Re: Name change

Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cornish Kate <kate24@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I keep forgetting I've changed my name and wondering who Cornish Kate is.

<grin> I thought you said you were only feeling *slightly* pissed ;-)

Rowland.
(wondering why he's writing this with the editing window spread over two
monitors[1], which is making typing really freaky)

[1] Four processors, two monitors, gigabit Ethernet, and nearly 900GB
disc space. Overkill? Nah, just about right - and I've got addicted to
the two monitors.

Do you see lines starting on one screen and ending on the other?

Only if I'm daft enough to move a window so that it straddles both
monitors - which is what I did that once, so `yes'.

It wouldn't have been so bad if the two screens were the same height and
size - but I've got a 17" CRT screen that's about 2.5" higher than the
15" LCD to its right, both running at 1024x768. So scales are a bit
different on each (not as much as you'd think, mind - 17" CRT does not
mean 17" viewable screen, while 15" CRT does mean pretty much 15"
viewable screen), and there's a jump down as you move to the righthand
screen.

That'd
drive me mad (if it wasn't already a bit late for that).

It was very freaky, let's put it like that.

I prefer to have several 'virtual desktops' on one monitor, and flip
between them.

I've never got on well with that way of doing things. I first tried it
on Unix boxes around 1990, and didn't like it then - but since the
machines concerned also had 21" monitors, I didn't really feel the need.
I then tried it on my Macs back in the mid 1990s, and *still* didn't
like it.

I've tried the latest "3D" enhancements of the Linux
'graphical desktop' (effectively, a multi-faceted hyper-solid floating in
the monitor "space" and rotating and morphing to present different
dimensions within which the application "windows" appear) but that too was
maddening so I reverted to the old "2D" paradigm.

Probably best. Most of this `3D' stuff is just gratuitous flashiness.
I mean, it's a bloody 2D screen I'm looking at, so why try to pretend
that it's not, eh?

The only actual 3D effect I recall with the current Mac GUI is the
`rotating cube' effect when you switch between logged in users - that's
actually quite nice. The `desktop being switched away from' and the
`desktop being switched to' appear on adjacent faces of the cube, which
rotates. Umm. That sounds a lot clumsier than it is. The rest of it
is resolutely 2D, thankfully.

I'm just not ready for
a multi-dimensional desktop; I'm still a bit confused by having windows in
my desktop, not to mention moveable and re-sizable and over-lapping
windows ... who started this crazy nomenclature?

Xerox?

Using more than one computer at a time, now that I can cope with; I was
doing that over sneakernet years ago.

Ah well - overlapping windows were a liberation when I discovered 'em.
I'm not really happy unless I've got a few dozen windows open all at
once forming a huge unmanageable heap of untidiness that would drive me
up the bloody wall if it weren't for the fact that I've got any number
of very very obvious and easy-to-use bolt-on goodies[1] to help me
navigate the mess.

Rowland.

[1] I don't like fiddling about. If it ain't straightforward when it
comes to UI `enhancements', I don't want to know.

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