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3D Sphere Interface for XP

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-often-you-envy-windows dept.

Brian Brian writes "I found this super cool 3D, inside a sphere, desktop interface. The videos really demonstrate it. I would love this built into OS X but it is just for Windows right now. And if nothing else, the paradigm is the coolest way to handle multiple screens." Here are a collection of screenshots & videos. I'm skeptical that it wouldn't be very practical, but it sure looks fun.

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  1. Both links dead! by mOoZik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Before someone comes forth with a, "It must be hosted on an XP!" har har joke, can anyone supply a link to a mirror? Why oh why are slower links not mirrored??? Pay attention, Slashdot owners: this is ridiculous!

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    1. Re:Both links dead! by who+got+my+name · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I am sorry, it might be off-topic but I see this guys sig. second time and wanted to tell him that if he just looked into a kernel change log and got the e-mail address of Linus instead of asking on slashdot. If it ment to be joke, just ignore my comment. link to kernel.org http://www.kernel.org/

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    2. Re:Both links dead! by mOoZik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Guy, Thanks for the tip. I did not think to look there, but I appreciate the nudge in the right direction. See, if I hadn't posted it on Slashdot, I wouldn't have known. :)

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    3. Re:Both links dead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Just wondering... what does the /. effect actually do to the server?

      I'm writing some webserver code at the moment and am using mpatrol to make sure there's no memory leak. If there is, memory used by the webserver starts growing and eventually the webserver takes up so much memory that the kernel decides to kill it.

      Now... this is only likely to happen under heavy traffic. During testing, you may never be able to see the extreme case scenario (well, mpatrol logs tell you about YOUR bit of code, but if you don't use it, everything may look fine until /. takes an interest to your site...)

      Maybe the webserver is supposed to take all this memory to handle requests but the kernel still kills it, I don't know.

      If it is a memory issue, who's the likeliest candidate? apache? mysql? php?

    4. Re:Both links dead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You can also look at the kernel dev mailing list online archives.

  2. already /.ed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    already /.ed?

  3. Site's down ... hamar.sk by malcomvetter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FP? Site's down ...

    1. Re:Site's down ... hamar.sk by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      #11539486

      That's me biatch, FP!!!

      Tom

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  4. site down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the stupid site is down

  5. Re:0 comments... by Jesus+2.0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can the first post be modded as "redundant"?

  6. Bandwidth got out of hand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks for nothing.

    I've spent my "Slow down, cowboy!" minute copying and pasting racial slurs from The Racial Slur Database, in protest of such a foolish, authoritarian, blanket controls on speech. GIGO, as they say.

    51st Stater Canadians Canada is so culturally similar to the U. S. that they are practically the 51st state
    7-11 Arabs Work at menial jobs like 7-11 clerks.
    927 Blacks Police Code in Suburban LA for "Suspicious Person"
    A.I. Americans Stands for American Ignorance as well as Artificial Intelligence-in other words...Americans are stupid and ignorant. they think they have everything and are more advanced than every other country
    Abba-Dabba Arabs Used in the movie "Betrayed" by rural American hate group.
    ABC (1) Chinese American-Born Chinese. An Americanized Chinese person who does not understand Chinese culture.
    ABC (2) Australians Aboriginals use it to offend white australians, it means "Aboriginal Bum Cleaner"
    ABCD Indians Means American Born Confused Desi (pronounced day-see). Used by Indians to describe American-born Indians who are confused about their culture. (Desi is slang for an Indian). Also BBCD - British Born Confused Desi.
    Abdul Arabs Common name.
    Abe Lincoln Whites Former United States president hailing from the caucasian sector of race.
    Abi-Dabi Arabs A mispronunciation of the capitol city of The United Arab Emarites, which is Abu-Dhabi
    Abo Australian Aboriginals Short for Aboriginal, they take offense to it
    Ace Of Spades Blacks Self Explanatory
    Adolf Germans Hitler, of course. Generally thought of the worst person ever.
    African Blacks Home continent.
    Africoon Blacks Combination of African and Coon.
    Afro Blacks Referring to hairstyle
    Afro-Saxon Whites Young white men who act black.
    Agent Orange Vietnamese Agent Orange was a defoliant used in Vietnam.
    Ahab Arabs From the song "Ahab, the A-rab"
    Aibu Whites Nigerian word for whites people. Pronounced Oyee-bo.
    Ainu Japanese Aboriginals Originally, a word for the native Japanese islanders from Hokkaido, but now means roughly a "primitive" person. Usually look more European than their Japanese counterparts, i.e., more hairy and fair skinned. Not really derogatory.
    Aladdin Arabs One Thousand and One Nights
    Albino Whites Albinos are white.

  7. Re:[tt]:What does this really do for me? by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So you don't disagree with the rest of my post - that Microsoft products slow people down because they break standards?

    Now, what WOULD be news would be if Microsoft were to fix their browser (which they claim is such a core component of their system - which, if it is, shows they don't know what the fuck they're doing or are on drugs, or if it isn't, that they're just the bunch of lying sacks of shit we've all come to know and loathe) so we can stop all this stupidity of browser sniffing. Oh, and get rid of browser-embedded activex controls.

  8. Re:Damnit by philippeqc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I mean, poor lil you.

    What is the state of the world when a paying slashdot member still falls victim the the slashdot effect.

    Of course we should lock any site referenced by slashdot until all the paying members are done reading it, keeping the savage hordes of barabarians out of the Internet!

    You paid for that. Not to that site, but to slashdot. That should count for something! How can we be so unconsiderate of you and actually try to check it up for ourselfs.

    Trolling aside, what is it your truly complaining about? You want a longer "members only" period of /.? You want a period of time where you can chech the site before the hordes of "members" hit it?

    Enlighten us, because the only thing I can see at the moment, is that you want to hand holding to click on the mirror link that is set up by a volonter.

  9. PLG by kc0re · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-starte d.html Install Project Looking Glass, it's better anyway.

  10. Re:0 comments... by Hast · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Feel free to read the Slashdot FAQ so you understand why this is not done. It is related to this pesky copyright thing.

    Could a better system be used? Surely. It's not an entirely trivial question though. And considering that not even dupes are checked for I believe this is quite far in the future.

  11. Mod Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Redundant.

    Don't waste your karma on this asshole, he posted this 10 minutes after an AC did. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137970&cid=115 39573