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I was gonna put Google Chrome on my macbook pro, but dang they only got it for the windows people.
WTF?
oh well I can wait, I just downloaded firefox 3.0 and it works pretty nicely.
It just comes to show, windows is still supreme in priority of developers.

So the McNugget blogs again. Has it really been that long? Well a lot has happened and I won't even go into it. Basically I can sum it up as, people suck (not all but a lot of em) and computers suck. People and computers. Ain't that a kick in the ass - I can't win either way, human or machine. Animals are better, but mine tend to crap all the time and I'm always cleaning up shit, whether figuratively with humans and computers or with the physical crap lovingly created by animals. I wake up and feel like I'm in the Osbournes reality show. I smell coffee brewing along with the aroma of dog poo. The dog was housebroken til he got old, now he can't get up quick enough to go outside and the morning routine is often picking up dog crap, washing his blanket and getting ready to do it all over again the next day. But I digress....

My beautiful install of Ubuntu Linux is now gone because of a faulty fucking hard drive I installed it on. All the work I did the past two days is gone. I will never get those days back and the one thing I hate more than anything in God's universe is doing the same shit over and over and over. So I can't go out or get any actual "work" done today, I have to sit in my office and do a complete reinstall and tweak everything back to how I had it when it all worked perfectly. Most of my programs from winxp can be used on Linux, which is a fantastic OS until the hard drive ruined everything. My xp runs on 3.2gig dual core so that fucker had best not slow down or die. I hear Micro isn't going to support xp anymore and the hell if I'm going to Vista if I can help it. As it is, I have nearly everything I need on Linux Ubuntu now, with exception of a few web authoring programs that are made for xp. Even then, it depends what language they were written in, as a lot of things made for xp can be installed on Linux. The fucking clincher is that the stable OS, Linux got installed on a faulty Hard drive. The crash was hardware related, not software. I guess it's better Linux was destroyed because all of their FREE programs are simply downloaded again....Windows bullshit? HA!!! Swish, other programs all want a new reg-key, and it depends what jackass company you deal with--some will automatically send you a new reg-key license because they have you on file as having PAID for the software. Another like Moyea video FLV converter? If your computer crashes and you have no reg-key, it's fuck you Charley - buy it again. Nope, I'm a Linux girl now, I'll find me a freebie.

So my stupid point in this rant is: Computers will always suck, pen and paper will always be superior for anything other than web authoring or things you actually NEED a computer for. Linux is reliable unless you put it on a sloppily made mass produced lemon of a hard drive.

At this point, I, the reluctant she-geek who would rather be outdoors, has 6 computers total, 5 in win xp, 1 HD on the big machine running Linux and then there's my MacBook laptop. Windows, Linux, Apple... I speak all three...now if I learned to speak Klingon I'd be a geek's wet dream.

Anyhow, I have to go fix things.....AGAIN. Fugly is one pissed off Nugget today.

The User account picture can be removed by turning off the Welcome Screen. Or, by switching to Windows Classic theme. Follow the method described in this article if you want to remove the username and picture from the Start Menu, without disabling the Welcome Screen and Windows XP Theme.

For those who want to remove the user name and user account picture from Start Menu, in order to have a blank blue panel at the top, try this:
Start Windows Explorer and go to this folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures

From that folder, rename the BMP file which corresponds to your user account.
( For example, if your username is Robert, rename Robert.bmp to old_Robert.bmp )
Next, rename the following folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures

to something else, say...

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\No_Default Pictures
To remove the user name, follow these steps

Start regedit.exe and navigate to the this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft\ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
In the right-pane, set NoUserNameInStartMenu value-data to 1

Close Regedit.exe and restart Windows.

You'll end up with a blue space at the top of the Start Menu.

Free & Easy Font Viewer for Windows XP.  Awesome.  :D

  Well, like the subject line says, it's just another day in paradise. Work sucked again friday. The machines broke down all day long again. A tank even got thrown at the head of one of my supervisors because of  a faulty belt. Oh well. We got out of there early, though. The union people were goin to vote on their new contract. I still haven't got dads puter runnin yet. I should have the money to get the parts I need today. That thing is gonna be speedy. I put an athlon xp 2400+ in it. Not much RAM though. Still looks to be quite a bit quicker than what I'm runnin right now. I plan on upgrading to the 64-bit platform soon, and move up to the high-end level. I'm goin to see Aime today. I miss her. We are goin out to eat with a couple of her friends then me and her may go see a movie or something. I may be moving to West Virginia next year. I hope that works out. Well, more later.