Sometimes the apps they use the vendor went bankrupt and there is no other alternative.
AladainAF
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It's actually the PC version. I don't need to use it much, but I do need it, and I need to be able to save BMPs, because Second Life is such a piece of shit that the best quality images you can possibly upload are BMPs because it does a backend conversion to JPG2000. *faceclaws*
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Years ago, I saw an ATM that had some kind of error and it was running OS/2 Warp. Made me LOL.
Use this in place of PS if you can.
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I dont want to burst your bubble.. but that be because Second life uses an outdated engine and it was built.. maybe 15 years ago? That is pretty much the best argument against old software.
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Do you lack the intelligence to understand Chrome is paid for? Or do you lack the intelligence to understand personal information is a commodity?
AladainAF
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Years ago, I saw an ATM that had some kind of error and it was running OS/2 Warp. Made me LOL.
Use this in place of PS if you can.
Affinity – Professional Creative Software
From the smoothest photo editing and design software to next-gen page layout, Affinity is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology.
OS2 warp? Holy shit. I don't know exactly why, but the State of Texas has a love affair with OS/2.
I think the entire state government actually ran on it for a long time.
AladainAF
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Again, you're confusing what "software experience" means. Yes, SL uses old outdated ways for their handling of textures. But it has also never failed to work.
Path of Exile still can't get textures to display properly in 2021.
(Side note: The SL engine is pretty constantly updated, and is pretty advanced for what it is. For example, you're able to create avatars and items lightyears ahead of pretty much any similar platform (vrchat, etc)).
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I dont know shit about software development but I do know CAD systems for automotive, ive been working on them since 1992. And I can tell you guys that the software is so advanced now that what took teams of 200+ people to design a cockpit module in the 90s has become 10-12 people now. The software is also more stable, hardly any crashes (and loss of work) which is huge. The last cad system I worked on IDEAS, we used to get constant crashes. And if you got into a groove sometimes you would forget to save your shit, and then BAM, fucking software crashes and you lose 4-8 hrs worth of work. This rarely happens now, if ever. I dont even remember the last time my Siemens NX 11.0 crashed on me.
They also went from a purely surface and wire frame structure in the 90s and early 2K to a surface and solid structure which makes down stream services like cutter paths and tooling design 100% easier. since its a solid rather than a surface model with disjointed edges.
The models now are also "smart" int hat they have history so if constructed correctly. They can be easily modified, even if they have no history, they are still solid with new tools to actually move, delete, resize, etc... features on the model in real time. What we did in the 90s and 2Ks when your shit needed a change you deleted the part of the model and rebuilt it from scratch. This is why we needed teams of 200+ people, not any more.
We also went from dedicated computers called "Lundy" which had light pens and shit, to later unix systems with M&K to todays software that can run on your average home PC with windows if it has a dedicated graphics card. Obv, we use workstations that cost $1000s but I have ran this software on my $1500 gaming PC no problem. The reason we use workstations rather than cheap computers is not so much for the speed, it does help, but more so for the stability.
They also went from a purely surface and wire frame structure in the 90s and early 2K to a surface and solid structure which makes down stream services like cutter paths and tooling design 100% easier. since its a solid rather than a surface model with disjointed edges.
The models now are also "smart" int hat they have history so if constructed correctly. They can be easily modified, even if they have no history, they are still solid with new tools to actually move, delete, resize, etc... features on the model in real time. What we did in the 90s and 2Ks when your shit needed a change you deleted the part of the model and rebuilt it from scratch. This is why we needed teams of 200+ people, not any more.
We also went from dedicated computers called "Lundy" which had light pens and shit, to later unix systems with M&K to todays software that can run on your average home PC with windows if it has a dedicated graphics card. Obv, we use workstations that cost $1000s but I have ran this software on my $1500 gaming PC no problem. The reason we use workstations rather than cheap computers is not so much for the speed, it does help, but more so for the stability.
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Money. If it still works most businesses aren't going to replace things like that if they aren't forced to. You still have multi million dollar pieces of medical equipment running Windows CE because you'd have to replace the whole damn machine.
AladainAF
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Denamian
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Years ago, I saw an ATM that had some kind of error and it was running OS/2 Warp. Made me LOL.
Use this in place of PS if you can.
Affinity – Professional Creative Software
From the smoothest photo editing and design software to next-gen page layout, Affinity is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology.
Can't believe OS/2 Warped is still used anywhere. That's really fucked up.
AladainAF
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Hey
Lendarios
check this out...
Link to video
This is a .net core app I'm working on. At the moment the video starts I've clicked on the button to populate the top. This is the typical .net experience, populating 400 items in the top area. It's your typical combination of buttons, listviews, etc to get the view we want. Basically, the default way you need to do this in .net.
The bottom one, is a control we wrote from scratch in a day and implemented into the code to accomplish the same thing.
The top control populated 400 items in about 3 seconds. Scrolling it up and down as you see is weird - its janky, and doesn't draw very well. You cannot real-time resize the columns.
The bottom control populated 4000 items -- 10 times more than the original control -- in less than half a second. Scrolling it up and down is smooth and draws fine. You can real-time resize the columns.
This is what kind of thing I'm talking about. What we need to do is.. pretty basic and simple. And in 2021, it runs like dogshit on the default controls. You need to write your own controls to get any reasonable performance out of them at all. And yet, most of the time, developers wont do that (and I get this isnt always their fault).
Lendarios
check this out...Link to video
This is a .net core app I'm working on. At the moment the video starts I've clicked on the button to populate the top. This is the typical .net experience, populating 400 items in the top area. It's your typical combination of buttons, listviews, etc to get the view we want. Basically, the default way you need to do this in .net.
The bottom one, is a control we wrote from scratch in a day and implemented into the code to accomplish the same thing.
The top control populated 400 items in about 3 seconds. Scrolling it up and down as you see is weird - its janky, and doesn't draw very well. You cannot real-time resize the columns.
The bottom control populated 4000 items -- 10 times more than the original control -- in less than half a second. Scrolling it up and down is smooth and draws fine. You can real-time resize the columns.
This is what kind of thing I'm talking about. What we need to do is.. pretty basic and simple. And in 2021, it runs like dogshit on the default controls. You need to write your own controls to get any reasonable performance out of them at all. And yet, most of the time, developers wont do that (and I get this isnt always their fault).
Kiki
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Windows STILL has huge security flaws. There are 3 security flaws right NOW like the print spooler RCE, even windows server is vulnerable. The difference is we aren't stupid enough to put them on an unsecured LAN or WAN, every home has a fucking $60 linksys router with PAT and NAT. If only your IT dept was smart enough to have it's own bench LAN. Ironically, I also worked for a major university IT in the year 2000, Norton Ghost existed and we would do entire classrooms at once. Worms were pretty much a non-issue, bittorrent however......
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As recent as 5 years ago I had to put orders in at Motorola through an AS400 and OS/2 Warp System. Full multimillion dollar equipment and system orders. I’d have to break orders for radios in to 5-6 lists of 500-1,000 each, do all the excel conversions, it took hours. All because our inventory, order, financial, and everything else just still ran on it. I think there was one guy in an office no one remembered how to get to in Schaumburg who supported the whole thing. He may still be there, dead, collecting a check.
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AladainAF
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Heh.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error
The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer.
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