Actually, if you zoom in to maximum resolution, it actually goes from being moon surface to being a funky yellow-coloured swiss cheese texture.
hmmmmmm.... I knew the moon was made of cheese!
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Yes, it is a bit high school..
psha!! that's why every girl I've ever dated from that site has been a total immature cunt! at least I got laid. that's why I fell in love with the site.
Now, if only they could a) afford decent programmers and b) stop loading the site up with flash animations that suck my cpu dry.
programmers schmogrammers... if only they could afford decent servers... or at the programmer level, at least not base the damned site on coldfusion. (or is it based on IIS, I forget)
users customizing their personal pages are another thing that's a serious problem. with all of those scrolling picture animations of kimberly and her friends at the beach and everything and the stupid music videos. Some people have 45mb worth of content on their page!
I never thought of the FW/USB2 HDD option, ALL the peripherals should be accessable, such as optical drives, HDDs and so forth. I guess it would be easier if the peripherals were on the USB bus to begin with (NICs usually aren't), but it might be helpful if there was some way to bridge all devices to USB for external access.
Apple's got the idea when it comes to firewire. You can boot a mac with the T key held down and a firewire cable connected to it from another mac and the mac will boot into "Target Disk Mode." Basically, all drives on the target mac will be accessable from the other machine (HDs, optical drive, etc). I just wish you could do that with non-macs and do it over other busses (USB or NAS over ethernet).
ssh and terminal services are fine for day to day use, but when you've got your rack full of 1U servers and one is refusing to boot... or ssh just simply is not working... then what do you do?
whenever one of my servers has a problem (when suddenly I can't ssh into it), I have to lug a monitor over to that corner of my room and diagnose the problem.
KVM is really the only option for having a way of looking at the display of many machines at once... either that or utilizing the serial console, but not all OSs support that.
to expand on that further, what if you had a single, standardized KVM port on desktops/laptops? That port would be even more useful in rack-mounted systems.
I've got a dual KVM switch and a 4-port one at home, and they're such a pain. So many wires. When you've got a USB KVM set up with 4 machines, that's a minimum of 10 extra wires floating around behind (or across, depending on the setup) your desk.
The cable savings (space and cost) would be even more noticeable when you've got 2 dozen or more machines attached to a KVM switch.
One thing I see in the future of portable computing is more functionality with the machine powered down. They've already got laptops that can play CDs and DVDs without booting the whole system. Next will be KVM, firewire/usb HD, and even just plain video display ability (think second monitor). That will also increase the usefulness of older machines.
How are you planning to deal with the right hand/left hand mouse issue?
good point. I guess have it have a long enough cord to move to either side? I'd recommend bluetooth, but there'd be the chance that the mouse would fall out and get lost. I hate losing parts.
will that mouse replace the current pointing device?
na, there'd still be a touchpad or similar.
I dunno. I just never understood people who use mice with laptops. I guess they don't travel much with the laptop.
well, for me, I carry my powerbook in a bag, and in that bag is a mousepad, mouse, power adapter, monitor adapter (just in case), retractable ethernet, retractable firewire, and a phone wire.
I whip the mouse out if I'm gonna either play a game (one reason I'd bring my mouse with me) or be in one location for an extended period of time doing work (at work or on vacation, etc). Just because you're mobile with your computer doesn't mean you've got it sitting on your lap. there are desks and tables outside of your house, you know.;)
I completely agree with you. Worst. Article. Ever.
Now, some REAL innovation I'd like to see (which I've been talking about for YEARS):
1. GPS built-in to laptops. So you can use mapping software more easily on the go.
2. digital clock on laptops. I'd love to have an external LCD display showing the time, even when the machine's not on. hell, that'd even be useful on a desktop machine.
3. touchpad on the side of a laptop. Sometimes I'm holding my powerbook in my arm and I wish there was a way to control the mouse from there. One idea I had was like an inverted optical mouse with the laser sensor that would detect thumb movements. That'd even work for the side of a PDA for scrolling
4. how about an integrated mouse in a laptop? it could snap on/off and you could use it on the side, then just have the cord retract and it would re-attach to the machine.
5. I say bring back the keyboard/CPU combo for small-footprint computing.
I gotta read up on advance sudo usage. I was never really a big fan of it, and, from what I've read, the truly paranoid don't even bother installing it. I'd read a couple security advisories about sudo back when I first dabbled with linux in 98 or 99, I believe, and always shied away from using it, and had even gone so far as to uninstall it on my initial RedHat and Yellowdog installations.
I specifically don't install it on my gentoo systems.
Although, if I really was truly paranoid, I wouldn't permit root logins.
I'll look into it. I didn't realize I could customize sudo per-account/per-executable. thanks for the headsup.
question: have there been any security issues with sudo (I don't mean from improperly configured setups) in recent years?
that's actually a good idea... I honestly never thought of that.
have thumb drives improved at all in the last 5 years?
I got one when they first came out (a 32mb one). It would frequently erase itself. I'd put it in and it would be called "Untitled" and have no files on it.
I didn't have anything important on it. Just some Hotline bookmarks and a hotline client for mac and windows.
I run a webserver out of my room for a dozen or so of my friends.
I've just started disabling shell access to the users of my system by default. If they want to log in with ssh, they have to explicitly enable it from the web-based front-end.
I tried forcing public-key authentication, but I kept running into trouble when I was away from home and needed to log in from someone else's computer.
I've got some explicit rules in iptables, also, where I've been blocking entire IP blocks (ie- I've got several countries blocked completely). Whenever I notice a string of failed login attempts, I do an ARIN lookup of that IP block. So far, nearly every attack has come from korea, so I 've been blocking off those addresses as they come.
I should probably only allow ssh access to american addresses... I know one should always make time for security, but I just haven't had the time to look into how to do that.
also, I've got root login enabled only because I've got a backup script running that mirrors/home and a couple other directories over to my backup server. But root has a very, very strong password. took me weeks to memorize it.
Yeah, I had one of the developer previews of OSX back in like 99 or 2000 and it booted on my 450mhz G4 in about 20 seconds and ran blazingly fast.
By the time the public beta was released, and sound worked and networking worked in classic, the thing was so horrifically slow on my machine and was barely usable for real work until jaguar came out.
The DS, afaik, uses raw 802.11 packets with their own n-wifi protocol. That's why you can't use existing WAPs to connect DSs and that's why you need a special wifi card that can sniff raw packets with Kismet (promiscuous mode).
The day I got my DS, I tried sniffing packets with my powerbook, but to no avail. Very upsetting. I wanted to be the first to reverse engineer the pictochat protocol and spam in-range DSs with pr0n.
That would have been great to do at the grand opening of the Nintendo World Store in NYC in may. There were DSs abound all pictochatting away.
The only instances when I've found translucency to be useful are:
1. When I'm stuck on my powerbook with a single, reletively small display, and I need to be able to see a webpage or source file when I'm coding and there isn't enough desktop realestate for all of the open windows.
2. When you want some kind of floating data. ie- uptime or load averages or whatever that are floating above everything or stuck on the desktop... like a screen tattoo (like that program stattoo by Panic
any other use (translucent menus, translucent window borders, translucent desktop rubberband select, etc) is just eyecandy. Which makes using the computer a little more fun... so long as it doesn't impede on your productivity... like when you try to run OSX on a 300mhz G3.
well, the screen on the PSP is quite a bit larger (and sharper) than any nintendo handheld, and it also doesn't bother my wrists quite as much as the SP did (and I lost my SP the day I got my DS, along with NES Classics Zelda1).
the PSP is a bit more versitile than the DS. That's why I bought it. I mean, sure, I've got my iPod, PSP and cell phone all in the same pocket. I'm not gonna use the PSP to play music. I've got 2 tracks on it just to say that I have them. And I stuck a little pr0n on the memory stick just to show off the video and mobile-pr0n.
I see what you're saying, but you've got a very weak argument. You say PocketNES works great, but can I fit 900 games on the EZCart? Is there a GBA SNES emulator? If so, how do I use the X and Y buttons? Is there a mame emulator for the GBA/DS?
the higher-end emulators (SNES/MAME/etc) for the PSP run kinda shitty right now, even when the proc is clocked at 333mhz, but there's room for optimization.
Also, I can't say I've ever seen any lumines clones. Maybe you're one of those people that sees a game that involves blocks and thinks every one is tetris. Lumines, to me, seems pretty unique. Between the visuals and the sounds and the pacing of the game, I've never played any block game, or any game at all, for that matter, that I would call out of work to play.
Right... you want to waste cash rebuying movies and games.
I guess you're forgetting that nintendo is re-releasing all of their old games in the NES classics series and that Final Fantasy 1&2 thingie.
Also, I've got the japanese PSP and it doesn't seem to let me play US-Region'd UMD movies.
The versions of the PSP that can run emulators are no longer for sale. All shipping units run 1.51 or 1.52 firmware, which have not yet been cracked, and given Sony's cat-and-mouse mentality, there will likely be 1.53 by the time a 1.51 crack appears.
you mean shipping.
My friend picked up a PSP just this weekend and I was surprised to find that it still had the 1.50 firmware on it.
He was excited because he didn't think he'd be able to play Final Fantasy 1 again. (he's got no interest in a DS or SP... I know FF1&2 are available for it.)
I got the DS the day it came out. I waiting in front of gamestop from 7am until they opened at 10:30 (the guy told me the day before that they'd be opening at 9, but to be there at 8, and I was up, so I walked the two blocks, hit starbucks and waited).
It was a pretty awesome system. Mario64DS (I didn't have an N64, so I never played it before) was pretty badass, as was metroid hunters. I also picked up Mawaru: Made in Wario (aka Wario: Touched!) in chinatown a couple days after it was released in japan. the DS was a GREAT system, and I laughed at sony for the PSP, especially after I heard about issues with dead pixels and the like.
However, my curiosity got to me and I ordered a PSP from japan late in december and got it a couple days into 2005. I swiftly became addicted and barely touched my DS. I wound up buying so many games for the PSP. 9, total, however, several were returned, or traded in (Armored Core SUCKED! as did vampire chronicals) or ebay'd. The only games that I still have/play are RidgeRacers, Lumines (HOLY CRAP, GREAT GAME), and Minna no golf (Hot Shots Golf).
I still love the DS and think its games are so much better, overall, but it seems like the DS titles in the US are lacking. GameStop/EBGames has much more selection on the PSP shelf, and the DS shelf seems kinda barron.
Although, that Trauma Center game for DS looks really good. My friend got it and I played it until his batteries died. I might pick that up and forget about the PSP for a while...
but I've got the emulators on the PSP... being able to play all the old NES games again has renewed my interest int he PSP. Also, the mobile Pr0n is amazing.
The DS and the PSP are both very strong systems. they both have some serious advantages over the other, and I don't see a clear winner no matter how you look at it.
I'm just curious if any games will be released for the PSP and DS and support cross-play.
I do think there's room for PSP and the DS in today's handheld market. It's a good thing M$ had nothing to offer.
G-Force isn't Winamp's... It was originally only for mac in the beginning (I think Audion and SoundJam) and later was ported to iTunes, Winamp, WMP, and every other windows and mac audio player.
I also like whitecap (also written by Mr. Andy O'Meara). I just wish he'd combine whitecap with G-Force's foreground geometry thingie.
Like the woman who used to do typesetting for my dad, who, until recently was still using an old IIsi with 17mb of RAM, a 40mb HD and running Quark3.32 on a 13" monochrome monitor.
I don't know how she did it.
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Mac OS X will LOOK the same, no matter what hardware you run it on.
Well, that's not totally true. Don't forget that in Tiger, there's that CoreImage/CoreVideo stuff, like the ripple effect with newly spawned Dashboard Widgets that is just plain omitted if your graphics card isn't up to par. (like every damned machine I own except for my new G5)
Does Panther's FastUserSwitch animation work in non-quartz extreme mode? I thought I read that there's no animation on older hardware for that.
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Actually, if you zoom in to maximum resolution, it actually goes from being moon surface to being a funky yellow-coloured swiss cheese texture.
hmmmmmm.... I knew the moon was made of cheese!
Yes, it is a bit high school..
psha!! that's why every girl I've ever dated from that site has been a total immature cunt! at least I got laid. that's why I fell in love with the site.
Now, if only they could a) afford decent programmers and b) stop loading the site up with flash animations that suck my cpu dry.
programmers schmogrammers... if only they could afford decent servers... or at the programmer level, at least not base the damned site on coldfusion. (or is it based on IIS, I forget)
users customizing their personal pages are another thing that's a serious problem. with all of those scrolling picture animations of kimberly and her friends at the beach and everything and the stupid music videos. Some people have 45mb worth of content on their page!
oh yeah... I'm a loser.
I never thought of the FW/USB2 HDD option, ALL the peripherals should be accessable, such as optical drives, HDDs and so forth. I guess it would be easier if the peripherals were on the USB bus to begin with (NICs usually aren't), but it might be helpful if there was some way to bridge all devices to USB for external access.
Apple's got the idea when it comes to firewire. You can boot a mac with the T key held down and a firewire cable connected to it from another mac and the mac will boot into "Target Disk Mode." Basically, all drives on the target mac will be accessable from the other machine (HDs, optical drive, etc). I just wish you could do that with non-macs and do it over other busses (USB or NAS over ethernet).
ssh and terminal services are fine for day to day use, but when you've got your rack full of 1U servers and one is refusing to boot... or ssh just simply is not working... then what do you do?
whenever one of my servers has a problem (when suddenly I can't ssh into it), I have to lug a monitor over to that corner of my room and diagnose the problem.
KVM is really the only option for having a way of looking at the display of many machines at once... either that or utilizing the serial console, but not all OSs support that.
I'm curious if the music videos will be uncensored or not.
will I get to see boobies in Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up video?
will there be cursing in fitty cent's vid?
will there be cloud's of pot smoke in Wu Tang's vid?
how about graphic visuals of whores blowing lines of cocaine in Agorophobic Nosebleed's video?
that's actually a great idea, too.
to expand on that further, what if you had a single, standardized KVM port on desktops/laptops? That port would be even more useful in rack-mounted systems.
I've got a dual KVM switch and a 4-port one at home, and they're such a pain. So many wires. When you've got a USB KVM set up with 4 machines, that's a minimum of 10 extra wires floating around behind (or across, depending on the setup) your desk.
The cable savings (space and cost) would be even more noticeable when you've got 2 dozen or more machines attached to a KVM switch.
One thing I see in the future of portable computing is more functionality with the machine powered down. They've already got laptops that can play CDs and DVDs without booting the whole system. Next will be KVM, firewire/usb HD, and even just plain video display ability (think second monitor). That will also increase the usefulness of older machines.
How are you planning to deal with the right hand/left hand mouse issue?
;)
good point. I guess have it have a long enough cord to move to either side? I'd recommend bluetooth, but there'd be the chance that the mouse would fall out and get lost. I hate losing parts.
will that mouse replace the current pointing device?
na, there'd still be a touchpad or similar.
I dunno. I just never understood people who use mice with laptops. I guess they don't travel much with the laptop.
well, for me, I carry my powerbook in a bag, and in that bag is a mousepad, mouse, power adapter, monitor adapter (just in case), retractable ethernet, retractable firewire, and a phone wire.
I whip the mouse out if I'm gonna either play a game (one reason I'd bring my mouse with me) or be in one location for an extended period of time doing work (at work or on vacation, etc). Just because you're mobile with your computer doesn't mean you've got it sitting on your lap. there are desks and tables outside of your house, you know.
welp. patents are good sometimes. but, for these things, I'd like to see them in wide use.
;)
Consider my post as prior art to prevent patenting.
the site wasn't loading, and I thought your post was a joke.
then I looked at Network Mirror
I completely agree with you. Worst. Article. Ever.
Now, some REAL innovation I'd like to see (which I've been talking about for YEARS):
1. GPS built-in to laptops. So you can use mapping software more easily on the go.
2. digital clock on laptops. I'd love to have an external LCD display showing the time, even when the machine's not on. hell, that'd even be useful on a desktop machine.
3. touchpad on the side of a laptop. Sometimes I'm holding my powerbook in my arm and I wish there was a way to control the mouse from there. One idea I had was like an inverted optical mouse with the laser sensor that would detect thumb movements. That'd even work for the side of a PDA for scrolling
4. how about an integrated mouse in a laptop? it could snap on/off and you could use it on the side, then just have the cord retract and it would re-attach to the machine.
5. I say bring back the keyboard/CPU combo for small-footprint computing.
c'mon, whadaya say?!
thanks, I'll look into it.
btw, with su, only users in the group "wheel" can su to root (or su at all, I think), so I'm the only user in that group.
I gotta read up on advance sudo usage. I was never really a big fan of it, and, from what I've read, the truly paranoid don't even bother installing it. I'd read a couple security advisories about sudo back when I first dabbled with linux in 98 or 99, I believe, and always shied away from using it, and had even gone so far as to uninstall it on my initial RedHat and Yellowdog installations.
I specifically don't install it on my gentoo systems.
Although, if I really was truly paranoid, I wouldn't permit root logins.
I'll look into it. I didn't realize I could customize sudo per-account/per-executable. thanks for the headsup.
question: have there been any security issues with sudo (I don't mean from improperly configured setups) in recent years?
I don't have sudo installed (for security reasons).
also, I've got a script that runs rsync from a separate box and does a weekly backup of my primary server. su doesn't help in that area.
that's actually a good idea... I honestly never thought of that.
have thumb drives improved at all in the last 5 years?
I got one when they first came out (a 32mb one). It would frequently erase itself. I'd put it in and it would be called "Untitled" and have no files on it.
I didn't have anything important on it. Just some Hotline bookmarks and a hotline client for mac and windows.
I run a webserver out of my room for a dozen or so of my friends.
/home and a couple other directories over to my backup server. But root has a very, very strong password. took me weeks to memorize it.
I've just started disabling shell access to the users of my system by default. If they want to log in with ssh, they have to explicitly enable it from the web-based front-end.
I tried forcing public-key authentication, but I kept running into trouble when I was away from home and needed to log in from someone else's computer.
I've got some explicit rules in iptables, also, where I've been blocking entire IP blocks (ie- I've got several countries blocked completely). Whenever I notice a string of failed login attempts, I do an ARIN lookup of that IP block. So far, nearly every attack has come from korea, so I 've been blocking off those addresses as they come.
I should probably only allow ssh access to american addresses... I know one should always make time for security, but I just haven't had the time to look into how to do that.
also, I've got root login enabled only because I've got a backup script running that mirrors
Yeah, I had one of the developer previews of OSX back in like 99 or 2000 and it booted on my 450mhz G4 in about 20 seconds and ran blazingly fast.
By the time the public beta was released, and sound worked and networking worked in classic, the thing was so horrifically slow on my machine and was barely usable for real work until jaguar came out.
Holy crap. I've got that issue sitting on my desk. For some reason that issue of EGM has been sitting on my desk for years and I don't know why.
it's weird to see it on-screen.
best feature update for OSX:
With this update, you can use Safari to log in to MyAccount on cingular.com.
now I don't have to fire up firefox just to pay my cell phone bill.
w00t!
The DS, afaik, uses raw 802.11 packets with their own n-wifi protocol. That's why you can't use existing WAPs to connect DSs and that's why you need a special wifi card that can sniff raw packets with Kismet (promiscuous mode).
The day I got my DS, I tried sniffing packets with my powerbook, but to no avail. Very upsetting. I wanted to be the first to reverse engineer the pictochat protocol and spam in-range DSs with pr0n.
That would have been great to do at the grand opening of the Nintendo World Store in NYC in may. There were DSs abound all pictochatting away.
quoting one of my earlier posts
The only instances when I've found translucency to be useful are:
1. When I'm stuck on my powerbook with a single, reletively small display, and I need to be able to see a webpage or source file when I'm coding and there isn't enough desktop realestate for all of the open windows.
2. When you want some kind of floating data. ie- uptime or load averages or whatever that are floating above everything or stuck on the desktop... like a screen tattoo (like that program stattoo by Panic
any other use (translucent menus, translucent window borders, translucent desktop rubberband select, etc) is just eyecandy. Which makes using the computer a little more fun... so long as it doesn't impede on your productivity... like when you try to run OSX on a 300mhz G3.
well, the screen on the PSP is quite a bit larger (and sharper) than any nintendo handheld, and it also doesn't bother my wrists quite as much as the SP did (and I lost my SP the day I got my DS, along with NES Classics Zelda1).
the PSP is a bit more versitile than the DS. That's why I bought it. I mean, sure, I've got my iPod, PSP and cell phone all in the same pocket. I'm not gonna use the PSP to play music. I've got 2 tracks on it just to say that I have them. And I stuck a little pr0n on the memory stick just to show off the video and mobile-pr0n.
I see what you're saying, but you've got a very weak argument. You say PocketNES works great, but can I fit 900 games on the EZCart? Is there a GBA SNES emulator? If so, how do I use the X and Y buttons? Is there a mame emulator for the GBA/DS?
the higher-end emulators (SNES/MAME/etc) for the PSP run kinda shitty right now, even when the proc is clocked at 333mhz, but there's room for optimization.
Also, I can't say I've ever seen any lumines clones. Maybe you're one of those people that sees a game that involves blocks and thinks every one is tetris. Lumines, to me, seems pretty unique. Between the visuals and the sounds and the pacing of the game, I've never played any block game, or any game at all, for that matter, that I would call out of work to play.
Right... you want to waste cash rebuying movies and games.
I guess you're forgetting that nintendo is re-releasing all of their old games in the NES classics series and that Final Fantasy 1&2 thingie.
Also, I've got the japanese PSP and it doesn't seem to let me play US-Region'd UMD movies.
The versions of the PSP that can run emulators are no longer for sale. All shipping units run 1.51 or 1.52 firmware, which have not yet been cracked, and given Sony's cat-and-mouse mentality, there will likely be 1.53 by the time a 1.51 crack appears.
you mean shipping.
My friend picked up a PSP just this weekend and I was surprised to find that it still had the 1.50 firmware on it.
He was excited because he didn't think he'd be able to play Final Fantasy 1 again. (he's got no interest in a DS or SP... I know FF1&2 are available for it.)
I've heard of the GP32. It was that open development system, right?
;)
Something like that. I know there's a big homebrew scene for it. I'm down with the homebrew.
I got the DS the day it came out. I waiting in front of gamestop from 7am until they opened at 10:30 (the guy told me the day before that they'd be opening at 9, but to be there at 8, and I was up, so I walked the two blocks, hit starbucks and waited).
It was a pretty awesome system. Mario64DS (I didn't have an N64, so I never played it before) was pretty badass, as was metroid hunters. I also picked up Mawaru: Made in Wario (aka Wario: Touched!) in chinatown a couple days after it was released in japan. the DS was a GREAT system, and I laughed at sony for the PSP, especially after I heard about issues with dead pixels and the like.
However, my curiosity got to me and I ordered a PSP from japan late in december and got it a couple days into 2005. I swiftly became addicted and barely touched my DS. I wound up buying so many games for the PSP. 9, total, however, several were returned, or traded in (Armored Core SUCKED! as did vampire chronicals) or ebay'd. The only games that I still have/play are RidgeRacers, Lumines (HOLY CRAP, GREAT GAME), and Minna no golf (Hot Shots Golf).
I still love the DS and think its games are so much better, overall, but it seems like the DS titles in the US are lacking. GameStop/EBGames has much more selection on the PSP shelf, and the DS shelf seems kinda barron.
Although, that Trauma Center game for DS looks really good. My friend got it and I played it until his batteries died. I might pick that up and forget about the PSP for a while...
but I've got the emulators on the PSP... being able to play all the old NES games again has renewed my interest int he PSP. Also, the mobile Pr0n is amazing.
The DS and the PSP are both very strong systems. they both have some serious advantages over the other, and I don't see a clear winner no matter how you look at it.
I'm just curious if any games will be released for the PSP and DS and support cross-play.
I do think there's room for PSP and the DS in today's handheld market. It's a good thing M$ had nothing to offer.
G-Force isn't Winamp's... It was originally only for mac in the beginning (I think Audion and SoundJam) and later was ported to iTunes, Winamp, WMP, and every other windows and mac audio player.
I also like whitecap (also written by Mr. Andy O'Meara). I just wish he'd combine whitecap with G-Force's foreground geometry thingie.
Like the woman who used to do typesetting for my dad, who, until recently was still using an old IIsi with 17mb of RAM, a 40mb HD and running Quark3.32 on a 13" monochrome monitor.
I don't know how she did it.
Mac OS X will LOOK the same, no matter what hardware you run it on.
Well, that's not totally true. Don't forget that in Tiger, there's that CoreImage/CoreVideo stuff, like the ripple effect with newly spawned Dashboard Widgets that is just plain omitted if your graphics card isn't up to par. (like every damned machine I own except for my new G5)
Does Panther's FastUserSwitch animation work in non-quartz extreme mode? I thought I read that there's no animation on older hardware for that.