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2009-06-20
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@ Michigan, USA
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Originally Posted by JustNick
3GB RAM
How fast is your machine? I tried xwinwrap some time ago and it was a real pain (slow, resources-hungry, constantly freezing my pc) on an athlon 64 2.4Ghz, 1.5Gb Ram, Geforce 6 6200 with Intrepid Ibex (ok, maybe my PC is now obsolete, but it's completely capable of doing what I need it for...)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz
nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M
Its my laptop Lenovo T61 (basically a thinkpad) Came with Vista
Also its fast, the video display using compiz and xwinwrap can use as much as 25% of the CPU resources. But its screaming flipping bouncing
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To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
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2009-06-20
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@ Barcelona
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#13
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I love free software.
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2009-06-20
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@ Michigan, USA
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Originally Posted by javispedro
Free, Pirated, whatever.
I love free software.
I love cool and useful software
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To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
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2009-06-20
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@ Barcelona
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Should have said "free as in beer". 
For me, there's usually no "useful" propietary software. It's useless, since it does what most people want (and not what you usually want: nice paradox :P).
BTW, I know someone who is easily impressed by that rotating cube and tends to name it "the magic cube". He of course asked me "how to put that magic cube on" when shown Linux
Last edited by javispedro; 2009-06-20 at 17:55.
For me, there's usually no "useful" propietary software. It's useless, since it does what most people want (and not what you usually want: nice paradox :P).
BTW, I know someone who is easily impressed by that rotating cube and tends to name it "the magic cube". He of course asked me "how to put that magic cube on" when shown Linux
Last edited by javispedro; 2009-06-20 at 17:55.
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2009-06-20
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Originally Posted by penguinbait
Hear, hear.
Isn't it awesome that you can just do it yourself, all you have to do is read and google you can do anything you want.
Now, do the same for windows (I mean, search for any problem with google) and all you find is useless noise, some results from expert-sex-change or a complicated procedure involving stopping/starting/disabling/enabling services and/or editing half a millon registry keys.
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2009-06-20
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@ Southern California
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Originally Posted by totololo
I think all of that is true. It also means, I know what works for what:
Hahaha, it means that either you have some serious personality dissociation problems ...
... Or simply that you're a free mind who avoid to belong to any church and won't let anybody or any group tells you what you should think.
* I do multimedia development in OSX.
* I prototype, test web development, and interact with business clients in Windows.
* I satisfy my open source personality (and learn more about computing) in Linux.
Simple, eh? Not.
Tim
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2009-06-20
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Originally Posted by penguinbait
D'oh! now I understand...
3GB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz
nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M
Its my laptop Lenovo T61 (basically a thinkpad) Came with Vista
Also its fast, the video display using compiz and xwinwrap can use as much as 25% of the CPU resources. But its screaming flipping bouncing
Well... I'm just glad mine works
Still, I fell like I have the world in my PC!
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2009-06-20
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Joined on Nov 2008
@ Brooklyn, NY
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#19
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now that yall went and remind me...
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Palmtx, N810 dual booting Maemo4 to sd and Mer0.15
Palmtx, N810 dual booting Maemo4 to sd and Mer0.15
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2009-06-21
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Oh come on guys, just goofing around.
I run Windows and Linux on my machines... I'd be running OSX too, but it is quite tricky on the inexpensive hardware I tend to buy, and I haven't got the will to do it (too many other more interesting projects )... I've fired up OSX in a VM a few times, but never had the patience to get it booting... I'd probably even own a Mac if they were a better value for me...
I run Windows and Linux on my machines... I'd be running OSX too, but it is quite tricky on the inexpensive hardware I tend to buy, and I haven't got the will to do it (too many other more interesting projects
)... I've fired up OSX in a VM a few times, but never had the patience to get it booting... I'd probably even own a Mac if they were a better value for me...
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Please don't send me a private message, post to the appropriate thread.
Thank you all for your donations!
To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.