My Website

After scrambling all last night and this morning looking for the HTML files that I hadn't touched in two years. I finally got up the (what I'm calling) Release Candidate 1 of my websites redesign. I'm calling it LCARS 1.6. Because I spent 0.1-0.9 developing as a desktop background, 1.0 for the first Active Desktop for Windows and a spin off for the web, and then through 1.5 trying to beautify the site (but it ended up breaking everything I had achieved.). So without further ado, my latest efforts to make a beautiful website without the use of CSS, Flash, or Java. Visit my website.

I have my own website

Hey, I just had a thought, I do have an old website I found on one of those free website hosts, I'll dust it off give it a fresh coat of HTML (but no CSS, because I'm to lazy to learn how to do it, and besides I want to show what you can do with static HTML). It's at http://www.freewebs.com/startrekstarfleet/ Maybe I'll get around to putting up the nfew UI. It does look pretty but, it's not finished yet. That's all for now

New Revision3 site is up

Title says it all. Sorry I had to link to this for all you people on Digg, but Revision3 is on the blocked URL list (shrugs).

http://www.revision3.com

3D UI

Hi! Sorry my Linux drive has decided that it didn't want to boot, so I've been trying but to no avail. Also the nation (I'm in the US) has had record heat and blackouts so, I've had a tad bit of a trouble with the heat (the strawberries are melting, and I have no air conditioning!).

I'll write again some time later about this subject.

What happened to Pentium?

Today while I was looking at the new Core 2 Duo promises I thought: What happened to the Pentium? From what I remember back when Pentium 3 was brand new, that was it. Period end of sentence. Yes you could get different versions of the Pentium 3, but there was no Centrino, there was no Celeron, there was no D. But then Pentium 4 came around and that was it for a little while. Then you heard about Intel Celeron and Celeron D. Then there was Pentium M. I myself was not that big into the whole computer Biz. yet. So I thought that Intel was trying to make all these things, and I predicted that they would flop. But here we are and there they still are.

Celeron goes into your Lower-Middle class computer and Celeron D went into the low class computer. Then Centrino went into the laptops along with Pentium M. You hardly ever heard anything of Pentium 4, until HT came around.

Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading is basically a mock dual core. Hypothetically 2 or more programs could run through the same processor without any slowdown in speed. You cfould be browsing the web and running a Virus scan and you wouldn't notice any performance problem. However I could never find this revolutionary technology in any of the Mid-class computers. I could find it only in the high-end computers.

Then came this Core Duo. Along with a new logo for everything, and a new sound for the new thing (I thought the sound had an extra instrument in there, the whole dual-core dual-instrument thing was appealing). Then Centrino was Centrino Duo. I haven't hardly seen any implementation of the Centrino Duo, but the Core Duo is everywhere even in notebooks.

Now there is this new thing called Core 2 Duo. Supposedly it is 64-bit. to this I say FINALLY!! It's about time AMD had a real competitor. They have had Dual-Core for a long time, they have had 64-bit a long time, I have both of these and I laughed at Intel for being a stick in the mud. But now not even a year after the announcement of Core Duo, now there is Core 2 Duo. And maybe even quad core (in the Mac case).

But back to my original question: What happened to Pentium? I wanted Intel to stay with the Pentium name I would have liked to have seen the Blue Men Group make a 5 into an instrument.

But that is my rant for now.

3D UI Part 2: Mac OS X (10.4.x)

Ok, today may be a little short because my power company is "rolling the blackouts" (and transformers are exploding like popcorn in a microwave, but THAT'S definitely not the reason fo rthe blackouts).

Today is about the Mac and its glorious 3Dness. I don't have any actual screenshots because well, I don't have a Mac. Mac's are (as anybody who has internet access has found out by now) made by Apple Computer Company (or Corp. I don't really keep track). I have a rant that doesn't pertain to this, and I might tell you it next week.

First, it isn't really even a 3D desktop, but if you go by that definition Vista isn't 3D either.

But Mac has a little feature called Exposè (I'm sophisitacted because I have the little accent above the e :) ). It nicely arranges every window in a visible manner. I like that, It is much more usable than the Alt-Tab of normal Windows, I have to say it also tops the Vista Windows-Tab.

It also has a cubeish thing. Albeit this is how it switches users I know if I didn't include this I would get some kind of comment about it.

I personally think the Mac is all eye-candy. And that is why hardly anyone writes viruses for it.

Come back tomorrow to see Linux, and specifically XGL/Compiz.

3D UI Part 1: Windows Vista

Hello everyone out there on the interweb. I promised 3D interfaces and I said this would be up yesterweek.
I am very sorry that this didn't get out yesterweek.

Windows Vista, the next in the Windows series of OS's. Currently in Beta 2, I got a copy of it. First up: transparencies.

Transparencies ala Glass. Glass is a theme in Vista (kind of like the XP themes). Here have a screenshot of glass



I just have to show you this, it's how the windows minimize:



And finally the new Vista Windows-Tab feature:


However the minimum requirements for Vista are heavy. If you bought a computer within the last two years you should be safe. But since Windows is now rendering your desktop every time you turn on your computer that is understandable.

Up next OS X (Tiger)

3D User Interfaces

Ok, I've promised some kind of saga of stories for this week so I have decided to go with what is coming up in the future. And it is 3D interfaces. I will go over Vista, OS X, and all kinds of cool User Interfaces.

First up is Windows Vista. See ya'll again tomorrow.