{"id":16,"date":"2005-08-12T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/?p=16"},"modified":"2006-09-06T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T21:52:17","slug":"vista-and-winfx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/2005\/08\/12\/16\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista and WinFX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I got a spare machine recently, so I tried to install Longhorn beta 1 (now called Windows Vista). Same as old beta versions of Windows, installation is painfully slow. It&#8217;s a Dell GX280 with 3GHz CPU and 1GB RAM, but I only partition 10GB hard drive for it. Vista took a whooping 7 something GB after installation, so I kind of doubt if the slowness comes from not having enough swap space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then I install the WinFX SDK and see how the Avalon samples work. Well, they work with some glitches. I can feel the ATI X300&#8217;s 3D accelleration is now used (thanks to ATI LDDM driver). But, it&#8217;s not smooth enough. You can see flickering everywhere. Move window around? Flickering. Adjusting column width in ListView control? Flickering. Play the WinFX 3D demo? Flickering. I tend to blame that it&#8217;s driver&#8217;s fault.<\/p>\n<p>Vista&#8217;s new look reminds me the good old Enlightment in GNome though. LOL. However, we should give the engineers some whitles and cheers because it&#8217;s damn right to have a better looking desktop, period.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a spare machine recently, so I tried to install Longhorn beta 1 (now called Windows Vista). Same as old beta versions of Windows, installation is painfully slow. It&#8217;s a Dell GX280 with 3GHz CPU and 1GB RAM, but I only partition 10GB hard drive for it. Vista took a whooping 7 something GB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}