Installing Linux is my choice. I've wanted to be running Linux at j0rb for a couple of years now (pretty much since I started). I generally hate Windows and have to install third party tools to make it tolerable, but everything is still GUI oriented and overly slow. I'm hoping to move most of my operations into Linux and only do what is absolutely Windows specific (Visual Studio, SQL Server) in a Windows VM. Hopefully, they perform adequately in the VM so that I can keep that setup. If that fails, I'll have to revert back to Windows on the metal.

Fortunately, today Windows was sitting at the logo for 5 minutes without moving so my supervisor caved and told me to start installing Linux now.

Just one of those paranoid not-really-accomplishing-anything tactics. It's more obscure and also you can always defend that it means something else, like ... like ... I don't know.

Well, here I go... I hope this works.

** EDIT **

Ubuntu has failed me! When the disk loads up the video output is all garbage (this after a perfectly clear loading screen). I can't say I'm surprised. I only chose Ubuntu because others said they got Windows working happily in a VM with little fuss. I guess I'm going to have to try Fedora instead.

I've seen upwards of 50% of native performance with GL in linux guests. Mind you the host was linux too, I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

Did you use the latest versions of Ubuntu/Fedora?
If so, don't. Usually it takes some time for support for a new version to become stable, though Virtualbox does claim to fully support both.

Well, I've been using Ubuntu for a while now, and my first impressions... Windows is horrible for a coder IMO. I can't believe you Linux folks just typed some crap on the console and you got your libraries and programs updated automatically.

That's one option, although many distributions have daemons running that automatically check back with the repositories and either update automatically or prompt the user to authorize the system to update. The command line is still more powerful, but often you don't actually care about what's being updated and just say "Go ahead" from the GUI (i.e., an icon typically appears in the "system tray", the same as Windows, but it updates everything, not just the operating system).

/me bets Microsoft will fuck it up royally.

Certainly.

It can be turned off? Cool thanks, I'll do it now

Append: Where is it?

I don't really remember which part of my custom CSS was, but here's the part I think is important.

span.cuss {
background: transparent !important;
background-position: middle center;
background-image: none;
top: 0px;
min-width: 0px;
display: inline;
}

span.cuss span {
visibility: visible;
font-style: italic;
}

Just copy this and add it to your custom CSS here. Then go to the forums, and you'll probably have to do a full refresh(CTRL+F5 on FF). If this doesn't work, just search for it here, I suppose that was the relevant part of it.

It conflicts with the quoting system. (EDIT: As pointed below by bamccaig, probably type568 just copied around the censorship, because if you copy/paste normally it works.)

Well, I added your script it works. Thanks..
Yet now I really don't know if I want it. About the quoting, I've no idea why it didn't appear, and no it wasn't copied around purposefully..

Or maybe I have? No idea :s
It's hot, and I'm gone to sleep to think about what Evert says about mass & energy here.

P.S:
Though these !@#$% really add some.. "Colour" to these fucks & shits.

Mine are red.

Same here

(I've also removed all signatures)

I didn't think CSS had blink support. I thought it was stuck in an old tag.