OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[Cody_Russell]

NCAA Football 2012 is pretty amazing.
Time to turn Purdue football into a power-house.

[Tony G]

this looks pretty cool...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=youtube_gdata_player"]YouTube - ‪3D Printer‬‏[/ame]

[DanO]

That's amazing Tony.

GO LIONS "11" !

[-Deborah-]

Pretty neat, but if you thought regular print cartridges were expensive...just wait lol.

[Tony G]

LOL

[Drew]

There's gonna be 3D printed porn before you know it!!!

Can't wait!

[Tony G]

I told my friend who sent me the link I'm in line for the kelly monaco scan

[froot loops]

My work laptop died, so it kind of hastened a new PC purchase just so I could limp along doing my job until I could get the replacement laptop. My two home PCs were near 11 years old. So I kind of needed one. So both the laptop and the new PC has Windows 7 on it. I'm used to XP. Windows 7 seems like it is much better speedwise but this desktop. Egads, I don't like it, I wasn't too fond of the Windows desktop in general but I like it better than this.

[LionsFanInJapan]

It took awhile to get used to, but I like it now. Don't worry though, they'll change it up again with Windows 8. :D

[Coop]

froot - give it some time. I as well was VERY used to XP, yet I really don't find myself missing it anymore.

[Coop]

not sure what to make of the reports about Windows 8. There sure was incentive to move to 7 after the half baked "Vista" experiment, 8 may be a bit of a hard sell...

[LionsFanInJapan]

I thought I saw a beta of Windows 8 that had it looking like the Windows 7 phone interface.

[froot loops]

I found the XP classic interface. And I found a way to make it ungroup the items in the task bar. I'm halfway there.

[Tony G]

Microsoft has a good OS every other one. I'll pass on W-8 till someone else reviews it and says otherwise

[nhwbrooklyn]

I found the XP classic interface. And I found a way to make it ungroup the items in the task bar. I'm halfway there.

windows 7 is pretty customizable I find. I found that it got better as you used it more. I started slowly figuring out how to effectively use the little, overlooked, new features better like auto hiding windows, the preview window, and auto tiling window thingy. Now it's almost painful when I'm forced to use an XP machine.

Worth the jump to windows 7 just for the far better security too.