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to: Geo.
from: John Beamish
date: 2007-02-26 08:10:36
subject: Re: OS eye candy

From: "John Beamish" 

Since the equipment comment was a reply by the original poster to someone
else's comment, the original poster is clearly watching to see what
comments appear.  Maybe you could ask.

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:59:04 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> Got to be more to it than that, my work machine is Core 2 Duo 3ghz with
> 2 gig ram and like I said 20 seconds to open open office.
>
> Geo.
>
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.tobr2vc3m6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
> It's in the comments:
>
> Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz) with 1GB ram. ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card.
> Although my old machine could run XGL perfectly, it was an AMD Athlon XP
> 1700+ (1.4ghz). Its really the graphics card that matters.
>
>
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:05:56 -0500, Geo.  wrote:
>
>> What are they running it on, Open Office opened in like 4 seconds, on
>> my fastest machine it takes 20.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
>> news:op.tn9kmcyym6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> I'm sure this is available with the right sw config on other OSs.  This
>> is
>> Ubuntu, XGL and Kibadock.  Nice eyecandy.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYsxaMyFV2Y
>>
>> After 2:00 it's pretty "samey" except for 3:00 (for 15
secs or so), 3:40
>> (for 10 secs), 4:20 (for 20-25secs), 5:10 (for 20 secs).
>>
>> Nice techno music background, too.
>

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