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Aaaaaahhhhh....

Oh yes, that sigh of deep-seated satisfaction you're reading is the sound of me sitting at my own computer, typing on my own delightful (relatively new) keyboard, and clicking with my (color-coordinated!) optical mouse (thanks, coloth!).

A couple of days ago, I finally got the computer-room pro-temp (what will be the library in the longer term) cleared of boxes and arranged furniture (if folding tables qualify as "furniture") so that we had the required space to set up both machines.

Up until now, I've been tuning in using Hubby's computer that was sitting on my desk, which is placed (temporarily!! Are you reading, Hubby?!) in our bedroom. Kinda cramped my late-night posting style, since his keyboard is really loud.

And while it's a perfectly suitable machine, it does have a distinct tendency to lock up at the most inopportune moments (like there's an opportune moment to crash, right?). There's also something to be said for gazing upon your own desktop and having access to your own bookmarks... not to mention your preferred browser. (Tabs? Feh. Ptooey on tabs.)

So now I just need a comfortable chair and footrest and I won't ever need to move again. Except to refill sippy cups and change diapers. And that unpacking stuff. Somehow that just doesn't seem to be taking care of itself. Oh, and the grout and backsplash aren't sealing themselves. The window treatments aren't hanging themselves, either. Damn. Guess I may have to get up, after all. Bummer.
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  • but what in the wild, wild, world of sports are you still doin up? I've got month end close and backups and uh searching journal entries..., what's your excuse?
    • Vampirism. :-I

      ....Bethanie....
      • Oh, how I wish I was a real vampire. I already keep the hours of one (it's a quarter after 4 in the morning in my time zone) and I hate the light. Plus, I already have a casket and while don't sleep in it I guess I could live with that. I enjoy salty things, and from my tasting of my own blood in the past it seems salty and not in a terrible way. Oh, and I wouldn't really mind killing people, either, if that truely was required for blood. I just want that live forever thing.

        I promise I won't screw up t
        • OK, Helio, that's a little weird.

          If you want to live forever, why wouldn't you work on cloning yourself and then maybe figuring out how to have a brain transplant into your clone.

          Or are you really stuck on the whole drinking blood thing?

          Hmmm... a vampire into model trains... I wonder what kind of movie they could make with THAT?! ;-)

          ....Bethanie....
          • I wonder what kind of movie they could make with THAT?! ;-)

            I'm cutting up wooden stakes as we speak to stab into the film, script, and thoughts :-P
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    • AND a bag of chips.

      Tabs are truely the "killer app" for me. Maybe it's the whole alleged ADD thing. Maybe it's a gypsy curse. Whatever. I will not willingly browse in anything w/o tabs. At this point, Mozilla could send me a notice that said "if you want to keep tabbed browsing, send us $Big_Num", and I would sent them $Big_Num.
    • Tabs rock! Combined with popup blockers it just makes IE look so primative.

      I have tasted of the tab and I refuse to go back.

      I will point out however that my net-addiction has gotten much worse since I switched to Mozilla. So there are downsides. Kind of like switching from Cocaine to Crack. ;-)
      • Or, to use your analogy to explain drugs to geeks:

        Crack rocks! Combined with mescaline it just makes cocaine look so primative.

        I have tasted of the crack and I refuse to go back.         [now it even rhymes!]

        I will point out however that my drug-addiction has gotten much worse since I switched to freebasing. So there are downsides. Kind of like switching from IE to Mozilla. ;-)
      • actually, I'm using "Crazy Browser"- which is a little addition that runs ontop of IE primitives- and it has Tabs and Pop-up blocks.

        The benefit? When at the parents (or whoever's) who only have dial-up, CrazyBrowser is only like a 2 meg download! Its the Jonny Appleseed of tabbed browsing!

        mekka- ctrl-shift-tab - B
    • browsers prefer YOU!

      Heh. I'm better at those. :)

      Tabs are the best thing in the universe since SLICED BREAD. Which makes you wonder what the best thing was BEFORE sliced bread, but that's a whole different discussion. ;)

      Those who knock tabs do not understand them.
      • Those who knock tabs do not understand them.

        This may very well be true. I DO NOT understand the allure of tabs. I am very ingrained in my habit of opening a new window for each Message I get, and then alternating between my Message page and each individual message as I read them. It's a system that works well for me. (Deleting and refreshing as I go, of course. Nice and methodical. Just like I like it.)

        When I tried using tabs on Hubby's computer (with Mozilla), it seemed like they took forever to downl

        • Re:In Soviet Russia... (Score:3, Insightful)

          by Surak ( 18578 ) *
          Many people on /. will be unable to satisfactorily explain why tabs are so good, so I'm gonna do it for them. :)

          Those who do not "get" why tabs are so good are mostly the people that work with only one program at a time. They do not, while the web browser is open, keep a terminal window (or 2 or 3 :) (DOS prompt and/or PuTTY in WindowsLand), text editor, file manager, e-mail client, and MP3 player running in other windows. (This is my usual working setup, whether at work or at home).

          Thus, the task bar
          • Amen, brother. If I had any mod points left, you'd get one. Instead, you just get this lame post and a `friend' mark from me (established in a new tab :).
          • While tabs may be quicker and use less system resources, can you overlap two tabs and see the content of one while typing a reply to a message in another? No? I thought not. 8-p
            • While tabs may be quicker and use less system resources, can you overlap two tabs and see the content of one while typing a reply to a message in another?

              True enough, but since Bethanie's used to using a browser that doesn't support tabs, I'm guessing she's stuck on Windows, in which case, you can't overlap windows anyway, 'coz as soon as you start typing in one, it brings it to the front. How people cope with click to focus is beyond me...

              • If you resize the windows you can look at them side-by-side.

                What's click to focus?

                ....Bethanie....
                • If you resize the windows you can look at them side-by-side.

                  But you're limited by screen real estate. If you can have them overlapping, you get a lot more flexibility, and also don't have to go to the hassle of resizing your windows.

                  What's click to focus?

                  It means the active window is the one you last clicked in. Unlike Windows, it's usually customisable under X11 these days, but traditionally it used focus follows mouse -- i.e., the active window is the one that the mouse cursor is currently over. As

              • True enough, but since Bethanie's used to using a browser that doesn't support tabs, I'm guessing she's stuck on Windows, in which case, you can't overlap windows anyway, 'coz as soon as you start typing in one, it brings it to the front. How people cope with click to focus is beyond me...

                There are a number of utilities which allow you to either pin windows on top of all others (TTop.exe does this - not sure where to find it) or have true "click to focus". Even without these utilities it is possible to re
  • They're in the outside fridge, and they're cold. Have one when you get up - the guys are gonna be there bright & early, remember?

    But please don't mess with my Diet Cokes.

    • But please don't mess with my Diet Cokes.

      Except to make sure that they are well-stocked and kept cold, right?

      Yes, Tab is the beautiful drink for beautiful people. But in browsers, yuk. Maybe you can show me what's so delightful about them. I seem to have touched a nerve in the world of Geekdom this morning. Oops. Better re-count my fans to see how many I've lost! :-)

      Any requests for supper tonight, or for this weekend? I may run to the store later.

      But TABS STILL SUCK!!!

      Buahahahaha!

      ....Bethanie
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      • Well, I dunno about that -- it's pretty well-distributed, geographically speaking (from what I've seen).

        Now GENERATIONALLY... that's probably where the biggest disconnect lies.

        And you're right. You ARE so cool, Sam! :-)

        ....Bethanie....
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          • You know where I "rediscovered" it? In Australia. I travelled there with a high school group when I was 14. And encountered the glory that IS cola with saccharine (mixed with aspartame, as well). Of course, they've done the same thing with Pepsi One, but I've never been much of a Pepsi fan.

            So far, I've found it up and down the eastern seaboard. Can't remember looking for it elsewhere; I've kinda been off caffeine for a few years now. I imagine if I called the 800 number, I could find out where else it's d
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              • Thanks, Sam. But when you use the 800 number, you talk to a LIVE person (which appeals to some of us lesser geek wannabes out here) AND often times they'll send you COUPONS for FREE STUFF.

                Stuck in the 70s? I don't think so, Tim.

                ....Bethanie....

                P.S. You know I couldn't resist sending the guy an e-mail with an additional grocery store here that carries Tab. :-) That was a fun site, Sam.
  • This your first one or just bigger better newer more?

    My journey into getting into a home is semi chronicled in my journal.

    Funny thing, I used to write all kinds of stuff in there, now I am so busy I don't have time to. Ah well, that's what I have you guys for.

    All I gotta say is I will never, ever rent again. I love my house, even though there are a few things I find midly annoying. (Like the fact that hardwood floors just pretty much stay dirty)

    I have a nice selection of critters running around in my
    • Well, this is *my* first house. But Hubby had one that I moved into with him before we got married. I never have spent much time in rentals -- just a couple of years in So Cal after I moved out of my parents' house a year after graduating from college.

      This house is built on ~13 acres out in the country from a plan that we selected and modified to suit the site and our desires (basically putting a big bay window in the master BR and deepening the front and back porches to make them real living spaces -- 10

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