1st Social Network Royal Wedding

After finally getting the day off from my reluctant boss, I said I was not going to watch the Royal Wedding. But as time was drawing on and my time line on Twitter had gone in to melt down. With tweets commenting and criticising, I could not stop myself switching on the TV. Yes I was away, watching and tweeting. This is what social network is made for, the whole of society getting involve in a way we have never seen before and wasn't it great.

It all started with the comments about Tara P T hat and I couldn't resist saying she looked like a rhino. From then on I didn't really need the sound on the TV, Twitter was all I needed.

I was watching all the small things that you think that no one else will spot, like Charlie walking into the Abbey, removing his gloves, wiping his nose and then shaking the first persons hand he meets. Within seconds there were tweets saying the same and how rude. This just goes to show that we are all looking for the perfect people not to be so perfect.

I have learnt one thing about this, don't tell anyone your getting married and if you do tell anyone don't invite the worlds press.

Bring on the next one. Haha

Colinh

KDE 4.6.1 & Windows 7 Desktops

It is not really fair to compare the two desktops in the same way as the MS desktop is embedded into the OS, where as KDE runs as a program on top of the OS. But then saying that the end user only can see a functional desktop whichever they use. For years the basic desktop has run the same, a background with icons and a task bar. This has not really changed. KDE did start the KDE 4 project without a task bar, which could be broken down into many parts and placed on the screen anywhere. I don't believe this was to successful as the default desktop starts with a task bar again. Here is a quick run through the desktop and how similar they are becoming.

I have used the same wallpaper on these shots just so it makes it easier to see the differences. Both desktops have Gadgets/Plasmoids, both have similar icons and both have a task bar with the new look white icons in the system tray (see below).

One small difference I can tell you about is that MS defaults with a single desktop in which you can run multiple programs. On a KDE desktop it will run multiple desktops in which multiple programs can be run in each. Then it also has the ability to run multiple environments in the same login at the same time, which will also run multiple desktops etc.

Here are a few screen shots of both Windows 7 and KDE 4.6 running with the same programs on the screen.

Both desktops support all the fancy effects you come to expect from a modern system and at the end of the day it is down to the user which they prefer. This is slightly biased by larger companies only writing software for Windows and not always supporting other OS's such as Linux.

Colin H