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Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative
Interested in a 3D desktop? zoso submitted news about about a project called Metisse, writing "There is working and freely available alternative to the (soon to be released under GPL) Sun Looking Glass 3D desktop ( Slashdot story here)
If you have spare CPU/GPU cycles just go download and compile the first publicly available version of this X Desktop. Everything looks nice (screenshots here), has OpenGL support, transparency and all other whistles...."
WOW, Thanks, I am serious I never knew or carde to know what it meant, but a favorite motorcycle of mine was called the Rickman Metisse, there were actually many Rickman Metisse models throught the years and they were as you say the word suggests an amalgamation of different parts to build a wonderfully fast an superbly handling bike....hmmm thanks. Now as a note on the WM, I was excited about Sun's GPL Launch , Ive got lots of horsepower to have all the bells and whistles, but I was even more excited by a perhaps superior prospect in this one, UNFORTUNATLEY I now know where they are using their CPU Cycles its rendering screen shots instead of powering the webserver.
No real point or witty comment, just an off-the-wall observation:
I've always thought that Russian Cyrllic looks a LOT like English characters viewed in a mirror (try it sometime, if you don't look real close you could be fooled, especially if you don't read Cyrllic).
But in that image the text is upside down and underlined (or I guess "overlined") and it sure looks like an India alphabet - devangari(? - I think that is the name of one of the subcontinent's alphabets).
Maybe there is some sort of social commentary buried in there somewhere...
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
You're all smoking crack, sinning, and going straight to hell.
It's not about aesthetics or balance, it's about loving Jesus Christ, recognizing that he died on the cross so your cheating heart can be forgiven, and jumping through every single hoop so you can stand at the pearly gates thinking you got into heaven just so Jesus can jump out and say "Boo!" right before you descend into the flaming pits of hell.
Or something like that.
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