I loved reading this. I was transported back to being 13 (27 years ago).
This prompted me to check how long ago I was 13 years old.
It was 26 years ago.
Are we old yet?
Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
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#142I loved reading this. I was transported back to being 13 (27 years ago).
This prompted me to check how long ago I was 13 years old. It was 26 years ago. Are we old yet?
"Old" is a state of mind. If you find yourself believing that everything new is terrible and you want to go back to "the good old days," then yeah, you're old. If you're still open to learning new things and adapting to and exploring the world as it changes around you, then you're not old yet.
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#143I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount…
Agreed! mIRC scripting is the reason I am a developer today and the reason it's been my career!
mIRC scripts were also my first foray into writing code for anything more than "playing around". I write mIRC to help automate some of the things I was doing on IRC at the time.
That experience helped me back up my smart-ass comments to a manager at my job about being able to write better software than they were forcing us to use.
Eventually I leveraged that experience into getting a real dev job.
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#144I thought “corrupt Winamp skin” means it's infested with digital parasites feeding on the RGB values of the pixels, making them look like rusty metal or rotting flesh. But this isn't bad either.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I truly miss working in software in the early 2000's. We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Almost all of us had custom themes and icons and what not. I ran a Mac at home, and had that customized as well, I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks, but CandyBar would install custom icon sets. Now days most people don't even bother to change their wallpaper. Live a littl…
I used to use Litestep on 2000 and XP, it had such a big community and feature set.
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#147My favorite Winamp skin was a Jimmy Eat World skin for their album Bleed American (later [renamed][1]). Sadly, I haven’t been able to find it on any of the archives. Does anyone remember this one? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_American
Possibly this one? https://skins.webamp.org/skin/8fab8401c9ed83068a677f8ec08842...
Wow, the nostalgia. Thank you, that's it!! This must have been added since the last time I searched.
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#148I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount…
I truly miss working in software in the early 2000's. We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Almost all of us had custom themes and icons and what not. I ran a Mac at home, and had that customized as well, I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks, but CandyBar would install custom icon sets. Now days most people don't even bother to change their wallpaper. Live a littl…
>> We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo.
Agreed.
I worked at a huge corporation for one of my first developer gigs. All the devs were super into desktop mods and customizing everything to the hilt. It was crazy to think we all had these third party apps running on our corporate laptops. I know I had my laptop completely crash twice and needed it replaced because one of the apps I loved, I installed an extension for it and turned out it was malware. Other devs had similar things happen too.
As a developer it was like the Wild West back then, you had complete and utter freedom to do what you wanted with your hardware. The funny thing was the hardware support people didn't even blink at all the stuff you had installed either, they just shrugged and downloaded your ROM to a new laptop and sent you on your way.
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#149I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount…
I truly miss working in software in the early 2000's. We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Almost all of us had custom themes and icons and what not. I ran a Mac at home, and had that customized as well, I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks, but CandyBar would install custom icon sets. Now days most people don't even bother to change their wallpaper. Live a littl…
Maybe Kaleidoscope? There was also the built in Appearance Manager, but it wasn't supported after Jobs returned around 8.5 and wanted a more consistent interface.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I truly miss working in software in the early 2000's. We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Almost all of us had custom themes and icons and what not. I ran a Mac at home, and had that customized as well, I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks, but CandyBar would install custom icon sets. Now days most people don't even bother to change their wallpaper. Live a littl…
>> We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Agreed. I worked at a huge corporation for one of my first developer gigs. All the devs were super into desktop mods and customizing everything to the hilt. It was crazy to think we all had these third party apps running on our corporate laptops. I know I had my laptop completely crash twice and needed it replaced because one of the apps I loved, I insta…
Hah, so we were a very small ~40 person company.
We didn't have a dedicated IT department, we had a customer support person who doubled as IT. When he failed, we had a very knowledgeable guy who ran our servers remotely from Alaska.
When something went wrong with our computers, it was almost always down to us to fix them.
I miss those days. Everything is so serious now days. It was a lot more fun back then.