Archive for August, 2005
bbLean Part II
Well, it’s official. I properly installed bbLean over Explorer (by default a reboot will restore Explorer, installing makes it the default shell). I’ve cleaned up my desktop a great deal and will soon phase its use out. I will then create a sidebar with clickable icons to launch things like My Documents (yes, I actually [...]
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I’ve tried about a million alternative shells for Windows, because Explorer is hideous, but I gave up on them quite a while ago. Nothing really felt “natural”. Well on a whim tonight I decided to check out what was new on the shell front and discovered bbLean, the first shell that I’m actually comfortable in. [...]
Read More..>>Full Work Day…For Free!
So my uncle is a board member at a local non-profit organization and he called me yesterday for some computer help down at the club. I had kinda assumed this was going to be a freebie, and headed down to solve a printer problem and some various little bugs. I was there for about an [...]
Read More..>>ANSI Art
Just finished up the BBS Documentary, which was great. I really didn’t want it to end, though it’s not short by any means with 8 ‘episodes’ at about 45 minutes each. It was all great, really interesting and all, but one of my favorite episodes was the artscene episode.
Since I had a stepmom that forbid [...]
Brain
Was bored and Googling Brain’s real and screen names. There’s a couple hits for cached versions of the old No Budget Games site, a list of students that made the President’s Honor Roll up at the college, a couple posts on some programming forums, a REALLY old post on a skateboarding forum describing a [...]
Read More..>>Tim And The Game Industry?
So my good friend Tim finally posted his 3D modeling demo reel on a site that will get him some traffic, and the response has been overwhelming. He posted just under six days ago on CGTalk, and it got front page recognition, getting his thread over 26,000 views. In that time, his 60mb demo has [...]
Read More..>>Ripping My Dad’s CD Collection
A while back I mentioned I had built a computer for my dad’s fort so he could listen to internet radio and MP3s while he works, instead of the radio, which sucks, or CDs, because his shop is a terrible environment for CDs and CD players. Well, the WiFi card I had in it juuuuust [...]
Read More..>>Man Accused Of Exposing Self, Threatening Sex With Baby
Mon Aug 1,12:20 PM ET
A 21-year-old man in Lake County, Fla., was arrested over the weekend for allegedly exposing himself and threatening to have sex with a man’s baby during an argument, according to a police report.
Saturday, police responded to a call of criminal mischief near Bay Street near Laurel Oak Drive.
A neighbor said a [...]
A Handful of My Favorite Open Source Software
It’s a cold, lazy Saturday night, and I’m staying in. What better way to kill some time than introduce you to some of my favorite software?
I’m a Windows user. Tragic, yes, but I was raised on it (Well, DOS/Win 3.11). I’ve run alternative OSes before: MacOS 9 for a year and a half right out [...]
I Guess I’m Obligated to Blog About This?
The geek community is ASPLODING as a leaked, cracked copy of MacOS X Tiger for x86 hit Torrent sites about 3 days ago. Supposedly, several people have been able to Dukes of Hazzard this thing onto plain-jane beige boxes.
This is historical for several reasons. First off, this could actually provide a(nother) decent alternative to [...]
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