nyquildotorg
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@ I'm oldschool, I guess. Can't live without sloppy focus. (Don't like windows raising, tho.)
44 minutes ago
from Swift
in reply to tweakt
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@ fancy new HP Pavillion with 8gigs of ram and quad-core something something.
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to discorobot
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@ thanks a ton. I was resigned to crappy AdSweep, but AdBlock makes Chrome perfect.
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to alanstevens
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@ at this point, all I miss is Compiz's wobbly windows. Kind of sad, really. Windows windows feel so... rigid.
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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@ really, though, I'm very impressed at how much nicer the Windows experience is than it was last time... in 1996.
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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@ course I've got cygwin and X and all sorts of other crazy UNIX crap installed now, so it may become doubly insane at any point.
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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@ botched Ubuntu wrote my chromeOS .iso, not to /dev/sdd like I told it, but to /dev/hda instead. So my /home got hosed w/ the rest
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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@ the most painful part of the transition is my pride. I feel like a luser. (But I swear less!)
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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@ I've been on Windows 7 about a week, and all the software I want is avail, and in many cases better. OpenOffice sucks waaay less.
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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@ was buying a new machine anyway, and realized I don't want to research drivers, buy parts or assemle them. I let HP and MS do it.
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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@ I've never had a clean ubuntu update, and the last one was doubly botched as a result of updating botched updates.
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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@ mental health. I just don't want to dick around anymore to get things to work right. In 1996 it was fun. It's not anymore :(
about 1 hour ago
from Swift
in reply to underpope
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AdBlock in Chrome is nice. There are a crap-ton of Chrome extensions now, willing to make Chrome as slow as Firefox:
about 2 hours ago
from Brizzly
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Linux -> Windows 7 migration tip: Control Panel> Ease of Access Settings>>Change How Your Mouse Works, check 'Activate window by hovering'
about 2 hours ago
from Brizzly
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@ is there a Chrome AdBlock port? I'm using AdSweep, but it's not that effective...
about 3 hours ago
from Swift
in reply to alanstevens
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@ the Bose over-the-ear ones I mention are unbelievably light and comfy. Try 'em at best buy or something; I bet you'll like 'em.
about 3 hours ago
from Swift
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@ I like Brizzly quite a bit. It flakes when Twitter does, and autorefresh times out if you aren't clicking, but pretty nice.
about 4 hours ago
from Swift
in reply to Southworth
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@ I gave blood, too... to my doctor.
about 4 hours ago
from Swift
in reply to brian_means
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@ our video runs thru a 50ft vga cable up to a 37" lcd that's up on opposite wall of dark bedroom. Quality changes are negligable.
about 4 hours ago
from Swift
in reply to travisbell
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@ they aren't "noise canceling" but the Bose over-ear models sound great and block lots.
about 4 hours ago
from yfrog
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