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javaprince:
Infact there's this thing about Vista - imagine you having a motioned Picture / Video has background. When I first saw it, I wanted to cry in awe.

you are talking about dreamscene, a part of Ultimate update. hah! it chops resources like theres no tomorrow.

i promptly took mine off because besides aesthetics it has no practical purpose, and is very distracting. most default processes are already screaming for more resources so why further cripple a near-dead machine?

besides, stardock Deskscapes works the same way even on Xp.

for eyecandy nothing comes close to linux. wiggling windows, translucency, water effects, drop shadows, 3D rotating cube desktop, fire effects, zoom and pan effects, magnify effects, windows animation, skydome, screenlets, Plasma-plasmoids, emerald themes, desklets, fading inactive windows, etc etc. and they eat minimal resources, able to run on any WDDM-capable card with 512 MB ram. try running Vista Aero on that!

javaprince:
@Ex Inferis
What exactly is your point

what is my point about what point, exactly?

the retort to OYB (some in jest)? the desktop pix?

the former speaks for itself its reason for being, and the latter to convey the fact that i use all three major operating systems and therefore i feel im able to judge which is better-for me at least.

you say vista is easy and i quite agree with you-to a point. someone migrating from windows xp or lower will no doubt apreciate the ease of use of vista since its not a remarkable departure from the way windows XP and 2000 work (we still have to restart after uninstalls or almost every little tweak- in 2008!) if you have used Xp, you know where the control panel is, you know how to navigate Explorer, you expect applications to be under all programs and of course you know how to access the dreaded registry.

someone with that kind of background will find moving to Linux or OS X an alien experience because nohting is whgere yoiu expect it to be. however after a while you will become sufficiently familiar with its inner workings to appreciate its advantages over windows. and that was why i insist detractors TRY first before making uninformed judgments.

the problem with Linux is not lack of programs or compatibility with windows: afterall Wine, cedega and crossover do a good job emulating windows' API's, and Linux reads fat and NTFS partitions.

the problem with Linux is actually learning its inner structure and a totally new file system: ext file system, BASH, ASH and ohter Shell languages are a far cry from Windows' Fats/ntfs and Command Line (or DOS if you are using Win Me down). but not for soemone with a Unix background or Mac Terminal experience. Someone with a DOS background will find it challenging to do some configuration on Linux using shell, but then again not everything requires you dropping to the command line these days as there are GUI's fro just about everything.

only in that note will i agree with you that Linux is not easy: for a beginner. however in terms of configurating your system it IS easier. every configuration file not available via normal settings is a text file in plain english, even for devices. in windows you have to wade through the registry and hunt for that cryptic config file armed with a scientific calculator to convert long hexadecimal strings to decimal in order to make changes to hidden settings.

and then you reboot

hey, someone with no windows or computing background will no doubt find windows daunting. ive seen Mac and Linux users who have a hard time getting things done in windows cos everything was just different. so im not surprised windows users feel the same.

when i was learning BASIC and DOS i thought the same thing about the IBM clones in the late 80's and early 90's. but now im perfectly at home with DOS. when i started Unix i found it unapproachable but now (eve though im getting rusty) i have no probs doing shell.

infact, when windows 3.0 hit us i remeber thinking it could never stand up to MSDOS because we found the whole Presentation Manager gimmickry from windows 1.0 finicky and a bother. Using DOS felt much better and not until Win 95 did i start giving DOS a few missing times. infact, it took Apple's Mac to totally switch me to a GUI environment in 1997.

windows is in widespread use only because in those days it was te ONLY OS you get when you buy a new machine (bundled with a DOS interface) and your options really were DOS, OS/2 and Windows. nobodywas selling OS/2 machines besides IBM (and OS/2 kind of was limited in scope) so windows was the program you got. the only other alternative was a Mac but it was pretty expensive but yet much more advanced especially after Nextstep.

so there you have it: windows was forced down our collective throats and some of us grew up with it knowing nothing better. you became proficient clicking icons and you assume noting coud be simpler.

well here is the deal: in all the years of windows the core component, Explorer, did not change much. navigation as was done form win 95 is still done even in the M1 release of Windows 7. meanwhile Apple's Finder (the counterpart of Explorer) is a joy to behold and use.

here is my point: linux is a worthwhile alternative to Vista because it already does what Vista does in in a much more stable environment and with more security. ive never had to run an antivirus app in Linux because tere is no need to.

Leopard is aMUCH BETTER al;ternative to Vista by light years because for ease of use it trumps both vista and Linux with the power of Terminal sessions to give you absolute control. it is of much more sophisticated technology, everything is very easy to find, its incredibly easy to use even for a rank beginner. and that is why i use it a lot.

next in line is Linux. it is stable, secure, free, works a lot like Leopard, has thousands of free programs, runs servers very well, is immensely configurable (to get that Vista theme i had to crack UXtheme.dll, replace shell32.dll by taking ownership at the coammand line, and replace imares.dll  beacus vista by default wont let you install themes) is better at networking, and has good hardware support. it is also easy to use.

98% of linux programs are free, 80% of windows programs are paid for. for every windows app there is a (sometimes better) equal alternative.

In mac most programs are not of the click-next-next-finish-restart viariety: simly drag the downloaded app into the Applications folder and Bingo! you are done. to remove, just drag it to trash. WHAT BEATS THAT FOR EASE OF USE?
same thing with mounted drives: to unmount (safely remove in windows), drag to trash icon.

ultimately my point is that Leoipard and linux are better than Windows in my experience. however this claim is personal and not global, so if you like windows i have no reason why you shouldnt.

i just hope you will try the others out there.

for now, no. Apple rewired the exploitable stuff but Geohot and the Devteam are working hard to beat that. meanwhile stick with the Official Carrier pending an unlock solution.

or downgrade your hardware to a first-gen iphone and upgrade to 2.0 and enjoy the benefits of the 3G iphone sans GPS and 3G with any carrier of your choice.

to keep yourself abreast of happenings in the iphone hacking scene keep peeking here http://iphonejtag..com/

and here http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

1. restore takes care of that

2. sendfile takes care of that

3. itoner, itunes 7.7, and iphone ringtone maker take care of that

4. a simple check of edge/wifi settings takes care of that

5. simport takes care of that

6. wetools takes care of that

7. even if that were possible, a reboot takes care of that

like you said, ITS ALL SORTED!! (with installer and some common sense) 

and here is the vista desktop, themed to make it more presentable.

ive actually hid the clutter on the desktop cos i only use vista fro phone management, hence littl;e bother to house clean

and here is leopard. looks best when desktop is left free of clutter.

New update:

firmware 2.0 is hardly off the ground and yet Apple is seeding 2.1 plus a new SDK for devs.

they say it upgrades the GPS and location awareness of the phone, meaning probably turn by turn navigation ala Garmin and Tomtom is around the corner.



well, that wont matter much, because i don't plan to get lost anytime soon.

there are also snippets of code that point at a possible clipboard, meaning copy-paste is coming to iphone.

$199 dollars in officially supported countries, around 23,238 naira. cant buy without contract. cant use in unsupported country.

dont bother buying for now if you are in naija.

you know you are in for it when--

nice work ataroken






for extra geek info,



we also have ext (1,2,3 is journaled), Vfat and ReiserFS used by Linux and some varients of BSD. Ext stands for Extended
ext3 and Reiser log metadata changes to the file structure, hence "journaled".

before all that there was OCFS, for Oracle Cluster File System.

Apple's Mac OS X uses HFS+, or Hierarchical File System plus



NTFS is in the process of being phased out, to be replaced by WinFS, which stands for windows Future Storage.

WinFS was slated to be in Vista, but sadly its been shipped to appear in codename:Windows 7.



non-related info:

Windows uses BIOS (Basic Input Output System) , Apple's OS X uses EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface).

and that is why OS X doesnt work on Intel Machines without modification/hacks.

*get your geek on*

this is the end

OYB (and like-minded folks), here's something for yer!

here's what George thinks of you,

ps: this is not me insulting you. just a harmless joke.

my linux desktop (hardy 8.04) with compiz fusion, gecko, wine, screenlets, Avant Window Navigator and tons of stuff installed.

  here's a classic take.meant to upset a few people.   

actually its not too bad.   

the theory of relative intelligence

UPDATE:

follow this tut if you want to downgrade from 2.0 to 1.1.4

http://www.coderetard.com/2008/07/14/downgrade-iphone-v20-to-v114-firmware-and-baseband/


UPDATE:

meanwhile Cydia and Installer apps don't work on 2.0 for now.

i have wedict from the app store! if only someone will get simport up there.

super monkey ball is not working. i tried putting it in /Applications with ispazio pc suite but i needed to set permission to 775 i think following a tut om haklab.

didnt work.

obviously fairplay stiill has miles to go before its cracked

guess we have to buy our apps now.

but hang on, its possible they can be reversed engineered and put up on Installer or Cydia since the SDK is readily available.

@arsenal

if you bootneuter you can always downgrade because bootloader sigchecks are unshackled from the baseband. if however you load up 2.0 from a pre-pwned ipsw to an un-pwned iphone you can't go back down, baseband will be stuck at 4_05_04G.

at least these are my thoughts. when i was on 2.0 beta i downgraded back to 1.1.4.

2.0 is okay, appstore tells me im in an unsupported country. some itunes-downloaded apps are not syncing. will post up some screenshots soon as i get some time.


meanwhile cmw has come through and winpwn 2.0.0.2 is out. get it at  http://rapidshare.de/files/40074565/winpwn_2.0.0.2_Setup.zip.html

or mirror is at

http://www.elitar.ch/share/winpwn_2.0.0.1_Setup.zip

tuts at

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1572

cheers.

Gamine:
hmm, see me thinking EX was no more

Texazz, thanks

hello Gamine.

no i said i was leaving the Movies thread because some people were turning it into Twitter, and i have other things to do. im just here less often.


het Tezz, trying this on an N95 but i get stuck at installing secman.exe. it asks to  automatically search for comm port but then it can't find one, i manually configured com ports but the app only accepts comm 8. tried all baud rates from 300 to 4000000 but still it gets stuck at Installing.

i learned that the secman install binpda root certs without whichthe hack wont work.

still trying though, thought you should know.

thanks uspry1!

if , like me, you dont like rapidshare here is a torrent link:

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4243563/N-Gage_2.0__amp__All_Cracked_Games__

thanks, tezz.

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oooopSS! obviously i didnt embed that well enough. can't be too bothered, its a Southpark spoof of the skit above. we usually see these mockeries at the beginning of Macworld or WWDC.

it speaks lainly of the shortycomings of vista.

pwnage tool 2.0 finally out today. its here http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/42858313/thanks-for-waiting#disqus_thread

currently it jailbreaks, activates and unlocks 1st gen iphone with 2.0 firmware.


it does not unlock 3G iphones for now.

its for Mac only (lucky me!) so windows users will have to wait for cmw's winpwn-and the site is down now.

however if you have leopard 10.5.4 you will experience probs.


if you cant wait for winpwn and you dont have a mac but have good bandwidth, look for kalyway or iatkos 2.0 for OSx86: it allows you to run mac OS X leopard on normal windows intel computers.


on the pwnage link above are links to bootloaders 3.9 and 4.6. get them, but if u have used pwnage 1.1 then u probably already have them.

please read the comments.

me, im going 2.0 at 1800 hours this evening,

bye all.

@uspry1

hearing-challenged is just a mouthful coined by the whiteman to describe certain special people created by God. it is not a disability, it is a gift to show you are blessed.

meanwhile heaslhsob can try compatibility mode: right click on the file, select properties, select the compatibilit tab, and try running in windows xp mode.

if it doesnt work then look for a vista copy, or try dual booting.

you missed the point, kid. its your insults that brougt out the worst in me, not your sometimes valid arguments about windows/linux. i have no objection when people say they prefer this to that; the least i can do is try to sow them there are alternatives if they care enough to dabble.

i can perfectly hold my own in any forum in any flame war without resorting to name calling, sadly that feat is seemingly beyond your limited capabilities. if you hadnt gone the gutter route i wouldnt have called you the blockhead you are.

nonetheless, i still maintain that OS is a matter of personal reference just as i will keep insisting windows is not near as good as some of the alternatives. for those of you out there who feel locked into windows, there are better alternatives, just as those perfectly hapy with vista can stick to it.

meanwhile, sometimes even though you hide behind an Alias you cant help letting your mentality slip through, so dont assume for one minute i believe your penchant for sinking low to rugrat levels is an online persona you cultivated just to "get under my skin". sir, it will take an army of your ilk to achieve that momentous feat, while it will take only one of you to prove how obnoxious you are.

my personal opinion goes beyond copy and paste. sure i copied and pasted those pix for fun. if you take affront at that, then find the nearest tree, throw up some good sturdy rope and hang yourself. it will do mankind a major good, i tell you.

a prick i may be, but im good at it hence this bout. you, on the other hand, sucked at near about everything. for a born prick, you do a poor job of it.

im glad you suggest me googling mtv for yo mama jokes; for you to sugest that implies its what you do. i dont need mtv to insult you; you do a better job insulting yourself than i can ever do in six lifetimes.

this is my last shot at you, and i still suggest you stop being lazy and get a copy of linux and discover for yourself why the mnovement exists.

and while you are at it, grow up with the snide remarks. they do you no good.

ladies and gentlemen (as well as the unladylike and the not-so-gentle)

this is absolutely my last post in nairaland.

i have other more pertinent callings and as such my dedication to entertainment will have to take a backseat, as well as the little time i squeeze to keep up the postings.

I, Neoteny, Ex Inferis, born Abdalla Mohammed, hereby take a bow and exit left.

its been a pleasure knowing SOME of you.

@oyb

you betray your total lack of maturity, and i figure you as someone who has pleasantly little to do besides starting flame wars and ending them with insults.

i have been through many a flame war and and you are nowhere near as formidable as the worst smeghead on any of them so i shall brush off your name calling.

me? rant? yes i did rant about the iphone and when big brovar and i hit on about windows/linux i told him of the weaknesses of both sides and why i used windows: my needs then were better taken care of by windows.

that doesnt make it technologically superior. it only served its purpose.

right from windows 1.0 the world (as least most of it) was near unanimous in agreeing that windows sucked.  like DOS in those days people had very little choice.

now the field is becoming varied thanks to desktop linux and OS X. ever since i moved to Unix-like i have found very little reason to switch to windwos though i do defile myself with vista occasionally when my needs can best be served at that point in time by the infamous bloatware.

now since im basing my judment on experience, i don't need young idiots such as yourself telling me what is better for me, more so when you probably were getting weaned when windows 95 was unleashed upon mankind.

since you have never had the benefit of indulging in the unix platform, it is you, sir, who should STFU.

ive come across many of your childish rants and you always end up insulting the very people you argue with.

yah, that is SOOO mature, OYB.

meanwhile, unbox yourself and get a copy of Ubuntu or whatever (they are free) and find out the strengths and weaknesses of linux and place yourself on an equal footing with us who have had the leverage for longer than you started growing pubic hairs. there is no point trying to reason with you since you are either by birth or by design too ignorant of the very issues you so passionately insult others on.

yes none of my current copies of windows is legit. i didnt buy them because im too smart not to. only a complete slowpoke will go the market with $200 or more staring at six different versions of vista and not wonder if there is a better alternative.

i did buy my macbook and my copy of leoard is legit.


as for those pix. well, they were put up for fun, as im sure the authors intended. if i were to put up a screenshot for every little error i get, my precious bandwidth will be sucked up. besides, unlike you i have better things to do than convince blockheads of the woes of REdmond.

like i said, matrix wasnt groundbreaking

john gaeta took an already existing digital effect and extended it with 120 still cameras and superimposed them on matte and digital backgrounds.

that hardly qualifies as groundbreaking. its innovative use of existing technology.

lost in space did the same thing to very good effect in the warp drive/worm hole sequence

we also saw the same thing in wing commander. those guys were there first. gaeta took it and APPLIED it to action scenes and animated the still photos. in the examples above there were no animations of the bullet time stills.


here is what qualifies as groundbreaking: shooting the "hole in the jungle" sequence in Predator, where they make him shimmeringly invisible. now that had never been done before.

its a serious sign of trouble when a company keeps changing owners and brand (read:Celtel) but its more dangerous when it cant get its acts together after seven years and numerous owners. some say its the Nigerian Factor bedevilling the Telcos.

whatever the Nigerian Factor is.

my opinion is that the Telcos just cant be too bothered with Quality service in an environment where comsumer protection is nonexistent. you cant sue them cos they outlawyer you, cant malign them cos they will sue you for libel and slander.

the only compensation is the morbid sense of satisfaction i get when they get vandalized. thats the only come-uppance (though i dont condone it here)

but here is a funny thing: the Nigerian government via its agent Nitel ruined the entire telecommunications industry through negligence, sabotage, incompetence, corruption etc.

it got so bad the government says it cant fix the sector and swore that only private Telcos can fix the mess.

now that the Telcos are in essentially the same boat as Nitel was, the government is berating the Private telcos and accusing them of incompetence!

"blessed are the dehumanized, for they have nothing to lose but their patience. false gods killed the poet in me, now i dig graves with artistic precision"

very fitting epitaph for our moribund Telcom industry.

@oyb

i see my name has cropped up in a number of your postings (or shall i call them rants) and i decided to sink low enough to respond.

it is interesting you have conceded that you have never used linux before and therefore resort to posting the opinion of others who essentially are windows fanboys. what you say is precisely the kind of gob expected from a linux bashing windows lover so your rants are not weighty enough. sure i didnt get those pix from www.windows-lovers.com or whatever but then YOU didnt copy-paste your opinions from www.linux-lovers.org either!

trawl the web and come up with similar linux pix as ive have posted.

unlike you i have the advantage of experience having used windows, linux and mac os x. my history began with MSDOS up to windows vista. i have used vista right from beta 2 before it even went RC, i used Mac OS from System 7 up to leopard, and i have dabbled with Unix. however im just beginning to use the desktop versions of linux.

infact, my very first system was an Amiga console with Dos, right before window 1.0

i have even used Solaris, which im sure you havent

still, im in a better position to judge for myself which is the better OS.

and the better-no, the best OS right now is none other than Leopard. sure, Tiger was more stable but for usability, stability, ease of use-Mac OS X leopard is the bomb.

next in line is linux.

next is windows xp.

and last is vista.

even BSD is better than vista if you look beyond the bling bling that vista emulated from os x. hey, everything good about vista was lifted form osx: spotlight for windows search, breadcrumbs for finder tabs, flip 3D for expose, gadgets for dashboard widgets, aero for Aqua translucency. even user account control.


its interesting that MS is rushing to get out Windows codename 7 to make up from the bad PR in the wake of vista.

i still use all three OS's but predominantly i use my Macbook and occasionally use vista for god-knows-what.

all in all, OS is a matter of personal preference.

lets leave it at that.

got banned again for the umpteenth time, found my way back in but im sure i will get kicked out again.

oh well-

The Matrix WAS not groundbreaking when it came out. if you are talking about the cool bullet time effects, anyone who has seen Coolio's video "see you when you get there" and lost in space will have seen the same effects.

the wachowski brothers just reapplied it in a more imaginative way. thank god Speed Racer sucks, they couldnt match the feat of te matrix.

the dark knight will be cool because of:

1. gotham was never as faithful to the comics-dark,drizzling,gothic

2. the batbike-oh, the bike. my kingdom for that bike

3. heath ledger. he just qualififed as one of the 16 most villainous villains in Yahoo.

4. nolan took the ingredients of the first batty, amped it up a gajillion times and all the while stayed within the bounds of credibility. the action sequences are great.


but its all about heath ledger.


meanwhile someone says he hasnt seen the matrix and gamine is shocked: dont be, someone people dont root for sci fi. i remember when i watched Event Horizon and in my entire clan im the only one who found it interesting (even though it was made by paul anderson ). infact, some of my latin quotes came from movie-"liberate tutame ex inferis".

an industry travesty.

they ought to all be shot for that nausea inducing psychedelic nonsense.