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AGREED!! OTS2 is really a nice standard, but it immediately invalidated my themes (even with the patch to enable OTS1's to work), because the hotkeys and VWM settings into a users core settings. Just gave up on it rather than spend a few weeks retooling each theme.
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...ago... Sorry (expecting imminent slap from Jafo) "...until a year ago,..."
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Brad, thanks for the link- I stand corrected! I hope you don't feel the whole Aston community is avidly against WB- in fact most of the AstonShell users I've encountered use Aston in conjunction with WB. They complement each other very well. Although I read the article SacRat posted, I hadn't seen the arguments that ensued thereafter. I still feel that the whole "Bastard"-izing argument was unwarranted, however. (Or at least I sincerely ho
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Respectfully: I beg to differ. I didn't find out until about a year, and I'd wager that the bulk of the people who visit the site transiently would not realize this. It IS deceptive, although I'd hope Brad was not trying to be deceptive. Sure, the core group of regulars would, but this use of a pseudonym is still a deceptive practice that is not permitted to other users. Brad's writing style even seems different when he writes reviews as Draginol,
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Sure helps that the WC email publication has briefs on articles Brad himself wrote...
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I find it completely ironic that Paul Boyer's article cited by this one ends up almost conclusively crushing every single gripe he raised. What's even more funny is that this article was referenced to by the WinCustomize email list: Brad this is novel ploy: link up your own articles in the WC publications, then publish on the front-page how 8 of your articles are at the top <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Mad.gif" border=0 ALIGN
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Yup, but Rainlendar and Beatnik run full alpha-transparency over the background, something WB only does for the Start-panel. On DX usage, here's what I'm getting using the included Classic theme: ...and here's what I'm getting using the included Longhorn theme: <img src
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So I've managed to check previous threads and comments dealing with Aston, and I can't seem to find any that have the negative spin you've put on the Aston community. I don't understand the jab. Brad, why the alter-ego to write this article, too?
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Nice article! Seems a bit castigatory to the Aston crowd, though. I have a hard time imaginining anyone in the AstonShell community being that pushy- but that's just my experience. For the record, AstonShell's installer doesn't <TD class="mb-Body-Quote-Text"
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"Intel makes the best hardware for PC"s in the world." You really haven't looked at the G5 architecture, have you? Your spurious claims are not supported by facts. Hopefully this means that Apple and Microsoft will compete head-to-head on the same platforms, giving users the option of getting the Mac
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Congrats!
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Thanks for doing this! You've got a natural progression of points here that doesn't leave me lost or wondering "where did that come from?" Very logical outline... thanks for sharing!
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Just a clarification, The Cell was a joint venture by Toshiba, Sony, and IBM as the new processor for the Sony Playstation 3. The technology has now been opened to others to use for internet appliances, server farms, and the like.
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Just out of curiousity: Why does the above "Apple's" in the article pull up a sponsored ad? VERY good article. I ended up getting Tiger with the purchase of a new Powerbook, so the price of the upgrade wasn't too much of a concern. Others in my department are more reluctant to purchase it, however (even on their incredible NIH-funded budgets). For the 10.3 crowd, Tiger doesn't offer a whole lot more in usability than they already can accomp
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Regardless, (bringing it back to the original topic)... the RISC architecture that Apple uses does pull in more floating point operations per second (FLOPS) than Intel processors. If Apple decides to go with The Cell processor technology (as rumor mills are prone to say) they could triple their existing capabilities. Last I heard, AMD was licensing chip printing technique to Intel (at Intel's request). Seems AMD's got the edge on cramming tr
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Check out http://robbushway.blogspot.com/2005/05/apple-tablet-pc-sightings.html and http://engadget.com/entry/1234000310044375/ It appears that Apple is specifically interested in Intel's Sonoma technology. The rumors DON'T point to a complete switchover (that would be economically and technologically stupid- retool your entire line that you own rights to just to use inferior processors?). Does look like they're interested in portable techno
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Still looks like Avalon's got a LONG way to go before it compares to Quartz...
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Wow, wasn't expecting such a philosophical debate over something like this To each his own: Kona, at least you've tried Linux and decided it wasn't for you, for which I believe you should be commended. There are so many who write off things without even trying them. I
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(jumping on the wagon...) Sembetu, The original article spawning this conversation had a very anti-Mac feel whilst coming from one of WC's most respected skinners (which anecdotally lends artificial legitimacy to the Windows world). Unfortunately, the arguments raised in the initial article are not valid, the later part of this conversation focusing on this fact. It's interesting discussing Mac5p33k here in particular because of the
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The developers sites are rife with complaints against the XAML format... half of which I don't really understand. It'll be nice to finally have a graphics compositor as part of the OS in Windows, though. Have the fun on a Mac results from the Quartz Compositor.
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I hope you enjoy Fedora. Everybody's got their personal favorite they settle into, Fedora Core 3 is mine. Gives you the choice of the KDE, Gnome or the Xfce interface, and comes with a ton of software. Keep us posted!
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Josh- Utopia is a project for Linux (I've seen it specifically in Fedora) that automatically mounts attached drives, say a thumb-drive, and puts 'em on the desktop, similar to what Macs do. They have probably extended the project to Windows PCs as well. Prior to Utopia, under linux you'd have to bust out your text editor and physically alter a file in order to get your computer to recognize (mount) attached devices like thumb-drives.
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Zoomba- someone hasn't read the whole thread: you must have missed my earlier comment I'm aware of of the unnecessary clean install. I raise point #1 because OSX updates, even major OSX upgrades, do not require a complete wipe of the system. I clicked all the default options for my seamless install of Tiger and all was well, leading me to believe that Mormegil's los
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Both have their advantages- DesktopX is infinitely more versatile due to its ability to utilize multiple programming/scripting sources, whereas Dashboard uses just HTML/CSS/Javascript (easy to use, but not as expansive). Dashboard's principle advantage is the underlying OS- many of the graphic calls (the ripple-effect, the ability to flip-over widgets) are inherent parts of the graphics compositor in the operating system and hardware elements (i.e.: A
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