More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And Aero Design

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More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And Aero Design

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 23, 2004 @08:23AM from the all-on-paper dept.

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.)

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snoop onto them as they snoop onto us? by lawngnome · 2004-05-23 08:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Im not very interested in the outcome on longhorn, will this improve kde and gnome?
1. Re:snoop onto them as they snoop onto us? by lawngnome · 2004-05-23 08:35 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  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...)
Re:;akjlaflkjda;dljsf by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 08:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I know this is troll. I *know* it. But I just can't help myself... AMEN BROTHER!

Great, now I'm going to lose karma for feeding the troll. Oh wait... I'm posting anon; I don't have karma.

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Server? What server? by BandwidthHog · 2004-05-23 08:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Safari can't open the page "http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/8/f/18f8 cee2-0b64-41f2-893d-a6f2295b40c8/TW04006_WINHEC200 4.ppt" because it can't find the server "download.microsoft.com".
Or is it just me?

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1. Re:Server? What server? by BandwidthHog · 2004-05-23 08:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Yep, it was just me (or perhaps ec.rr.com). As you were.
  
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2. Re:Server? What server? by sumdumass · 2004-05-23 09:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  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.
3. Re:Server? What server? by 0x0d0a · 2004-05-23 10:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  FWIW, whatever Microsoft and Akamai currently have going on is producing lengthy CNAME chains (which is not exactly the norm):
  
  $ host download.microsoft.com download.microsoft.com is an alias for dl-geodir.microsoft.akadns.net. dl-geodir.microso ft.akadns.net is an alias for loadsplit-dom-dl.microsoft.akadns.net. loadsplit- dom-dl.microsoft.akadns.net is an alias for www.download.microsoft.akadns.net. www.download.m icrosoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.249.92
  
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Longhorn Shmonghorn. by Danny+Dale+the+Not-S · 2004-05-23 08:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I fail to see why LH is so important. I fully intend on migrating to Linux quite a long while before LH hits the warez servers^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMarket ;)

[OT]Hey, is OO.o available in Win32?[/OT]

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Re:+5 Insightful by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 08:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

and so are you!
Re:Longhorn... when? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 08:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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.
This is fantastic. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 09:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

An improved UI is just the thing we need to help spread God's word. Imagine all the different ways we can read the Bible with this! It truly staggers the imagination. Thanks to Microsoft, we will be able to bear witness to all the lands of the Earth.
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As a leading open source developer... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 09:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

... let me state for the record that;

WE'RE FUCKED.
Re:left text cutoff by red+tiger · 2004-05-23 09:23 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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.
Re:left text cutoff by 1010011010 · 2004-05-23 09:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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.

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Re:OOo by pseudochaotic · 2004-05-23 10:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

OpenOffice.org, eh? What's their website again?

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Re:Homer sez... by Lobo93 · 2004-05-23 10:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...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"...

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Re:left text cutoff by AndroidCat · 2004-05-23 12:24 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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?)

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