@PixelProphet: Yeah, it seems like you can do more with rainmeter, but I can already run a python script in samurize, so it'd just be graphical improvements - unfortunately for me, I'm not a graphical person. At all.

@PixelProphet: Oh, using a piece of software I have no issue with. I'm talking about actually writing the skins. I much prefer samurize, almost entirely because it has a graphical editor.

@DancingMan: Same here! I can read C, get my head around pascal, give lolcode or brainfuck a good go, but rainmeter confuses me!

@Chambana: Ah, well. This method is free, for those of us without fancy phones :P

@Tyler Miranda: I say the same to you I said to ted. Just because you can take it doesn't excuse something using far more RAM than it needs - even on my relatively meagre 2GB RAM, 90mb is but a drop in the ocean, but that doesn't mean it gets a free pass.

@Jasneet: With the exception of that font on the folders, I like it!

@tedknaz: Just because you have a lot of it doesn't excuse shoddy programming. Evidently Rainmeter isn't actually shoddily programmed, but apparently some sort of nasty software conflict with something running on my PC, but the concept remains the same. Don't encourage bad development.

@Chambana: You do that because there's nothing on it. I keep a to-do list and timetable, all of a sudden, my desktop is invaluble for finding out when I'm free.

@im.thatoneguy2: Web browser I don't mind, it's doing something with that RAM. This is not, as proven by people saying it's taking up 20-odd. I guess rainmeter just doesn't like me, I'll stick to samurize.

It was very cool, until I looked at the RAM usage. I only had 3 panels open, and it was taking a whopping 90MB of RAM! Yes, we may be in 2010, but for background widgets that's simply too much.

@icecreamman: ooh, thanks, that should be a great help!

@icecreamman: Yeah, that's the plan - but it's the hardware itself that's failing now, and I don't see how software could mitigate such degradation, so what I really want is a damn reliable router I can keep around for many a year to come.

@Bluestump86: That looks like a great router, featurewise, and it must be reliable (which is what I really want), thanks!

@Adam Lynch: I've very little experience in Perl, but python's documentation is very comprehensive, and there are dozens of "getting started with python" guides on the net - one of python's main philosophies is "There should be one, and only one, obvious way to do it", so it's a very straightforward language,…

@Adam Lynch: Sounds like P(ython|erl) is what you're looking for, then. They're both high-level scripting languages, which are great for just about... anything!

@Nitesh Singh: Spoilers :p

@TheFu: Or python!

@iSmithx_reloaded: I always got my wireless networking working by plugging 'er in wired first time, Ubuntu should grab all the right drivers and stuff, and things will be dandy once more!

WOOOOOOOOOOOO! WOOO!

VOTE: Dropbox.