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Mine GO BOOM - Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:17 pm
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Just finished setting up my roaming profile for PSU, and want to show it off. I'm abusing their system so heavily, and now I even have the GUI I want working perfectly.

I'm much more productive when I'm on the lab machines because of my little startup scripts:

Run blackbox. Since this is such a small program, I can keep it on my roaming profile, and thus get past WinXP's uglyness really fast.
Script that unzips Firebird from my personal drive on the network to local. Since Firebird is so fat, can't keep it in my roaming profile.

Then I usually setup some programs in my workspaces. Main one goes to Firebird or whatever I need to work on. Second goes to my VNC connect to home, so I can easily control that computer with ease. Third one is usually a SSH connection to the same machine, with screen running, so its actually connected to my Win2k (cygwin's sshd) and Gentoo machine. Forth one is usually explorer opened with a bunch of places, a private WASTE network, and every so often, BitTorrent abusing their bandwidth heavily.

I've had some weird stairs at my screen. Everyone's screen is all white from IE and the ugly green/blue junk on the bottom. Mine doesn't really have a task bar, no start button, and is insanely black.

And for those of you who wish to get into it, here is my current BB folder I use for this. And for those who like black backgrounds, the background image.

CypherJF - Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:13 pm
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Imma tell PSU's tech center on you.. and they'll hunt you down and beat you w/ a wet noodle or something ...

LOL...

sooo not to change the subject, how about that archive deal gonna be up? :/

Dr Brain - Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:10 pm
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I put knoppix in my computer during an english class computer lab session. Got some weird looks, but no one got the courage to ask.

Helicon - Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:32 pm
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Dr Brain wrote:

I put knoppix in my computer during an english class computer lab session. Got some weird looks, but no one got the courage to ask.

never challenge the elder nerd...

ExplodyThingy - Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:35 pm
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So black box is a windows GUI-un-fucker-upper. Now, explain to me how to make it change the window borders black as opposed to that crap ass blueness. And how small can I make? Ive been looking long (but not too hard) for someting like that.

CypherJF - Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:37 pm
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I switch my XP to the classic/98 look as soon as i reformat

lol.. the other "themes" is ridiculously lame...

Jason - Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:26 pm
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Dude, I can't get into U-Park as a transfer student at PSU. I'm so pissed. They accepted me back a few years ago at U-Park as a freshman, but I ended up going to RIT instead. I was thinking of going to PSU now, and they tell me I have to apply as a transfer student because I have a certain number of credits, but then they also tell me that I don't quite have enough credits to be considered for admittance to U-Park. What the fuck?! Who wants to go to one of those local, shitty PSU campuses?

ExplodyThingy - Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:13 pm
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Dude, RIT... I was suggested to checkout RIT since they apparently have a good theatre/theatre tech program as long as a great computer tech program. This came as a supprise to me since I pictured them as MIT-ish, only more socialized. So, Tell me about their theatre department. Do they, like Fordam, offer class in Theatre Production?

Oh, and Im still bragging: I got offered a CS class at Georgetown U for my senior year CS class because I totally dominated the classes at my school

D1st0rt - Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:27 pm
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thats pretty 1337, Georgetown is hella hard to get into. I'm just taking the Higher Level IB Computer Science course