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[Sphere]

Post'm up ppl!

[talker]

Egad, is it July already? Hurry, hurry, better get to work. What to post for a desktop? Oh no, need something new. What to do? What to do? Calm, must remain calm...talker.

[Nvyseal]

Glutten for punishment??

Here's my desktop on a machine i just revamped from given away parts, no BSOD's and Runs Great!!

[m.oreilly]

[Nvyseal]

m.oreilly, on Jul 1 2007, 10:59 AM, said:

its really a great OS, got lots of hidden stuff that allows you to tweak the heck out of it and right now, i got her singing like a canary

[talker]

Here a couple for a look see. Let me know what you think...talker.

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[brewin]

Latest alpha of Ubuntu 7.10 featuring Compiz Fusion and Keira Knightley.

And here's a video of my desktop. You'll need a video player that can play Ogg Theora videos...
http://rapidshare.co...esktop.ogg.html

[banj0]

very cool vid brewin. The chess victory was a nice touch. It's just unreal that a "record desktop" function is free considering how much a licensed version of something like Adobe Captivate or Camtasia costs. As an aside, it felt kinda dirty watching that in WMP.

Any bugs with Compiz yet?

Edited by banj0, 02 July 2007 - 06:32 AM.

[brewin]

banj0, on Jul 2 2007, 01:31 AM, said:

very cool vid brewin. The chess victory was a nice touch. It's just unreal that a "record desktop" function is free considering how much a licensed version of something like Adobe Captivate or Camtasia costs.

Yep, I opened Synaptic, searched for "record", found that program and installed it. Worked great. One thing I've noticed about Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is that there are tons more packages in the repositories. For example, there's an awesome Texas Hold'em game called PokerTH that I went through hell to install in Feisty Fawn. In Gutsy, all I had to do was apt-get install pokerth.

banj0, on Jul 2 2007, 01:31 AM, said:

As an aside, it felt kinda dirty watching that in WMP.

As well you should.

banj0, on Jul 2 2007, 01:31 AM, said:

Any bugs with Compiz yet?

Not that I've noticed. I'm sure some of the plugins are buggy, but Compiz itself seems stable.

[banj0]

brewin, on Jul 2 2007, 02:52 AM, said:

Yep, I opened Synaptic, searched for "record", found that program and installed it. Worked great. One thing I've noticed about Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is that there are tons more packages in the repositories. For example, there's an awesome Texas Hold'em game called PokerTH that I went through hell to install in Feisty Fawn. In Gutsy, all I had to do was apt-get install pokerth.

So you're saying I should upgrade from Feisty ASAP, eh? Ok, I'm sold. Hold 'Em as an enticement is a nifty trick they got there.

brewin said:

As well you should.

Heehee. Well mane, I am on my gaming box. That should excuse the blasphemy. If only Cedega or Wine could catch up to GR:AW. Why DirectX doesn't violate the Clayton Antitrust Act, I'll never know. Well, I know why, but let's just say I don't understand.

brewin said:

Not that I've noticed. I'm sure some of the plugins are buggy, but Compiz itself seems stable.

Good to know. I was chatting with MO earlier and he mentioned you've been having a good experience with it.

[m.oreilly]

banj0, if you get it running w/ the nvida driver, let me know

[brewin]

banj0, on Jul 2 2007, 02:34 AM, said:

So you're saying I should upgrade from Feisty ASAP, eh? Ok, I'm sold. Hold 'Em as an enticement is a nifty trick they got there.

Well, it is only the second alpha release. YMMV. I'd definitely recommend trying it out in October.

As for PokerTH, there's also a Windows version if you're interested.
http://www.pokerth.net/

[m.oreilly]

very cool brew if you are in windows, and want to see brews' ogg theora vid, here is the vlc player

[m.oreilly]

thanks chriso! beautiful pic!