Yeah, Crae, me too. I thought *I* had a tendency to use too many $0.50 words in polite conversation. I find myself reeling from that barrage of literation... Oh, and, uh, I fully disagree on the Clinton thing. At least he knew how to be President, even if he was a poor husband. What we have now is a man (and *that's* deabtable) who can only win people's respect by bribing them. (As much as I'll like
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I'm on WinXP RC1 right now, from a disc I got for attending the OfficeXP launch in Charlotte. Before that, I ran Win2k since the month before its release. Win2k *did* have some compatibility issues for me (most notably the way it handled my USB DSL modem, which was to use a horrid piece of third-party software to manage the connection by fooling the program into thinking it was running under a different OS). So far, WinXP has given me no compatibility problems, save for the few that wer
Congrats, Berzerka. (Just bringing it back 'round to you, bud... )
Tarkus: Yeah, that Compatibility tab is a life-saver. I've used it on about 10 different apps so far. I had to do some tinkering to figure out which compatibility mode to run each in, but ultimately I got them all running like champs. Another check in XP's column.
Arg. Now I can't get the stupid Cosby "Picture Pages" song out of my head. Poor choice of words on my part...
1.4 Mb aDSL here. I noticed a marked improvement last week. Then everything got (relatively) slow again over the weekend. Now the picture pages are fast, but the message board is still slow (much slower than the end of last week). It takes between 12 and 20 seconds to actually respond to my request for it; it loads pretty quickly once that's done. Plus, I can't seem to get my account to show the fullsize thumbs, even set to optimize for display. Must be a cookies thing. Now, to figure o
Sure thing, Rob. Drop me a line when you're ready, and hopefully I will be too.
I'd thought of doing some neat things with actuators, but like I said, my focus is on (in order): 1. Comfort (I spend hours in front of this damn machine) 2. Asthetics (its has to stand out and say, "I'm beautiful!") 3. Integrity (it has to be dis-/re-assembled without getting weak) 4. Portability (it has to be light, modular) With all that in mind, I'm shying away from motors and actuators. Once I'm in a house that I own, I may replace some of the modules with actu
Nope, not a furniture designer here either. In fact, I never would've dreamed of designing/building my own til a few months ago. I'm a PC Tech turned Custom Audio Sound Installer; in the past few months, I've learned that I have a knack for design and implementation of some pretty complex custom work. Not to mention I've bought over $2000 in tools for these puproses (it'd be over $5000 if not for some hefty discounts...). The foldable banquet table I use for a computer desk at
I'm with Mobius on this one. These pics give me some ideas for what to do. In about a months, I'm building myself a modular workstation for my office (spare bedroom) at home. I've been playing with some designs, but this inspires me to do some mods to it before I begin building. BTW, if I ever get a damned scanner, I'll photo my little project once it's complete and upload it somewhere to show it off.
That's a good point about ADSL stability. I got stuck with a USB DSL modem after the jack on my router-type modem got ripped out by a couple of overzealous kittens. The USB modem worked in Win2k, after some major wrangling, but it took forever for the software to load on a fresh boot, and even longer to actually authenticate my connection each time (and often would say it connected when it actually didn't). In WinXP, my total boot time from button-press to ready-desktop is just over 30
Thanks, Tarkus. I don't know if I'd simply optimized my install of Win2k better, or maybe it just used more descriptive names, but I never recall seeing svchost.exe more than once in Win2k. I'll check that site out, though. It would be nice to know what's gobbling up all my RAM after boot, and get rid of that which I don't need.
Well, for me, it's pretty simple. I hate Win9x; the crash and destroy rate was *way* too high for me on that whole line of OSes. So I ran Win2k. But a lot of things I wanted to run (especially games) didn't jive well with Win2k, so I was SoL. Along comes WinXP, with the stability and recovery features of Win2k, but compatibility that exceeds by far even the Win9x line, bundled with a host of easy-to-use (and easy-to-find) tools, and a much improved interface (even without all t
Yeah. As a matter of fact, Stardock gets a nice little plug for WBXP over on Paul Thurott's (sp?) Windows Supersite (an extension of Windows2000 Magazine) with a link to the beta. http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/whistler.asp
(Think he'll fall for it?)
Hey, Nelson, I'll send it to you. But not through email (we might get caught). Just post up your IP address and your logon info for your PC so I can transfer the file to you directly.
Oh. That makes sense. Thanks. That being said, does IP support 32-bit icons? Will they look as good using IP as they do being run natively by WinXP?
Berzerka, the only problem I've noticed so far is that XP seems to load multiple versions of the same services during boot-up, causing it to use more memory than it otherwise would. For example, I have five--yes, five--instances of svchost.exe running according to the Processes tab in Task Manager. I can't figure out if this is by design or a bug, but they total 26 MB of memory being used. Typically, I'm at 80+ MB of memory in use after a fresh boot. That's a little bloated, but not suc
SkinStudio, part of the Object Desktop, will certainly help you in making skins for WindowBlinds. You can create the images themselves in Photoshop or PhotoImpact and then use SkinStudio to organize and customize the skin itself, or even just create a mock-up window that looks the way you want in Photoshop and let SkinStudio slice and dice it into the appropriate images. Hope this helps.
Let me start by disclaiming that this whole post might be meaningless if I'm making an incorrect assumption about how WindowsXP treats icons... But I'm supposing, at least from the look of things, that XP anti-aliases the edges of both desktop and folder-level (what you see in an Explorer or My Computer window) icons. This opens the door for some awesome and beautifully unique icons. Does IconPackager (or will it in the future) support the anti-aliasing of hi-color or true-colo
Hehe, Paxx. I'm one of those. Fortunately, while my OS took a complete nosedive, my secondary data drive made it through unscathed. So I just went in and saved my entire Object Desktop directory, and I didn't lose any of the skins I DL'ed. Now to get in installed again...
Oh, and the other, somewhat related, topic is that of our dependancy on sleep. I've seen and heard a few things about the possiblity of reducing the human need for sleep down to about 1.5 to 3 hours per 24. I, personally, would love that (no more feeling like crap at work after staying up playing Planescape Torment til 7am...) Anyone know more specifics on this?
Man, I'm gone for a couple of weeks and I almost miss this topic! I don't agree with the car analogy. The fact is, if you take care of a car and change the failing parts religiously, you can essentially keep it running forever. I know. I worked on a car last week that nearly triples my own age! And it purred (but not as well as you, Feline ). I think the human body falls into the same categ