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Published: 2006-02-15 13:00:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 550; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 54
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This is my desktop. I use GNOME in Gentoo. The media player's called amaroK... I speak a lot with XChat, and I always have gaim open too... It's a very useful environment. I have all I need right there.Related content
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I like your wallpaper
Yuri, huh? This 12 year old girl once told me she wanted to yuri me. 
I use IE, i don't like Firefox at all, hehe
I've never heard of XChat.. You went to add me on yahoo and i added you on msn but nothing has happened, maybe that's why?
Valentine's Day, it was a very heart-y time on dA. I don't believe in Valentine's Day
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Firefox is way better than IE. You're crazy!
XChat is pretty different to MSN and Yahoo and stuff like that... I do use MSN, Yahoo, and AIM when I have a chance... But I don't have a connection at home and I can't really use them at college. It'll all work out when I get a connection at home. So don't go deleting me just yet
You and a 12 year old girl? o_O Interesting.
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I am crazy
Haha, don't you worry, i won't delete you 
No. Please don't think that way.
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I don't know if I'm looking forward to my connection so much now
You can't mention something like that and expect me not to think about it
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I won't hurt you!! 
Haha i'm kidding, i'll keep my hands off you
She's a 12 year old girl. I'm a 14 year old girl. And you're telling me you're thinking about me and her--??
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You've emotionally scarred me for life.
I meant thinknig as in ... It was on my mind. Not like fantasising about it
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OH that's good then
I'm sorry to have emotionally scarred you for life 
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Unless I'm lying about what? I try not to spend much of my time thinking about 12 and 14 year old girls in that way, thanks
There's nothing you can do. I'm dead on the inside.
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That's good
No, thats horrible!! You can't be dead on the inside-- I refuse to believe you!!
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I am a zombie. Whatcha gonna do?
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I can do a lot of things
Wow. I am so wrong for a 14 year old girl.
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Horray for Linux! I've dabbled with switching a few times, but much of my work-related software only runs on Windows
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That's a great shame. Dual booting is pretty useful, just means getting your drives in order and stuff. Easy enough to do though. What software do you need for work? What do you do?
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I actually do have a dual-boot setup:
sda1: fat32 - Mounted as "My Documents" under Windows and /home/ under Linux.
sda2: NTFS - Windows OS and program files
sda3: ReiserFS - Ubuntu Breezy Badger
sda4: Linux swap
Ever since I upgraded my motherboard and video card, though, the Linux drivers have been completely unstable. I'm lazy, so I told Grub to default to Windows after a 1 second timeout. One day I'll install the proprietary Linux Nvidia drivers and put the Grub menu back, but I'm in no rush. Windows works fine for me.
Some of my Windows software:
* Microsoft Visual C++
* Various embedded processor & PLC development kits
* TurboCAD
* Paint Shop Pro
The rest of the time I try to go cross-platform:
* Firefox
* OpenOffice.org
* Inkscape
* Blender
I work as an electrical engineer during the day and do multimedia sofware development in my free time. Most of my engineering programs, such as the embedded development kits, are simply not available for Linux. I'm gradually shifting my programming to cross-platform libraries such as OpenGL and wxWidgets, but still have a while to go. I've also tried switching from PaintShopPro to Gimp, but it is too difficult to use. When I go to draw, I go to draw, not shuffle little floating windows around.
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Sounds like a fairly good setup to me. I use the proprietary nVidia drivers in Linux. They help out a lot. I used to have an ATI card and it was a complete pain in the ass to get anything to work in Linux. glxgears got a score of about -25
I'm starting to get sick of using The GIMP too. I'd much prefer it if there was an Inkscape feel to the program instead. It's nice to be able to right click to do everything, but it's a pain to accidentally switch focus to another application by *just* missing the window you're working in
Well, plus I can't draw anyway. I can manage ok in Inkscape for some reason though... I don't know why. Perhaps because I use the shape tools rather than the stupid freehand pencil tool. It sucks with a mouse, and it's not a great deal better with a tablet.
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The real secret to Inkscape's power is lies in the path tools. The trick is to create some rough shapes using the rectangles, circles, and freehand pencil tools. Then, once you meld them together with the Path menu's tools, you can fine-tune them in the node editor. The whole process is blazingly fast once you learn the keyboard shortcuts.
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I seem to have big problems with the keyboard shortcuts, especially in Inkscape. Something's seriously wrong with my keyboard as of late. I always end up vertically flipping the selected object instead of pasting a new one.
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Sticky Ctrl key, then? Actually, most of the Inkscape shortcuts are a single letter. "V," for example, flips things vertically, while "H" flips them horizontally. I think there's some sort of "Keys.svg" with all the details under the help menu.
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