September 2008 Desktops

Post by **mdogg** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:19 pm

It's the first of September for most users out there (second of September for me), so it's time to post the desktops!

Main Desktop (Intel iMac Core 2 Duo)

Main Laptop (PowerBook G4)

Main Windows Machine (Dell Inspiron 6400)

Edit: 800th post!

Post by **J.Byrne** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:32 am

Quick question, does anybody else use Windows Calendar, or am I the only one

Post by **Namronia** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:37 am

@jabster: i think you are the only one:P

here my desk:

Post by **happy dude** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:46 am

jabster I think you're the only one on here too that runs Vista on 512. Get RAM! >_<

Few things, 1) Got sick of desktop icons 2) No a/v installed as of yet, thats why the red X is there 3) Would be running vista but dotn have a graphics card that can do glass

Post by **J.Byrne** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:52 am

lol, Your going to be my monthly reminder to get more RAM, aren't you Happydude.
And all I have to say to that is this...

... It's not Vista

Post by **happy dude** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:58 am

I know. I was the one who told you to enable the theme service.

Post by **J.Byrne** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:02 am

Lol, that was a few installs ago, since then I've gone back to vista, then for server 03 for some reason, then (after a nasty spyware problem) back to srever 08.
After once again going back to an Xp era os, I can safley say I never will again.
It saddens me to see your using xp

Post by **Rob Jansen** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:25 am

A better screenshot with the windows expierence index of my pc.

Post by **Cross0210** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:55 am

my =)

Post by **happy dude** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:15 am

jabster wrote:Lol, that was a few installs ago, since then I've gone back to vista, then for server 03 for some reason, then (after a nasty spyware problem) back to srever 08.
After once again going back to an Xp era os, I can safley say I never will again.
It saddens me to see your using xp

Aero Basic = eww

Edit: just noticed smoething - mdogg should get more RAM!

Post by **J.Byrne** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:44 am

Actually, question for mdogg, what kind of memory usage does safari get on your Mac's, ive seen some pretty impressive leaks.
And Aero Basic's ewwness is nothing compared to luna, which look's like a Tonka Toy

Post by **Zorro** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:12 pm

There is my laptops desktop, sorry for bad quality

Post by **Andy** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:25 pm

Post by **constrictor** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:37 pm

Gotta virus so i dropped back to XP but i can't get all my stuff working again so i found Vista again and ill prolly go back to Vista soon.

Post by **mdogg** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:25 pm

happy dude wrote:Edit: just noticed smoething - mdogg should get more RAM!

Yep, we all don't have enough RAM around here.

jabster wrote:Actually, question for mdogg, what kind of memory usage does safari get on your Mac's, ive seen some pretty impressive leaks.

I don't often use Safari (as seen in one of my desktops I don't even have it in the Dock) but I can still tell you what kind of memory it uses:

While idling on the homepage (http://www.apple.com/startpage/): 25.4MB
While loading BetaArchive: 26.8MB
While watching YouTube videos: 52.1MB

I don't know what else I should test but if you have any requests I could try them out and see how it goes.

Post by **Hrimfaxi** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:44 am

one of my older laptops --

Post by **Bender** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:55 am

Hrimfaxi wrote:one of my older laptops --

Firefox 3 runs on Windows 98

Post by **merty** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:59 am

My Sempron

And HappyDude: I don't need more ram kthxbai.

Post by **happy dude** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:51 am

you put Vista on your sempr0n

Post by **Hrimfaxi** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:25 pm

Bender wrote:Firefox 3 runs on Windows 98

yes it does, but not officially

Post by **James** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:59 pm

Hrimfaxi wrote:
Bender wrote:Firefox 3 runs on Windows 98
yes it does, but not officially

Really? I thought 2.0.0.14 was the last version

Post by **hounsell** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:03 pm

WildEye001 wrote:
Hrimfaxi wrote:
Bender wrote:Firefox 3 runs on Windows 98
yes it does, but not officially
Really? I thought 2.0.0.14 was the last version

It is. Officially.
Fortunately, with open source software, any issues can be spotted and workarounds posted. If they are needed at all...

Post by **J.Byrne** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:55 am

Mdogg, thank's for those memory usage stat's, I've alway's been interested in Safari's memory usage. It's a great browser, but it'll eat up whatever memory you throw at it, when I had it running on my Pc, it used to eat up over 100mb of ram with 3 or 4 tabs open. From what I gather, this problem is the same on Mac's:
http://forums.macnn.com/82/applications ... ri-memory/
Some people have posted some pretty amazing memory usage in that thread, I bet if you opened a massive amount of tab's you would see the same sort of thing.

Post by **merty** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:40 am

Summer 2001 iMac

Sempron (Put back on XP because I need moar ram as happydude would say)

Post by **empireum** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:24 pm

Windows 2000 running in VMware ESXi. VMware ESXi running in VMware Workstation. VMware Workstation & VI Client running on Vista.