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More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And Aero Design
Lispy writes "While monitoring the Xorg mailinglist I came across this set of WinHEC PPT-presentations (work fine in OOorg) that cover some interesting details on the underlying architecture of Aero, Aero Glass and future font rendering in Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn OS. What does the Slashdot crowd think about the overall design and its downsides, such as power consumption on notebooks?" (KPresenter works fine, too, btw.)
hehe, it seemed like a good title. Ill agree the movie has some pretty bad examples of computers (bad enough to get into that recent poll...)
To be honest, if Longhorn doesn't have that activation shit then I'll probably run it.
XP, I will never run as my primary OS.
Would a small hammer be better for your computer?
Anyway, I'd rather prefer taking a font editor and looking into the font files themselves - perhaps the error lies in there, not in the OS itself.
I'm not even sure how it is a troll.. at most it would be off topic. i guess you either pissed someone off and they had mod-points or you got a windows-zealot without too much experience. On another note, i have sometime found that when i boot into knoppix to get a windows machine on the net and downl;oad some patch needed to get windows back up and running, i have problems accessing microsofts site too. on thing that is aspecially anoying is searching the knowledge bas and gettign 2 different result with the exact same search terms.
I've noticed the newest Visio has lots of problems along this line... I generally have to print using PDF995, then print the PDF, to get the output to look right.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
OpenOffice.org, eh? What's their website again?
And the l33t shall inherit the 34r7h.
...you couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.
BTW, would you mind telling Bill to stand still next time I send hot lead his way? It's damn hard to frag that smeghead when he keeps bunny-jumpin' 'round!
And now I have a 'nade with your name on it, Mr. "leading open source developer"...
"The only clear view is from atop the mountain of our dead selves." - Peter Carroll
FWIW, whatever Microsoft and Akamai currently have going on is producing lengthy CNAME chains (which is not exactly the norm):
o ft.akadns.net is an alias for loadsplit-dom-dl.microsoft.akadns.net.- dom-dl.microsoft.akadns.net is an alias for www.download.microsoft.akadns.net.m icrosoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.249.92
$ host download.microsoft.com
download.microsoft.com is an alias for dl-geodir.microsoft.akadns.net.
dl-geodir.micros
loadsplit
www.download.
May we never see th
I'm sure that trying to run Longhorn on my current Win computer would be like hitting it with a very large hammer. (I wonder if they delayed the release to wait for Moore's law to catch up?)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.