20130311 - Love For Sale
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plonqAll you need is...
I think I may have mentioned at the start of the year that I would not always be posting a picture on the day when it was taken - though in this case I am being a bit obvious about it by posting yesterday's picture with tomorrow's date.
We met my brother and his wife for dinner today, and he mentioned on the phone that I should bring my camera if I wanted to capture a picture of discarded love. We forgot about the picture until after dinner, and by the time we got back to the photo opportunity, the sun was long since a memory.
Even though we were a ways back, the 35mm lens did not quite give me enough field of view for a good shot, so I swapped to the slower zoom lens and shot this at 18mm, using the flash. In retrospect, I think I would have done a couple of things differently if I could go back and take this picture again. I would have selected a higher ISO setting, opened up the aperture a bit more, used the flash diffuser and pointed the flash slightly off-centre. Or taken the picture before it got dark.
My new keyboard is much glowier than my previous one, but at least it has mechanical keys with a satisfying "tick" when I type.
There is a new computer attached to this keyboard (not pictured here) that I will be spending the next few days configuring. It is almost depressing when I think on how much I need to install and set up on the new machine to get it up to speed. On the other hand, new computer! (Squee!)
I was going to put Windows 7 on it, but I decided to bite the bullet and go with 8. I often end up as the go-to guy for help with these things, and I figured I may as well learn my way around it.
From what I have been reading, once you get past all "different is bad" noise, the consensus seems to be that it is all-around better and faster than 7. My original intention was to do whatever hack was necessary to bring back the start button/menu, but after about ten minutes of playing, I decided that I probably won't bother. I was not having much difficulty navigating my way around without it.
I think I may have mentioned at the start of the year that I would not always be posting a picture on the day when it was taken - though in this case I am being a bit obvious about it by posting yesterday's picture with tomorrow's date.
We met my brother and his wife for dinner today, and he mentioned on the phone that I should bring my camera if I wanted to capture a picture of discarded love. We forgot about the picture until after dinner, and by the time we got back to the photo opportunity, the sun was long since a memory.
Even though we were a ways back, the 35mm lens did not quite give me enough field of view for a good shot, so I swapped to the slower zoom lens and shot this at 18mm, using the flash. In retrospect, I think I would have done a couple of things differently if I could go back and take this picture again. I would have selected a higher ISO setting, opened up the aperture a bit more, used the flash diffuser and pointed the flash slightly off-centre. Or taken the picture before it got dark.
My new keyboard is much glowier than my previous one, but at least it has mechanical keys with a satisfying "tick" when I type.
There is a new computer attached to this keyboard (not pictured here) that I will be spending the next few days configuring. It is almost depressing when I think on how much I need to install and set up on the new machine to get it up to speed. On the other hand, new computer! (Squee!)
I was going to put Windows 7 on it, but I decided to bite the bullet and go with 8. I often end up as the go-to guy for help with these things, and I figured I may as well learn my way around it.
From what I have been reading, once you get past all "different is bad" noise, the consensus seems to be that it is all-around better and faster than 7. My original intention was to do whatever hack was necessary to bring back the start button/menu, but after about ten minutes of playing, I decided that I probably won't bother. I was not having much difficulty navigating my way around without it.
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Date: 2013-03-11 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-13 08:28 pm (UTC)Win8 really shines on a touchscreen, but I suppose it would work just fine with a mouse. It's fairly well-designed.
To get the start menu back, I think you just need to change one option in the registry. That might just give you the button that still takes you to that fancy new start screen, though.
What I've done is make a taskbar toolbar to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs.
Leave the toolbar title in place (it'll say "Programs") and shrink it down until there's just that double-arrow button. Clicking on that will pop up a list of everything in the start menu, just like older Windows.
(You'll need to periodically copy all your user programs over, though, or keep two menus, or find some other solution, because the way the Start menu used to work is it combined a bunch of system-level links with user-specific links.)
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Date: 2013-03-14 07:56 pm (UTC)If you will, gauge how a business user (needing multiple apps running at same time in same screen) will find Windows 8? Not looking at it from a Home PC standard but something for a business.
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Date: 2013-03-14 09:35 pm (UTC)