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08/04/2009 13:01 #49456
Agnetha FaltskogCategory: music
07/29/2009 14:41 #49408
A complete minimalistic reformatCategory: i-tech
I had a nice wake-up scare this weekend and lost some newer revisions of my dissertation. I am not sure entirely what happened but overnight, some of my revised copies went back to their earlier versions with all their glorious little ancient mistakes. It was a very painful weekend. My dissertation is now backed up in 4 more places. My laptop looks like this:
Source:
Yeah, it really does.
I am on a cleaning up and backing up mission and I think I want to go back to the bare-bones aggressively slipstreamed Win XP version that booted in 14 seconds in another life long long long back. I have so many programs here that I have no idea about. I have some piece of obscure software that simultaneously displays weather and forecast in 10 cities. For some reason that I don't have the faintest clue about, one of the cities is Kathmandu, Nepal. Really? What was I thinking??! That is insane, even for me. Did I plan an ill-fated climb of the Mt. Everest in one of my nightmares?? That .exe just went into oblivion trash.
I have no less than 6 Java updates installed! Innumerable re-installs of Firefox and Opera with stray shortcuts ALL OVER the place.This is a living nightmare.
I am whittling it down. Maybe I should just stick to these in the next install
Browser:
Firefox.
Documents
Word 2007
MikTeX
Books/Articles
Adobe Pro
CutePDF
PDF Unlocker
Citations
Bibtex4Word
Jabref
Statistics
R
G*Power3
Visual Media
MPC
ffdshow
Audio
Foobar2000
SRS Labs Plugin
RealAlt Plugin
Mp3Tag
Art
Paint.NET
ArtRage
IrfanView
IRC/Phone
Skype
Neebly
Utilities
Winkey
TaskSwitchXP Pro
7zip
CCleaner
FreeCommander
Do you have better alternatives? :)
Source:
Yeah, it really does.
I am on a cleaning up and backing up mission and I think I want to go back to the bare-bones aggressively slipstreamed Win XP version that booted in 14 seconds in another life long long long back. I have so many programs here that I have no idea about. I have some piece of obscure software that simultaneously displays weather and forecast in 10 cities. For some reason that I don't have the faintest clue about, one of the cities is Kathmandu, Nepal. Really? What was I thinking??! That is insane, even for me. Did I plan an ill-fated climb of the Mt. Everest in one of my nightmares?? That .exe just went into oblivion trash.
I have no less than 6 Java updates installed! Innumerable re-installs of Firefox and Opera with stray shortcuts ALL OVER the place.This is a living nightmare.
I am whittling it down. Maybe I should just stick to these in the next install
Browser:
Firefox.
Documents
Word 2007
MikTeX
Books/Articles
Adobe Pro
CutePDF
PDF Unlocker
Citations
Bibtex4Word
Jabref
Statistics
R
G*Power3
Visual Media
MPC
ffdshow
Audio
Foobar2000
SRS Labs Plugin
RealAlt Plugin
Mp3Tag
Art
Paint.NET
ArtRage
IrfanView
IRC/Phone
Skype
Neebly
Utilities
Winkey
TaskSwitchXP Pro
7zip
CCleaner
FreeCommander
Do you have better alternatives? :)
- NB: I think I might need to update this thread - I have so many random things on my laptop, its ridiculous.
- : Wow that image is so tiny, the font became unreadable... I thought the width limit for (e:strip) was 600 pixels. Apparently not...
tinypliny - 07/29/09 19:23
Here is the fun part. I write everything is TeX and then instead of sitting back and gazing at the perfection in formatting, I see a stressful email from my committee asking me what latex is - "is it a rubber-grip gel pen"?
Other comments I have got through these years include: "Where is the .doc?" "I can't 'track changes' and mark up that PDF you sent". "Can you send the [underline, italic, double stressed]WORD [/u,i,ds] version. "Do you know how to make documents in Word?". "I only use Word". "Word works for other students, why can't you behave and turn in a Word .doc?". "Long document work perfectly in word, what is crazy software you use?" "Your TOC is very nice, but where is your word document".
It's pretty nauseating really. I can't quite get into the mood to actually laugh the last laugh. :)
Here is the fun part. I write everything is TeX and then instead of sitting back and gazing at the perfection in formatting, I see a stressful email from my committee asking me what latex is - "is it a rubber-grip gel pen"?
Other comments I have got through these years include: "Where is the .doc?" "I can't 'track changes' and mark up that PDF you sent". "Can you send the [underline, italic, double stressed]WORD [/u,i,ds] version. "Do you know how to make documents in Word?". "I only use Word". "Word works for other students, why can't you behave and turn in a Word .doc?". "Long document work perfectly in word, what is crazy software you use?" "Your TOC is very nice, but where is your word document".
It's pretty nauseating really. I can't quite get into the mood to actually laugh the last laugh. :)
zobar - 07/29/09 16:36
Are you seriously doing your thesis in TeX? I learned LaTeX on a whim twelve years ago because I thought HTML [comp sci] and Word [everything else] made my school reports look ghastly. They called me a lunatic, but who's laughing now? Nobody, because we've all forgotten about it.
- Z
Are you seriously doing your thesis in TeX? I learned LaTeX on a whim twelve years ago because I thought HTML [comp sci] and Word [everything else] made my school reports look ghastly. They called me a lunatic, but who's laughing now? Nobody, because we've all forgotten about it.
- Z
07/19/2009 10:01 #49330
Noel Coward!Category: music
Indeed. Hahaha...
07/16/2009 23:21 #49312
Niagara Falls is a Ghost TownYou want proof? Behold the hard annotated evidence!*
You begin to have your first suspicions when you see these random dinghies packed with people who wear a regimented attire of a blue flimsy plastic...
...in preparation of sailing face to face with a mighty waterfall that can crush your bones into powder if it crashed on you.
In the wild multinational excitement that surrounds this dinghy trip, you take leave of your senses, suspend your suspicions and pay $13.50 to be loaded on to a wobbly vessel wearing the cult attire.
The dinghy sails past this structure know
You begin to have your first suspicions when you see these random dinghies packed with people who wear a regimented attire of a blue flimsy plastic...
...in preparation of sailing face to face with a mighty waterfall that can crush your bones into powder if it crashed on you.
In the wild multinational excitement that surrounds this dinghy trip, you take leave of your senses, suspend your suspicions and pay $13.50 to be loaded on to a wobbly vessel wearing the cult attire.
The dinghy sails past this structure know
- a.k.a the virtual Maid of the Mist tour captured enthusiastically through a soaked lens by a wildly excited 1st time tourist. ;-)
07/14/2009 21:26 #49293
Delaware and SummerCategory: e:strip
I was out grocery shopping and guess whom I heard honking at me while I was crossing the road?
Heh. That was funny, (e:enknot). :)
Heh. That was funny, (e:enknot). :)
Yes, actually I do remember them! I used to dance around the living room pertending to be a rockstar. I think there is an old snap shot. I will have to look or it, but it was definately ABBA I was singing my heart out too! My mom and I were listening just the other day to ABBA Gold. We are in the process of learning how to record vinyl to cd.