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Why I finally dumped Internet Explorer
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Xeniczone ---
Yeh but see the problem with that is directx is a all in one so in programming you just need to know direct x. Open gl is the graphics core audio is the audio etc. but that isn't all in one so you need to know each indiviual thing.
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You really don't know what directx is, do you?
DirectX is a name for a collection of Microsoft's proprietary API's. A collection. That includes API's for sound (directsound) API's for 3d sound (directsound3d), APIs for game controllers (directinput, including the mouse and the keyboard), API's for 2D graphics (DirectDraw), and multiple API's for dealing with 3d video (Direct3D 3,4,6,7,8,9 and soon 10).
There's no "all in one" about it, except that they are all distributed together and they are all owned by Microsoft.
Knowing one of these API's (directinput, for example) doesn't mean you know another one (directsound, for example). Knowing Direct3D 6 certainly doesn't mean you know Direct3d 9, even though they come together in the same package!
There is nothing more difficult about using OpenGL in place of Direct3D and continuing to use Directinput and Directsound.
If Apple could make OpenGL proprietary, there would be nothing to prevent them from calling OpenGL + Core Audio + other crap something like iPlay.
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Lead Head ---I could have sworn that the older macs used a different signaling system with the AGP port or something, so x86 compatible cards couldnt work
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I believe the older Mac AGP cards needed a different video BIOS. I remember reading about how to flash 3dfx board's video BIOS so it would work on a Mac and that was the only difference between the Mac version and the PC version.
davidnix71:
If you are switching to Mac, get Lil'Snitch software firewall. You'll need it. OS X is chatty and some of the apps will call home unless you change the OS defaults. I use it to block Quicktime and Real Player, except when I specifically want to let them out.
Virtual PC with Win98SE or XP works fine for programs that don't involve sound or motion pictures. VPC 6 works on G4's but VPC 7 is necessary if you get a G5.
I have TMPGEnc Plus running under Virtual 98SE on my eMac to recode Windows media player files if necessary into something that will play in VLC. VLC will recode audio mp3's into mp4's if you need to drop and drag a movie with mp3 audio into Toast Titanium. Toast is a must. Version 6 can be had for less than $50. Don't waste your money ($100 extra) for the Jam license, unless you need it for legal reasons.
VLC media player, Wiretap (the free version) Firefox, Audacity, MPlayer, Hexedit and Hexedit Fat, iGetter download manager (not free), OpenOffice for Mac 2.0 (doesn't need a startup script anymore), SiteSucker, MacGimp, AbiWord, SnapNDrag (screen capture) are all very useful programs for OS X.
You won't miss IE or Windows.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Lars ---...Finally I got out p-explorer and found some POS dll running under iexplore.exe. It was a plug-in. Imagine my surprise. It turns out that one can mark plug-ins so that they won't display in the IE interface (as with most other plug-in venues: VB, Office, etc.)...
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Sounds like you were browsing the net as root.
Annorax:
I just committed the ultimate sin... and installed IE 6.0sp1 on Crossover Office. :( I'm so pissed... why do poker clients require fucking IE to work properly?
On a lighter note, that fixed my Partypoker problems from the other thread. Thankfully, IE doesn't know how to set itself as the Linux default browser.
Can someone PM me quickie instructions on making Opera set itself as Debian's/KDE's default browser? I'm getting a little angry about links from IMs opening in Konqueror when I've got a perfectly good Opera window already open.
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