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Behold the intrinsic beauty of Windows. If you've ever moved windows around while a program was dying in background you've seen this effect. I've played around with this before but I never took a screenshot of it before. I didn't spend any time on the movements, I shot the first two that I produced. Yes, that is an OSX skin covering the garish visual disaster of XP.
Enjoy.
Nothing more pathetically impotent than a web designer without internet access.
The Verizon dudes have left and I have wonderful FiOS installed in the new Artboredom offices. Yes it is fast. Yes, it is REAL fast! My initial broadband measurements haven't hit 30 mbps, but it has reached a blazing 27+! The fastest that I ever recored with Comcast was 1.7. I never hit the 5 mbps I was paying for, so I'm not paying for it.
As it stands now, I'm using their behemoth sized router as a pass though to my gleaming white cube otherwise known as the Airport Extreme. Eventually when I have both time, and some more money, I am going to set up the mother of all network attached storage. But I have to reformat several of my drives to do this, and I don't feel like doing that just yet. Mmmmmm...NAS!
Not to fall by the wayside, but I also have the tasty FiOS TV service as well. I have to say, it makes my 10 year old Trinitron look mighty good! Fiber optics are good. Fox Soccer Channel is good. Turning on the TV and seeing AC Milan vs. Sienna is good! We got the DVR for the office lounge, so there will be many recordings of American television. Very nice!
The official Artboredom offices are in the process of moving to a shiny new 2 bedroom apartment. We're packing up the Apple IIe super computers and refiling the floppies of my design softwarez I had strewn about. Do you know anything about floppy disks? Well floppy disks are pretty expensive...
I'm not a fan of the moving upheaval at all. But I am going to enjoy not having my desk in the freaking living room like it's been in the last 2 one bedroom apartments we've been squeezing ourselves into. I'll even have an office the new place. Of course it will double as everything else we can think of but there won't be desk in the living room.
We're giving up on the sham that is Comcast cable during the move as well. It's not that Comcast was bad, it's just that they weren't that good. I don't think I ever saw the upper end of their claimed download speeds. I'm not sure what it was i was paying for, but it frequently ran at DSL speeds. I was paying more than that though. We are instead going to give Verizon FiOS a shot as our building was one of the early adopters in the area. We're going for the 30 MB down; why not go big? We're adding the TV package as well with their DVR, which is a nice addition to the deprecated '98 Trinitron setup that I'm rocking. Maybe I'll have to drop the TV down the stairs during the move...
So I'm obviously going to share with you the wonderfully mundane details of my experiences with my new broadband connection. You don't have a choice.