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AMD Bulldozer

Forum thread started by DFergATL on Mon, 2012-01-02 03:45

ok, so here is a question I have about AMD Bulldozer in general. I have heard (Tekzilla) and read (I can't remember where) that performance with Bulldozer was poor, overall. AMD came out defending Bulldozer saying that windows 7 was not yet optimized for their new design. Recently, I have heard, and read, that tests with recent builds of Win 8 would seem to hold this to be true as performance on the same hardware under Win 8 was better then under Win 7. I was just wanting to know what AMD did with this new design of theirs that would cause this?

Haiku way to do a document based file format

Forum thread started by kidd106 on Sat, 2011-12-10 03:43

I was comparing the file format of Open office writer and abiword. I made a simple text document document of each to compare. I know Abiword is lightweight, but surprisingly the output file of open office was slightly smaller.

If you look into the open office content file, you see that it lists all the paragraph types and then the document content. In abiword, it lists the paragraph types at the same time as the content, more like HTML.

As the Haiku community is all about efficiency, if the Haiku community created its own document editor, what would be the Haiku way to do a file format?

FA: BeBox dual 133MHz Computer System

Forum thread started by macsociety on Tue, 2011-10-25 00:16

Selling my BeBox and figured a Haiku owner may be interested. 8-)

BeBox are rare, only about 800 dual 133MHz models sold to my knowledge, so hardly ever come up for sale.

Here is the link.

http://tinyurl.com/43e5f6x

TJ

Strange information on Wikipedia!

Forum thread started by Premislaus on Tue, 2011-10-18 17:12

On October 6, 2011, several core developers left the project in protest over the project management style, leaving the future of the operating system uncertain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiku_%28operating_system%29

http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2010-10-06_mgmt_news - And the link to the source does not exist!

WTF?

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/580/fireshotcapture239.png/

Living inside VirtualBox

Forum thread started by ribbonz on Wed, 2011-09-14 21:55

interesting read here:
http://i5m.co.uk/code/2011/09/11/It-wasnt-meant-to-be-this-way.html

A guy who is not necessarily a big Windows fan discovers that he is using Windows every day of the week -- but it's not so bad because he's living inside VirtualBox (running Fedora 15).

Interesting how well virtualization can work these days. He even showed interest in Haiku, but it just wasn't usable enough. Haiku in VirtualBox is something of a pain w/o shared folders, etc. (my own observation). But the new guest additions should make this much more friendly.

Incidentally, the link at the bottom (about his notes on using VirtualBox) won't display properly in Web+ (sigh). Bezilla will display it correctly.

Windows 8 Ribbon for Explorer

Forum thread started by ribbonz on Mon, 2011-09-12 13:58

another MS vid, this one for Explorer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWq4ocpd39k

I have to admit, this actually looks pretty good to me.

Now about the ribbon -- which replaces the Menubar and Toolbar in apps -- I was not familiar with this interface element. And it seems to be a bit controversial, as some people really don't like it. But just looking at some vids, it looks pretty usable and handy to me. Again, this isn't from real usage, so there might be some issues I haven't dealt with -- but just looking at the presentation videos, I like what I see.

Here's a video where someone defends the ribbon (a little too strongly, IMO). But I can see his point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4C1aSiazDs

Windows 8 desktop UI

Forum thread started by ribbonz on Sun, 2011-09-11 15:29

another MS vid -- introducing Windows 8 new desktop UI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I

Wow. That is terrible.

I guess people who stare at their cell phone all day long will like this. I hate it.

If I get stuck with a Windows 8 machine at some point in the future, I hope that there's an option to use a "classic" UI and not this dumbed-down "playskool" interface.

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