Draginol

Reply to Worst summer jobs in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I guess no one else here ever had a summer job.

Reply to DesktopX or HoverDesk in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm working on an article on customization that talks about all of them. I'm biased of course but it's a general run down on all of them.

Reply to where are you Doreen? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Doreen, that reminds me, could you tell me how to make a Litestep theme?

Reply to Worst summer jobs in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well yes, that just added to the suckitude of the job. Each check has the same bank number on it. We proof operators had to type the same 7 or so digit number on every check. But during lunch one day I went throught he manual and saw that the machines had a macro programming language. I programmed a "macro" to make it so that i could hit one of the function keys and it would automatically encode the 7 digit bank number. This greatly speeded things up. But my boss y

Reply to DesktopX or HoverDesk in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There's also Talisman from Lighttek. Each of the 3 has their own philosophies on how to let people customize their desktop. YOu just have to pick which one matches the way you work the closest.

Reply to Beauty or Intelligence? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Welcome to my world. I scare small children with my face yet have trouble with concepts like letters and numbers. Well, it's my favorite time of day, time to go scratch myself. Mmm. scratching.

Reply to After we die.. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hard to say. Creative people tend to give these issues a lot of thought. The collective wisdom of the people here could shed some really insight on the matter.

Reply to We want a screensavers section !!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Screensavers? Oye, what would be next? Windows themes? WAV files? I can see it now: Submission 1: "Doh.wav" Description: Homer saying Doh!. Submission 2: "Doh!.wav" Description: Homer saying Doh!. Submission 3: "Doh4.wav" Description: Homer saying Doh!. Submission 4: "Simpsons.wav" Description: Homer saying Doh!. Submission 5: "homer.wav" Description: Homer saying Doh!.

Life in hell doesn't sound that great in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Check out this hilarious article at The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/hijackers_surprised.html Excerpt: JAHANNEM, OUTER DARKNESS—The hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon expressed confusion and surprise Monday to find themselves in the lowest plane of Na'ar, Islam's Hell. "I was promised I would spend eternity in Paradise, being fed honeyed cakes by 67 virgins in a tree-lined garden, if only I would

After we die.. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You know, on this website we've debated everything.. Well...not everything. We've debated politics. We've debated ethics. We've debated capitalism (many times). But we haven't ever discussed religion. Can you believe that? My son asked me this weekend what happens to people when they die. I copped out on it and said that I didn't know because I haven't died before. But it got my wife and I thinking. What happens after we die?

Beauty or Intelligence? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If you had 10 points to distribute between beauty and intelligence (not wisdom), how would you distribute it? I'm probably more along the lines of 7 intelligence, 3 beauty. Well, to be perfectly honest, I think that I got ripped off and only got 8 points and well, let's just say 7 got put onto intelligence.. But I think I would split mine 6 to 4. Each year I find that intelligence isn't all it's cracked up to be. Wisdom doesn't necessarily take high intelligence, just effici

Reply to Worst summer jobs in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Let's see... I had a rather unpleasant job working as a proof machine operator. That takes some explainig. When you get your canceled checks back, you'll notice that at the bottom there is some computery looking type on them that has the amount of the check and your bank number. When you pay for something, your hand written chicken scratch doesn't magically go into computer. It has to be fed into a sorting machine. But before it can do that, someone or somethi

Reply to WB 3.0a and SkinStudio1.20b help please in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

WinCustomize is not a Stardock support forum. irc.stardock.com for IRC. (#stardock). Or the Stardock news groups. news://news.stardock.com. Good luck!

Counterstrike players in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Anyone here ever play Counterstrike? We actually have a server - cs.stardock.net with punkbuster installed (www.punkbuster.com). Who here plays that game? (I do!)

Reply to Website demographics in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well, on other sites they have topics like "What song as you listening to" Here, it's "how many bunyons do you have?"

Reply to Bye bye WinCustomize in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Jesh has some good ideas but to answer them: 1) Banners - they don't pay. They're a waste. 2) Mirror sites - lots of maintainence and pain. Don't really solve the problem. Look at the volatility (sp) of skin sites as is. Imagine how volatile of mirros would be. Who wants that headache? 3) Third party apps aren't sucking the bandwidth. It's the Stardock apps doing it. In fact, DesktopX uses more bandwidth here than all the third party sections combined. Plus, this sit

Reply to Bye bye WinCustomize in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Paxx, already done that. If you download more than 1 meg, you have to create an account. That's one of the reasons why we're getting 30,000 to 40,000 new accounts each month now (by the end of this year, we'll have more accounts than skinz.org had when it went down). But with a 1 meg limit, at least new casual users can come on and grab something real quick without having to create an account. And I totally agree with Paxx's statement. Everyone's seen how even the most awful skin or t

Reply to Successful marraiges in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Frogboy has Admin access. Admin means work. I don't like work. When I'm at home, I'm on as Draginol. Meaning, no admin access. No work. Site is quicker (admin options don't get displayed). Same guy, just different accounts. Frogboy/Draginol

Reply to Does the west lack the fortitude and courage to stand up for itself? in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

As long as you don't answer back to yourself.

Reply to Pixtudio Launches! in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

It's an incredible looking site.

Does the west lack the fortitude and courage to stand up for itself? in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

A stinging but appropriate parody is available at National Review. It points out how different the world might be today had our leaders in 1941 behaved like our leaders today seem to behave.

Reply to I'm sorry/embarassed!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Don't feel bad Snowman. Afterall, if this website were trying to force every user to pay money we'd deserved to be flamed. It's people like you and your vigilance that keeps websites honest and good. Draginol (aka Frogboy at home).

Reply to Virtual Communities in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What's GRC?

Reply to Bye bye WinCustomize in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Good questions Gorman. Consider this: 1) If having a skin site were a good marketing vehicle, then every application would have its own skin site. NeXTStart and Hoverdesk, for instance, rely on third party sites. If WinCustomize ceased to exist, SD could just point to the other skin sites. 2) Even if SD didn't point to other skin sites, it could simply have a database of say 35 "good" skins/themes that users could get and then sell skin packs for people who wanted

Reply to WinCustomize - September 2001 in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

The latter. There will eventually be something like: IF wcUser has downloaded > 5 megabytes this month AND wcUser has not registered SD software AND wcUser has not bought a CD or shirt or anything else THEN keep them from downloading more stuff until next month. Otherwise, the site becomes excrutiatingly slow for everyone.