my activity in the windows 7 community now you can!

i'm turning out (HA) my old devices to afford new ones. this means you can buy a little piece of me xD
in the form of my
Sony Vaio VGN-NS240E (Comes with anything but OSX.. Unless you're the police. Then i meant, Comes with Windows 7)
or my
HTC Aria (Unlocked with Clockwork and CM7)

i'm well aware that this reads like something that someone with a higher number of pageviews might write.. or something someone trying to sell some shit would write.

PICTURES! will be made available soon here on dArt




what am i replacing these bad boys with?
a custom box which will dual boot 7 and Linux (i'll drop my specs after i have it)
a Motorola Atrix  (which replaces my laptop entirely)

disgusted by the thought of us turning our desktops in crippled dumbboxes

they already make those. it's called a chromebook. you don't need Windows 7 Ultimate and rainmeter to make your box useless. just take a hammer to it




"Computer! give me file! @#error# What now boss?"
"You're worthless"

i've been strategically preparing to move out into the big bad world all on my own. even with all the variables things actually lined up exactly as they were designed to (in my head) thus, i proudly sit at my dining room table in my first apartment.

things rarely happen exactly the way you want them to so this was a very welcome surprise and for that i'm thankful (to myself for being an exceptional strategist) to everyone who helped me achieve this goal.

so now i'm broke. if anyone wants to donate an hdtv or a couch, or a years worth of broadband internet service, that'd be great

since i'm back on windows obviously i had to install some classics and shoot guys with my sixaxis using a combination of motioninjoy(drivers), xpadder(key mapping + left stick deadzone tweaking), and joytokey(the smoothness and responsiveness of the right stick is far superior using joytokey than it is using xpadder) i can snipe a fast mover from 1000m or 2m using my thumb and i'll bet money i do it just as fast as any mouse humper. i'm passionate about my sticks. configured right its better than your gay ass mouse, fanboy. what's that?..you need a whole goddamn desk and a fucking switchboard to shoot a bitch? you're gay  a mouse/keyboard.

back on topic, i use a lot of stuff on my system. lots of ui prettification. that won't do when you're running a game. so what you do is create an alternate user account and turn off everything that isn't the game! try it out if you game on windows.

does anyone know of a better way to perfectly emulate say, cod(ps3) style aiming? using the aforementioned setup my stick is basically that fast and that smooth.. obviously with the variable fps on windows (as opposed to a box dedicated to gaming) it can sometimes feel twitchy but i can shoot as well as on ps3 i guess is my point. if you know of any other key mapping apps let me know

UPDATE: this tutorial has gotten a lot of attention since i posted it 2 years ago.. so i decided to update the information, add information and even a nice video tutorial by ~andredk which is a little long, but very detailed. i updated the old journal and submitted a new one for good measure
VIDEO TUTORIAL

installing litestep is not a big deal. it has dependencies like any other application, and without them it will error. assuming your system meets all the requirements right now you can stop reading this and install litestep using the Omar Installer. (omar is the guy who created the installer) litestep was built using the x86 architecture so a x86 system is a prerequisite, however people have managed to install and use litestep on x64 systems.  

before you install litestep on any system you need to be sure you have the microsoft Visual C++ runtimes installed. just install all the redistributable packages! save yourself some headache. 2005 2008 2010
afaik litestep has noting to do with .net, but its probably a good idea to install 2.0 and 3.0

if you're on XP congratulations! use Omar's installer or LOSI (i've never successfully setup litestep using LOSI.. then again i only tried once )

if you're on Windows 7 these 3 additional steps are important.

(1: ) if you have installed LOSI (and litestep gives you errors) remove it. install litestep using the Omar installer found here [link]

(2: ) upgrade your litestep files to litestep 0.25.0 alpha. (apparently some kind dev's hooked this up back in 09 when vista was crucified and windows 7 emerged, aero, king of super(task)bars. whatever, pft. i'm not a developer, i'm not even sure what all they did(i'm too lazy to read)but you need it)

(3: ) install jDesk version 0.74 and edit your theme.rc so that it uses 0.74. (most modern litestep themes use jdesk 0.73 <<this was true.. 3 years ago.) if you get a modern theme that uses 0.74 it should download and install 0.74 automatically, but if you're using an old theme on windows 7 edit the theme.rc

that should do it. use the utility to set litestep as shell and reboot. if you need any extra help feel free to shoot me a note and i'll help if i can

xPaintClass is modern litestep. we all use the xmodules particularly xLabel, to design litestep interfaces. the modules are amazing. very easy to configure and use. if you download a modern litestep theme you will need to install xPaintClass so that the xmodules can do their thing. follow the link for information. xPaintClass is just a dll. no big deal. the difference between it and basically every other module is that xPaintClass goes in your root litestep directory, not in the modules directory. and that's it! drop that dll in the litestep folder, and load a theme.

pay money to see a faenza mod for the tango patcher on XP?

looks like no one uses xp anymore

this life void of litestep

retain composure

this and this

what's the problem? if you can solve it you know more than me.

i need someone who doesn't use nautilus elementary to test my theme. i'm currently attempting to make a 100% compatibility version for people who don't use their apps the same way i do.

i assume that if i let nautilus and firefox simply fall back to my murrine defaults that they will look fine but i'd like to be sure. let me know and i'll send you a copy of the gtk tonight, or likely tomorrow.

thanks!

so i really want to have better control over my gtkrc so i can customize the shit out of all my apps and deliver more complete themes... i get the basics of gtk but i'm starting over from scratch and playing with all teh settings and engine specifics so that i'm more knowledgeable.(my big problem in this is i'm really bi polar manic..i try to learn five languages at once..in a day..then am completely overloaded and burnt out for a month oO)

so my question is, can someone tell me the most stupid simple dummy proof way to find the widgets for any particular app? and is changing the icons in applications very easy to do using gtk?

thanks for any help

ftr, i don't agree with asking for money or donations in any capacity for themes. its a theme. its not an app, or a game, or fancy script. its just a theme. you just don't do it. i liked this community more when everything was open source, and everything was more or less good =/

i guess what i actually disagree with is people taking advantage of stupid people.

without sounding like a horribly trite facebook status update i'd like to share..

i have a website up at aarona.us. it isn't outstanding. in fact it doesn't display properly in Windows at the moment. establishing a decent portfolio is my primary concern. all comments regarding the site are welcome.
i've arranged my gallery here on deviant art to be more usable. take a look

i'm still obsessing over dark widgets on light desks

anyone have space on their server for my page? just as a temporary thing. i don't have a domain or anything i just want it on the web for testing purposes and bragging rights

[link]

are there any dedicated midori fans out there? i really love the fact that it launches in like a second flat, but web page loading times are bullshit. i disabled netscape plugins, enabled web cache, and finally got the ad blocker working, all of which seems to have helped, but still not as snappy as ff.

anyone have any suggestions?

then buy my ipad! starting at 450!

xD

anyone on america playing killzone 3?
i can be found creeping around frozen dam. you'll probably step on my plastic explosives before you ever see me d=
i'm level 17 after 6 hours 47 minutes total ingame.

does anyone know if someone actually did them in a theme before my theme Classic

i believe i was the first but i could be wrong. i remember not seeing any themes done this way and discovered it was probably because of that awful blur issue.. so when i found !PacMani's no blur tool i went crazy

its in like every other theme now a days, so you can see why i'm curious

i was bitching and moaning about having to change my email addresses and more importantly, the effects it had on my android phone. i joined the many affected by a broken market, however, i'm obviously not in the same league as the many. (made obvious by my hobbies)

i wasted several hours hacking a db file with help from the mass of information compiled in the forums over at xda developers, so that i could enable installing third party apps.. only to find but minutes after a successful hack, that its retardedly simple to flash a new rom in clockwork

so i'm running liberated froyo on my htc aria [link] the most notable improvements with this system are, wireless and usb tethering by default, third party apps, and overclocking

all my old accounts are history. so, my old read me's are useless but that's fine i don't like responding to inquiries regarding old ass submissions anyway. (upgrade people!)

ywdntknwmi   

not very clever but it serves its purpose. also, why is it so goddamn hard to set up an email that isn't linked in anyway to another email? furthermore fucking gmail + android + update default account... you fucking morons. i realize that compiling data regarding your users interests, buying habits, and favorite web activities in general is hard work.. but occasionally i will be updating my email address, and if i lose the apps i bought again i might have to forsake my android device.

i've joined the hundreds of thousands of android users with a fucking broken goddamn market now. i can only hope and pray i come by a solution that works for my device, until then, yes, i will be side loading pirated software. yes there isn't fuck shit you can do about it. no i'm goddamned not happy