Finally, a use for my graphics card
When I bought my graphics card, I was motivated by the mistaken belief that I would have time to play video games. "Fantasy" doesn't even begin to describe it; "delusion" would probably be more accurate. Since then, I have been thoroughly disabused of my delusions of free time.
So, I have an aging but very nice Radeon 9200 card in my workstation machine. Something like 95% of the circuitry on a modern graphics card is dedicated to 3D graphics, where on my computer, it has been doing absolutely nothing. That is, until Pete introduced me to the Beryl Project. Wobbly windows! Rotating desktop cubes! Real-time alpha blending! Crazy window transformations!
I guess I'll never have time to play games. I don't feel so sad about that anymore; I can have almost as much fun watching my terminal windows undulate across my desktop like drunken sea creatures.
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