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| subject: | Re: XP and the quick launch area |
I like the joke. :)
> From: "Frank Haber"
> These will show you how hard interface design is, when you've got several
> ancestral generations of users to contend with:
> I can't use the start menu all that much, because I keep it auto-hidden, to
> get back the precious screen real estate. Instead, I festoon the borders of
> my screen with icons upon which I can dragondrop, and run all programs just a
>scosh smaller than full-screen. You can imagine how much I love desktop-state
> save programs, and how excited I get when Win98 loses its mind^H^H
> SHELLICONCACHE every fifty or so iterations of somethingorother.
> The most important things in my quick-launch are the CMD prompt, an icon to
> goose my %^#{at}%$ wireless connection, and a little program that forces a VESA
> monitor standby, to save power and keep my office from turning into more of a
> sauna than it is already.
> Here's an old one:
> Q: Why did God take only six days to create the world?
> A: No installed base.
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