Mcdilly-Willy Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 It has been proven on the other hand that in the right situation with the right circumstances windows vista can accelarate at 9.8 m/s/s ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 VG There's an old Windoze 98 pc lying around here that i have every intention of installing Bonfire1.0 into in hope of running at 250ºC+ sometime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcdilly-Willy Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Let me know how it goes, Is it still in Beta stages? You'll have to watch for Wife 1.001 though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Just had a little play with Knoppix 2007. Amazing what they have crammed onto a single cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcdilly-Willy Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Yeah its a good een JustMe, you could try putting it on to your USB flash drive, there must be documentation about the place for it..... http://www.howudune.com/knoppix.php Try that let me know how you get on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcdilly-Willy Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Just to keep on track, and out of interest... Any Admin staff....what is running the server for Shetlink, Linux I would presume, yes? if indeed so, what distrobution? And If it isn't Linux why are you wasting money for Micro$ server 2000andwhatever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Shetlink's running on the yadUK servers. They run Fedora. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcdilly-Willy Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 I wonder what the future holds for Windows after Vista?I've heard various rumours, namely better web integration, deliver most of its functions on the web, better security because it drains so much resource from the system etc. Has anyone heard anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnSaxon Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 I wonder what the future holds for Windows after Vista? With everything we've been hearing about Vista over the last few weeks, it would be nice to think that the future holds only a well-deserved death for Windows! Since computing seems to be heading back towards a client / thin server model, with Google et al starting up office suites and so on, perhaps all we'll need is a very simple terminal. If it's stoopid enough it might even be more virus-proof. I use XP (on the box when I got it), but the firewall is Smoothwall (Linux). You've got to have some honest software in there somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roachmill Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 I wonder what the future holds for Windows after Vista? There's a service pack coming for Vista which is supposedly going to add more features rather than fixes. Hopefully it'll be all the good stuff they chopped out to get Vista out this decade. The next version of Windows ("Vienna") may well have a completely new GUI, sandboxes for unmanaged code and use the net to deliver your desktop to you wherever you are. All good stuff. It's slated for 2009. Uh-huh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcdilly-Willy Posted February 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Whats going to be different in regards to their GUI? I mean are we talking about moving the start menu about or changing colours; or is it going to be more interactive/immersive, i.e. Minority Report (Movements of the fingers moving things around on a big glass screen?) <- I suspect not.... Which leads me on to...Drastically changing the GUI for windows, for instance making it look like OSx or KDE/GNOME (not saying thats the way they would go, but I'm not sure how different it could look or behave), surely that would make it hugely "Awkward" for users to change to, if they have been used to using Vista. Awkwardness seems to be the excuse not to change from windows. So you could say that if it is a huge change they might aswell change to Linux or Mac OSx? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roachmill Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Whats going to be different in regards to their GUI? A dock? It's all under wraps and extremely hush hush AFAIK. Whatever it ends up being I hope it'll be scalable and resolution aware. There's more and more portable PCs coming out with smaller screens (e.g. 7" running at 800 x 480) that suffer because of GUIs designed for much higher desktop resolutions. As for Minority Report kinda stuff - it's already there. The fantastic piece of freeware "StrokeIt" does gestures and Vista has pen flicks built in to the OS for those with an active digitiser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcdilly-Willy Posted February 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hopefully it'll be all the good stuff they chopped out to get Vista out this decade. I'm interested to know what the "good stuff" is they "chopped out", and why they left it out in the first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcdilly-Willy Posted February 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 As for Minority Report kinda stuff - it's already there. I wasn't talking about mouse gestures to be fair. Thats not a very drastic leap forward, and it doesn't really have the interactive/immersive qualities I was describing. It would probably annoy the day-to-day user, I mean whats wrong with the mouse as it is? Didn't firefox come out with a mouse gestures extension about 14 years ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 The interface in Minority Report was laughable. Did they never hear of ergonomics? Small, quick movements are always going to be more efficient and comfortable than huge, sweeping gestures. One would be exhausted at the end of the day if one had to stand there waving one's arms around like a loon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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