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Title: Screenshots
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on February 16, 2006, 04:17:10 PM

Ok, I can't be the only computer dork here.
Post a screenshot of your current desktop.
The BSD box:

The old 500 MHz iMac:

Title: Screenshots
Post by: cosine on February 16, 2006, 04:29:14 PM

Here's mine:



[hillbilly]I ain't too much of a computer dork.[/hillbilly]
In fact, the application open on the taskbar is IE at Wikipedia teaching me how to capture a screenshot.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on February 16, 2006, 04:32:00 PM

Nice wallpaper.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: zahc on February 16, 2006, 04:32:09 PM

You totally stole my desktop wallpaper.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: cosine on February 16, 2006, 04:44:28 PM

Yeah, I like that wallpaper. It's a picture of the Orion nebula taken by the Hubble telescope. I got the link (www.hubblesite.org) from a post on Sigforum, really loved that picture, and downloaded the correct resolution for my desktop and made it my wallpaper. In fact, that site has all sorts of cool pictures, including tons of space images ones formatted properly for desktop wallpapers.

Here's the link to page with the Orion wallpaper downloads: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/nebula_collection/pr2006001a/
Scroll down about four-fifth of the way down the page.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Standing Wolf on February 16, 2006, 05:23:57 PM

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The BSD box:

That looks every bit as ugly as DOS. Sorry, but all that reversed type takes me back to 1983 and 1984.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on February 16, 2006, 05:35:51 PM

Better?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Sindawe on February 16, 2006, 05:42:24 PM

My desktop at work, proprietary monitoring applications hidden of course.



This is the image I use on my primary box at home, such a pretty day. (linked, cause its big)

http://www.angelfire.com/linux/amgine/images/battlecrab_sky.jpg

Title: Screenshots
Post by: esheato on February 16, 2006, 06:00:27 PM

Took the pic myself a month ago returning from a skiing trip. I'm a landscape kind of guy.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: drewtam on February 16, 2006, 06:07:27 PM

Sindawe,
why is a B5 Battleship blasting away at what appears to be the Enterprise? Is this some sort of Homeworld mod?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Sindawe on February 16, 2006, 06:56:09 PM

No, the image predates any mods to retail games for B5 fans.  IIRC, it stems from from the fanatical fandom of B5 addicts in the mid-90s (of which I was one) and their conviction that B5 was better than ANY flavor of Trek.

Oh, and actually its an Omega-Class Destroyer.  The Earth Alliance had no battleships.

Shoot, I just learned that G'Kar (Andreas Katsulas) had died.

Here is a note posted by JMS:
Subject: Andreas Katsulas is gone
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:52:01 +0000 (UTC)

Just over a year ago, Andreas Katsulas -- who loved smoking with a passion that cannot be described -- was diagnosed with lung cancer, which by then had already spread to other areas. He quit smoking at once and went on a healthy diet and vitamin program, but there was little hope of a good resolution even though the new regimen was very good for him. When we spoke about it, he laughed, and said, "Now that I'm dying I've never felt better!"

His spirits were always up and positive, putting everyone at ease about his condition, because...well, that's the kind of person he was.

A couple of months ago, he and his wife convened a dinner with me, Doug, and Peter Jurasik, which was filled with laughter and stories and good food. He wanted to know all the stories we never told him because, as he said, "Who am I going to tell?" So we did. Because we knew we were saying goodbye, and there would not be a second chance.

Last night, in the company of his wife and family, Andreas closed his eyes and went away.

He lived an amazing life...full of travel and wonder and good work...was part of the world renowned Peter Brook company...he saw the planet, loved and was loved, ate at great restaurants, smoked too many cigarettes...he lived a life some people would die for.

And, sadly, due to the last part of that equation...he did.

Memorial arrangements are still being worked out, but will doubtless be private.

Andreas is gone...and G'Kar with him, because no one else can ever play that role, or ever will.

I will miss him terribly.

J. Michael Straczynski


My apologies for the thread highjack.  Mr. Katsulas's portrail of Ambassador G'Kar and his personal growth over the five year span of B5 made the series.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Fatcat on February 16, 2006, 07:32:05 PM

Nothing special, but I gotta have a clean desktop.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: drewtam on February 16, 2006, 07:35:07 PM

Thats so sad,

No, one of the things that made B5 great was that you saw that change and developement in every character. Thats what I absolutley loved about the series, it took the time to really develope characters. It really felt like watching a good book. Star Trek (any series any spin off) has nothing on B5, story telling, charaters, acting, 'human-ness', plot. The only thing ST has is money and CG, all form and no substance.

Homeworld has nothing to do with B5, but folks have modded it to take on the B5 style ships and battles. Its an excellent space RTS (true 3D battles!) game.

Will JMS ever do another series?

Drew

Title: Screenshots
Post by: zahc on February 16, 2006, 08:38:54 PM

That's exactly what Fatcat's desktop made me think, too.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Nightfall on February 17, 2006, 01:29:33 AM

I'd post my desktop, but it's quicker to describe it. Plain white background, total of 5 icons on the left. I used to put different stuff on there, but ya know, sometimes I'm not in the mood to stare at a gun/landscape/etc. picture while I do stuff. Plain white fits every mood.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: garrettwc on February 17, 2006, 03:08:10 AM

dasmi, don't let 'em get to you. Some people just can't appreciate the simple elegance of a command prompt

Fatcat, I know how to wipe the desktop, but how did you get your start button to be just an icon?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: BrokenPaw on February 17, 2006, 03:58:37 AM

I'd post mine, but the big question would be, which of the four monitors should I post?  I've got Luis Royo paintings on each of them, but they're all different.

Does geek factor improve if I mention that I currently have 6 VNC sessions open to servers down the hall in the lab, and all of them have xterms with command prompts in?

-BP

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Fatcat on February 17, 2006, 05:29:31 AM

Winamp skin is here.

The start button is part of the visual style I am using, Black Mesa v2. Takes a bit of doing to get custom visual styles working but it sure looks better.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: garrettwc on February 17, 2006, 05:39:27 AM

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Does geek factor improve if I mention that I currently have 6 VNC sessions open to servers down the hall in the lab, and all of them have xterms with command prompts in?

I'd give it an 8.5

Title: Screenshots
Post by: garrettwc on February 17, 2006, 08:27:15 AM

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The start button is part of the visual style I am using, Black Mesa v2. Takes a bit of doing to get custom visual styles working but it sure looks better.

So it that like the themes we used to use for Win95/98, just download and choose from the desktop settings, or do you have to go in and tweak stuff like the registry?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: BrokenPaw on February 17, 2006, 08:54:47 AM

Ok, I actually captured my whole desktop.  Apologies in advance for the image width:


The second monitor from the right is a flat panel at 1280x1024, and the other three are CRTs at 1920x1200, which is why that one appears smaller than the others.

I use the flatpanel for reading e-mail and stuff like that, and the CRTs for coding on my build servers and for testing on my lab servers, all via VNC.

-BP

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Fatcat on February 17, 2006, 02:34:24 PM

Quote from: garrettwc

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The start button is part of the visual style I am using, Black Mesa v2. Takes a bit of doing to get custom visual styles working but it sure looks better.

So it that like the themes we used to use for Win95/98, just download and choose from the desktop settings, or do you have to go in and tweak stuff like the registry?

It's basically like that except you have to replace a DLL file with one that allows non-microsoft themes to be used. After that they simply get stuck in the windows/resources/themes directory and selected from the appearance tab in display properties. Not too bad, but admittedly a lot more work than most people wanna go through. Alternatively there are some third party programs you can use (windowblinds, etc.), but they eat up too many resources for my taste.

And BP, that is awesome. What video card are you using that has 4 outputs?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: TarpleyG on February 17, 2006, 03:09:26 PM

Nothing too spectacular...



Greg

Title: Screenshots
Post by: ...has left the building. on February 17, 2006, 04:15:43 PM

Title: Screenshots
Post by: garrettwc on February 18, 2006, 06:39:21 AM

Swap a DLL file? Heck Fatcat, that's cake compared to some of the registry hacks I've seen people play with. Seems simple enough. May have to save it for the home PC though. IT guys at work get nervous when I start playing with their standard drive image.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Sindawe on February 18, 2006, 06:52:45 AM

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May have to save it for the home PC though. IT guys at work get nervous when I start playing with their standard drive image.

I can certainly understand where your IT guys are coming from.  Fortunately where I am employed the rule is "If you broke it doing non-work related stuff, YOU get to fix it."

Title: Screenshots
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on February 18, 2006, 06:55:02 AM

I _am_ the IT guy at my office, so I can pretty much fool with what I like

Title: Screenshots
Post by: garrettwc on February 18, 2006, 07:49:16 AM

Well the guys themselves are pretty cool about it. The main guy, whose cube is right next to mine is a big gamer/linux guru/etc who is also ex-military due to an unpleasant experience during parachute jump, so we get along fine.

It's the power mad little sysadmins at corporate, who put the heat on and cause him to get nervous.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: charby on March 07, 2006, 07:39:33 AM

mine is a cluster f**k I'm surprised I didn't see this post sooner.. Nothing like a revival!

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Stickjockey on March 07, 2006, 08:25:55 AM

Don't know how to do screenshots, but it's this picture:



sized to fit the screen.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: esheato on March 07, 2006, 05:29:30 PM

charby,

I'm going into a seizure looking at your desktop.

Ed

Title: Screenshots
Post by: HForrest on March 07, 2006, 10:45:25 PM

Note my tactical desktop organization system.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: garrettwc on March 08, 2006, 04:14:02 AM

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Note my tactical desktop organization system.

I was just going to ask Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot across the top there?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: charby on March 08, 2006, 04:51:25 AM

Quote from: esheato

charby,

I'm going into a seizure looking at your desktop.

Ed

I hear that a lot from people who come into my office.  Plus I painted my walls a purple color called Crocus Bud. Looks like its Easter all the time in here.

Charby

Title: Screenshots
Post by: HForrest on March 09, 2006, 01:07:33 PM

Bonus question: Where did the picture on my desktop come from?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: charby on March 09, 2006, 01:10:23 PM

Quote from: Combat-wombat

Bonus question: Where did the picture on my desktop come from?

Heavy Metal? The Hobbit cartoon movie?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Stickjockey on March 10, 2006, 04:14:56 PM

Escher?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: esheato on March 10, 2006, 05:41:35 PM

Please now....it's obviously from the intro of The Search for the Holy Grail. (As cocky as I am, I hope I'm right...)

Ed

Title: Screenshots
Post by: HForrest on March 10, 2006, 06:28:38 PM

Nope

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Devonai on March 11, 2006, 04:44:19 AM

Astronomy buffs should check out Celestia if you haven't already.  You can use it to create some pretty cool custom screenshots once you're familiar with the program.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia

BTW, the nice thing about NASA/Hubble photographs is that they're all in the public domain.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Dannyboy on March 17, 2006, 06:28:03 AM

I did the same Wiki thing but I lost the pic somehow and I just found it.  So, here's my desktop.  It's a painting by a guy named Beacham Owen called "Kimi and Michael."

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Balog on March 17, 2006, 11:34:42 AM

Charby, what movie is that pic taken from?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: charby on March 17, 2006, 11:52:21 AM

Quote from: Balog

Charby, what movie is that pic taken from?

Not a movie, its the band Reverend Horton Heat

http://www.reverendhortonheat.com/

on the wall papers free downloads from the site

C

Title: Screenshots
Post by: one45auto on March 19, 2006, 08:00:43 AM

Can anyone host a pic for me so that I can play, too?

Title: Screenshots
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on March 19, 2006, 08:01:31 AM

one45auto, yes I can.  Email it to me.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Kestrel on March 20, 2006, 09:25:46 AM

Tarply,

Where did you get that desktop background?

Thanks.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: K Frame on March 20, 2006, 09:40:07 AM

Here's mine...




The Deep Field Survey by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Title: Screenshots
Post by: bermbuster on March 20, 2006, 09:57:10 AM

Quote from: Stickjockey

Don't know how to do screenshots, but it's this picture:

http://www.aoqz76.dsl.pipex.com/Web%20Page%20Components/Wallpaper/Planes/Spitfire.jpg

sized to fit the screen.

Great photo. I am a sucker for Spitfires.

Here's my desktop

Title: Screenshots
Post by: grampster on March 20, 2006, 11:36:13 AM

I have no idea what any of you are talking about.  

Title: Screenshots
Post by: jefnvk on March 20, 2006, 11:59:03 AM

One of the hills on the XC ski trail.  Beats the bunny hill on the downhill slope

Title: Screenshots
Post by: Mabs2 on March 21, 2006, 01:46:25 PM

Quote from: Combat-wombat

http://i2.tinypic.com/qz2b9s.jpgNote my tactical desktop organization system.

Dude.  
Best idea ever.
You are my hero.