04-28-2003, 11:23 AM

i hate windows. its not that its different, its that it sucks compared to OS X. according to Band Width Place.com im running at 5.4 megabits per second here at work, but some pages load faster on my dial up at home running at 5.4 kilabits per sec on safari than they do on IE for win2k. this machine here is only 1 year old and its already worth nothing. Windows may seem like a good idea until you own them for more than a month. theyre obviously not made to last as long as macs. i miss my iMac

04-28-2003, 11:50 AM

http://www.****mircosoft.com great site to help you learn about better OSes..

04-28-2003, 11:54 AM

ya id use a nice flavor of linux, but we use this POS software that only work on windows. maybe i can switch to lindows :lol:

05-15-2003, 12:32 PM

ugh. windows still sucks... i cant leave my computer running for more than 3 days at a time without anything happening. ive had my imac on since i got it 3-4 months ago(except for restarts liek 10.2.6 and quicktime installations), and ive had no problems. the stand by option (aka sleep for windows) locks up my computer. granted its a yr and a half old machine, but still. ive left a 7200 on OS 8.6 running for a few weeks without any problems or lock ups... i wish more people wold at least try macs, because i dont see how anyone could possible live with windows day in and day out while OS X is SO much better [/rant]

..... time for a restart, seems the printer isnt responding. so i have to unplug and plug the USB cable in then restart the computer. ugh

05-15-2003, 02:11 PM

The thing that really bugs me about windross is that no matter how much effort you go to to increase RAM, disc size or CPU speed, windross just uses it all up do inane things with dancing paperclips and such like. Under older versions like 98SE games can take over the entire machine and on my XP2000 running 98SE UT 2003 plays like a demon on speed even at huge screen resolutions with all the colours but give word a document to print or just copy a few files around and it can barely match my old Risc-PC for speed.

What I want is windross lite, just enough of it to start up games but none of the dross like pants VM and crap disk handling. Could I make one of my PC's into an X-Box do you think?

(I must admit that Linux is even worse with games than windross of course, especially if you forget the cron jobs that turn on right in the middle of a late night UT slugfest )

On Mac OSX OpenGL support is built into the window manager so you can in theory have UT bots running around the desktop fragging each other, I must figure out how to do it as it will sure beat the heck out of desktop sheep.

Amen-Moses

05-15-2003, 02:15 PM

OT : Have you seen animated wallpapers yet?

05-15-2003, 02:38 PM

Originally posted by Emrys
OT : Have you seen animated wallpapers yet?

Nope, got a good link?

05-15-2003, 02:45 PM

in windows you can use any animated .gif as your desktop and it will still be animated... in OS X you can use Desktop Movie Player to play quicktime movies as your desktop. if you can find a way to stream or watch tv through quicktime, youd be set. watch tv while working on your computer

05-15-2003, 08:31 PM

yeah, thats a pretty sweet app.. and it doesnt really lag much..

05-15-2003, 08:48 PM

This : http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16229 will probably do the trick. Lets you use screensavers as backgrounds. Pretty impressive the first time you see it.

05-16-2003, 01:23 AM

I like DeskEffect more

07-28-2003, 09:07 PM

After losing the internal hard drive drive on my IBM thinkpad PC. I truely can say that windows is like gravity they both suck. lol

After I obtained a new internal disk drive. I asked a friend to reload the OS since he had a copy of the windows 200 professional. The install went wel, but the problem started in the comfiguration of the PC. Trying to set this PC to connect to the network is a major pain. Just turning on DHCP is a pain. I have spend all last night trying to locate what to change in order to get is up on the network. As of this time I am up, but I can not resolve names. So basically I am just limbing a long. If I didn't need this thinkpad for work. I would not have use for it. I prefer my powerbook, but IBM does not support or have software to create virtual private networks for the Apple OS.

So here I am trying to rebuilt. Oh, the pain, the pain of it.

07-28-2003, 10:04 PM

The animated desktop program that I really like is iClock. Not only because it can animate the background, but it's probably the best clock I have ever used. It has some serious functionality. You guys should check it out.. it's shareware so you can have a good go at it before deciding whether or not it's worth keeping.

http://www.scriptsoftware.com/

08-19-2003, 09:38 PM

yeah, but you didn't grow up with windows, did you?

08-19-2003, 10:11 PM

I did.. and that's why Im on a mac now