Deskfans, Optical Illusions, Windows Vista, WebOS’s, and Windows Vista
Still, the water cooling gear arrives tomorrow, so the desk fan is a temporary measure.
You’ll notice two new links in the blogroll too, though you won’t find them praticularly exciting unless you play Final Fantasy XI. Which you all should. If anyone sees the error of their ways, send me an email once you’ve signed up, and I’ll grab you a passkey for the server that I’m on.
For anyone that feels brave, the Microsoft Windows Vista beta has gone public. Signup here.
To save you downloading hours of stuff, I can burn you a copy of my disks (offer available to people who know me in real life).
Standard disclaimer applies, this is a beta grade operating system and will overwrite any existing operating systems on the hard disk (Read: uninstall Windows XP) unless you have multiple paritions available. It may also crash, burn, fail, kill kittens, and eat babies. The last 2 are unproven.
On a similar note, I have installed a new toy on here, available at http://webos.omega.org.uk
It’s something called a WebOS. It tries to be a traditional operating system, with a key difference. It operates using a web browser, and so is available from anywhere.
If you want to have a play with it (go crazy, it’s impossible to do any damage (nothing that I can’t fix in 15 seconds flat anyway)) then the user account is “guest” and the password is “guestuser”.
In the future, I will write a script enabling people to create their own accounts.
on June 8th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Downloading vista right now, I think i’ll have to wait till tomorrow to try it out (have you tried pressing Shift + Alt + Tab to get the ring binder type effect?)
By the sound of things a lot of current on board graphics cards won’t be able to cope with the stuff vista will chuck at them.
on June 9th, 2006 at 11:34 am
A lot has been said about the vista requirements; most of it untrue.
For the “full” graphics engine, most computers up to 2 years old will run it.
After that, Vista will still run very well, just without all the flashy 3D effects (it falls back to an XP-like interface). I think most computers up to 5 years old should easily run vista in classic mode.
After all, minimum requirements are an 800 MHz processor and 512 of system RAM (the 7 year old computer in my cupboard has that :))
Even on full mode, it only requires a 1 GHz processor and a gig of RAM, and a 128 MB graphics card.
on June 11th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
The source of the information was an RM technical seminar so the information was reliable, but seeing as the seminar was exclusively for schools I guess they assumed a lower than average machine spec and probably fairly old PCs.
The only problems I’ve found with it so far is that it doesn’t always register a click when clicking on a vb style button (I am currently on my xp installation as I couldn’t click “Submit Comment” on the vista one)
Also, when running the tool to see if my machine was ‘vista ready’ it said I not only need a new graphics card - which is true, but also that I have a 0.00 Hz processor.
on June 20th, 2006 at 9:32 am
That music sounds like tennis