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    What is the practicallity of X11?

    yeah, that's what I said until someone actually did it.
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    What is the practicallity of X11?

    I don't think you want to deal with that. You'll have to install wine and I've only heard of a few poeple that got it to work under OS X (yes it work even if it is not meant for PowerPC). If you have another computer (a PC) you can install Linux on it and run wine from it and have X11 show it...
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    Aqua theme for aqua-wm?

    I was wondering if there is anyway of making X11 look more like Aqua. Will I have to add a aquafied theme to GTK+, and QT for apps that use those libraries? has anyone tried this?
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    What is the practicallity of X11?

    for the average Joe it's probably useless unless you have another box running Linux or some *BSD or want to mess with apps that fink has. I simply use it to ssh forward X11 apps from my Linux box such as anjuta, evolution, and so on (you can run other things such as Maya and Kylix). It's quite...
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    Apple orders 40,000 970s

    hrmmm... but what really divides the line between a workstation and a desktop? I see the high-end Power Macs as workstation plus I used to use a Solaris box as my main desktop. And now that AMD has the Opteron out they have been popping out here and there for desktop use. My point is...
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    Apple orders 40,000 970s

    Even though I am looking forward to this new chip I don't think Apple can claim to have the first 64bit desktop. Ever heard of Compaq/True64 , Sun/Solaris , and Sgi/Irix?
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    Watching tv over wireless lan

    just incase you haven't found the link for videolan here it is: http://www.videolan.org/ It's opensource software (yes, it's free and very nice). So all you need is hardware to do the work.
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    Watching tv over wireless lan

    You might want to look into VideoLan. It has clients for pretty much most OSs and also a server/deamon for Linux that supports streaming all kinds of media across LAN including TV-tuner output. It saids you can stream DVD if you have atleast 6Mbs so a wireless lan should be enough for TV. If...
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