Apple’s Aqua graphical user-interface was the absolute leader in
eye-candy desktops for home computers. Now Linux can offer a quite
similar but also further extended desktop environment like on
Mac’s. The new XServer with integrated OpenGL support Xgl, enables
owners of 3D graphics cards in their computers to use the new
compiz
framework to draw their favourite desktop like Gnome or
KDE in a
3D context. Thus enabling beautiful window-effects and workspace
usage-features never seen before. Check it out here:

WARNING: The only distribution at the moment which enables compiz
by default on supported hardware at the moment is the latest Fedora
Linux. Although you can easily enable compiz on Gentoo Linux,
Ubuntu and others, there’s still some things to do by hand which
requires a lot of reading howto’s, especially if you want to
fallback to your old “working” configuration.

Apple’s Aqua graphical user-interface was the absolute leader in
eye-candy desktops for home computers. Now Linux can offer a quite
similar but also further extended desktop environment like on
Mac’s. The new XServer with integrated OpenGL support Xgl, enables
owners of 3D graphics cards in their computers to use the new
compiz
framework to draw their favourite desktop like Gnome or
KDE in a
3D context. Thus enabling beautiful window-effects and workspace
usage-features never seen before. Check it out here:

WARNING: The only distribution at the moment which enables compiz
by default on supported hardware at the moment is the latest Fedora
Linux. Although you can easily enable compiz on Gentoo Linux,
Ubuntu and others, there’s still some things to do by hand which
requires a lot of reading howto’s, especially if you want to
fallback to your old “working” configuration.

This one is for all lovers of Apple’s
PC vs. Mac commercials.
If you’re still unsure whether to buy Sony’s upcoming PS3 or
Nintendo’s Wii, watch this:

Just in case you missed the original ones, go here: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

Ikea is now using Apple iMacs for their catalogue
decorations.
Now there’s two possibilities why they’re doing that.
1) Ikea’s design really sucks, so they need to focus attention to
something else.
2) The table is built so weak that it would fall into pieces when
it had to hold a PC.Now take the survey:

Finally, all my windows “not Microsoft ” are
renewed.

This time the workers did a real good job and also fix all the
remaining problems from my last window(s) de-installation.

Man, I like that windows
de-installation thing

Now, as soon as my budget will allow it, I can start buying my
final furniture. I’m quite happy now, except for the window
cleaning. 8-(

Another day of Windows de-installation

Wooohh, I love that sentence…
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This weekend I spent some time playing with virtual machines on my
Intel-Mac.Due to the lack of virtualization support in the current Mac OS X
release, rumors say it might be introduced in the next major
release of Mac OS Leopard, the only way to run another operating
system simlutanously is by using a virtual machine emulation
software.
For example: QEMU or its Mac pendant Q

Q is optimized for speed on Mac hardware and already available as a
universal binary, which means that it will provide near native
performance for x86-architecture based operating systems like
Windows, or a linux distribution running beside Mac OS, e.g. Gentoo
Linux as it doesn’t need to translate all the
CPU operations to a foreign architecture.

Q makes everything amazingly easy. Just download a OS-system image
from http://free.oszoo.org or any usual installer-cd.iso, setup a
harddisk-image by entering the amount of MBytes and boot.

I tried Gentoo 2006 and ReactOS (a WinNT-Clone) and both work
perfectly and quiet fast besides Mac OS.

But right after installing the MacOS provided X11-package, I asked
myself, why I would need another OS.
I found no reason.
Virtual machines shutdown.
Mac OS is simply great.

I’m not missing a single application that I had used before on
win/linux, and thanks to Apples Xcode (IDE) I will write my own
application if I’ll feel that I would miss something.

Apple, Intel,
good job.

This weekend I spent some time playing with virtual machines on my
Intel-Mac.Due to the lack of virtualization support in the current Mac OS X
release, rumors say it might be introduced in the next major
release of Mac OS Leopard, the only way to run another operating
system simlutanously is by using a virtual machine emulation
software.
For example: QEMU or its Mac pendant Q

Q is optimized for speed on Mac hardware and already available as a
universal binary, which means that it will provide near native
performance for x86-architecture based operating systems like
Windows, or a linux distribution running beside Mac OS, e.g. Gentoo
Linux as it doesn’t need to translate all the
CPU operations to a foreign architecture.

Q makes everything amazingly easy. Just download a OS-system image
from http://free.oszoo.org or any usual installer-cd.iso, setup a
harddisk-image by entering the amount of MBytes and boot.

I tried Gentoo 2006 and ReactOS (a WinNT-Clone) and both work
perfectly and quiet fast besides Mac OS.

But right after installing the MacOS provided X11-package, I asked
myself, why I would need another OS.
I found no reason.
Virtual machines shutdown.
Mac OS is simply great.

I’m not missing a single application that I had used before on
win/linux, and thanks to Apples Xcode (IDE) I will write my own
application if I’ll feel that I would miss something.

Apple, Intel,
good job.

This weekend I spent some time playing with virtual machines on my
Intel-Mac.

Year after year I enviously watch he
development on Apple’s newest Mac creations, Mac OS X, iPod’s,
iMac’s, Mac mini and this year finally Apple decided to switch over
processor technology from PowerPC over to Intel CPU’s.The biggest showstopper for me was their high selling prices . But
with their new Intel Core chips which you can’t buy yet for the PC
market, and a relatively low price for a new revolutionary
technology assembled together in a tiny little box, I couldn’t any
longer resist buying a Mac mini.

Calculating together all the pieces, shows that the price is fair
enough to buy, and as usual for Apple you can count on reliable
prices for a long time period. So, if you buy later, it will cost
almost the same and you will miss the technology advantage.

Compared to other processors, the Intel Core definitely has it’s
place, especially compared to power consumption (31Watts).

So here’re some pictures of my new baby, the Mac mini Core
Duo:

A new mac fan.