Arf Arf!!
What’s that, Lassie? You say Timmy fell down the well? I’ll be right there.
Now you just need a hamster named Lassie.
Dont think it would last long with cats in the house=)
Maybe the new desktop that we are sort of building will get named lassie=)
I guess when I do database work I’ll still boot up mySQL though
Ah, Microsoft innovation strikes again! Wake me when they start fixing rendering bugs in Internet Explorer.
Anyhoo, agreed, thank Heaven…I consider myself an advanced/expert user of computers, and having to click on “My Computer” and “My Documents” all the time just made me feel silly. I renamed my “My Computer” (:rolleyes: ) folder to “Main” from the old Win3.1 days, but renaming “My Documents” has led to some file location issues. Thank you for insulting our intelligence just a little bit less, Microsoft. That’s mighty swell of you.
Adam
I think they should change it to something different for each of the system objects:
This Computer
Some Documents
That Music
Those Pictures
These eBooks
A Network
My Computer is apparently an idiot.
Click on Shut Down.
It then asks you, “what do you want the computer to do?”
Uh…SHUT DOWN!
So they’re just going to be crosoft? that’s a weird name.
Only if I can mention that Linux machines don’t cost an arm and a leg and also don’t force you into an ugly-ass GUI.
“Chhhkkk, Gkkkk, Cuhcuhcuh, GGGGGGGG”
-The sound of me choking on my own laughter.
No, he’s right. You get to choose from several different ugly ass GUIs.
I dunno, I’m totally a Mac person but I don’t find WindowMaker to be particularly ugly-ass.
So now it’s, in the words of the prophet Bobby Brown, “My Prerogative.”
They aren’t bugs, they are undocumented features. Be happy, they could have charged you for them=)
What? :dubious:
Okay, tell me how WindowMaker and Enlightenment are any uglier than the abortions known as MacOS X’s Aqua or XP’s famed ‘Play-Skool’ theme.
(Of the two, XP’s ‘Play-Skool’ theme is the worst, but only in the way that getting kicked in the nuts is worse than getting kicked in the gut.)
Not to mention the pretty ones, but otherwise you’re exactly right. If I bought a Mac, I would no longer be able to customize my desktop without effectively wasting a large amount of the purchase price. I would probably do better to buy a used Mac in good condition, reformat the hard drive and install a PPC-friendly Linux distro.
Just as a parting shot, I’m not using a pretty GUI at the moment by any means. I’m also not using one that’s ‘friendly’ by any conventional meaning of the term. I’m using ratpoison, and if you call ratposion ‘ugly’ you’re missing the point.
Its not really “My” Comuter anyway.
Half the stuff is licensed to the hilt.
I am suprised Microsoft let us own our computers for so long.
I’m also totally a Mac person, and I have to say it would be nice if Apple would follow suit and drop the annoying “i” prefix. Though it might not do any good, seeing as how other companies have started using it, too.
Thanks, you just made me laugh out loud.
How to remove “My eBooks” for good. Now if only I could get rid of My Shapes (bloody Visio) and My Virtual Machines (bloody Virtual PC). Rrrrgh.
Agreed. I love MacOS X but I hate Aqua. Romper Room to XPs PlaySkool, indeed.
Untrue. You do need to download 3rd-party sw to change the GUI (unlike with Windows XP, which lets you switch to classic using built-in Control Panel settings), but there are at least two major package managers (Duality and whatever that unsanity.com product is called…Shapeshifter, something like that?) and at least one freeware do-it-yourself (ThemePark).
This is OS X retrothemed to look like MacOS 8-9 (Classic Platinum). Note the lack of Docks, lozengesque widgets, or 128 x 128 pixel desktop icons.
