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psipsyIt's 5AM and I'm just now getting home from work. What I need is for an ice cream truck to show up RIGHT NOW and I won't care about the hows or whys or where its been or who's driving it.
Lately been tweaking some of the folder views in my PC. It's a simple trick, and I'm sure many of you reading this are already familiar with how simple it can be. Since I usually name my hard drives after anime/manga characters, I've been giving each drive custom backgrounds. Windows 2000 would let me do that for the root of each drive, but getting XP to do that at the same level required a little convincing and a couple servings of copypasta. There was also the task of juggling with the Hidden attribute, then finding images, resizing them, adjusting the brightness and contrast so they wouldn't overpower the filenames. That way, the background images are "simply there" and not "AGGRESSIVELY THERE" and generally stay in the background like they should.
Here is but one of the drives I have attached to my XP box.
In this way, the filenames are still readable. Gawd I hate when I go to a site and what's supposed to be the background image instead tries to jump to the front, crowding out text to the point of rendering it unreadable.
Now, while Slayers Revolution #3 finishes downloading, I will see if I catch any internet salmon. Some of you may understand what in hell I'm talking about.
Lately been tweaking some of the folder views in my PC. It's a simple trick, and I'm sure many of you reading this are already familiar with how simple it can be. Since I usually name my hard drives after anime/manga characters, I've been giving each drive custom backgrounds. Windows 2000 would let me do that for the root of each drive, but getting XP to do that at the same level required a little convincing and a couple servings of copypasta. There was also the task of juggling with the Hidden attribute, then finding images, resizing them, adjusting the brightness and contrast so they wouldn't overpower the filenames. That way, the background images are "simply there" and not "AGGRESSIVELY THERE" and generally stay in the background like they should.
Here is but one of the drives I have attached to my XP box.
In this way, the filenames are still readable. Gawd I hate when I go to a site and what's supposed to be the background image instead tries to jump to the front, crowding out text to the point of rendering it unreadable.
Now, while Slayers Revolution #3 finishes downloading, I will see if I catch any internet salmon. Some of you may understand what in hell I'm talking about.
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SWEET!
Date: 2008-07-18 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: SWEET!
Date: 2008-07-19 08:57 am (UTC)As for internet salmon, then apparently you haven't experienced that yet.
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Date: 2008-07-20 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-20 09:06 pm (UTC)Next experiment is to see if it'll work with animated gif's.