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I tried listening to Windows Weekly this week and it is just a terrible podcast. Its like thurrot and Mary Jo Foley are completely incapable of participating in group dialogue and it just sounds like Leo is a teacher awkwardly guiding them through the class discussion for 2 hours.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:11
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anthonypants posted:yeah, but what do they know enough to use os x, the world's best personal computer operating system
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Jan 19, 2015 04:15
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I did a stupid drunk voice recording reading thurrott the other night. does yospos want it
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Jan 19, 2015 04:16
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PleasureKevin posted:I did a stupid drunk voice recording reading thurrott the other night. does yospos want it yeah
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Jan 19, 2015 04:20
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carry on then posted:the vast majority of os x users, actually i never liked how much space the dock eats up at the bottom of the screen even if you set it to auto hide
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Jan 19, 2015 04:20
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i actually like the dock and leave it visible on the bottom of the screen. it's a good reminder of "hey you've got a bunch of stuff paged out to swap, maybe you might want to quit some of it"
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Jan 19, 2015 04:28
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i took sniep's recommendation of putting it on the side and it owns autohide in osx is also really nice because you also don't have apps turn orange and set the dock/taskbar to not autohide ever until you look at it
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Jan 19, 2015 04:28
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The_Franz posted:there were good operating systems back when but you usually needed an $8000+ workstation to use them. even when good operating systems like NeXTStep got ported to x86 they still needed 16 megs of ram which would have doubled the cost of most systems back then. $8,000 bought you a really top-notch windows PC, or a really low-end UNIX workstation. either way, 16 MB of RAM. unfortunately 16 MB of RAM isn't enough to run UNIX and a gui shell acceptably. your 16 MB workstation takes 20 minutes to boot swaps constantly. the windows machine flies, every click responds instantly. your unix workstation had literally 5x the CPU power (compare a 100 MHz MIPS to a 33 MHz 486. it's not even close) but it doesn't matter because the memory requirements are obscene. your disk swapping is the sound of windows winning the desktop p.s. nextstep/osx is included in the unix gang. running it in 16 MB is practically impossible.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:29
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The_Franz posted:
this is technically true but not important to developers or users windows provided an API to write multitasking GUI applications on dos, support copy/paste, and actually have everything work together. this was so self-evidently useful to developres and users that the lovely technical underpinnings didn't matter very much
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Jan 19, 2015 04:32
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windows was a lovely gui on top of dos until nt came along.
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A Yolo Wizard posted:I tried listening to Windows Weekly this week and it is just a terrible podcast. Its like thurrot and Mary Jo Foley are completely incapable of participating in group dialogue and it just sounds like Leo is a teacher awkwardly guiding them through the class discussion for 2 hours. windows, weakly
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Jan 19, 2015 04:32
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PleasureKevin posted:I did a stupid drunk voice recording reading thurrott the other night. does yospos want it Beeftweeter posted:windows, weakly
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Jan 19, 2015 04:33
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minivanmegafun posted:i actually like the dock and leave it visible on the bottom of the screen. it's a good reminder of "hey you've got a bunch of stuff paged out to swap, maybe you might want to quit some of it" Phoenixan posted:i took sniep's recommendation of putting it on the side and it owns i throw it on the left and have a pair of working desktops and a couple full screened apps to the right of that the docks there if i need it but between exposé and mission control i just swipe to what i need never really using the dock also b/c i started using os x under lion i use launchpad unironically which i know is not pro but i actually like it
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Jan 19, 2015 04:37
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eschaton posted:enough to use os x, the world's best personal computer operating system lol
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Jan 19, 2015 04:40
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PleasureKevin posted:I did a stupid drunk voice recording reading thurrott the other night. does yospos want it i dunno whats its pleasure quotient kevin
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Jan 19, 2015 05:43
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theadder posted:i dunno whats its pleasure quotient kevin worthy of the yoscast I pray
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Jan 19, 2015 05:49
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:p.s. nextstep/osx is included in the unix gang. running it in 16 MB is practically impossible. you swapped out to a weird off-brand early cd-rw prototype apple was really lucky that jobs burned through most of his dumbest ideas before before returning to take control in 1997
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Jan 19, 2015 06:31
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I think he was showing off at that time
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Jan 19, 2015 06:32
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FMguru posted:it was even more fun because those first nexts would swap out to...not a hard drive, but a magneto-optical disc cartridge lol i forgot about this. i think the idea was you could carry your entire system/files with you 
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Jan 19, 2015 06:43
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i've tried to put the dock on the side but it just feels right on the bottom but now i have a retina macbook so if i need more space i can just crank the resolution up
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Jan 19, 2015 06:54
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left dock auto hide supremacy
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Jan 19, 2015 07:09
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pram posted:lol i forgot about this. i think the idea was you could carry your entire system/files with you the only experience i have w/ magneto-optical discs is that they are apparently very popular and important in raccoon city
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Jan 19, 2015 07:15
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remember mini discs? Boy they would have been great for data storage before useb sticks became a thing
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Jan 19, 2015 09:15
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MO discs were still in os x for a while, that's what the "beachball" is supposed to be.
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Jan 19, 2015 09:17
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little drum I had forgotten about you where are you now little drum
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Jan 19, 2015 14:15
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the ash heap of history
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Jan 19, 2015 14:26
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qntm posted:little drum I had forgotten about you where it belongs 
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Jan 19, 2015 16:04
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i always think when i see the little drum again that it is quite sinister
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Jan 19, 2015 16:48
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LastInLine posted:who the gently caress doesnt autohide the dock put it on the side and then just never use it ever? if i could turn off the dock i would my nigga have you tried gnome 3
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Jan 19, 2015 16:50
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A Yolo Wizard posted:I tried listening to Windows Weekly this week and it is just a terrible podcast. Its like thurrot and Mary Jo Foley are completely incapable of participating in group dialogue and it just sounds like Leo is a teacher awkwardly guiding them through the class discussion for 2 hours. WW is polished as gently caress compared to What The Tech, where Thurrott and some guy bitch for an hour about how they're not taken seriously it basically dares you to watch it
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Jan 19, 2015 18:42
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oh my tech! Utah edition
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Jan 19, 2015 20:08
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i have been going through my dropbox public folder for some ancient windows stuff    note: this is an actual theme ms developed ms-developed bonus:  thats all it would do lol Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Jan 19, 2015 20:26
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Beeftweeter posted:
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Jan 19, 2015 20:30
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Beeftweeter posted:i have been going through my dropbox public folder for some ancient windows stuff come on son what kinda windows 3.x theme is that??!? 
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Jan 19, 2015 20:34
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Sniep posted:come on son what kinda windows 3.x theme is that??!? sadly i dont think calmira is themeable
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Jan 19, 2015 20:36
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pram posted:lol i forgot about this. i think the idea was you could carry your entire system/files with you the best part is that these things are hilariously unreliable you could count on losing your files every 3 to 6 months
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Jan 20, 2015 00:18
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my syquest ezdrive was really, really reliable
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Jan 20, 2015 00:22
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Beeftweeter posted:
i have actually browsed the forums with ie5 for solaris, many moons ago i don't think there was any js back then 
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Jan 20, 2015 00:22
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flakeloaf posted:my syquest ezdrive was really, really reliable syquest ezdrive was a hdd-in-a-cartridge, not magneto-optical
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:syquest ezdrive was a hdd-in-a-cartridge, not magneto-optical it could also be permanently destroyed if you did the ejection sequence incorrectly media and drive heads
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