Huzzah!
Nobody will probably care about this except for me, but I need to gloat somewhere, so it might as well be here.
This past weekend I took it upon myself to pimp out the secondary operating system which lives on the alternate hard drive that dwells inside my exceedingly heavy computer. That operating system is a flavor of Linux known as Ubuntu, which is effectively 'Linux for Retards.' (Being a Linux-retard, I figured it would suit me well. So far, it does.)
Regardless, I had found out that you could install some software that would totally make the OS look totally slick and pimped out: make your windows wiggle when you moved them, screw around with minimization/maximization animations, switch between your desktops as if you were rotating a 3D cube, and all kinds of other goofy shit.
For a brief glimpse, give this a click and see what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67kricXYRE
After seeing crap like that, I made it my goal to emulate it on my machine. Just to see if I could.
Struggling between 9am - 2pm last Saturday morning, I found that I had completely failed. I even had to reinstall the entire OS because I managed to jack it up bad enough so as to make it worthless. Fortunately, I don't keep anything important on the Linux drive, so not a big deal. I even installed the newer version of Ubuntu, which turned out to be way the hell better than the version I had been using. All in all, I came out ahead, although I was bitter at myself for "wasting my entire morning" with no CPU-pimpage to show for it.
Fortunately for me, I had inadvertently stumbled across the solution to all my problems right before I had stopped. Which meant all it took was a little bit of time to get the rest sorted out, which I did this evening.
So now my windows jiggle, they burn up when minimizing, and I can rotate my desktop cube.
I'm a happy computer nerd.
This past weekend I took it upon myself to pimp out the secondary operating system which lives on the alternate hard drive that dwells inside my exceedingly heavy computer. That operating system is a flavor of Linux known as Ubuntu, which is effectively 'Linux for Retards.' (Being a Linux-retard, I figured it would suit me well. So far, it does.)
Regardless, I had found out that you could install some software that would totally make the OS look totally slick and pimped out: make your windows wiggle when you moved them, screw around with minimization/maximization animations, switch between your desktops as if you were rotating a 3D cube, and all kinds of other goofy shit.
For a brief glimpse, give this a click and see what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67kricXYRE
After seeing crap like that, I made it my goal to emulate it on my machine. Just to see if I could.
Struggling between 9am - 2pm last Saturday morning, I found that I had completely failed. I even had to reinstall the entire OS because I managed to jack it up bad enough so as to make it worthless. Fortunately, I don't keep anything important on the Linux drive, so not a big deal. I even installed the newer version of Ubuntu, which turned out to be way the hell better than the version I had been using. All in all, I came out ahead, although I was bitter at myself for "wasting my entire morning" with no CPU-pimpage to show for it.
Fortunately for me, I had inadvertently stumbled across the solution to all my problems right before I had stopped. Which meant all it took was a little bit of time to get the rest sorted out, which I did this evening.
So now my windows jiggle, they burn up when minimizing, and I can rotate my desktop cube.
I'm a happy computer nerd.