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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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!

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.

Leopard and mac4lin

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

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.

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.

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

WARNING: Hacking your startup tune can have bad effects!

OMG this is funny!!!

HA HA HA!!!

Just some more macgeekiness!!!! lolz!!!



BTW, -1000 points to apple for their Leopard Beta THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR!!!!!!! WTF!!?!?!? even MICRO$OFT don't stoop that low.

Detour

A great li'l app for mac os x that you can configure to mute/turn down/switch output of sound for certain applications. Have you ever been surfing the web at the same time as listening to music, gone on a site that goes BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! and rushed for the mute key? If so, this app is for you. Click on the title of this post to download.

sudo rm -rf

A video of someone running sudo rm -rf in the terminal window of mac os x macbook. Stupid idiot!!!