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The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...
Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
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To: Ramius; 300winmag
It was too wide to do side-by-side, but this is fascinating.
661
posted on
08/15/2007 8:33:58 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Ramius; 300winmag; Corin Stormhands
Aww, I just tried it... Win2K says I have to have Active Desktop activated, and I don't. :-(
To: Ramius
can you animate it on the desktop?
663
posted on
08/15/2007 8:34:44 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Corin Stormhands
My browser is feelin' it... I think it will be glad once we scroll to the next page.
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
665
posted on
08/15/2007 8:39:38 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Ramius
It makes a killer desktop gif. Just put it on “tile”.Holy carp! I put it on my 1280x1024 desktop, tiled, and it's absolutely awesome. Even with a 2.4GHz CPU, it has to be eating up a lot of cycles.
666
posted on
08/15/2007 8:40:02 PM PDT
by
300winmag
(Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
667
posted on
08/15/2007 8:40:05 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
668
posted on
08/15/2007 8:40:05 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
669
posted on
08/15/2007 8:40:05 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: 300winmag; Ramius; Bear_in_RoseBear
How do you get Active Desktop?
670
posted on
08/15/2007 8:40:58 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: 300winmag; Corin Stormhands
Aww, man... I had my
EVIL! post ready to go, and I got spammed and missed it.
To: Corin Stormhands
It animates in XP, though you have to go through the desktop properties and select it as a gif file. If you just right-click in IE and save as the background it just grabs a frame.
Or, as Bear said, in 2000 you have to have active desktop enabled. Brain is fuzzy but I think active desktop is always on in XP. Might be wrong about that.
672
posted on
08/15/2007 8:43:47 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Corin Stormhands
On your desktop, right click, select "Properties", then the "Background" tab. Click the "Browse" button, browse to the GIF file and select it. System will tell you the file needs Active Desktop to display as a background, and ask you if you want that.
To: 300winmag
Yah, but wit’ all dem giggyhurtz you gots cycles to spare. :-)
674
posted on
08/15/2007 8:45:26 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear; Overtaxed
Hey, cool... quotes from the BEST MOVIE EVER. Just ask Overtaxed. She loves it. Honest. :-)
675
posted on
08/15/2007 8:46:56 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Ramius; Bear_in_RoseBear; 300winmag
Okay, I got it to work. But it’s makin’ me nauseous...
676
posted on
08/15/2007 8:50:50 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Corin Stormhands
OK, what did you do to make it work? 'Cause it ain't workin' for Rose.
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I did what you said.
First thing I did was go to “customize desktop” and browse for it and put it in as new. That put it on the desk top, but wouldn’t let me tile it.
Then I just went back to the regular settings and uploaded and tiled it there.
I think something I did under the customize website actually activated it.
678
posted on
08/15/2007 8:54:12 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear; Rose in RoseBear; Ramius; 300winmag
OK, what did you do to make it work? 'Cause it ain't workin' for Rose. Okay, so all I'm sayin' here, is do y'all realize how absolutely bizarre it is that yer asking ME how to do something computer related?
Surely this is a sign of the end times.
679
posted on
08/15/2007 8:56:56 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Corin Stormhands
Heh, yeah, I was teasing Rose about that.
I booted my system to XP (I've got a dual-boot system, Win2K and XP), selected the image as the background, and it worked right off the bat. On Rose's system, it displays, but isn't animated.
We think the video driver on her system isn't allowing it to animate, for whatever reason.
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