Most of the man pages are either lacking, don't install properly, or are completely out of date for anything other than core *sh commands as well.

I'll use "apropos" and gamely read a man page, but it's useless if the information is wrong or incomplete, which it often is.

Under Catalyst Control Center, go to "Desktops & Displays," select your primary monitor (on the bottom) click the down arrow and click "Configure." You'll have the settings pages you're used to from the old Catalyst drivers there. (I use a 4890 on Win7)

You'll notice that "Enable GPU Scaling" is grayed out. It's only changeable when you're not running at your display's native resolution. The solution? Switch to a slightly lower or higher res, turn the setting on and run your game.

Depends on what part of the 80s we're talking about. Some games looked far better in EGA with 16 colors than the C64 version simply because of the improved resolution. Others looked better with more colors on the C64. Some were subjective.... Wasteland had a better UI on the PC, but the graphics were roughly equivalent on the C64 and the PC (with an EGA).

By the time ubiquitous MCGA/VGA adapters hit the market in 1987, the only competition point the C64 had was the superior sound chip.

Still missing the point.

Native game resolution is 640x480. Twice that is 1280x960. You're running at 1680x1050 or 1920x1080. You run the VM at 1280x960 resolution, then run the game fullscreen in the VM.

Now you have the game running with doubled pixels at native resolution with the proper aspect ratio and it takes up a respectably-sized window on the screen.

Often (at least in US public schools) teachers aren't compensated for time spent developing their curriculum and lesson plans. These are done off-hours and are just expected that the teachers do them. This is why frequently you see pisspoor teaching in public schools; the few teachers who can't be bothered to develop a lesson plan that addresses their students just use the crap from the books, and frequently fail to update them when the new version of the book comes out.

If teachers have an avenue to make money by developing decent lesson plans and better curricula(?) then we might actually see some improvement in the quality of education in US public schools.

On a few occasions I've found myself *needing* to code something while having an alarmingly high fever. Sometimes this is because something is actually due and sometimes it's because I just think I understand something.

The surprising thing about this was when I had a fever of 103.4 and was snowed in so I couldn't get to the hospital so I stayed awake all night. I programmed a 3d graphics engine... without properly understanding what I was doing... and it worked. It took me the next 2 weeks to figure out what I'd done, why it worked, and what it was doing before I could improve it. Took me almost that long to verify that I hadn't just cut and pasted from random websites while in my delirium. My browsing history was full of all sorts of random crap. I'm still not sure how it happened.

Suffice it to say that I now believe in the Ballmer Peak.