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Well then, silver linings I guess. What did/does your dad do for living might I ask?
Speaking of for a living, what do you do (or want to do?)
I want to peg you as an electrician, but I feel that may be only a small fraction of what I know of you. For all I know, you could be into psychology, or acting! (closest emote I could think of for acting/drama)
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He's still a systems engineer, just on contract and by a different company.
Well, at first I was thinking entertainment industry, particularly 3D related movies, games, and the like. That's what I got my degree in, ATEC, Arts and Technology, (though it was really more about using technology to produce art). But now looking at the industry, it seems a bit shaky. It wasn't until recently I learned what those green avatars really and truly meant, and even though that's the "visual effects" industry, they're certainly tied together.
To answer your question, I'm currently doing plush and plush accessories. Hopefully between my commissions, I'll be posting tutorials on YouTube sooner or later.
Now, what I want to do is a difficult question, now more than before I suppose. In addition to the above, I fix things, (and I've fixed a lot of things, this being probably the most annoying fav.me/d5x0sfi, but now I'm better informed)! I tried to apply for a few maintenance technician positions, and got two interviews, but never heard from them again. One was from bimbo bakeries, which I was particularly hoping to land, but since noting worked out, my inspiration for plush grew and I just started sewing. It's not like I don't have a long term plan for what I'm currently doing though, because I do. That doesn't mean I'm entirely certain how profitable I'll be in the long run though, but it's a plan.
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Sorry it took me so long to respond to this, it's been a busy week and this was a big post
Hmmm, if you had more of an interest in math, you could apply your technology and art skills towards architecture! That might broaden your job search.
Also, Hanklestia, Princess of Propane, is so fitting I cannot even explain it.
Glad you are enjoying, and hopefully profiting, from the plush business. I'd say you are great at what you do
Good luck with long term plans though, I hope everything works out in the end. (once the loan is gone, i bet you'll do wonders with all your skills)
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No big man! 
Well, I did construct the inside of my sewing shop, and later added a half bath complete with water heater.
(Haven't posted latest pictures yet. I had to optimize the space better, so although there's twice as much stuff in there as there was, the floor space for walking is about the same.)
I have to be honest here, I have a bit of a damper feeling making certain things over and over. I really wonder if I wouldn't be happier just making and selling patterns, but it's hard to say. Perhaps I just need to offer more options and my work would be less rudimentary. (Yes, I can barely wait until the loan is gone! I want to get it paid as soon as possible! 
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Whoa, how much does it cost to build that mancave? Because I could imagine getting a tiny plot of land and just living in that
That'd be neato. (I always fancied having a "custom" house)
Hmmm, good point. You'd have to test/poll a target audience and see if selling patterns would work well. And if you could get as many people to buy them as the plushies. Me for instance, I'm lazy-ish and not that good at artsy things, I'd much more appreciate getting someone to make a plushie than give me the pattern. But on the other hand, tons of creative people would love to have the pattern and make their own. Which leads to another question, would selling patterns cause problems in them being distributed for free? If you make a plushie repeatedly, you get paid for each one, you sell a pattern, and it could be reproduced for free and given out. It's a delicate balance to consider.
Would you be happier? Maybe you'd be less overwhelmed by making them all, yes. But is it worth it? That is for you to assess. I'm paranoid though, so my entire paragraph up there you can put less stock in.
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Foundation overlay was about $4k, the 24' x 12' cabin shell was about $7k, materials I installed in the shell were $3,191.92 (unless I missed something), half bath materials were $1,631.31, so about $16k. Keep in mind I did nearly all the labor inside the building, but my dad was able to help a little, (not to mention he's the one footing the bill), plus we had the toilet on hand after I replaced the ones in the house with new ones. I couldn't imagine what the cost would be if we had hired someone to contract the interior for us, not to mention you couldn't tell what they'd skimp on. The same place we got the building from had a much smaller 8' x 12' with finished interior and an AC unit, (no plumbing), but it was $14k! But I agree, it's certainly nice and would make for a great simple home.
Oh, I have considered it. I'd test the waters with simpler patterns first. I also plan on making youtube tutorials eventually, (sorry if I already said that).
Perhaps I should simply be more picky with the commissions I take.
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Now if I could just replace the wooden walls with like, concrete and rebars or something (I want it to be a mini fortress 
But that doesn't sound bad! Heck, I could pay double that, and it'd still be cheaper than what my grandad paid for our little, fully operational, house ($50k)
It is up to you. I'd say take whatever you have time to make. Possibly have a semi-auction. They pay the normal price for their commissions, but have to outbid each other on a priority scale. If they want it sooner, they have to pay more than the others (pay more extra, the base price doesn't factor in the race)
Then you could take all the commissions, and not worry about having to rush them all, just the uber-paid-for ones. People might like the pay-for-rush service if they wanted it for like, someone's birthday or something.
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Meh, depleted uranium steel alloy between two sheets of lead would be better I think.
I hear ya!
Well, if there's ever a real rush, I'd definitely charge extra.
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Can I legally obtain delepleted uranium steel alloy is the question. And I meant more like disaster proof, though ALL LIVING THINGS THAT DARE CRACK MY WALL-proof works too
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Meh, you'd probably have to mine it yourself.
Ahh, like more of a storm shelter rather than a nuclear bomb war shelter, eh? 
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A little of both. Like for a "Dream" house I look for something semi-embedded in the earth that would be strong enough to withstand tornados and hurricanes, decent blast (possibly a lower bunker for radiation or bombings) protection. Also given the frame is blase protective, I'd want it to be able to withstand an earthquake too. Like make it a solid fixture independent of foundation. Still HAVE a foundation, but make it so that if an earthquake happened, or something else, my house would be a solid frame. And then possibly have it be watertight as well for floods, maybe have built in bags that I can inflate, that would like have my house float ark style in such an emergency.
As you can see, the dream house is essentially a fortress, which is why it needs to be smaller. Trying to scale that up would be a task nigh impossible to accomplish.
Of course, as far as power is concerned, I had many a thought. Since I don't plan for it to float unless need be, maybe have geothermal rods in the ground, as well as something akin to those flashlights that you shake to power (use siesmic energy as a power source). Solar panels are a must, and maybe have a water wheel frame in storage, that I could mount to the house in flood emergencies to use.
Really complicated, almost like a child drawing a super robot with 50 bajillion bits and pieces
But still, I can dream.
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But, a more realistic and possibly achievable life goal I really have is to have a garage in which a car could be parked. ... Yes I'm serious.
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Pffft, garages. What are you, some kinda rich folk?
But your idea sounds lovely. It'd probably be a sight better to visit than my house
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Heh, by my mom's buying trend, you'd certainly think so. It's not cool to see brand new or semi-new things going unused or underused, some of which I'm too embarrassed to mention.
Heh, good 'ol .
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Then I won't ask you to mention them! But yeah, I know that feeling. I now have a laptop that beats my 4 year old desktop, and now the desktop is just sort of sitting there
Totally meaning to do something with it, but alas, I am too lazy to sit at my desk. I am one with my couch overlords now
Though that might be due to my desk in my room being tiny. I loved sitting at the desk at my old dorm room.
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I know the feels man.
Except I dominantly use my desktop for everything. A laptop with a 24" screen would be fairly wonky. (It's provided years of service though, and has 120 more rows of pixels than full HD.)
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Mine is 17.3" screen, and 1080p
Then again it's giant compared to my work laptop. A tiny little 13" Macbook. (They provide them for us, along with a second monitor)
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Cool. Additional monitors are definitely a good option as well. Perhaps someday I'll be a laptop only guy, when 3.5" HDD are a thing of the past, though I'd then have to find a laptop that supported two drives at once. ^^
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Dude, there are laptops like that out there already
I personally have one with a 128GB SSD, and a 1TB Harddrive.
Besides, 2.5" HDD are pretty much as good as 3.5". I think they are up to 2-3GB on a 2.5" drive.
Hell, I've seen a laptop that can have 3-4 HDD installed!
There is a catch, they are a teensy bit more expensive. They are those customizable dealies
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I know, I've helped someone with one, but I'm fairly particular. For instance, I will NOT accept a laptop that uses a power supply which has a third conductor at the end of it's plug, (that just spells planned obsolesce and trouble), and they must have Harman/Kardon speakers. But yeah, a 120 SSD and 1TB HDD sounds about right, however, what's the speed of that HDD? 5400 or 7200 RMP? My desktop uses a 120GB SSD for the system and, two HDDs for documents and redundancy (1TB and 500GB), and another 120GB for Photoshop scratch. (I was originally going to use the second SSD for frequently accessed documents, but the 1TB was much faster than the 500GB drive I was using it just blew my mind.
I think you meant TB, but no worries, I do that a lot myself. ^^
4 would be ideal.
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Third conductor? you mean the third prong?
Also 7200 RPM. They were having a special sale, so I was able to upgrade from a 750GB 5400RPM drive to a 1TB 7200RPM drive for no additional charge
And yes, I really meant TB
I mostly see two or three, and you do four if you sacrifice the DVD drive slot. Also any reason for the speakers preference? I mean I like music too, but usually I'm a headset guy. I don't often broadcast.
Speaking of which, here is the laptop I ordered recently. It's pretty awesome, and it was a good price for the hardware. triton.towson.edu/~jcorra3/spe…
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Yes, generally a center pin type prong.
Awesome!
When we looked at Costco, we noticed they didn't even have an optical drive, just a HDD!
The reason for the speakers is for presentation purposes and if I were to watch something, I usually have someone with me, and barely being able to hear doesn't cut it.
Nice! I see you got a real laptop, nVidia chipset too! Mine's just for my shop. Here's what I got: www.toshiba.com/us/computers/l… for $565.20, refurbished. 
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So why don't you like those? I don't see why it'd hurt, and most/all "hefty" computing devices have them. Tell me your secrets Electric Man.
Also yeah, most people don't bother with optical drives, it's crazy @_@
Even if I don't use disc's anymore, I still have one just in case (especially in the case of OS installation)
And okie dokie. But if you bought speakers already, couldn't you use them in conjunction with the laptop, rather than making it a new requirement? It'd be like recycling, plus stuffing speakers in laptops isn't the best acoustic decision. Though I have seen a laptop with a built in subwoofer, it's a BEAST. (though surprisingly 17.3" screen, and about 1" thick
And nice, for that price it's pretty awesome!
Oh mom
Also I have a PSX emulator with ROM's too! I actually copied them over on this laptop, haven't had a chance to get into them again.
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Depends. If there's a third prong, and it's thick, (i.e., capable of current), and the power supply explicitly indicates two different voltages, then that's one thing I'd be willing to accept, especially if it was a common voltage value, 3.3, 5, 12, 18, 36, 48, etc. But it's still wonky because it's a special supply rather than your garden variety 19V laptop supply. Then there's the other, more common situation, in which the labeling on the power supply indicates a single voltage and the pin is fairly thin, (i.e., not capable of current). So there's the secret. Now, I have to ask, how many pins does the supply you use have?
Yes, definitely OS installation.
They make external optical drives too. 
It's great for the price.
Yeah, my dad carries on the more valuable laptops, (yes, 3 total, two for work (timesheet & testing), and the old HP as his personal one).
I used ePSXe. I even got a PS2 emulator to work, but I haven't had time for any games.
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DEAR STARS ABOVE, THAT IS A HUGE FAIL. And my desktop and this new laptop have 3. Not that it effects them much (opposed to the Dell thing). I always just thought it was a ground pin. Semi-useless, but alright to have in the event of an electrical shock hazard. At least that what it does for appliances. Also, my laptop power brick is rated 19.5V
And yeah, I know they have external, but that seems to be such a hassle. And I know the feeling, my friends had laptops and we would try to share videos with each other, and need USB speakers to amplify the sound.
Also, my friend had to get one of those, but only because his line out actually broke. When I first saw that thing, I was like "whut, USB audio jack?". It's like, I'm a computer guy (mostly software/os admittedly) but I should have expected that. I mean what CAN'T USB do at this point?
Oh jeez, 3 laptops juggling, crazy. I always had one, though now because of work it is two. MacBooks are an odd sort, but they are pretty good. (this coming from a guy who didn't have to foot the bill for it
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Whoa, hold up man. Don't compare apples and oranges. I was only referring to DC connectors on laptop power supplies. On your desktop you're plugging in a cord from the wall to the power supply, much like the cord plugging into the laptop power supply. The wall outlet is just raw AC power, 120VAC here in the US for your typical outlet, (240V for dryers and ranges/ovens, and some window A/C units). Yes, the third prong is ground to help protect your equipment and help with filtering: www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h… This because the neutral is used as a return line for the circuit, therefore has a potential greater than the ideal 0V earth ground. If you ever looked inside your breaker box, you'll notice that electrically your neutral and ground are all tied together, but the ground wire is closer to earth ground because it's not carrying a load.
Now, a desktop computer power supply has many conductors, +-5V, +-12V, 3.3V +5V standby, Power Good signal, etc. but it's a standard. The only legitimate reason they have for using a data pin a laptop power supply is so an underrated power supply won't be stressed, but I contend as a power user that it should be left up to the user, (not to mention the supplies will shut off if they can't handle the load). It's just not worth the hassle, and unfortunately, it sounds like you have one so I'll be avoiding that brand.
Exactly. Separate speakers would be a hassle for me.
Universal Serial Busses are awesome!
I hear that. I know a few have tablets with air cards they don't have to foot the bill on!
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What? Apples and oranges are both round, fruits, and acidic in nature! It's quite similar!
Also I was just saying what I thought, I wasn't trying to assert anything. I am merely unedumacated
Oh, so you were angry at the data pin, not the third ground pin? I don't think mine has any fancy data stuff to it. I've been able to usually swap a 3 prong to a two prong version if I needed a replacement cable.
Or maybe I'm misunderstanding again. My brick looks pretty much like any other brick that I've seen, and it's got a ground pin. That's all I know for certain. Is there any sort of photo, or a label you want me to read off to find out for certain?
Not going to lie, between what you are trying to avoid (data pin?) and what I mentioned (the ground pin), are confusing me
I don't know what is a synonym of what anymore.
Also yes, USB is my waifu.
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I have to say, there are a few power supplies that would accept both, a range of voltages, AC or DC. Even most CFLs will accept AC or DC, some from ~85-200V.
That's why I elaborated.
You can never have enough ground pins. The physical SATA interface alternates conductors between ground and data. Ground is awesome and good. (Ground loops are bad though, but that's another beast altogether.)
To make it clear, I'm explicitly referring to the connector that plugs into the laptop from the supply, not form the wall to the supply. That's the story teller.
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Ah. Well then how do I read this story?
Is there a part of the label or something I can look at? Because I don't know if it has this extra pin. Which to be honest I've never heard of except in UPS's with fancy data software.
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They wouldn't want to make it obvious. 
Also, my UPS is a 400 watt DC inverter with a custom switchover power strip plugged into it. The batteries are charged via a laptop power supply regulated down via a linear regulator and a solar panel charge controller. I ran my computer for almost an hour with it once.
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That dell one looks like a coaxial cable. And mine looks ordinary, no little pin. I'm safe, huzzah!
Also neato! I've been wanting to get a UPS. But since I hibernate my desktop between uses, I haven't had to worry. Now if I build my own little web server, I am definitely going to use one.
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!
I hear ya. A laptop has it's own nice little UPS.
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Well, our external Comcast IP never changes, from my experience. Though I've only experimented with hosting a little bit. Usually for a month. I usually just install WAMP on my desktop, and run it from time to time to play around.
I already have a domain name picked out too! (Though I won't mention it here so no one buys it before I do << )
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YAY WAMP! 
That's always a hard decision. I would've gone with alh.com, but it was already taken. Heh, imagine that. ^_^
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Though I'm learning WAMP has limitations. I'm thinking of running a linux distro in a VM, and running my own stack rather than a bundle. Get it all nice and customized.
Also I too had a Web Development elective! It's what got me started in PHP (that I now program in as a career!). I went out of scope for my final project, and made my own bulletin board. You could make threads, post in the topics, etc. And you could register too 
At work we use MAMP Pro for local development. And we use GIT to keep track of code changes. Then when we are done on our computers, we push it to our dev server at work, and then from there, we push our changes to the live sites.
As for my domain name, I'll send it to you in our next note randomly. I think it's pretty nice, and it's a nice .net domain too.
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That'd certainly work.
I still have to say, not sure how well I could function as a full time web programmer. I'd suspect people would drive me crazy.
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Hey, I've come a long way since then!
And yes, you would be completely correct in your suspicions.
The programming and my coworkers are a blast, it's mostly being assigned too little time to too big of a project as of late.
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I'm sure you have!
Ah-ha!
I remember whenever I was working on a program, PHP/C++/whatever, I'd always get idea right before going to sleep. But seeing it finally work as expected, along with the hardware using microcontrollers, is always very rewarding! But yeah, scheduling and time allocation is always the problem it seems. That's why I don't give ETAs for plushies unless explicitly asked, and then I'll be vague.
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XP Yup, you caught me.
Also neato. I never really worked with microcontrollers myself. I'm more an algorithms guy. Sorting, crunching numbers, sometimes drawing images (usually with PHP since I haven't gotten the hang of "graphical" parts of C++ or Java)
It is quite rewarding though. One of my bigger personal projects was making a fractions class, then making spigot algorithms to generate numbers. Like ln(x), Pi, or e.
It works better as fractions because those numbers can be represented as fractional series' and operating as fractions lets everything stay as integers, and avoids rounding problems accumulating throughout. I had to do that THRICE. First in PHP when I was bored at work, then in Java when I wanted serious performance/power, and then AGAIN in Java when I lost my work computer due to a faulty harddrive cable (I had to let work take it and get it sent to the Mac Shop, we aren't allowed to open them ourselves).
Since then I've been using my own personal GIT repo to store my programming work!
Anyways, that expanded a bit
But yeah, I wish I could control the ETA. The guys upstairs said "yeah, we can get you this full ERP ntegration for your storefront in less than a month!"
*month later* "Okay, by THIS month"
*deadline* "Okay we have two weeks to do this"
And it's like JEEZ, DO YOU GUYS EVER THINK TO ASK THE DEVELOPERS FOR AN ESTIMATE!?
It's like ever spade full of dirt we dig from the project requirements, a landslide pulls in three buckets full. This ERP is a big unknown, and translating between the two systems is hard enough. AND they work almost completely differently to do the same thing.
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There are certainly specialized fields even in programming. Oh wow, keep the numbers as pure fractions, eh? Sounds pretty serious.
I have to be honest, I reuse stuff here and there, but not enough to have GIT. I can see how that'd be super handy though.
Yes, my dad was told in March or so that he'd be off the job by June. (He's a contractor and currently working on the security camera system and some HVAC at a few weather satellite facilities). Needless to say, there's a lot of work left to do, and of all things, he's been fiddling with cable labeling (or re-labeling rather) because they don't have many people to do it. On a side note, he also said they're using annoying proprietary software to print the labels to a regular laser printer rather than using a Word template.
But yeah, perhaps that's their strategy to get a bite. "We'll tell 'em it'll take this long, even though we know it'll actually take longer. "
I actually had a financial advisor that my dad did business with who asked me if I could take a look at a certain SQL database they had because they needed that data moved into a newer database. I thought about it for quite a while, and it may have been a great opportunity, but eventually I was like... "I think I'll stay out of this." I'm sure I could've done it, write a PHP script to transfer everything from the old data base to the new one, even if I had to meddle with the potential of mixed types. But my experience with databases is really limited to that one final project I did, so I was in no position that I could give an estimate.
Also, the UIFILE resource in the ExplorerFrame.dll of Windows 8 is in raw HEX rather than readable XML like the Win 7 dll. I also tried various other things with Old New Explorer and shellstyle.dll but stopped short of replacing ExplorerFrame.dll with the Win 7 dll. I fear that would cause trouble I don't really want to have to fix, so sadly I haven't been able to replicate the narrow line spacing in Win 8. I'd also bring back Windows Classic if I could! There's somewhat of a fix for that, but the "_ □ X" in the top right corner didn't show up on some windows even though it was really still there, and the titlebar on some windows was transparent. 
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We use GIT at work all the time, we have a main development server to work on client sites, and each developer has a local copy they develop on. When we are done our pieces, we commit them to the branch, and pull them onto our server. Then when we are all done, and the dev server copy gets QA'd, we then push the repository up to their live server.
Though having my own is something I started doing recently. It's semi-fun to have around.
Guh, one of the constants of working is that stuff never stops piling up.
And also I'd be careful with database stuff. It really depends. Newer hardware? Or a new platform altogether?
Because migrating to a new platform, like MySQL to Postgres to Oracle to MSSQL, etc, those get near impossible
They all do foreign keys differently, have their own versions of the SQL language going on, and then MSSQL hates PHP for some odd reason.
If it didn't, then I'd have done our new integration using their ERP MSSQL database instead of this SOAP (fancy XML) bullcrap!
D: I'll give it a looksee and research it if I can.
I tried for about 15-20 minutes. Everything is for Win7 ;-;
The best I could find was this www.explorerxp.com/
It does have tighter line spacing than normal.
Also a *possible* registry tweak: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\IconVerticalSpacing
It's a bit weird, but it may help.
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Ooohhh, you're referring to the software GIT, (that I was completely unaware of), as opposed to a general global table of sorts. (And it's free I see! ) Not something I think I could use unless I started something big or commonly had programs over 1,000 lines.
Exactly, and I imagine that's what they wanted me to take a look at to determine if I could do it and what it would take. But yeah, I think moving anything to a newer platform is a big undertaking. Even with microcontrollers of the same family, I discovered that the ATmega328 chokes on a 0 us delay while the ATtiny84 or 85 doesn't seem to have a problem. (I realize that probably amounts to mere couple of clock cycles or so, but still.)
Oh, that's because M$ has their own web programming language too, ASP. How dare you try to use something open source! 
That Explorer XP actually looks promising. And just so you no, I'm not making demands here, just venting some frustration. But I much appreciate any help, just don't put too much time into a nitpick of mine.
I saw that registry value, haven't played with it yet, but that's probably because the value doesn't seem to correspond to anything I'd expect. Traditional spacing is 17 pixels, the Vista/7 spacing is a gaping 22 pixels, (22.7% less information in any given vertical space). I might try moving a number of system files form 7 to see if I can't invoke the explorer.exe from it after terminating the one running on 8. I doubt it'd work, but I guess I could at least try! And if it did work, I might be able to make a batch file to do that for me every time I logged in.
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XD Oooooooh. Well then, was not aware of this. Also yes, I frequently do a lot of side projects.
Now they never amount to anything, but oh well
Now if it's a NEWER version of the SAME platform, you are in much more luck possibly. I forgot to mention that obvious case
Yeah there is SQL the pure theoretical standard, I know Oracle has PL/SQL, microsoft has TSQL, and the other ones try to follow the standard, but none are really 100%.
And dear god yes, ASP.NET is horrible. Well maybe not inherently, but we have a few clients we are converting FROM that, and they are almost always flat ASP files for everything, and SO sloppy! It's just simply horrid
I know you aren't, but it's a shame to see you so bummed by a few pixels, I just want to be able to help! I hope that ExplorerXP works out! And no worries, I'm not losing sleep over it. I know when I'm hitting dead ends, and when to stop.
Also, I want to say good luck, buuuuuuut I also want to say I severely doubt that'll work >.<
Also also, here is another link. The Cubic Explorer looks pretty decent as well www.techrepublic.com/blog/five…
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Aww. Maybe someday. I know I've at least been able to enjoy my clock.
Yes, of course!
Where's W3 when you need 'em!? Oh that's right, people and companies do what they want anyway.
I see how converting anything from one language to another would be pretty "eww" even in general.
Well, my point is simply why have a bigger screen if all of a sudden they take away it's advantage! I mean, come on! I go to the details view for more details, and suddenly there's less than before.
OOooo, and it has the right spacing too! I may well go with that. Don't want to spend much longer fiddling with it. It's a shame 3rd party solutions have to make up for such downgrades and lack of foresight. That's why we have things like this: www.startisback.com/ My hopes were good for 7, and it's been good, (just got better since I discovered that fix), and of course 8 was bad as per Windows' history, but why do I have an uneasy feeling about 9? Supposedly debuts tomorrow the 30th.
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I enjoy them immensly. But who wants a fraction class that generates Pi, or a sieving class for primes? We have other methods, and thousands of computers ahead of me
I will never NOT enjoy doing it, but I am aware that everything I do is a hobby, as well as practice to keep myself sharp.
Meh, the W3 isn't that powerful. I mean look at CSS. It has a standard, and EVERY SINGLE BROWSER HAS TO ADD THEIR OWN LITTLE FLAGS TO EVERYTHING
I suppose so, sorry I can't reallllly relate
Though I am glad it works for you
And yeah, I've heard about Win9 as well. It's really got a bad smell too it.
It feels too soon, and EVERYONE WANTS IT because they think Win8 is Vista now.
I swear, I've had to debate with so many people about it. People literally think Win8 is an inferior OS because of the start menu going away.
Yes, it's uncomfortable, yes it broke the mold. But so did Win95 in adding the damned menu!
But my big point is yes I agree the start menu was nice, but that alone is not enough to merit an OS garbage!
It has many performance upgrades, security upgrades, and various miscellaneous features I adore!
Such as the new task manager, or the new file copy interface and the ability to pause, the trusted execution bit support, the ability to boot from USB, and if it's removed pause itself until reinserted rather than crash violently, the better start speed, and better wifi detection and connection protocols and the easy network streaming locally and the ---
*Explodes*
But yeah, I'll be looking out and checking out win9. Might download a copy to run in a virtual machine for practice. I hear it's free for Win8 users. Though I'd wait a season or two for all the bugs to be discovered and worked out.
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Sounds good to me! Enjoyment counts.
HAHA! Of course.
Haven't tried it yet, just saw the screen shots. ^^'
Adding something new is one thing, taking something away means it could, and likely will be missed, especially something commonly used. I wouldn't say 8 is inferior, (per-se, depends on application), but there's something about alienating your current 20+ year consumer base that seems inherently stupid. The new task manager is pretty cool, but I detest the new file copy interface in that it hides the file differences, even of a single file behind an extra click. A drop in the bucket one could say, but then you have to click again to check the file you want, and again to confirm. (That's 3 vs. 1) A few hundreds of drops later you have a bucket filling with water. I like the comparison of multiple files at once, I really do, but don't make it unnecessarily mandatory. Cubic Explorer may be my answer!
So, am I hearing right that Windows 8 can boot from USB? Is it still tied to one computer?
Depending on how things go with 9, I might get an extra copy of 7 just in case.
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It's not so much them adding or taking. It's moooossstly the vendor specific prefixes like -moz -o -webkit...
Oh, you started talking about Win8
Like I said, the removal of the start menu isn't what I call a good idea, far from it
I just meant that people started saying that it was horrible as an OS for this. UI isn't 100% of what makes an OS.
Maybe it's just the nitpicky person I am. I agree that the Start menu should have carried over, but I don't agree with people's rash judgement on it as a whole.
I mean I understand this from non-power users whose lives are the start menu, but even POWER USERS were getting on my nerves.
As far as I know the USB part is tied to the USB device? I haven't had a chance to actually look into that. I just know the graceful pause feature blew my mind at the time.
(also go for it, I might stash a copy of 7 as well)
Now I skipped one of your things, which was the file copy part. Because I mean I copied tons of files when I set this thing up in the past two or three weeks, but I don't seem to recall what you are talking about.
Between that and the line spacing (which I recognize now but can't relate with in terms of impact), I feel like a lot gets by me since we started this conversation. @_@;
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I hear ya. And no, it doesn't make it technically horrible, just... barely usable if people have to spend time re-learning something they shouldn't have to. UI isn't the OS at work, but just like a website, it can either make for a great or frustrating experience. (blender 3D comes to mind.) And if you ask me, I'd say we both have nitpicks. We probably wouldn't be human if we didn't!
I admit, the thing I miss about the start menu was being able to simply click it, type something in, and it immediately pop up. Convenient, nice, and easy. But now, as a UI expert worth their salt would tell you, popping up that metro screen all of a sudden throws the user for a double take. You can still type stuff in, but you actually have to navigate to the opposite corner of the screen and click before you can start typing. Not a good UI decision, not a good experience. 
When I copied files, it also paused it when the drive hung up a few times, so I liked that!
(^^)
I mean copying a file to a location that has another file with the same name. I'm always updating and backing up my work, so that could get annoying real quick and I always check because occasionally I've worked off the wrong drive.
Heheh. Another complaint of mine with Windows 8... You can't change the font color of the text in the taskbar or the window titles. Sure, I love customization obviously, but this was a visibility problem. I had to find a third party program to make the taskbar opaque for one. The continuing problem is the taskbar the font is white, and in the window title font is close to black. If the theme color is a light tint, the taskbar text is hard to read. If it's a dark shade, the window titles are hard to read. My only solution was setting the theme color to black so I could read the taskbar font and the window titles of all open windows except for the active window, (in which the title virtually disappears unless you look real close at the dark gray font). This also makes for a bad and unsatisfactory user experience. It's almost like they didn't even think it through or care to check.
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I hate to do this, but I can't respond to all of those XD;
I will say I totally feel you on Blender, that program is confusing.
And jeez, so many problems. And they all whizzed past me @.@
I don't really have anything constructive to say about them though.
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No big man!
The white highlighting doesn't help on the taskbar either. I'd be so happy if they brought the Windows Classic skin back instead of that skinned junk, unless you actually have a choice and I haven't noticed yet. I might try this:
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