osirix VS reactos

OsirisX for reading and manipulating the DICOM images

This looks like a 3D reconstruction of a CT image, so it can be colored however the authors want it to be colored. CT imaging in and of itself involves shooting x-rays at the subject being imaged and (essentially) measuring what comes out the other side. As such, CT results (as far as I know) don't have colors 'baked into them'; the information in each pixel is an intensity value that ranges from 0 (no x-rays made it through) to 1 (the detector is saturated with x-rays; 255 may be more realistic than 1 here because 255 is the max number that can be stored in an 8-bit byte). So basically what I think the authors did here is acquire the CT image and then use a medical image viewer like OsiriX to generate a 3D reconstruction of that image. Once such a reconstruction is made, changing colors in it is as simple as changing colors in any other 3D editing software. So in my opinion, the novel/interesting thing here is the thing being imaged, not the image itself (although I will say it's interesting that they were able to isolate JUST the cocaine packets and the bone, with all other soft tissue and organs removed)

You can view the images with https://www.osirix-viewer.com but I would take that disc and see a number of physicians (orthopedic, neuro, physiatry) and ask them for their opinion and to please explain what they see. They should pull the images up and evaluate the spine axially and sagittally (top-down, left-to-right), level by level and point out features to you: discs, exiting nerve roots, etc. It'll become pretty obvious if there's a pattern: stenosis, arthritis, overgrown ligament, etc... Also ask them what they think is appropriate for treatment.

I used https://www.osirix-viewer.com/ and could see the MRI easily. I used this CD reader https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PV958PN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

OsiriX viewer. I got it to view my before/after CT scans to see exactly what happened in surgery. It's pretty wild being able to see inside yourself.

The site: https://www.osirix-viewer.com

The repo: https://github.com/pixmeo/osirix

https://reactos.org/ implement some of the windows API

You can use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/

To modify the ISO to turn off hardware check and TPM support for Windows 11 to install it on an unsupported PC.

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#user-content-Help_...

Besides Linux and BSD Unix there is: https://reactos.org/ https://aros.sourceforge.io/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/

I know some third-world nations still use DOS and the BORLAND DOS compilers because people donate old computers to their nations.

With the right OS, old computers are still usable. Please don't throw them away, e-cycle them so they get used by poor nations that cannot afford new PCs.

ReactOS is sometimes very disappointing. Take the issue with toolbar icons, for example. Toolbar icons in at least Office 97, Office 2000 and Visual Basic 6 were affected, as was some game [0]. Microsoft Office is a complex Win32 application, making it a good guinea pig for testing compatibility. And yet, this was fixed a few months ago, and the Office bug was reported in 2016 [1]. The bug with no text wrapping for tray balloons is also an embarrassing thing to have lingering for years (I assume it was like this since the balloons were first implemented in ReactOS).

Does the world really need a buggy Windows Server 2003 reimplementation? I think the efforts of the development team could be better spent elsewhere.

[0]: https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/5227

[1]: https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-12377

Anyone tried ReactOS recently? Supposed to be a clean-room FOSS Windows NT compatible OS.

https://reactos.org/

It's still on my TODO. Mostly cause my parents want XP back.

> It's whitespace. There's wayyyy too much god damn whitespace in modern UIs, and it's awful.

I wanted to see how LibreOffice would compare on my netbook, and frankly it's better than the new Word, but still "worse" than the old version: https://i.imgur.com/cWGYh3M.png

That said, at least LibreOffice lets you have your custom themes and actually offers a variety of different interface layouts, which I think is a nice touch: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Videos/User_interface

> Windows 7 with the Classic theme (which really was just a slight evolution over Win2K) was peak UI/UX, and you'll never change my mind. It's been downhill ever since, getting worse and worse with each generation.

To be honest, I'm inclined to agree with this. That's also why I rather enjoyed the Redmond theme even in *nix distros. There's just something so very usable about the old Windows look and more modern attempts, such as SerenityOS https://serenityos.org/ and even ReactOS https://reactos.org/