slow slow slow (997 words)

[ritaxis]

I hate the story I started yesterday. I try to put things into it that seem like just good little details or plot points and they look like a report to the plenary session or something. I'm not by dog trying to write a sermon, I'm trying to write a story.

On the other hand I did add 997 words to Afterwar which doesn't have a deadline.

What's slow slow slow is the internet since I installed Service Pack 2. Is that what everybody else is experiencing? I've had to bludgeon it into not blocking all manner of websites, but it still blocks some and try as I might I can't find any more places to tweak it.

The Sims loads a little nicer, but other things seem slow.

Got to take Emma her bagpipes. How many times do you think she practiced over vacation?

Comments

Re: SP2

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

How is FireFox different from regular Mozilla? I tried Mozilla but I hate it. I can't even say what it is about it that I hate -- it's something like the reason I hate Macs and Word. There's just something about the way that it is arranged, the way you have to see things and think about them, that drives me up the wall.

In other news, I tried to use Emma's teacher's IMac today and I couldn't find whatever you toggle to get at the information on the CD, or how to eject it, and after I'd looked at everything visible on the desktop, I decided I was probably in danger of crashing it and losing all her stuff, and that would be tragic, so Wednesday she's going to show me where those elementary things are. I hate those damned windowblinds and counter-intuitive icons scattered all over the damned place and the menus that are all chopped up and make no sense.

I guess I'm a linear girl.

Re: SP2

[ellarien]

The thing with Firefox is that they put a lot of effort into stripping it down to the bare essentials. So it's a 6Mb download, and a clean, nimble, browser. It has tabs, but you don't have to use them, and its basic state doesn't need any skins or themes, and it has the best ad-killer I've seen anywhere -- no popups, no annoying in-window banners or sidebar animations. I'm somewhat allergic to the Mac interface myself, and I never liked Netscape for Windows, but this is pretty much like IE only better. Since I started using it all the time, Ad-Aware hasn't picked up so much as a 'tracking cookie'.

Not affiliated with Mozilla, just a happy user. Oh, and I use the Norton Internet Security Firewall rather than the built-in Windows one ; maybe that makes a difference on the speed front.