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alex_charlton

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Jan 29, 2007 01:15

While this news is now two weeks old, I figured I post on it since raistlinette won't let me go to bed without posting somethingHaving days ago found myself rather fascinated with small, embeddable type motherboards - notably the Mini-ITX form-factor created by Via - I was pleasantly surprised to find that Via will be releasing a new even smaller form-factor ( Read more... )

motherboards, pico-itx, archy, guis

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philjones January 29 2007, 17:02:54 UTC

A lot of those ideas are stupendous. A lot of them get rid of things I need in a system. And a lot of the ideas are entirely scary and fascist. Government regimented OS specifications ( ... )

philjones January 29 2007, 17:04:32 UTC

Have you tried it yet?

raistlinette January 29 2007, 19:11:45 UTC

I agree with Phil on the needing folders and the "A giant screen with just tiny blocks of text would be so ugly and stupid and aggravating to look at", but maybe not so much with the "stupid" but just sub in "boring".

You sort of know this so I'm mostly just commenting to say that I thought guns was an entry in your tags list.

GUNS!

alex_charlton January 29 2007, 21:37:45 UTC

I have not tried Archy yet. I plan to as soon as regain use my own computer.

I don't know how much I like the idea of a ZUI. Having tried a rough mock-up, I didn't really get the feeling of it being terribly efficient. I can see search strings as being faster in any situation. Also, if your documents are labeled properly, I don't know if there would be a huge need for grouping, since the content should be able to have enough similarities for a group of files to be associated by search strings ( ... )

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