Tech Society 2.0

Original post by secretmessages

I needed to use Microsoft Office :hand:

Office for Mac? :holmes:

I won't suggest iWork. Think there's a reason Apple haven't released a new version in 2.5 years? :p:

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Original post by Dez

Office for Mac? :holmes:

I won't suggest iWork. Think there's a reason Apple haven't released a new version in 2.5 years? :p:

How expensive is it? I don't want to pay for things :hand:

But I have a fully functional version of Office 2010 with seemless integration :sexface:

so that'll do for now.

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Original post by secretmessages

How expensive is it? I don't want to pay for things :hand:

But I have a fully functional version of Office 2010 with seemless integration :sexface:

so that'll do for now.

Pay for things? Knickers to that. :p:

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Original post by Dez

Pay for things? Knickers to that. :p:

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Thanks

Have you used it/know what compatibility etc is like?

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Original post by secretmessages

Thanks

Have you used it/know what compatibility etc is like?

Only major thing it's missing is VBA, apart from that it runs fine.

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Chrosson

Original post by Dez

So it turns out my monitor hates running a PC via HDMI. Looks absolutely terrible. Unfortunately, this means I have to use VGA. :frown:

~~I've always wondered, is there meant to be a visible difference between VGA and HDMI (because I can't see one)? Or is it the other features (like the audio) that you're wanting?~~
Edit: meant VGA and DVI, not a big follower of the AV side of tech :colondollar:

Original post by secretmessages

I'm still virtualising it though, I'd expected it to be slower tbh :dontknow:

You get a CPU that is literally 6x more powerful (going by passmark benchmarks) and you expect it to be slower!?
:rofl:

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I don't suppose there's anybody here with Lion running the latest build of Geektool?

Original post by Chrosson

I've always wondered, is there meant to be a visible difference between VGA and HDMI (because I can't see one)? Or is it the other features (like the audio) that you're wanting?

I can only speak for use with an XBox 360, but the difference between the two is night and day for me. I assume it's similar with PCs too.

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Original post by Dez

Only major thing it's missing is VBA, apart from that it runs fine.

Original post by Chrosson

You get a CPU that is literally 9x more powerful (going by passmark benchmarks) and you expect it to be slower!?
:rofl:

Is it really 9x more powerful? :sexface:

Anyway but yeah okay, quit laughing, it's not that stupid to expect virtualisation to be a hell of a lot slower than running an OS natively.

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Chrosson

Original post by secretmessages

Is it really 9x more powerful? :sexface:

Anyway but yeah okay, quit laughing, it's not that stupid to expect virtualisation to be a hell of a lot slower than running an OS natively.

****, brain died for a few minutes. 6x, see edit.

From an earlier post where you gave your exact spec, your old CPU had a passmark score of 1565. Your new one has a score of 8927. So pretty much 6x, yes.
I suppose you can be forgiven if you haven't used virtualisation for a while, I remember it used to be pretty horrendous.
This was for various reasons, one of which being the OS consumed a significantly higher proportion of resources back then (as opposed to it being applications now) so virtualising an OS would be akin to running two copies of crysis (or whatever people use these days) on full settings on the same machine.
Hardware acceleration is also no small factor.

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Chrosson

Oops, meant DVI (see edit), but they seem similar enough to each other for the question to remain relevant (?)
Says something depressing about my eyes really.

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ch0llima

What a disaster the UK Cyber Security Challenge has turned out to be. Glad it didn't cost anything and I have the requisite experience from my MSc to make up for it :pierre:

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Original post by Chrosson

That's still very good. I've used virtualisation recently, on my old desktop, I was virtualising Windows 7 on Ubuntu and that was dreadful, and it slowed down the host OS as well so I was probably just basing it on that. Annoyingly though I can't seem to get good graphics/video card support on my virtualised Windows at the moment :hmmmm:

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Original post by Chrosson

VGA gets a bit ghosty at high resolutions, but provided you use a decent enough cable, even that can be overcome. Unfortunately my screen treats HDMI as a video input rather than a PC input, so it goes into TV mode (looks great for movies, **** for desktops). Not useful really. :frown:

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Switching between Mac and PC keyboards is so confusing :nooo:

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Tathrim

Original post by Dez

Surely your screen should have a 'native' resolution for it. I've got the same problem with my TV/monitor I'm using (the reason why I'm considering the Dell U2311). I use HDMI at the VGA native resolution because my TV has a HDMI port, and a mini-HDMI to HDMI (GFX card is a 560 Ti) wasn't that expensive.

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Original post by secretmessages

I'm having a morning of epic procrastination trying to avoid getting ready for uni. On the plus side, my desktop is now very funky;

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Original post by secretmessages

Switching between Mac and PC keyboards is so confusing :nooo:

Haha it gets easier after a few weeks =P If you're using inverted scrolling in Lion, wait until you try using a Windows computer after a few weeks, now that's confusing XD

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Ooh. What program do you use to get the date/now playing on your desktop?

Haha it gets easier after a few weeks =P If you're using inverted scrolling in Lion, wait until you try using a Windows computer after a few weeks, now that's confusing XD

I hope so

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Original post by secretmessages

Ooh. What program do you use to get the date/now playing on your desktop?

:teehee:

I hope so

It's called GeekTool, you can do all sorts with it (:
Download link (Lion)
Download link (Snow Leopard)
Tutorial
Script directory

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Thanks, I'll look into it :awesome:

Is it completely safe or is it the kind of thing that could be exploited by malicious people? (I'm completely new to OS X).

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