Comments on: Wobbly Windows http://www.markdrago.com/blog/2005/03/24/wobbly-windows/ Sun, 30 May 2010 22:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark http://www.markdrago.com/blog/2005/03/24/wobbly-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-540 Mark Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:15:51 +0000 http://www.markdrago.com/blog/?p=45#comment-540 You know, I almost let all of these cracks about Stardock doing this first and about how I had to compile stuff just slide right by. But, I just can't. I don't _have_ to compile anything. I just have the option of compiling stuff when it isn't even released yet. I had to check the wobbly windows stuff out of CVS because it is just that new. Hell, I could submit a patch to it and get it included in the real version before people who don't compile anything even see the end result. The one compelling reason I have to compile something is to get my hands on code that is less than a day old. :o) I'm pretty psyched that this stuff will be out before Longhorn. This stuff is slated for release in Fedora Core 5 which will come out by the end of this year. Apple _has_ been doing this stuff for years of course, but that's the way things tend to go with Apple. They do something years before everyone else and it only really takes off when MS does it. It's a shame really. I wouldn't feel bad about using a Mac OSX machine. Hell, I would use a Mac OSX machine before I ever use a Windows machine again. So, tell your work buddy that he's just a mac-a-phobe. :o) You know, I almost let all of these cracks about Stardock doing this first and about how I had to compile stuff just slide right by. But, I just can’t. I don’t _have_ to compile anything. I just have the option of compiling stuff when it isn’t even released yet. I had to check the wobbly windows stuff out of CVS because it is just that new. Hell, I could submit a patch to it and get it included in the real version before people who don’t compile anything even see the end result. The one compelling reason I have to compile something is to get my hands on code that is less than a day old. :o)

I’m pretty psyched that this stuff will be out before Longhorn. This stuff is slated for release in Fedora Core 5 which will come out by the end of this year. Apple _has_ been doing this stuff for years of course, but that’s the way things tend to go with Apple. They do something years before everyone else and it only really takes off when MS does it. It’s a shame really.

I wouldn’t feel bad about using a Mac OSX machine. Hell, I would use a Mac OSX machine before I ever use a Windows machine again. So, tell your work buddy that he’s just a mac-a-phobe. :o)

]]> By: John http://www.markdrago.com/blog/2005/03/24/wobbly-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-534 John Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:18:28 +0000 http://www.markdrago.com/blog/?p=45#comment-534 Wow... Wobbly Windows. That was cool when stardock pimped that 2 years ago with WindowFX + WindowBlinds. Course, I didn't have to complie shit, Hell I didn't even have to pay for it. I but I see as far as eye candy goes, the Linux desktop is getting there. I always though that Gnome was way sexier than any XP desktop could be. I think that it's awesome that the Linux desktop with have 3D acceleration in place before schLonghorn even gets out the door. Course... OSX has been around how long now? Oh yeah, I got an iBook. PearPC too slow and CherryOS too stolen. Been having fun with the packages from <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Fink</a>. The allure of the mac is 99% applications, 1% hardware. The hardware is a joke, but it's enough to make everything you run on it look pretty. A friend at work got all high an mighty that I'm switching. I told him to fuck off, if anything I'm platform bi. I'm all for the PC, but occasionally I get drunk, get in to the wrong bed and let the mac suck me off ^_^. For a scenario, we did a comparison. The challenge: to go from DVD to ISO MPEG 4. It takes my home machine (AMD64 3200, 1GB Ram) 1 hours, 45 minutes at high quality. It took his Dual G5 (2x1.6GHx, 2GB Ram) 6 hours to do the same clip. Apparently XCode & AltiVec optimizations sound great on paper, but it didn't work out so well. But I have to say... The windows too look pretty and bright on under OS X and expose makes me cream my pants. Wow… Wobbly Windows. That was cool when stardock pimped that 2 years ago with WindowFX + WindowBlinds. Course, I didn’t have to complie shit, Hell I didn’t even have to pay for it. I but I see as far as eye candy goes, the Linux desktop is getting there. I always though that Gnome was way sexier than any XP desktop could be. I think that it’s awesome that the Linux desktop with have 3D acceleration in place before schLonghorn even gets out the door.

Course… OSX has been around how long now?

Oh yeah, I got an iBook. PearPC too slow and CherryOS too stolen. Been having fun with the packages from Fink. The allure of the mac is 99% applications, 1% hardware. The hardware is a joke, but it’s enough to make everything you run on it look pretty. A friend at work got all high an mighty that I’m switching. I told him to fuck off, if anything I’m platform bi. I’m all for the PC, but occasionally I get drunk, get in to the wrong bed and let the mac suck me off ^_^.
For a scenario, we did a comparison. The challenge: to go from DVD to ISO MPEG 4. It takes my home machine (AMD64 3200, 1GB Ram) 1 hours, 45 minutes at high quality. It took his Dual G5 (2×1.6GHx, 2GB Ram) 6 hours to do the same clip. Apparently XCode & AltiVec optimizations sound great on paper, but it didn’t work out so well. But I have to say… The windows too look pretty and bright on under OS X and expose makes me cream my pants.

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