Konata
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« on: May 20, 2008, 04:01:35 AM » |
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So on another forum I visit we were kinda having the same post your desktop thread (I swear, there's always a desktop thread and a "What Are You Listening To?" thread on every forum), and a dude there posted this desktop: http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t216/brynosaur/desktop52008.jpg?t=1211270543I freaked out when I saw the icon on the left, six icons down. Not overjoyed freaking, but like "WTF!?" freaking. Then I checked, and yeah, it's real. I'm still keeping Firefox 2, even though they claim Safari to be faster. I spent 2 days getting rid of all the Apple spyware off the machine, I'd be damned if I'd invite it back. |
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2008, 10:07:37 AM » |
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I tried Safari for Windows when it was first released (when was it, last year?), and like others, I wasn't impressed. There's absolutely no reason to use Safari when Firefox is around. Firefox is just a stellar browser.
I never much liked Safari on the Mac either, though I guess it was the default browser on my iMac for a while. As I recall, I was using Mozilla until Safari added tabbed browsing. All this was when Firefox was still known as "Firebird" and was in an alpha state.
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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2008, 12:16:16 PM » |
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I'm not a fan of the KHTML rendering engine in Safari, or the general user interface of the browser. I prefer Gecko (mozilla engine), and use Camino for my Mac browsing needs. It's the lightning fast Mozilla browser that Firefox should be. I remember using NCSA Mosaic and Netscape 1.1N back in the early 90s...how far this here Interweb thing has come. |
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2008, 12:51:20 PM » |
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I'm not a fan of the KHTML rendering engine in Safari, or the general user interface of the browser. I prefer Gecko (mozilla engine), and use Camino for my Mac browsing needs. It's the lightning fast Mozilla browser that Firefox should be. I remember using NCSA Mosaic and Netscape 1.1N back in the early 90s...how far this here Interweb thing has come. I feel vulnerable when I browse with Safari (kind of like stock IE6). Maybe it's just me. I used Camino when I first got my MacBook Pro, but then I found Firefox 3 Beta and I haven't looked back. FF2 is a clunky piece of junk but FF3 is nice and speedy. I guess my biggest complaint about Camino is that I could not for the life of me get it to save my proxy settings; with Firefox it wasn't a problem. Camino would always erase my config after I closed the program, which quickly drove me crazy. I think I still have a 1.44" floppy with Netscape 1.0. I might have to dig that out and try some websites.  |
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2008, 03:48:53 PM » |
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No matter what other people say... I am only going to trust Firefox... I love it. I went to my buddies house and he had IE and I refused to go on his computer until he got FF... long story short... he still has IE  |
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2008, 09:19:20 PM » |
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Well I'm glad we're all in agreement here: IE sucks. In fact, they tried to un-suck it with IE 7 (I think?), but it still sucks. I think we should all boycott websites that make you use IE. I think my health insurance provider's online account management tool does. And sadly, so does Netflix online movie viewing. I too started with Mosaic and then Netscape 1. Remember when every website had a Windows-gray background as a default? That was before you could even specify a background color for a web page. That made the abuses of background textures and images all the worse when they came into effect. I know I was guilty of it.  See http://www.schmelicaborgan.com -- my first web site in its last incarnation. Yes; we've come a long way. |
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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2008, 09:44:58 PM » |
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omg RW what did you do!!! the frames and everything!!! wow... i perfer either black/white backgrounds or hardly noticable textures that do a small repetitive pattern... like VC&G's!!
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« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2008, 10:09:50 PM » |
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omg RW what did you do!!! the frames and everything!!! wow... i perfer either black/white backgrounds or hardly noticable textures that do a small repetitive pattern... like VC&G's!!
You're the first person to ever mention the VC&G background pattern. Do you like it? Do you know what it is? |
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« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2008, 10:34:45 PM » |
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yes i love it... i always thought it was MC's (microchips) am i wrong?
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« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2008, 11:49:56 PM » |
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It is microchips. If I had to put a more specific label, I would guess it's the memory bank of an early Apple (IIe?).
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Konata
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2008, 01:03:37 AM » |
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Well I'm glad we're all in agreement here: IE sucks.
The only thing suckier is the PSP browser. |
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« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2008, 01:58:56 AM » |
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Well I'm glad we're all in agreement here: IE sucks.
The only thing suckier is the PSP browser. yes... that is true... especially if you have a broken analog stick |
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« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2008, 03:42:50 AM » |
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yes... that is true... especially if you have a broken analog stick Damn, I'm sorry man. |
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RedWolf
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« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2008, 09:47:50 AM » |
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It is microchips. If I had to put a more specific label, I would guess it's the memory bank of an early Apple (IIe?).
Layne
Hehe, microchips. Well, they are ICs. I can't remember from which board exactly now, but I seem to recall that I made the background from a picture I took of a Micro PDP-11 512k Q-bus memory board. Either that or the CPU board. It's worked out well though, no matter what the source. I always worried that the background might be too dark though and not "happy" enough. |
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