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http://nmaps.net/user/ · Postby **Vyacheslav** » 2010.09.22 (03:02)

Dude, I use firefox 3.6 on 1GHz PIII 512mb RAM on Windows 2000... no issues here.

http://nmaps.net/user/UniverseZero · Postby **Universezero** » 2010.09.22 (08:10)

Firefox takes 10 seconds to open. Chrome takes a half. 'Nuff to sell me.

http://nmaps.net/user/geti · Postby **Geti** » 2010.09.22 (08:32)

Universezero wrote:Firefox takes 10 seconds to open. Chrome takes a half. 'Nuff to sell me.

More like "i'm using an idiot operating system and not managing my memory". Cold start to firefox in 32 seconds on a pentium M, baby.

http://nmaps.net/user/UniverseZero · Postby **Universezero** » 2010.09.22 (09:05)

Operating system is Vista. School forces us to use it (school laptop). Losers. ;_;

http://nmaps.net/user/geti · Postby **Geti** » 2010.09.22 (09:46)

Point holds then. That's gotta suck though. I'm assuming you can't rip out the shell and whatnot then to cut down on memory usage?..

http://nmaps.net/user/donfuy · Postby **Donfuy** » 2010.09.22 (16:19)

Cold start is 7-8 seconds for me. It's Firefox 4.0preb7, I dunno exactly how much faster it is than 3.x, so uh.

http://nmaps.net/user/UniverseZero · Postby **Universezero** » 2010.09.22 (22:01)

Geti wrote:Point holds then. That's gotta suck though. I'm assuming you can't rip out the shell and whatnot then to cut down on memory usage?..

Even if I knew what the hell you were talking about, probably not.

Start up from shutdown takes a few minutes. No joke.

http://nmaps.net/user/heartattack · Postby **Heartattack** » 2010.09.25 (04:22)

http://nmaps.net/user/ · Postby **Vyacheslav** » 2010.09.25 (12:59)

Ahahaha I have that same image somewhere on this computer... great optical illusion. Even better if you change the colors.

http://nmaps.net/user/Izzy · Postby **Izzy** » 2010.10.01 (00:52)

Vista :(
http://imgur.com/SkNoM.jpg

http://nmaps.net/user/ · Postby **Vyacheslav** » 2010.10.02 (15:06)

http://nmaps.net/user/donfuy · Postby **Donfuy** » 2010.10.05 (19:57)

My idea was to post a pic of all my gadgets on, but I still haven't managed to get my workstation to look good, and I dunno where the camera is so basically, I have the same wallpaper on my desktop, netbook, Zen V and PSP. Looks pretty good.

Have a new folder called Organizer that is basically a dropbox-synced folder. The downloads and "the nederlands ..." folders are there because utorrent is currently uploading stuff from there, so i can't really take them out of there. Except for the Music folder, the netbook desktop looks pretty much like this one in every way, except the taskbar is on top and the screen is smaller.

My Firefox looks pretty amazing now. Except I dislike having the refresh button inside the adressbar. Yes, I know I can take it out of there and put it elsewhere, but I want the refresh/stop button to be on the right of the adressbar - just not inside it.
foobar is much more usable now and looks good enough. It still isn't perfect though ;_;

http://nmaps.net/user/heartattack · Postby **Heartattack** » 2010.10.06 (02:23)

But heartattack isn't it conceited to have a picture of yourself as your wallpaper?

Not when it looks this retro and badass ;)

http://nmaps.net/user/zer0 · Postby **Zer0** » 2010.10.17 (11:35)

YEAH IM SO AWSOME MY INOCCENT DESKTOP IS NOTHING COMPARED TO YOUR EXPLOSION JUNKLKLKLKLKLKLKLK IM SO KOOL OH YEAH KOOL AID JIJHOOHSA
(lol) And yes I am a pokemon nerd :P My sister made it! Oh, it looks better zoomed in just to tell you

http://nmaps.net/user/geti · Postby **Geti** » 2010.10.18 (11:22)

Pretty much the same as last time, a quiet shot I took for another forum and decided to link here

nothing interesting but it's a good work environment.

http://nmaps.net/user/T3chno · Postby **T3chno** » 2010.10.21 (17:33)

http://nmaps.net/user/geti · Postby **Geti** » 2010.10.22 (02:41)

Universezero wrote:Even if I knew what the hell you were talking about, probably not.
Start up from shutdown takes a few minutes. No joke.

I meant replace the standard "explorer" shell with something a lot more lightweight, like bblean or litestep or whatever. It's kind of a massive PITA on windows.

Start up from shutdown is what I meant by "cold start", and yeah, that's really common with windows. Even in a relatively new install of 7 on my box I find myself getting frustrated at silly load times. Whatever it's putting into memory, it's not necessary for a working operating system <_<

Nice wallpaper, techno.

http://nmaps.net/user/ · Postby **Gregis** » 2010.10.22 (03:14)

The Pegasus wrote: llamas ftw :)

Consider me jealous. (Image Removed from quote to save space)

http://nmaps.net/user/UniverseZero · Postby **Universezero** » 2010.10.22 (04:24)

Geti wrote:
Universezero wrote:Even if I knew what the hell you were talking about, probably not.
Start up from shutdown takes a few minutes. No joke.
I meant replace the standard "explorer" shell with something a lot more lightweight, like bblean or litestep or whatever. It's kind of a massive PITA on windows.

Oh man. I tried litestep a while back. Most confusing thing I've ever done on my computer.

http://nmaps.net/user/geti · Postby **Geti** » 2010.10.22 (05:21)

Something tells me you'd hate using the non-mainstream linux distros then :P The only problem I have with litestep is that the standards for skinning are all over the place (at least they were a few years ago).

http://nmaps.net/user/UniverseZero · Postby **Universezero** » 2010.10.22 (08:06)

Geti wrote:Something tells me you'd hate using the non-mainstream linux distros then :P The only problem I have with litestep is that the standards for skinning are all over the place (at least they were a few years ago).

I use Ubuntu. Is that mainstream?

http://nmaps.net/user/ · Postby **Vyacheslav** » 2010.10.22 (14:10)

Ubuntu is the most mainstream you can get in Linux.

http://nmaps.net/user/geti · Postby **Geti** » 2010.10.22 (22:51)

Nothing wrong with it from your average end-user's perspective though. I only use Arch because I like to have a little more verbose control over my system, and can't really afford the bloat of the more "complete" distros, so barebones is the way to go.

http://nmaps.net/user/donfuy · Postby **Donfuy** » 2010.10.24 (20:45)

litestep's pretty fucking amazing

except for the desktop icons functionality that sucked :<

http://nmaps.net/user/geti · Postby **Geti** » 2010.10.24 (22:05)

So get a dock, or a dedicated desktop icons program. UNIX mentality, cmon. It's not like you actually need a handful of symlinks (or shortcuts, or whatever) sitting behind all your programs at any one time. I prefer the litestep/*box approach of replacing all those icons with a menu (similar to the windows and gnome start menus) that you bring up with a right click, though I've got nothing against flashy docks either. It just seems so goddamn boring to have all those static icons :/ [/rant]

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