GTK themes for Gnome

There be plenty out there, but none seemed to fit my needs well wants really, something that i could live will all day everyday. and have finally managed to find one, well 3 actually, with different icon theme and so on, cant seem to find where it saved the theme to, or if its just loading from the other folders.

anyway here are the 3 that i use and for what, to make what i think is the perfect theme, for me at least.

Controls : SphereCrystal
Window Border: Smoked Glass
Icons: Dropline Nue

plus im using Compiz Fusion for the cool desktop effects.

that is all

intelligence vs non-intelligence

well im trying to talk to someone that does not like, "big" words. as supposedly ppl will make fun if used. which in my opinion is utter bullshit but thats just me. i don't know what to do at the moment. as it is annoying not being able to talk the way that i do. which is using a lot of the english language.

Oh well. i shall have to learn to "dumb" down my speech a lot so that its not humiliating for other ppl. maybe this was not meant to be, i don't know, but its going well so far.

Anyway that said. i shall still exerscize my vocabulary on here. and other places. that people will understand them. the word "pun" is not even big, nor hard to understand. as it just means that a word or sentence has can have a double meaning. or alternative meaning.

I been told its a good thing that i get bought down to others level. dont see how though. but im sure i can make her use the reasonable lingo.

Week One

Well it has been the happiest week of my life this far. And as far as i can tell it is going well. Sad to say that some of my habbits may be a contributor to failure, but this IS going to work. Im just not extremely experianced at many things, and should really take things slow, but not so slow as to be going no where. I think that I am just rushing things a little. although I don't know.

Need to think of something special to do, but as yet can not think of anything. Getting to know one another is the fun part. What each other like and dislikes. Loves and hates, and getting to know one another is the beginning, but when does that move on. I'm wanting a long term relationship currently, which will if all goes well, will turn into marriage, 3 children. Eh what a handful.

got 4 years to work with. possibly even 2 if things go really well. Which, correct me if I'm wrong, is about the average time from first date, which we have not really had yet, to walking down the isle.

I know no one reads this but ya never know. this might interest someone. although probably not. Being that I work mid afternoon to mid-evenings most 5 days, makes it hard to be able to see each other, as we both have things to do in the mornings. although as soon as i am able to get some transport other than my feet, things should be better.

My flaws are nothing to be desired. And almost impossible to be repaired. Almost, ha, yeah I'm sure that they can be worked on.

Well at least my future sister-in-law is all happy too, at the possibility of gaining an auntie for her daughter, and also a Sister-in-law, so that they can do what women do and gossip. About what I do not want to know, if i knew that, they would be exposed. Ha, although they are really good friends so that is all good.

As for me I'm useless when it comes to anything romantic, or even non-romantic. I should speak my mind, and do what feels right and comes naturally, see where that takes me. Also I have to lose my gut, its painful and will probably take a while, but it will be worth it, being in shape for my woman.

Ah well, we shall see and have an update probably in about 3 weeks, should still be together then, and then maybe monthly after that. Going to sort of give up a few things, Online gaming be one, as I would rather spend time with her and the little man, Her son. Well thats all for now. I'm going to have some breakfast and then do me hygiene thing before i start work.

Peace.

The Randomness of random

random post i know but thats what i'm all about really. grr firefox's spell checker sucks. ah well. thats all good though. more random than random itself. can't be possible. just typing what i think atm. blah blah.

it seems blah is in the dictionary but grr aint. and aint aint, Wow, so bored before work today, pretty sure i start at 2pm, so ill leave a 1pm to get there at the right time, better to be early and wrong than be late and wrong. OMG, is not in the dictionary. and yes i know i can add them if i want to, but they are not real words, therefore don't deserve it.

Ah babies are all fun when they are happy, when they aint its a bit grr slap. well not really. should not be hitting da kids. rather than teaching them its wrong. i gots a niece and a nephew. they both cool as. less than a year old each.


my niece is about 8 months old or so and she is climbing on everything. just learning to land on her bum when she falls over. hmm random ending.

Windows 7 Subscription

Well i read over at winsupersite.com that M$ are thinking about and sorting out a Subscription based usage of their new Widows OS named at the moment Windows 7, so this basically means you have a low initial cost to purchase the rights to use the software, and not actually purchasing the software itself, that cost i'm assuming covers the first 12months, then after 12 months they make you pay another fee to be able to continue using it.

Sure this may look like you are paying for the updates and "security patches", but your not, they get that money from corporate business. Maybe they will only have this payment method for business, and not the home user. which would be fine, but if it extends top the home user, i know that i will be sticking with Linux for good after that. and start seeing about game companies making the games for both windows and Linux OS's, I know ID already make them for both. its not that hard if it is done at the same time as making the windows version of the game.

But M$ are trying to muscle in on the action with DX10 and not allowing Video card makers to write OpenGL drivers for Vista. So a lot of game development companies will not bother and just use DX10 for their games.

Anyway back on track here, talking about subscriptions, they are fine for certain things, but definitely not your OS. Where would it end? they will then make you pay for every little service that they offer.

Although you can always use 3rd party software as most people in the know do now anyway. For those who are not in the know they just go with what M$ shovel them and take it in their stride. which is fine, but they don't know what they are missing out on. Well not much really, but they are wasting a lot of money on products that they can get for free, that are a whole lot better and more stable. The main reason i hear that people do not change over to OpenOffice.org is that their friends will not be able to read the documents that they create, compatibility issues and the like, well guess what, Open Office is free, get your business to convert, as it can read MS office files, and you wont have to spend any money upgrading, because the software is free, as in beer as well as speech.

Sure with some applications you get what you pay for, but with open source if it does not do what you want you can add the functions that you need and then add your name to the comments and maybe the official developers will ad the function to the official release.

Anyway ranting and raving here slightly, Why pay for things when you can get a perfect alternative for free. So anyone out there i challenge you into ordering your free Ubuntu DVD's from www.ubuntu.com or www.kubuntu.com or www.edubuntu.com i think are the addresses.

Have a friend install it for you if you don't know what you are doing, and see how you like it, once it is all set up and working start learning how to use it yourself and then compare. you can not always use your windows programs on Linux but you can always try, there is a program called Cross-over Linux, which you do have to pay for, and it lets your windows programs run. It is a commercial version of Wine. which does the same thing but not as well supported possibly.

I can do everything i want to do on my PC with Ubuntu and not have to pay for anything apart from the hardware, I don't see why Microsoft charge so much for something that does not even work properly. here in NZ Windows Vista Ultimate is $998 for the retail version, $300 if i get it as an OEM version. I don't really see why there is a price difference, Retail I'm buying it separately, and OEM it comes with either an Entire PC or just one part for a new PC, makes no sense to me.

Anyway back to subscription based operating system, it would not be so bad if it was for updates, as in your subscription runs out you get no more updates in the future, which is fine, because you are usually better off staying behind the trend, as once they "fix" the security holes in widows, the hacker forget about them and start working on the new ones. so you are once again save.

Also using 3rd party security software helps, rather than using the crap that comes with windows. I have no idea why Microsoft even bother trying to force all these crap programs onto you, the operating system should be just that, small and relatively bug free. its all the programs you need to actually be of any use that they integrate into the system, which you don't need half the time.

what I'm meaning is made into modules like Linux is. although a lot of the programs rely on each other in Linux, there is nothing that is making you use any of them and you can remove what ever you want. although some is integrated, like the Gnome desktop has a bunch of stuff, but then again all the Desktop environments are software packages, which is fine, you can still install and use 3rd party ones if you like. and then Visual customization is another thing they done right in Linux. just hope the think about that when making Windows 7 but i doubt that they will.

Well i be off to work now, so cant rant any more

until next time.

I had an idea

Not a very unique idea at that but one none the same, while is was walking home from work this evening.

It was for a game, a bit like BF2, and a lot not like it. yeah it would have tanks, apc's and other awesome toys, also have small infantry only maps up to massive planes, bombers and other cool stuff for massive raids on places, but it would be done right.

Maybe call it World War: North Vs South or something like that, where is was the Northern hemisphere vs the Southern hemisphere.

so north would be made up of.

North America
Canada
Russia
China
Japan
Europe ( all euro countries)
South east asia
and North Africa.

South would be

Southern Africa
Australia
New Zealand and south America.

Don't know all the countries in the SH, but they are the ones i do remember.

anyway, each main area would have 50-100 maps so North America would have 50 maps, and so would canada, Australia and New Zealand would probably have 25 each. and Southern Africa would have 50 and would Northern Africa. Europe would have around 5-10 per country as there are so many, russia would have 50, china 50ish you get the idea.

This would be a whole massive scale thing,. probably not achievable when you think about the big picture but that is fine, as they are only maps and can be added over a long time period.

What i was thinking was either make a new game engine or use an existing one. Existing is cheaper by far. then work on maybe 5 maps at first during the beta. once all the massive bugs are ironed out, and it is stable, release to public, beta stage or what ever.

so since its beta not everything has to be there. maybe get infantry working awesomely so 5 infantry maps from 5 different countries. once that is sorted, add some medium sized maps, with light amour, jeeps, and other cool toys, maybe small helicopters. vehicles would be beta 3ish, with another 5 maps for amour.

possibly adding for beta 4 or 5, heavy amour and planes, and possibly ships. could have released the game after beta 3. and added the awesome toys in patches.

Since to goal is large scale could have the community making maps so the devs dont have to.making them official and all. adding them to some sort of storyline.

Having different theaters of war would be cool. African Theater would include both north and south.

Although after reading all of that. bah North Vs South, nah just make it some random enemy, say genetically modified clones starwars style. saves on making too many individual characters. of course this would be online only, maybe have an advancement type thing like World war 2 online.

but World War 3 online, possibly. Persistent maps maybe, with a ticker at a spawn point which counts how many lives were lost in the current campaign, one on each side.

i do not have a clue how to do all this. but thats what i am, an idea's person,i come up with all these ideas that would be awesome to create but do not have to means to do so myself. and not just for computing either, real world stuff. like creating a paintball field in the likeness of your favourite game map, E.G. De_dust from Counter Strike. or something awesome from Desert Combat.

Would be awesome. but i dont have the time nor the money to be able to do anything like that. unless someone hires me as a random consultant guy, which will probably never happen. as my passion is fixing borked pc's

ah well another random post done with. more later.

Lazy Customers

Now i work in a Supermarket. and there is nothing more annoying than the customer, I know they are they life blood of any store. but they are just so bloody annoying. I have found that most of the old people, are as arrogant as ever, it is as if they expect instant respect from anyone younger than them. So i usually just ignore them and wait until they are gone and continue working.

But this is not about that this is about the lazy customer, Now I know that we all do it at some point or another, so here is the situation:

You are doing you weekly grocery shopping, and you grab something that you need, then further round the store there is a display with the same product but a different brand on special that week. so instead of returning the item to whence it came you just chuck it on the nearby shelf and grab the product that you do want, only because it is cheaper.

Now the only reason this annoys me so. is because then me being the employee of said store, have to return the item to where it lives so someone else can buy it. It gets worse though. Some people goto buy say some fresh item from the Deli, and later find that they don't want the item, so they just dump it anywhere. most of the time i find these fresh items in the freezer with the packets of veges. This is not cool as if it has frozen it then becomes a loss, because we then have to throw it away.

And the worst part is that a lot of people will do it in front of the employees, but what ever, its not their job to care about any losses the store has because of their lazy attitudes.


Then there are the people who are so lazy that they don't even try to locate the stock that they want to purchase, they instantly ask someone where it is located, which is fine most of the time, as that particular product might be out of stock at that point and this at least lets us put some more on the shelf for other customers, allowing more sales and more money to come flow.

Or customers that do not look for a price and then when they get to the checkout have to ask what something costs. although it is all part of the awesome customer service that we give, and another thing is tourists that don't check the bylaws before visiting somewhere, We are not allowed to sell booze of any kind at any supermarket, main reason is so that the booze stores keep the customers, and so on which is great. apart from having to give directions for the same store over and over again to people who are not in the know about these things.

bah rant over i think. next post is about something completely mental