Mac4Lin: ditched

A few days ago I decided I didn't want all the leopard-lookalike stuff on my linux box, just a nice ubuntu look. The main reasons were: (1) that it created gtk errors for EVERY app, and (2) it also used a hell of alot of RAM. I also thought, 'why would I want to make Gnome look like a propietary GUI?'. What I ended up doing is just having preset icons/themes and stuff, then hacking it a little. Right now I have Human icons, Clearlooks window border (with default blue color), and Glossy controls. I hacked icons like the rhythmbox tray icon (I actually got that icon of gnome-look) and the computer icon (I bodged that together in GIMP). Here is an overview of my desktop, grey-propietary-leopard-look free (I got the wallpaper from interfaceLIFT):

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The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie

OMG PRESENTS

List of presents:

The Orange Box
USB Missile Launcher
Milk Chocolate Computer, Keyboard and Mouse (!)
Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze (book)
Shed Scientist (book)
...more books

Ultratasking with 2.5GB RAM

Here's me running way, way too many apps, and it shows (although not in system performance :p)!














This is what I'm running:
Fission
iTunes
Chess
60 or so Finder windows
GIMP under X11
Google Earth
Stickies
BitTyrant
Bittorrent
BrainVoyager
Mail
Camino
Chess
Calculator
Frozen Bubble
Tidy Up!
iMage Tester for image webcam
System Preferences
DVD Player
iCal
Automator
QuickKeys
Address Book
Adium
Audio Hijack Pro
Audio Hijack
CyTV Server
Dashboard
Deeper
Dictionary
DMGConverter
EyeTV
Final Cut Express
Flickr Uploadr
Font Book
Front Row
GifBuilder
GoodPage
Hex Fiend
HierarchicalDock
iChat
Image Capture
iPodDisk
iShowU
iSync
Jing
JollysFastVNC
LingTreeConstructor
Logic Express
Mathematica 5
Microsoft Autoupdate
Microsoft Messenger
MidiKeys
MyTV/x
Photo Booth
PopChar
Preview
Q
Quick-O
QuickTime Player
RealPlayer
RecordPad
Safari
Say Something
Script Editor
SiteSucker
Spaces
Mount two DMGs
TechTool Pro 4
TextEdit
Time Machine
ToolPlayer
Vine Server
Vine Viewer
VLC
Wallsaver
Yahoo! Messenger

That was everything in my applications folder except stuff that are in folders (which is a shame as I have the Microsoft Office 2004 suite and the Adobe CS suite, all in folders). That's why I have so many finder windows open anyway. Here's what my dock looked like (although I might of quitted a few apps by then):


I did all this using 2.5GB RAM, and I can prove it:

Christmas: overview

Here's a list of all the stuff I got for Christmas and Hannukah:
Christmas:
1) iMage USB Webcam
2) Acecad (whatever that is) Graphics Tablet
3) Really (as in REALLY) comfy cusion/pillow/bean bag kinda thing
4) Two books that I cannot be bothered to repeat the names of
5) 2GB RAM (so I now have 2.5GB RAM in my PowerMacG5 w00t)
6) Really (as in REALLY) comfy/warm/c00l leather jacket
7) Massive Calendar showing images of the earth that look so hi-res they might aswell be vector graphics!
8) T-shirt with a picture of a COMPUTER (from my 6-year-old sister)
9) Moon phase calendar
10) Kit to make a paper model of the celestial sphere
11) Fountain pen
12) Pen to check counterfeit banknotes
13) A ton of chocolate and other gack (including a packet of chocolate raisins from myself)
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And if you want to know what I got for hannukah, look down about 10 posts or so!

More RAM finally...

I just installed my new RAM, and now have 2.5GB of RAM in my PowerMacG5!!! I also got a cool graphics tablet!

Postal Service

The UK postal service ('Royal Mail') is so rubbish. I'm expecting 2gig RAM in the post and they don't even work on Christmas OR Boxing Day. So the RAM should be coming on the 27th or maybe even the 28th!!! THAT IS NOT GOOD, I NEED IT NOW.

Cool screensaver on ubuntu

There's a really cool screensaver called Helios that comes with the Gnome based ubuntu distribution. If you use ubuntu, try it out!

More template crap

Blogger f*cked our template, so here's the new one. It's s bit rough around the edges right now.

Stable web browser for GNU/Linux

Firefox is the web browser that comes on nearly all GNU/Linux distros, and often is the sole one (i.e. there is no other preinstalled web browser). But the truth is, firefox under GNU/Linux is still very buggy, and I reckon it should be considered a beta. But GNU/Linux users: don't dispair! There are two other web browsers that aren't so buggy (and alot more if you use google 8-0); namely Epiphany and Konqueror. Konqueror comes with KDE as part of the package, so if you use KDE and haven't tried out Konqueror for web browsing, give it a go. I can tell you it's one of the best out there. For GNOME users, try out epiphany (most users will have to download and install the package as it doesn't come with many (if not any) GNOME distros). Epiphany is very stable, but it's not nearly as feature rich as Firefox. Use epiphany if you want a good, stable web browser that doesn't crash all too often (in fact I am typing this under epiphany right now ;D), but isn't too feature rich either. Both Epiphany and Konqueror run on either platform (GNOME or KDE) but generally, Konqueror will run better on KDE and Epiphany will run better on GNOME (that goes for lot's of other apps too). For Xfce/Fluxbox/[insert obscure desktop environment here] users, you probably know what you're doing! ;)

GUI's GUI's and more GUI's

GUI's ("gooies" Graphical User Interfaces) are what almost everybody uses to operate a PC.

But they aren’t all good...

Windows Xp made a real good improvement to the old grey look but it is still not so cool.

When Vista Aero came out you could see that they had been working hard at it, a really cool GUI that was easy to use and navigate with, apparently you could find all your files and folders at the touch of a button or so.
But there is one big disadvantage to it, very big.
IT TAKES 1G OF RAM JUST FOR THE GUI!!!!!!.

That is why I would go for the Mac GUI that is even easer to navigate with and is slick and smooth, only takes 64mb (tiger and below) of ram and is well easy to use and cool (compared to windows xp) .

But wait...
There is another better option...
UBUNTU
see this video:

And Ubuntu Beryl has a skin that looks and feels a lot like Vista Aero all in 512mb (But it works better with 1G) ram!

So what do you think Pls post your comments 8-)

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2. Theguywholikeselectronicsandlinux

RAM from ebay

A few weeks ago we bought 2GB of RAM for my PowerMac G5 (PMG5) from ebay. It was high density RAM, and the PMG5 that I have doesn't support that. We sold it again to some other willing customer on ebay. Now that we have our £400 christmas money (look down a few posts), we finally have enough to get some more, low density, more expensive RAM, and we've ordered it already. So in a few days I should have 2.5GB of RAM in my dual processor 64-bit PowerPC G5 PowerMac! :) It'll be smokin'!!! Once I get the RAM i might do a little benchmark test, kinda like opening four emulated x86 architechture virtual machines, while editing a Final Cut movie, umm... yeah, maybe Google Earth aswell! Or what I could have is a GB each for 2 virtual machines, and 512MB for everything else, that'a be c00l! What'ya do with 2.5G ram eh?

More RAM, seriously

I (well, my family) just got £400 for christmas so we'll be getting a new amp and speakers, and I'll be getting more RAM for my GNU/Linux PC, and the PMG5 aswell hopefully.

A little app

Here's a little app that I made as a joke.

iLife '08

Soon I'll be getting iLife '08 for free, and hope to do some kind of web developing with the tools that it provides (like iWeb). I've never actually used the iLife programs, and I'd like to try out iMovie as well as stuff like GarageBand.

logitech LX7 linux driver

I'm using a Logitech LX7 cordless optical mouse under linux ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22. The default mouse driver that X uses doesn't support 5 button mice (which is what I have). I have gone fiddling with the xorg.conf configuration file in /etc/X11, completely corrupted X, and am now typing this under the command line interface using lynx. Does anyone know of any linux 5 button mouse drivers that you can use without completely p***ing X off? I am f***ed off with this sh!t. Someone must of written a stupid, FREAKING DRIVER. Thanks in advance to anyone who even posts a comment.

Template

I'm cleaning up the template a bit - no huge BETA, no extra RSS in the sidebar... and a new picture of the moment widget.

Do we have a rubbish template?

I think our template is great, don't you? Well even if you don't like it, leave feedback! Oh, and if you want to use edit-mode, Just click here!

ZOMG!1 HAXORD FEEDS on an iPhone

Apple's iPhone uses reader.mac.com to view RSS feeds. if you visit reader.mac.com with your average computer, you'll get a message about you not being on an iPhone.

I worked around this limitation*.

http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/http://malfela.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Now, if anyone can make some sort of script (greasemonkey?) to make this formatting readable, I'd be very interested.

* spoof your user-agent to Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone, U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3 - There's a firefox extension available.

Goodies are, well, good!

I just got some goodies as hannukah pressies (I celebrate hannukah as I'm a jew). Here they are:

2 GB Kingston DataTraveler USB flash drive.

Logitech cordless optical mouse, has side scrolling, zoom, page scrolling and everything. Some of the features only work with Mac OS X or Windows though, which is a bummer as I use linux :S. Oh well.

Two guide/handbooks: A guide to linux and UNIX/linux commands; and a guide to the linux desktop (i.e. gnome and KDE*).

Guiness World Records 2008 :D.

The Gremlins collection - Gremlins and Gremlins 2. Never watched but it sounds good!

Small steps by Louis Sachar. It is the sequel to an extremely good book called 'Holes'.

Next it will be christmas presents!
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*Gnome and KDE are not the only desktop environments out there for linux - xfce and fluxbox are two others.

Portal

I'm getting the Orange Box very soon, mainly to play Portal but I'm also interested in Half-Life 2.
Looks pretty interesting.

Oh and by the way, we have new feed tools, courtesy of Yahoo! Pipes.

Kernel panic!

UPDATE: three now, as it kernel panicked on startup this morning for no apparent reason :(. Macs never crash eh?

I have had my PowerMac G5 dual processor 2.0GHz 512MB DDR Low-density SDRAM for about a year now, and have had two real and serious kernel panics. One of them was before I updated to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and one of them was, sadly, after. The first time my sister was fiddling with the power button (i.e. making it go thru loads of sleep/wake cycles very quickly) and I read that that can make certain machines Kernel Panic. That was when I was running Mac OS X 10.4.10 Tiger. The second time was when I put it under tremendous load (remember I only have 512 MB RAM), i.e. opening these apps and probably lots of others: Google Earth; Macromedia Flash Pro 8; 6 TextEdit windows; Safari; Apple Mail; iTunes; Adobe Photoshop CS; 76 xterms all running another xterm (i.e. in a long chain of xterms); 2 normal terminal windows (one running top); Google Sketchup; Google Sketchup Pro and countless other RAM hogging apps. That was when I was running Mac OS X 10.5.1 Leopard. I was in expose when it crashed.

VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network
Have you ever wanted to set up a LAN but the other PC is in a different area? or you can't just trail a cable across the road to your Mate?
WELL MAKE WAY FOR VLAN!!!!
VLAN??? Virtual it does not use a cable but the Internet! (using a very secure server) And you have a Virtual LAN, you can play any multiplayer games and they will still work, they don't know that it is the Internet!!!

But How do you do that? Well download hamachi from logmein (very-good!) and get it on the other PC and create a VIRTUAL Network, and there you go!

Leopard review ... finally!

Ok I've finally gathered together some pretty cool screenshots of Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. First, here is the default desktop that came up just after I'd installed leopard:















Everyone knows that macs are easy and intuitive, right? Well you should see help in leopard. I'm not joking, anyone could use it!















Coverflow in finder looks cool... (and the BSoD PC icons are funny!)

Quick Look is an absolute lifesaver.

Genie might not be a new leopard thing, but it's cool anyway! (here you can see that I've set the new Arabesque screensaver as my desktop background, and I'm installing developer tools 3.0 from the install DVD.)

Stacks are just eyecandy (although cooler than cool):

And last, but certainly not least, Spaces. NOTE: Spaces is very similar to compiz fusion, and it is not an original idea. But as far as i can tell, it's the first time anything like it has come to the mac.

Overall I think leopard is an excellent upgrade. I think you definitely get your moneys worth, especially for it being only £85/$129. Here are just a few of the new features that I can think of off the top of my head:

Completely redesigned finder (including coverflow and quicklook)
Mail.app stationary
Spaces
Dashcode, and all other developer tools ('Xcode 3.0') free
Web clips
Tabbed terminal interface
Time Machine
Front Row (works with PPC macs now :D)
Stacks
iChat
Built in VNC in iChat and Finder
New screensavers 'Arabesque' and 'Shell', and new voice 'Alex'.
Eyecandy, and lots of it!
Loads of redesigned menus and things, e.g the translucent menu bar and the 3D dock.

h4x1nt0sh

leopard ... hackintosh ...

Developers developers developers developers!

Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers developers developers!

[apologies for lack of recent posts, fela is working on a review]

Developers!

boom!

Leopard *growl*

Me and fela just installed Leopard - it's AMAZING. Seriously, I think it's the best OS that has come out of apple so far.

Screenshots and review soon.

Leopard tommorow...

Me (rot13srynznfyra) and Mal are sharing the £85 price tag for the new version of Mac OS X, 10.5 Leopard. I'm gonna go and get it from the apple store tomorrow. Anyway, I'll/we'll give you a proper review when it comes. I am ready for teh bugz life! No seriously, I'm gonna be careful cos I heard that there was a bug where if you try and move (note that I say move and not copy) file(s) over to/from an external drive, and while the data's still moving over the drive accidentally gets unplugged, the Finder thinks that it's copied it all over, and deletes the original file (that's cos you said move and not copy), so you lose part of your data, or all of it if it's one file. Be careful about that one! Hope they fix it soon.

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates

Funny cartoon of Steve and Bill. You can also find it on the bottom of this page, if you scroll down.

BSoD on a mac (my mac)

This is a video of me making Windows 95 Blue Screen of Death, inside VPC. I did it by making an HTML document that tries to access C:\con\con, which makes it BSoD.

Still image:

UPDATE: Notice that you still see the normal GUI top and bottom? That's because the aspect ratio of the BSoD is different to the normal desktop, and the excess at the top and bottom isn't being redrawn. I.E you still see what was there before where the BSoD doesn't replace. I think that was a glitch of VPC though, as it didn't happen another time (as in the image below the video).

Ultratasking

Here's me running way too many apps:
















A few seconds later, in Ring Switcher:

Megatasking

You might think I'm being pathetic in calling this megatasking, but when you take into account that I am doing this with 256MB of RAM and a Pentium 4, it's a whole different story. And the machine was still running surprisingly fast. (As in very responsive.) Linux and the GNOME desktop seem to use the RAM very well, especially compared to Microsoft's Windows operating system.

You have to pay for everything these days!

Annoying horses!

No really!!! Annoying Horses!!! <-- If you are using DOS-based windows, I advise you not to follow this link.

Liger

Many people want Leopard, apple's latest and greatest version of OS X, but many people also don't want to cough up the $129/£85 for it. If you are one of those people, and currently use Tiger (10.4) then check out this excellent customization pack. (URL http://spiderlama.deviantart.com/art/Liger-57706188) I reckon It's about as far as you'll get your tiger installation to look like leopard. Many thanks to the person who made this!

Embedded terminal

This is my handy terminal, embedded in the GNOME desktop. I did this using devilspie.

Vista is so useless!

My friend's computer runs Vista. Actually, his laptop that has 512MB RAM runs Vista.

Anyway, one day I was at his house, changing his DNS settings for him. I put some information in a text file, which was in the Documents folder. I then cut and pasted the text file to the desktop.

Vista then proceeded to spend a whole 20 seconds "estimating time remaining", then finally copied the file in about 1sec.

Thanks, Microsoft.

Mac4Lin with 1GB RAM

Mac4Lin looks much better when you can run compiz.

Although Fela managed to get his theme looking pretty good - he hasn't posted an update but it looks AMAZING.

Torrenting

I'm torrenting something...but I am not telling you what it is!

Leopard and mac4lin

I have a leopard account on my linux system...

Gimping.

Just gimping around with a screenshot...

Internet joke!!

Internet Joke
Customer: "I want to download the Internet. Do I need a bigger hard disk?"

Download the Internet here

Edit sites to your will...

...by typing this into your address bar: javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Leopard look-alike

I've got the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard look on my gnome desktop pretty good now, as you can see. The main drawback is that I don't have a good enough graphics card for compiz, and consequently can't use Avant Window Navigator to emulate a dock.

Google's unreadable code

This is a section of one of the JavaScript files of Google's translator tool. It's an example of very badly written code, in that it's next to impossible to read. If someone was to go over this code, for example to fix a bug/improve it in some way or other, they wouldn't know where to start. Developers: Comment your code, and make it readable! It pays off.

Mac BSoD

Some people who are upgrading to Leopard are getting a "blue screen" - Which is actually just the background for the "Starting Mac OS X..." window. This blank blue screen appears for a while because Leopard basically runs the equivalent of fsck - however it just seems to crash on certain computers.

Throw away email address

click here for a temporary email address that expires in 15 minutes.

BSOD on a mac?! WTF?!?!?

That is NOT a BSOD. You don't get 'em on macs (unless running windoze). It's apple's equivalent of a bsod, except much less ugly. And much rarer.

Microsoft h@x0rd - the original

It's not as good as srynznfyra's, but it's what caused him to create his.

7he real microsoft (h4x0rd)

KDE vs. GNOME

KDE vs. GNOME. That is the question. I run konqueror under gnome, and it just rocks so much that I'm beginning to see that the only real reason that I use GNOME and not KDE is not being bothered to install it. That's silly really, as there's a .deb package available in the Ubuntu repositories that you can install by just running sudo apt-get install kde. The thing is, to try it out I'd have to install it onto my system, cause I admit that I don't have enough RAM to run a full-blown desktop environment like kde or gnome inside a virtual machine. Ah well. I'll stick with gnome for the time being, although I'd very much like to try out Xfce or fluxbox, as I have a relatively low-end low-ram machine. I'll keep you posted though!

IE7

IE7 has now decided it wants to be my default GIF viewer. :(

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Thanks alot

Thanks everybody for contributing to the 5 star rating of this blog!!!

Windoze users: happy activation!

But mac users: happy knowing that your supplier trusts you!

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes

Off topic: Happy halloween everybody! :D

GIMPing around

gimp, gimp, gimpy gimp gimp. gimpy gimpy gimpy gimpy gimpy gimp gimp. gimping around, gimp gimp gimp, gimpy gimp gimp gimpy gimpy gimp.

Serious Mac Crash

This is a kernel panic on a Mac. I guess it's too messed up to even display the grey "Restart" message.

Supertux

Boing...BAM!!...squish...splat!...bounce. Do they have rehab for supertux addictions?! Lol.

CERTIFIED: We are geeks!

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Windows SUcks (BSoD)

Mess-up Function

You won't believe what we slipped into this blog's template, including this...

Ubuntu 7.10 Ad

Here's a quick GIMP...

OS X Leopard (10.5)

Apple's latest OS is out - here's what we think:

Leopard comes with over 300 new features, YAY!!! Our faves are stacks, time machine, and spaces. iUse a mac, but iWon't say anything about torrents cos they're iLegal. Say no more, say no more... anyway, iWan't Leopard, but iDon't have the iDough.
- rot13srynznfyra

Leopard seems to be a good upgrade if you have the money for it. I know a few people who will be searching for torrents ... iWon't because iDon't have aMac. And my internet speed is crappy (no, not dialup, just rather slow broadband). I don't torrent anyway. The "Stacks" feature looks like a nice improvement, and all in all, it looks like a solid upgrade.
- Malachy

My own digital blasphemy

Last night I made this on GIMP.

Vista Test Drive

OK, vista sucks. Pretty much everyone knows, apart from the n00bs...

But have you ever wanted to try it and see if it really does suck?
If you're on Windoze anyway have a look at www.windowsvistatestdrive.com in Internet Exposer. It installs a Microsoft ActiveX control and logs you on to a Vista virtual machine, courtesy of "Windows Live Virtual Labs". Then you can see just how much it sucks.

In the words of slashdot...

OMG PONIES!!

Pie-face Bill!

Someone had the guts to throw a pie in Bill Gates face - I say GOOD FOR THEM!!!

UNIX and windows

I was reading a book about UNIX from the library (as usual reading a programming book when i am board) and i decided to try the equivalent (DOS) out on windows.

First you go to run and type "cmd".

^ Like this

...And click OK

This should appear

then type "help"

It will give you a list of commands and you and get more details by typing "help command name"

and you can also do stuff like pipe () it ex. "help more"
which will give you:

press enter for the --more-- command to display the next line of text.

Have a play around and see what you can do.

douse this mean that windows kinda has a terminal like thingy? Maybe not it is a command prompt but still similar

WARNING: Hacking your startup tune can have bad effects!

OMG this is funny!!!

Find the Egg

Find the easter egg in this post!

Lynx

Fact: GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) are bad for geeks. The full-on GUIs of web browsers like Mozilla Firefox can be dangerous at times, + big on the memory req.s. So that's why there's lynx for linux. It's a very simple web browser that runs in - guess what? - the terminal. So now you can browse the web with 128k of RAM. Great!

Ubuntu 7.10 RELEASED!!

W00T!

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Still no Gutsy...

It's nearly 10am and Gutsy still isn't ready. Let's hope Canonical finish getting ready soon.

mac4lin

Mac4Lin is a good set of themes and stuff for gnome, that imitates OS X, and does it quite well. You can find the homepage on google, i can't be bothered to give it to you! Well, reccomended for any mac GUI nerds switching to linux! Also, here is another good site for that kinda stuff.

O crap.

That post below is wrong until some time in the night. I thought that they would release gutsy at excatly midnight, when the countdown stopped, but obviously not. I'll report back in the morning though!

Gutsy release

> Ubuntu 7.10 gets released ... ... ... NOW!!!

Get it here!

OSX Linux

Here's my Linux pretending to be Mac OS X: (click on it to get a bigger picture)

The wonders of Linux

Hey. I've finally sorted out an old pentium 4 with linux ubuntu. And it works wonders.

live.pirillo.com

start chatting with a geek called Chris Pirillo (and other geeks) here.

VMware campaign

Who wants to start a little campaign to get the developers of VMware to make a PPC-inside-PPC vmware package?

Fire review 1

I'm already falling in love with Fire. Here's a screenshot:

Fire

I use Mac OS X, and until recently I was forced to use M$ messenger for IM. But just now I switched to Fire, an alternative. Note that if you click that link it will automatically start the download from sourceforge.net. I'll give reviews later on, when I've used it and found bugs. I hope to stop using ANY Micro$oft software in the near future! (only got M$ office and M$ VPC to go!)

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You'll never have to randomize binary again.

Hi

hi this is me!!!


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nice meeting you

4oD

4oD is the UK Channel 4's On Demand TV show download manager.

It sucks.

Reasons to use:
You can watch TV shows

Reasons to avoid:
Uses an incredibly slow IE shell, looks like HTA.
Flash + IE = :(
Intergrates Windows Media Player
Is insecure - Runs an IE shell in the background.

warning: funny!

I should post this up on worse than failure!!!

Applemist

Apple is fading away, fast! BTW, I'd give 1000 points to anyone that can guess how I got this picture. Clue: I used photoshop to change it to Black & White and change the brightness/contrast levels. You've got to work out what I took to get it.

Getdeb

If you use Ubuntu, you might want to check out Getdeb, a site like packages.ubuntu.com. You might even want to add it to your repositories file, if you enjoy a bit of hacking and don't mind potentially mucking up your system.

Ubuntu 7.10 Beta Review

Ubuntu 7.10: Gutsy Gibbon


















The install went OK, after a couple of tries - VMware problems?













Startup hasn't changed very much. No splash?
















The default desktop. There's a Deskbar by default and a new user switcher.


















There's a new settings manager - "Appearance". Looks like Vista.

















The Themes manager, similar style...
















Firefox, without the latest update.

















The new Places menu.

















New default Home folders


















The stripped-down version of Synaptic seems to have been improved.


















Asking for a password...


















Synaptic itself seems to have no obvious improvements.



















The User switcher seems similar to the one in OSX...


















Shutdown options!




















Final shutdown.

Ubuntu 7.10 looks like it is going to be a brilliant upgrade.