Will anyone put Windows out of its misery already ?
Since I came back from Arizona I've been quite busy. I've been going to sleep regularly at 4AM and waking up at about 8:40 in the morning. Busy at work but also busy at home, doing "the thing" with the computer.
Fiddling around.. watch a movie, fix a script and time flies.
Today I installed Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X. It took about 1 hour. All I had to do was starting it, no request for security codes, no crashes nor burns.
Mac OS X doesn't blow my mind, it's just generally nicer than Windows though admittedly at home I spend most of the time with Firefox 8P
It seems however that at work I'll have to install Vista pretty soon to run DirectX.. I mean, Direct3D, 10. Of DirectX, Microsoft only left Direct3D alive and now would like people to use the Direct3D name, but it just isn't going to work.
I generally don't like the idea of installing Vista because I think it's simply useless. Apple is constantly pulling out great hardware and great software while Microsoft is generally lagging behind.
The only recent Microsoft success I can remember of is the XBox 360 (though still behind Nintendo). Other than that, Microsoft's big business is based on good timing from 20 years ago.
I hate the idea that I need to install Vista just to use DirectX 10, that's so unfair and it's possibly the only reason why anyone would install Vista.
Hastalla la Vista
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Depends how you measure
Depends how you measure success.
Maybe Nintendo Wii is doing well on sales compared to 360, but from developing point of view the 360 is 1000 times better =).
You should try and get more sleep though in any case.
Dude! Only about 4hrs40mins
Dude! Only about 4hrs40mins of sleep daily? I expect your body to soon go on strike by being sick. You can't code if your stuck in bed with a temperature. 8P
So far to me, DX10 means DX w/ geometry shaders enabled ... this of course will eventually be available in OpenGL (if it's not already there). It just so happens that OpenGL runs on OS X. 8P
I think I'll eventually get a Mac Powerbook Pro. Need to upgrade to a (Vista) PC in the near future. Have to keep using Windows since most of our development tools only run on it. :(
PowerBook Pro should run
PowerBook Pro should run Vista pretty well too ...actually better than any for-Vista laptop ;)
As far as DX 10 goes.. actually they also have some extra stuff about states which seems interesting. And they have these generic buffers, etc etc.
Personally I hope things will get a lot more programmable, I can't wait to write yet another rasterizer ..someday !!
By the way Mr. Kaz, are you
By the way Mr. Kaz, are you running Japanese OS X or English? It looks the era of English OS @ home is coming to an end for me ...
How is Leopard?
Can you share some thoughts about Leopard because I am unsure if I want to screw my Hackint0sh running Tiger... and it is stable, good environment for work.
For Leopard I think a few things are interesting and a few are just gimmicks, so I would like to hear your opinion first before I screw up my life :)
For me, the most interesting is virtual desktops as the mess with windows on Mac is just insane. iSteve was promising something revolutionary about those desktops so I would like to hear if they are really working. 64-bit for sure is interesting feature, but I really cannot find out what I need it for :)
Tell the things that are good and improved.
Well it hasn't changed my
Well it hasn't changed my life just yet, and I didn't it think was going to.
The virtual desktops ("screens") is there, but personally I never really found much use in that.
On OS X it's good enough to be able to have a birdeye view of the windows with F3 and to temporarily go to the desktop view with F5.
For coding on Windows I very much like 2 monitors but I'm not sure how that would work on Mac since there is no clear maximize option though someone apparently came with a workaround.
One thing I didn't like about the installation is that at the first boot I got this screen that was going to introduce all the cool stuff to me but then I also got some autoupdate in background that asked me to reboot. Once rebooted the nice introductory thing wasn't there anymore... and I counld't easily find out how to bring it back (maybe it's in the installation DVD and I should insert that again ?)
I'm not sure if Leopard will screw up your PC (especially considering that you run on non-Apple hardware ?) but here it went smooth and not much has really changed.
Personally I think the Time Machine thing is the greatest idea.. I mean to make it easy to backup data !
I'm rather paranoid about not losing my data and I think every OS should have an easy backup system by default.. but I understand that Microsoft is too busy fighting with viruses, spyware, malaware, trojans, etc etc 8)
wooo
Speaking of malware
I am recently paranoid about malware, since i do a lot of internet banking stuff from my computer. So I recently tried a lot of firewalls on Windows... this is another hell of wasting time, to find a product that does not suck and works as you need. OSX goes there as well, the more popular system the more malware there will be. Nobody cares running trojans on Linux, not because it is safe system, but because nobody is interested in those 276 running machines worldwide (as desktops).
OSX is getting targetted more and more... soon it will join Windows club :)
>I'm rather paranoid about
>I'm rather paranoid about not losing my data and I think every
>OS should have an easy backup system by default.. but I
>understand that Microsoft is too busy fighting with viruses,
>spyware, malaware, trojans, etc etc 8)
Not exactly... Microsoft is paranoid too... to be sued by third parties that produce Backup Software, and would start screaming "Microsoft monopoly is destroying our business!".
Apple can do everything because is just so small. Microsoft has to think twice before introducing anything not strictly correlated to the Operating System, because they are the "de facto" monopolyst.
MS scared to develop ?
That's really hard to believe that MS hasn't made a "Time Machine" because other companies wouldn't let them.
Nobody said anything when MS bought out a company and included the anti-malaware in XP.
I think what really upsets people is the fact that MS voluntarily crippled the competition in the past. One thing is coming out with a better product or idea, another is to stop others from succeeding.
mooo
Shadow Copy
I don't 100% know how Time Machine works on the Mac, but I recall when I first read about it, it looked to me a heck of a lot like Window's Shadow Copy:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/...
Shadow Copy is built in Windows 2003 and Vista.
Shady Shadow Copy
I didn't know about Shadow Copy so I looked into it.
First of all it's only available for the Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise editions. Which is kind of stupid considering that at work there already is normally some sort of backup, data sharing, servers version control going on anyway.
But the real difference is that Shadow Copy actually works on the same volume. By default it allocates 15% of the space for that. So, if the HD crashes so do the backups 8)
Actually at first I thought Time Machine was like that, but I think it's definitely better to instead rely on a separate drive, because the average user may otherwise run into the risk of thinking he/she is safe with the backup on the local drive.
I noticed that Vista also has a backup & restore feature. Automatic backup (nto sure what it means) on home edition and full PC backup on the ultimate, premium etc etc editions.
..well if you want to make a backup you certainly can in Windows, the point though is that Apple doesn't give you an application but rather a foolproof system that works for every user, minimizing the confusion.
Windows BS with editions limitations only helps to complicate things for the average user that ends up with the home edition (strong opinion considering that I still have to try either Shadow Copy or Time Machine 8)
Don't get me wrong, I agree
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you about WinBS, I just wanted to give you a heads up just in case!
A blind man who leans
A blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it's the boundary of the world. 张家界旅游
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