You really haven't looked at the G5 architecture, have you? Your spurious claims are not supported by facts. I haven't personally looked at the G5 architecture, but, I have indeed heard many many people say that it is a very good design. Yet, the claim for why they are switching is because IBM is h
Intel makes more then just x86 chips, so why assume that apple is planning to switch to the x86 architecture? What are you suggesting... Mac's running on the ITanium??? I think we can safely rule that out. Now, they make a number of flavors of x86 chips, some dual core, some not. Some with x64, some
I saw one other mention of Win2VNC in the above discussion. I hadn't used it, nor Multiplicity. But, if I was wanting a solution like that, I would probably at least look at both. I do use regular VNC for remote control. And, yes, some Open Source projects die out due to nobody willing to work on them, and others do well. VNC seems to do well. I don't know about the Win2VNC incarnation. But given that it is based on VNC, I would expect it to be f
How the heck did I screw that up? You are right, only one decade. I guess it only seemed like 20 years!
It may have been genius to get Windows hacked to use protected mode, but Windows 3.0 was the worst thing ever for the industry. Frogboy says OS/2 2.0 wouldn't have been as good as it was without the Windows 3.0 competition, but I'm not sure that is true. And even if it was true, surely it would have been at least better than Windows 3.0, and gone up from there much faster. The industry was shackled for a decade and a half with the Windows 3.x line.
I love "News of the Weird" kind of stuff. But that "My dog at my genitals" story is the weirdest of the weird. (Frome the "Weirdest stories of 2004" article).
I know that we live in the days of cheap RAM, but jeez, doesn't it seem a bit extreme that Stardock's widgets take "only" 30-70 meg, while equivalent Konfabulator takes 170 meg??? (These numbers are from frogboy's article.) Out of all that, the LOW number is 30 megabytes... for a widget???
Frogboy acknowledges existence of the mythical WindowFX?
By the way, It is for XP only, at least so far. Are they going to do a "lite" version for older OS'es?
I read some messages here from time to time, not a lotas will be aparrent momentarily... I had gathered that "frogboy" was with Stardock, but I had no idea he was President/CEO! Well, now I know.
Well, I know that most people are having good luck with SP2. I downloaded it from MS last night, installed it. Now my computer won't boot except in safe mode. I'm going to make a slipstreamed install CD and try an in-place reinstall.
Yea, that's TERRABYTES, not GIGABYTES. Doh, can't edit it either. No need to edit it. You said "27,000 GIGABYTES" which is indeed 27 terabytes. To some people "27,000 GIGABYTES" might sound like the bigger numberto others "27 terrabytes" might sound bigger. I kinda like 27 terrabytes better myself. (P.S., I'm a registered paying customer...
My daily paper today said XP SP2 has gone RTM, but that they will roll it out in stages, I guess to keep from bring WindowsUpdate to its knees. However, I've tried Google'ing, and all I've found is that it was delayed a few more days and not yet RTM. Nor can I find it on MS' site. So, is it RTM? And if so, can it be downloaded yet?
Well, as I said, I never knew file formats could be copyrighted. But, I will assume that people here know more than I do, and will drop the issue.
You mention the DOC format, and I actually seem to remember a lawsuit about it years ago between Word Perfect and Microsoft. Really? I don't remember any such suit. If there was, I'd be interested in knowing the outcome. <TD class="mb-Body-Quo
As of May 2004, WinCustomize.com uses approximately 27,000 GIGABYTES (not bits) of bandwidth each month. You mean as in 27 terabytes of bandwidth per month??? Holy cow!
Thanks for answering some of my questions on StyleXP. So, someone said that .msstyles are a MS proprietary format. In my post above, I said that I'm somewhat dubious of the idea of it being copyrightable. But, assuming that it can and is copyrighted, what is the "official" way to develop .msstyles? Does MS intend for only themselves to develop any, or is there some official program for someone to develop officially blessed .msstyles?
Until this discussion, and the mention of TGTsoft licensing some Stardock file formats, I didn't think file formats were copyrightable. I knew that many people try to keep the format of their files proprietary by not publically documenting the format. But I never heard of reverse-engineering file formats as being illegal. I mean Wordperfect reads MS .DOC files, and QuattroPro reads Lotus 123 and Excel file formats. Sure, I can buy that contents of a file are copyrightable, but not the format
Hmmm. Okay, well, I'm learning some stuff that I didn't know. But, I'm still confused. If .msstyles is a MS format, don't they want people to make themes with it? And, what "hack" is involved if .msstyles is a native XP thing? Thanks for the information.
I seem to remember a posting where it was stated that competing products to WindowsBlinds, such as LiteStep, are featured on WinCustomize because Stardock feels that supporting skinning in general is a "good thing" for everybody, or something like that. Do I recall correctly? Okay, now, I suppose there might still be some leftover hard feelings about TGTsoft and the lawsuit, but, the suit has been settled. So, might it be possible to have SyleXP themes available on WinCustomize?
Just my short input. Since I am myself a software developer, and one of the kinds of people that like to pack my machine with lots of whiz-bang stuff, I don't mind at all paying. Of course my personal budget for PC software is higher than most people's budget. I have a current subscription to Object Desktop, and purchased CursorXP and ObjectBar Plusplus of course lots of stuff from other vendors. I just bought File-Ex for example. To people who bitch about paying for software, well, all I c
I bought PestPatrol, and older version. I forget now what problems I had with it, but I remember having some sort of problem that I didn't like. Also, at least at that time, I read a comparitive review of spyware removal programs and PestPatrol didn't rate well. Maybe it is better now. But I've been using ZeroSpyware now. It is also commerical. I haven't gone back and rerun another program to see if its missed anything. But ZeroSpyware s
The one where the company claimed the software was in beta and nearly ready to release, and then later admit not one line of code had actually been written and the project was shelved is a true classic.
Rumors and speculation that Intel would release a clone of the AMD Opteron/Athlon 64 have surfaced off and on over the couple of years since AMD announced the x86-64 instruction set. I didn't think it would really happen. After all, Intel has invested heavily in the Itanium (which some people have dubbed the "Itanic"). And Intel has tried to maintain the image that AMD is just a cheap, knock-off vendor. So, I couldn't imagine Intel going for cloning AMD instead of the
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