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Sometimes I feel like taking my camera with me to work. And today was certainly a good day, as I was able to catch this as I left my shift at the airport.
Hopefully that was the only thing that crashed. :)
I submitted this photo to a computer magazine to see if they'll publish it. :)
Hopefully that was the only thing that crashed. :)
I submitted this photo to a computer magazine to see if they'll publish it. :)
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
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Oops...someone's program went outside of its bounds! Extra abuse-testing could have prevented that. Oh well, funny sight. I recall seeing things like this from time to time. This is not the worst offender though. They could have been running Vista and/or had 3 times as many icons in their system tray!
Kaa, are you a pilot? I've been wanting to get a pilot license but don't have a good enough job yet to support the expense.
Kaa, are you a pilot? I've been wanting to get a pilot license but don't have a good enough job yet to support the expense.
That screen is from XP, probably the Home variant if it isn't the Business or Pro variants... If I upgrade from 32-bit XP Home, it's only to 64-bit XP Pro, and I can hack together a small package that enables various DX10 features in XP... You can already do it in Crysis in under five minutes. No DX10 required, just the card.
~G. V.
~G. V.
Seriously, commenting about how Vista sucks on the submission of somebody who happily uses Vista himself. Who are trying to fool?
Fortunately for Vista users, it's totally possible to tell it take all that silly stuff it sometimes displays and auto-hide what you don't need.
Fortunately for Vista users, it's totally possible to tell it take all that silly stuff it sometimes displays and auto-hide what you don't need.
Where did I say Vista sucks? I think you meant to reply to someone other than me. All I said is that it could have been worse having Vista running there instead of XP. That screen is in a commercial high-demand environment where Vista is currently not reliable yet. I'm not running around saying how terrible Windows is like some of the other people commenting on this submission. It is my opinion that Vista has not matured enough yet on the commercial side of things. Home use is another story. Whoever setup the system displaying content to that screen appears to be unfamiliar with tweaking Windows installations too which further makes Vista inappropriate for such an important display.
No, I did mean to respond to your comment, I just didn't see the /or part the first time through (being after 3 AM and all). As such I read it as implying that it could be using Vista and (as a consequence of it being Vista) having 3 times as many tray icons. With the /or that's still a possible reading of it, but a bit less direct.
But yeah, having read it that way, I was (I hope) understandably cranky, because using Vista doesn't at all mean that you have to have a full tray... the only thing it really necessarily adds is an icon for the Sidebar, which is important if you have the Sidebar hidden, use desktop-dwelling gadgets, and close all of them (making it quite difficult to get Sidebar's attention to re-add gadgets and such).
For something as simple and straightforward as displaying an app which shows arrival times (which, let's face it, could just be a local webpage which gets its info from a local database, and refreshes every 10 seconds or so), I'd actually think that Vista wouldn't prove to be too unreliable... my only issues with it have been when doing tons of complex apps and 3D games and the like. But obviously, as this demonstrates, even "tried and tested" XP is able to f*ck up something that simple. Then again, as we also noticed, the fact that MSN is in the tray shows that the person who's responsible for maintaining these systems clearly doesn't put much effort into them >_>
It's appalling how many times I see large displays showing Windows errors every week, but I can at least take comfort in the fact that they almost always are Windows 95-based systems, which immediately destroys the credibility of the people who are supposed to be maintaining the setups, as surely as the tray does in this case.
But yeah, having read it that way, I was (I hope) understandably cranky, because using Vista doesn't at all mean that you have to have a full tray... the only thing it really necessarily adds is an icon for the Sidebar, which is important if you have the Sidebar hidden, use desktop-dwelling gadgets, and close all of them (making it quite difficult to get Sidebar's attention to re-add gadgets and such).
For something as simple and straightforward as displaying an app which shows arrival times (which, let's face it, could just be a local webpage which gets its info from a local database, and refreshes every 10 seconds or so), I'd actually think that Vista wouldn't prove to be too unreliable... my only issues with it have been when doing tons of complex apps and 3D games and the like. But obviously, as this demonstrates, even "tried and tested" XP is able to f*ck up something that simple. Then again, as we also noticed, the fact that MSN is in the tray shows that the person who's responsible for maintaining these systems clearly doesn't put much effort into them >_>
It's appalling how many times I see large displays showing Windows errors every week, but I can at least take comfort in the fact that they almost always are Windows 95-based systems, which immediately destroys the credibility of the people who are supposed to be maintaining the setups, as surely as the tray does in this case.
I can agree with all that. =) But just one quick clarification. It doesn't matter which version of Windows is being used when it comes to having too many tray icons. Most of the time I see XP systems with tons of tray icons and "speed launch" things sitting there eating up resources when they don't help enough to warrant being loaded. I recall a time at my university where I saw Vongo pop up on the information screens around campus because it had problems connecting to its company's servers. They'd close it and it'd just pop right back up again after a minute. I literally stared in horror because for the amount of money college costs they should at least have IT people that can tweak/optimize a computer to get rid of things that are totally unrelated to what the computer is there to do. This all was never in any way supposed to apply to the Sidebar in Vista.
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