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Gudanov - Mar 09, 2006 9:07:25 am PST #7464 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Here's the Fedora guide I used:

[link]

It's a really good guide.


amych - Mar 09, 2006 9:24:20 am PST #7465 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Gud, the main thing that's always kept me from doing a Myth box is that it lacked the neato TiVo trick of learning what I like and grabbing recommended stuff for me - is that still the case?


Gudanov - Mar 09, 2006 9:48:08 am PST #7466 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

I'm pretty sure it doesn't do that.


amych - Mar 09, 2006 9:56:38 am PST #7467 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

That was what I thought, but if it did, it might get me off my duff to do some work on the perfectly myth-capable machine I already have... thanks for the info.


tommyrot - Mar 09, 2006 10:36:17 am PST #7468 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Office 2007 screenshots: [link]

They actually made it pretty....


DXMachina - Mar 09, 2006 11:07:47 am PST #7469 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I don't need pretty. I need don't-frell-up-the-good-features-you-already-had-by- adding-a-bunch-o'-useless-crap.


§ ita § - Mar 09, 2006 11:17:40 am PST #7470 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't need pretty, although I sure do like it.

But pretty looks more OSXish, and that makes me laugh. I like OS X and all that, but my Windows boxes do not use the XP skins--they use the 2000 one.


DXMachina - Mar 09, 2006 11:28:26 am PST #7471 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

my Windows boxes do not use the XP skins--they use the 2000 one.

Mine, too. I dislike both the XP and OS X boxes.


Sean K - Mar 09, 2006 11:50:43 am PST #7472 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

my Windows boxes do not use the XP skins--they use the 2000 one.

Yeah, I go for the "Windows classic" look, myself. Although I do turn on the web-like one-click activation (select on mouse hover). My mouse hand gets sore really easily, due to an old broken metacarpal, so if I can reduce my amount of mouse clicking by %50, I will.


Tom Scola - Mar 09, 2006 3:18:07 pm PST #7473 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

My co-op building's annual shareholders' meeting is coming up, and this year it promises to be extremely mathy.

My Treo has a built-in calculator that can do amortization calculations, but I can't figure out how to use it. It lets you input any four of these five variables, and it will solve for the other:

  • PV
  • FV
  • Pmt
  • APR
  • N

Can anyone tell me what those variables mean?