Couldn't agree more, it blows me away at how many clueless people there are in my IT classes. It just seems pathetic when a professor in a 200 level web technologies class has to teach 80% of the class what FTP means and how to do it, do these people even know what they're majoring in?
Yeah, they said they were going to do that mid-December but it didn't actually happen until after the new year in my area(Southern New Jersey). It jumped quite a bit too, according to a couple of those online speed test things, my rate was around 1.1 Mbps now it's about 2.2 Mbps. But at the same time they capped our upload speeds to 128Kbps.
Check out Duality 4.0 GT for OS X, I don't think it's been updated for 10.3 yet but it lets you theme OS X, and there's some good clean themes for it. It works pretty well too I've been using it on my iBook for months without any complications.
You can, there's a whole community of people making shells that replace Explorer in Windows. Some of the really nice ones are Serenade, LiteStep, GeoShell, Sharpe, the list goes on, they all remove the bloat of explorer, then if you want to change borders and such you add ShellWM or Windowblinds or if you've got XP StyleXP. My windows desktop doesn't look like any other OS, it has the great effect of making people say "Ummm, what's this?" when they sit down at my machine, and then a few minutes later, they're asking me how to make their interface the same. Those alternate shells are great because they free up memory(my XP machine went from using nearly 27mb of memory with explorer to under 8mb with serenade) and they eliminate explorer problems. Links- Serenade http://www.courtah.net StyleXP http://www.tgtsoft.com Just google for the others as I can't remember URLs for them.
IMHO no one UI can make absolutely everyone happy, the responses to this post make that point very well, there are a lot of great ideas about how to properly implent a UI, and what a proper UI should be but that will only please some of the people. Unless you let each and every user design his or her own UI, everyone will have some kind of problem with what is presented to them. This is something that is possible, in the Windows world there's Litestep and Stardock's Desktop X, you can build the UI of your dreams if you care enough, unfortunately not everyone wants to(or has the time to) sit there and work through config files. Make a modular UI that defaults to a simple yet functional design, but make it modular enough that those who care enough can make it what they like can do so without jumping through flaming hoops. That's just my two cents...
P.S. Does it bother anyone else that Konqueror as a file manger tries to be a file viewer for everything? I mean I click on a text file because I want to edit it, not because I want to view it in the file manager where I can't do anyhting to it.
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Couldn't agree more, it blows me away at how many clueless people there are in my IT classes. It just seems pathetic when a professor in a 200 level web technologies class has to teach 80% of the class what FTP means and how to do it, do these people even know what they're majoring in?
Yeah, they said they were going to do that mid-December but it didn't actually happen until after the new year in my area(Southern New Jersey). It jumped quite a bit too, according to a couple of those online speed test things, my rate was around 1.1 Mbps now it's about 2.2 Mbps. But at the same time they capped our upload speeds to 128Kbps.
Check out Duality 4.0 GT for OS X, I don't think it's been updated for 10.3 yet but it lets you theme OS X, and there's some good clean themes for it. It works pretty well too I've been using it on my iBook for months without any complications.
You can, there's a whole community of people making shells that replace Explorer in Windows. Some of the really nice ones are Serenade, LiteStep, GeoShell, Sharpe, the list goes on, they all remove the bloat of explorer, then if you want to change borders and such you add ShellWM or Windowblinds or if you've got XP StyleXP. My windows desktop doesn't look like any other OS, it has the great effect of making people say "Ummm, what's this?" when they sit down at my machine, and then a few minutes later, they're asking me how to make their interface the same. Those alternate shells are great because they free up memory(my XP machine went from using nearly 27mb of memory with explorer to under 8mb with serenade) and they eliminate explorer problems.
Links-
Serenade http://www.courtah.net
StyleXP http://www.tgtsoft.com
Just google for the others as I can't remember URLs for them.
IMHO no one UI can make absolutely everyone happy, the responses to this post make that point very well, there are a lot of great ideas about how to properly implent a UI, and what a proper UI should be but that will only please some of the people. Unless you let each and every user design his or her own UI, everyone will have some kind of problem with what is presented to them. This is something that is possible, in the Windows world there's Litestep and Stardock's Desktop X, you can build the UI of your dreams if you care enough, unfortunately not everyone wants to(or has the time to) sit there and work through config files. Make a modular UI that defaults to a simple yet functional design, but make it modular enough that those who care enough can make it what they like can do so without jumping through flaming hoops. That's just my two cents... P.S. Does it bother anyone else that Konqueror as a file manger tries to be a file viewer for everything? I mean I click on a text file because I want to edit it, not because I want to view it in the file manager where I can't do anyhting to it.