2bfree: The Zen of Windows Tinkerbell
Well! I have had my new computer for about a week, and it's not COMPLETELY impossible to do useful work with it. That isn't long enough to be truly nostalgic for the good old days of XP, although just about all of the differences I've spotted so far are very much in favor of XP. (Cut for pointless Rage Against the Machine.)
My computer guy set up the machine, checked to make sure that all my subscriptions didn't disappear LIKE THE LAST TIME I BOUGHT A COMPUTER, and pretty much said that since he thinks I'm good with computers, I should be able to figure stuff out.
I definitely disagree with him, and I did make one panic call when, the second day I owned the damn thing, the keyboard locked up. (Hey! When XP updates, you can use the machine...when 7 does, you can't.) And I felt terribly clever figuring out how to save articles from online to my hard drive. Because in XP, you click on the File menu and "Save as" is one of your options. In 7, there IS no file menu, but there is teensy thing in the upper right hand corner that looks like a snowflake, which is the Tools menu, so if you click it, one of the teensy-tiny options is Save, although I'm sure somebody is amused by how easy it is to click Zoom instead of Save.
And my, what a good idea to make sure that only truly motivated people can ever turn off the machine! Because, when you click Log Off, eventually the screen will mostly go blank, and there will be an ambiguous teeny icon on the bottom right. Because...well, I guess so we can meditate on Emptiness.
And, gosh, I really admire the various transparent ugly colors at the top of the screen. Was it Londo or G'kar who was all tortoise-shelly? And what a splendid choice of additional ugly colors, which can even be pushed towards opacity. So you can get the full Jesus on a Tortilla effect.
As for Tinkerbell, it took me a couple of shots before I could figure out how to work with the translucent thumbnails that float out from the bottom of the screen. And after all, nobody would ever want to move a file from one folder to another, so who needs that silly old Move command anyway? And what a clever wheeze to make the icon triple in size when you try to drag it, so you can have fun putting it in the wrong place because it overlaps three items.
ION, I'm about up to 2500 words for the kinda_gay Valentines-or-Anti-Valentines 'thon, which is, maybe, half? I started to worry about getting jossed by Wednesday's episode of The Nolan Show the show that is eating my brain Revenge, but then I realized that Wednesday's episode is DEFINITELY not going to take place on Serenity, and felt better.
Oddly enough, I'm closer to being finished with the Nolan/Simon scenes than with the, ummm, plot. I'm sure you're all very surprised.
My computer guy set up the machine, checked to make sure that all my subscriptions didn't disappear LIKE THE LAST TIME I BOUGHT A COMPUTER, and pretty much said that since he thinks I'm good with computers, I should be able to figure stuff out.
I definitely disagree with him, and I did make one panic call when, the second day I owned the damn thing, the keyboard locked up. (Hey! When XP updates, you can use the machine...when 7 does, you can't.) And I felt terribly clever figuring out how to save articles from online to my hard drive. Because in XP, you click on the File menu and "Save as" is one of your options. In 7, there IS no file menu, but there is teensy thing in the upper right hand corner that looks like a snowflake, which is the Tools menu, so if you click it, one of the teensy-tiny options is Save, although I'm sure somebody is amused by how easy it is to click Zoom instead of Save.
And my, what a good idea to make sure that only truly motivated people can ever turn off the machine! Because, when you click Log Off, eventually the screen will mostly go blank, and there will be an ambiguous teeny icon on the bottom right. Because...well, I guess so we can meditate on Emptiness.
And, gosh, I really admire the various transparent ugly colors at the top of the screen. Was it Londo or G'kar who was all tortoise-shelly? And what a splendid choice of additional ugly colors, which can even be pushed towards opacity. So you can get the full Jesus on a Tortilla effect.
As for Tinkerbell, it took me a couple of shots before I could figure out how to work with the translucent thumbnails that float out from the bottom of the screen. And after all, nobody would ever want to move a file from one folder to another, so who needs that silly old Move command anyway? And what a clever wheeze to make the icon triple in size when you try to drag it, so you can have fun putting it in the wrong place because it overlaps three items.
ION, I'm about up to 2500 words for the kinda_gay Valentines-or-Anti-Valentines 'thon, which is, maybe, half? I started to worry about getting jossed by Wednesday's episode of
Oddly enough, I'm closer to being finished with the Nolan/Simon scenes than with the, ummm, plot. I'm sure you're all very surprised.