No you aren't spoiled. Your computer has just been suffering all along. It
is not free to express itself.
Running the screen saver as a background is pretty neat!
Here's another neato thing to show off.
You need mpg123 (console mpg player), and some mp3's. One will do, but more
is better.
>From a console (even a window): mpg123 -Z mp3/* &
(ie start playing mp3's in random order in the background)
Hit the up arrow, and do it again.
And again...
And again...
And again...
My Pentium 200 at home can play 5 at once without skipping a beat. On the
6th one, it starts getting a little chunky. I estimate my p3 at work can
play about 15 at once and still be fine. It sounds crazy listening to it,
but try that on windows!
Cory
-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Bolz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Showing off linux at work
The box I built a couple of weeks ago I finally brought to work. It was
really
great to show off what Linux could do. There was one person who I really
wanted to show it off too. She was very impressed. I had 6 screens virtual
desktops open and moved a window a window thru all of them just to show them
what Linux was capable of. I also had the screensaver running as the
background. If you haven't tried this out it's great. Pull up a terminal.
I
used pyro for an example. Type pyro -root , let window try and do that. I
should have picked a better screensaver tho. How about the matrix -root.
The only problem with the system had 32 megs of ram so it was sluggish but I
did have a lot of things open.
I think she's going to partiton her drive and install Linux. If she
started
using linux she'd be a real linux advocate.
At work today. I had to install a network card. Is windows a pain. Sure
it's
multitasking. I was installing it from cd but didn't know what directory
the
cd was this a pain. In linux I'd find out what module I'd use and insmod
or modprobe it. Is that easy. The more I use Linux the less I like using
windows. I guess I'm really spoiled now. I expect real multitasking now.
