Looks like it's back to WINDOZE fer me
iDRMRSR
I finally found something that put a charge in my shorts. There's a
windowing system out there called Beryl which actually puts your graphic
card to use. Looks like what I imagine Aero on Vista will look like. Semi
transparent windows, which wiggle and bend as you move them around,
transparent task bars, loads of colors and reflections and animations out
the wazoo.
Unfortunately it's BETA code, so like when you maximize a window, it may
just turn completely black inside...or scoot up above the top of the screen
so you can't grab the title bar and yank it anywhere. However when it's
working, it beats the SNOT out of Windows XP and makes OS X look like the
ugly sister, from what I've seen of videos of OS X on YouTube.
It's got all the candy colored clown they call the Sandman, all right. Had
to slap on quite a few tweaks for my Nvidia graphic card (which is five
years old BTW).
SO then I thought I'd impress everybody and prove that I could POST to
alt.slack. I installed PAN, the only newsreader I could find which does
Yenc and multipart post reading/decoding. Very slick, almost like AGENT and
completely FREE.
That is, until I tried to post a PIXTURE. I selected the NEW POST option.
NO ATTACHMENT ICON...no way I could find to attach a binary. Sheesh.
I clicked the HELP and it went to some web page for the product, and when I
clicked USER MANUAL I got a page ALL TO FUCKING TYPICAL OF LINUX..."We're
working on this!". Yup, no manual of any sort. I'm getting used to this
now.
Looking for FUN STUFF, I found this program called BLENDER which is a BRYCE
clone. The only thing is, the User Interface requires a creature with eight
tentacles to simultaneously press three keys at a time whilst engaging left
clicks and right clicks AND thrumming the scroll wheel.
I imagine I would require two or three hours on the Krel Educator to figure
that one out, but then my mind would be even more fried than it is.
Oh, there are tutorial VIDEOS out there, loads of them, but they download at
4.3K or slower. Apparently they aren't intended to be actually viewed by
anybody who didn't write the software. I gave up after trying to download
one of them for an hour.
I think I managed to get it to do a rather flat looking render of a cube
partly lit on a blue background. Screenshot is on ABS. Gotta be the WORST
User Interface I have ever seen!
I haven't got to the point yet where I could live without Windows
functionality, though I do regret not having a windowing system like Beryl.
I was kind of hoping I would SEE THE LIGHT, but thanks to UBUNTU, I have
only been able to pull the wool over my own eyes.
Vista, I'm ready for you.
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