Screen capture of your desktop!

[ddadmin]

I'll start.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4829/desktopsb5.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopsb5.jpg)

[Twey]

I'll start.But where is it? :confused:

I have a few, with different themes and effects:
http://www.twey.co.uk/images/beryl-blue-1.png
http://www.twey.co.uk/images/beryl-blue-2.png
http://www.twey.co.uk/images/beryl-green-1.png
http://www.twey.co.uk/images/beryl-green-2.png
http://www.twey.co.uk/images/beryl-red-1.png
The ripples look kind of ugly when still. They're much nicer in motion.

/EDIT: Oh, now I see it. ImageShack isn't working for me, though -- a response is never sent to my request.

[blm126]

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4829/desktopsb5.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopsb5.jpg)
Is that a Frontpage Icon? :eek:

Here's mine
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2273/deskac1.th.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deskac1.jpg)
If your wondering, it looks weird because I have dual displays at different resolutions.

[BLiZZaRD]

Ahh a non icon man I see... I will get my screen captures and upload them in a while, making dinner now :)

I like icons, shortcuts, folders, labels. I hate going to the start menu then all programs, etc.

This is on my Windows machine, of course. I only use certain apps and of course the games. On my Linux box I have 2 icons and the rest are in drawers on my tool bars, LMAO

[tech_support]

I'll start.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4829/desktopsb5.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopsb5.jpg)
Guess you like Counter-Strike too.

Here's mine:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3357/screengs4.th.png (http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screengs4.png)

[Twey]

Nice wallpaper.

I'm not one for desktop icons. Seems pointless, since they're all covered up most of the time anyway.

[jscheuer1]

http://home.comcast.net/~jscheuer1/side/desktop.png

. . . on a slow day . . .

[BLiZZaRD]

Okay, here is my first. This is from my XP box. Took it while working on some Flash stuff.

Screen Capture 1 (http://cleverwasteoftime.com/blizzcorner/winscreen.jpg)

Apps and Proggies on the left, games and site items on the right. heh. chaotic organization. I like folders :D

Will get my 2 laptops and my Fedora Core screen up next time I log into them.

Edit.. wow that was huge! is there a height/width setting for posted images here? I don't want to take up the whole damn page.

[shachi]

I usually use openbox but I couldn't capture my screen so here's the one from Gnome.

Shot 1 (http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6758/screenshotqp8.png)

[Twey]

shachi, quite nice (for GNOME :p). The one thing I miss in other environments is GNOME's ability to resize icons. I'd probably just end up with one big icon (all I have on my desktop at the moment is my [rather large] TODO list) but it'd be nice anyway. :)

[shachi]

I am not very good at "beautifying" desktops, The only change I made was to the top bar and the desktop. I almost never use GNOME(as long as I have openbox, and if my friends see my desktop, they say "Gee! Is that a desktop??")

[ItsMeOnly]

http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,beethoven.jpg,komputery,1,0
Beethoven (IA32 PC) (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,beethoven.jpg,big,0,0)

http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,sgi.jpg,komputery,1,0
Vivaldi (SGI Indy) (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,sgi.jpg,big,0,0)

http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,hpcde.jpg,komputery,1,0
Offenbach (HP Visualize B132L) (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,hpcde.jpg,big,0,0)

http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,a1200-grab2.png,komputery,1,0
Amy (Commodore Amiga A1200) (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,a1200-grab2.png,big,0,0)

[Twey]

Ooh, nice collection!

[mburt]

..My life sucks.. I officially hate windows :(

[BLiZZaRD]

Join the club :p What happened this time?

[boxxertrumps]

Yeah...

Custom Shell For the Win...
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/boxxertrumps/desktop.jpg

Notice how Windows is Classified As Adware...

[BLiZZaRD]

As promised, here is my Work Desktop (dual boot WinXP and Fedora Core 5, of which I never use WinXP from work on this computer):
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4946/screenshot3cv.th.png (http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot3cv.png)


And this is my work laptop desktop. windows makes me use icons! LMAO.

If I can ever pry my personal laptop away from my wife I will post that background up as well.


http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6166/lapback3kr.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lapback3kr.jpg)

[Twey]

Hahaha, love your Windows background. The Fedora one is quite nice too, even if it is a giant GNOME logo.

boxxertrumps, having the Hacker Manifesto as your wallpaper is the ultimate in good taste. :p
Blackbox is nice, but I hate your theme :)

[BLiZZaRD]

Hahaha, love your Windows background. The Fedora one is quite nice too, even if it is a giant GNOME logo.


Heh, thanks. The windows one I took a screen of the install I did a while back and added the text to it later.

And yes I know about the giant gnome print, I like the gnome environment a little better than KDE, and this is my work computer after all, so I went with a default background pic, as I haven't yet had time to browse the art sections and find a nicer one. In real life though it isn't as noticeable and looks pretty good. :D

[Twey]

And yes I know about the giant gnome print, I like the gnome environment a little better than KDE, and this is my work computer after all, so I went with a default background pic, as I haven't yet had time to browse the art sections and find a nicer one.Heh, no need to be so defensive, if you want to like GNOME that's entirely your decision. <throat:clear>you nutter</throat:clear> :p

[mburt]

Here's mine (windows :()
http://mburt.mb.funpic.org/images/screen.jpg

[Twey]

You people don't do nearly enough customisation. What are you, people with lives or something? :p

[mburt]

How do you customize with Windows? :p

[Twey]

See boxxertrumps' Blackbox setup :)

[BLiZZaRD]

Shouldn't it be:



<throat:clear>you nutter</throat>


:D

So, honestly, Gnome, KDE.. is there really anything one can do that the other can't? I haven't found anything yet. But then again most of my programing is spent on WinXP cause of Flash...

[Twey]

Shouldn't it be:
<throat:clear>you nutter</throat>No, throat is the namespace and clear the actual tagname. :p Note that the syntax is XML, not HTML.
So, honestly, Gnome, KDE.. is there really anything one can do that the other can't?Rather a lot. For a start, GNOME is considerably less customisable than KDE. I believe this was a conscious attempt to simplify the desktop environment by the GNOME developers, but I don't like it anyway. GNOME also just includes a lot less features (composite support, window-specific settings, Mac-like application menu...). Another thing I hate is the file dialogue: there's no direct input box, so in order to find, for example, a helper application for Firefox, one has to navigate to /usr/bin then wait whilst it scans all the files there, freezing up the application completely, then scroll all the way down the list (2025 files on my machine) to find the correct one. Also, while it has less features and certainly has better performance than KDE, the performance increase isn't great enough to warrant calling it a light-weight desktop like Fluxbox or even XFCE, making it really rather useless.

[mburt]

Yes, GNOME is much less accessible for an user which is unfamiliar with it. Which is the reason most people get Windows, or a Mac.

[BLiZZaRD]

Less customizable? Really? I am really not a "defender" of Gnome over KDE, just curious. I really don't get into the whole customizing thing to the extremes that I have heard of, but I have changed a lot on the Gnome desktop.

There hasn't been anything I tried to change that I couldn't, and the "Linux for non-geeks" book I got went through 3 whole chapters of customizing the Gnome environment, and there was nary a thing left untouched. What can you customize on KDE that you can't on Gnome?

As for the features, are you positive that is not your distro? I am not arguing, cause I really don't know, but during my set up of Fedora I got to choose what got installed and what didn't, for both KDE and Gnome, and Gnome had a lot more options. Now, granted the KDE defaulted to having more options installed than Gnome, but I checked all the boxes for both.

Besides, it was my understanding that I could use any KDE application within Gnome, and vise versa. Also, for the direct file input box, maybe I miss understood you, but I did just that the other day to find my works network folder on the LAN.

Went to "Places" Find Folder and typed in the name of the network folder and the folder within the network folder (in this case /TGAADMIN/TGABlack/Agent Folders/ ) and it came up as found, and I made a short cut to it in the "Places" menu.

[Twey]

Yes, GNOME is much less accessible for an user which is unfamiliar with it.I disagree: the whole point behind making GNOME "simpler" was to make it easier for new users.
we're focused on making Free Software appropriate for users who are smart (we don't talk about 'dumb users'), but just don't care about computing technology.
There hasn't been anything I tried to change that I couldn't, and the "Linux for non-geeks" book I got went through 3 whole chapters of customizing the Gnome environment, and there was nary a thing left untouched. What can you customize on KDE that you can't on Gnome?I can't give a full list since I don't have GNOME installed on here at the moment, but I recall there being quite a lot. This was a couple of months ago, though; I suppose it might have changed, but as far as I know GNOME still has no built-in composite support. That's what I remember most since it's the reason I switched back to KDE :p
As for the features, are you positive that is not your distro? I am not arguing, cause I really don't know, but during my set up of Fedora I got to choose what got installed and what didn't, for both KDE and Gnome, and Gnome had a lot more options. Now, granted the KDE defaulted to having more options installed than Gnome, but I checked all the boxes for both.I was talking about the actual environments themselves, not applications designed for them.
Besides, it was my understanding that I could use any KDE application within Gnome, and vise versa. Also, for the direct file input box, maybe I miss understood you, but I did just that the other day to find my works network folder on the LAN.

Went to "Places" Find Folder and typed in the name of the network folder and the folder within the network folder (in this case /TGAADMIN/TGABlack/Agent Folders/ ) and it came up as found, and I made a short cut to it in the "Places" menu.That's the file manager, Nautilus, not the file selection dialogue. Go to Firefox and click File->Open Location... to see what I mean. Then try to navigate to a file in /usr/bin.

/EDIT: On my distribution, this has actually been fixed now (there's a Location textbox), but I'm running unstable, so you may still be able to see it. The auto-complete on the textbox is still rather slow (typing in /usr/bin causes Firefox to freeze for about half a minute on mine) but it's nothing like the old one, which took in excess of ten minutes at one point, although I did have other applications running at the same time.

[BLiZZaRD]

Oh, I gotcha. Those are all things I don't use, so I didn't know about them :p

[benslayton]

Heres my Desktoper...
730

[shachi]

boxxertrumps: Love your background, where'd you get it from?

[boxxertrumps]

7chan... I Frequent the programming and insurgency boards.

Heres The Link to the page.
http://img.7chan.org/wp/res/2765.html

[shachi]

Thanks boxxertrumps!!

[Twey]

Here (http://www.twey.co.uk/images/pyr.png)'s another, no fancy Beryl stuff this time.

Apologies to those of you on dialup trying to download my screenshots, they never look quite so good as JPEG :p

[ItsMeOnly]

Desktop you say.... well, how about that?
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,Events/New+Year+celebration-1.01.2007/dsc04278.jpg,viewer,1,0.jpg

[Twey]

Hahaha, very good :p Your link is broken, though: it should be http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,Events/New Year celebration-1.01.2007/dsc04278.jpg,viewer,1,0.jpg.

[ItsMeOnly]

Hahaha, very good :p Your link is broken, though:.
Made it to image as intended :)

Here's the current bunch:
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,room2.jpg,big,1,0.jpg

[jscheuer1]

Apologies in advance if this is insensitive for some reason but, where do you sit?

A very nice looking workspace!

[ItsMeOnly]

Hahaha, for taking the picture, the comfy chair is moved to the right, into "sleeping area", you can even see little of it.

[Twey]

It looks very crowded -- I don't think I could work there :p

I recently dismantled my bed so I could have more floor space.

[BLiZZaRD]

Wow man...

Ever hear of KVM switches? :D

[ItsMeOnly]

It looks very crowded -- I don't think I could work there :p
Well, if you look at the scale- the room is 17 square meters (180 square feet).

Wow man...

Ever hear of KVM switches? :D
Well, I generally use 2-3 machines max at the same time, one is always on- and I use it to host the amplifier. The second "always on" is the PC (sits on the floor, with door opened). It is the noisiest thing there: 2 CPUs, 5 fans- gonna switch to Core Duo soon enough though. It's followed by B132L (left, under the CRT), and C3600 (the gray-blue, with LCD) with its two huge 5 inch fans, which don't run full speed though, but enough to give away (http://ftp.id.uw.edu.pl/pub/video/Allegro-startup.avi)its presence (it's still an a**-kicking machine). And there's one electronic KVM, hidden- it has some problems though so I use it with Suns and HPs only, because SGI Indy (the aquamarine thingy) sync's on green.

[jscheuer1]

You left out the Cray in the basement, didn't you?

[jscheuer1]

My more humble (and messier) winter desktop (it's warmer in the kitchen):

http://home.comcast.net/~jscheuer1/side/desktop_w_o.jpg

[ItsMeOnly]

You left out the Cray in the basement, didn't you?
Boy, I'd love to have an X-MP :)

But, to be honest- I have "Cray on a chip" :D

Take a look:
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,Intel+860+RISC/A80860XP-50.jpg,procesory,1,0

However, from mainframes, I have S/390 CPU (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,IBM-MCM.jpg,bigcpu,0,0), weights 8 lbs, and is 6 inches. I also have RS64 IV module with three, 2-core CPUs.

[BLiZZaRD]

Another option is software KVM... DD (may have been John, I don't recall... sorry) put me on to download.com to find the software for Synergy. it does the same things as a KVM switch and then some. Very nice indeed! I would check that out.

You wont get rid of any components but you can use one keyboard and mouse for all your monitors. :D

(If I can find that link again I will post it here, likewise you can search the forum for "KVM" and find the thread I started. :D

[BLiZZaRD]

Just updated.. Found a skin module for Win XP's explorer!

Check out the new diggs:

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/3848/newscreenygh5.th.jpg (http://img400.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newscreenygh5.jpg)

[Blake]

http://www.blake-foster.com/desktopth.gif (http://www.blake-foster.com/desktop.gif)

[techno_race]

I'll start.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4829/desktopsb5.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopsb5.jpg)

Cute pup.

[mburt]

Oooh.. Nice graphic Blake. I like it :)

[jscheuer1]

For a long time, I've been partial to this optional Windows wallpaper:

http://laseri.ifs.hr/Service/Slike/Water%20lilies.jpg

[Twey]

Hmm... it doesn't grab me.

A lot of the wallpapers from Digital Blasphemy (http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/) are very good. The designer is extremely talented.

[techno_race]

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/2969/desktopws1.th.jpg (http://img239.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopws1.jpg)
See my dog (named Booduh, age 2 yrs, 14 in dog years)

[Demonicman]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/dannyb1022/desktop.jpg

i was making sigs and this turned out to be an ok desktop background

[jscheuer1]

I just like them (the water lilies). However, while searching for an available image of the wallpaper to insert in my post, I ran across this site:

http://www.breathtaking-photos.com/viewimage.asp?catid=2

I like the last lily on the page. We have one of the world's premiere botanical gardens nearby us here in SE PA. Longwood Gardens - they have wonderful water lily features (seasonably) in the outdoor portion of their extensive conservatory. Something about these plants always resonated with me and bring on a calming mood.

[boxxertrumps]

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/boxxertrumps/th_snapshot5.jpg (http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/boxxertrumps/snapshot5.jpg)

My New Kubuntu.

[techno_race]

Just got Ubuntu :)
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1821/screenshotsi8.th.png (http://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotsi8.png)

[Twey]

Just to go against the grain of the thread... I just got Windows (http://www.twey.co.uk/images/screenshots/w2k-seme.png) :p Managed to get W2K running in qemu with kqemu... near-native performance. I did this once before, but my hardware was a lot less powerful, and in the end it just wasn't feasible (testing a site took ages waiting for each page to render).

[Freeman]

Just to go against the grain of the thread... I just got Windows (http://www.twey.co.uk/images/screenshots/w2k-seme.png)

I want to set up a linux box or something similar to it. Do you or anyone else have some favorite operating systems that are recommended? And how did you manage to run windows?

[boxxertrumps]

I'd get fedora.

And right now i have kubuntu... Even Yum has dependancies... So many dependancies...
*Curls into fetal postion*
dependancies....
*weeps*

[Twey]

Heh :)

I agree with boxxertrumps, get Fedora (unless you're just not comfortable with computers in general, in which case go for Kubuntu).
And how did you manage to run windows?QEMU (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/). Win2K runs nicely with 128MB of RAM, which means I now have the test network I needed, all on one machine.

[BLiZZaRD]

Fedora Core all the way :D

However, get version 5, not 6. 6 has a few bugs that you have to work out/around during initial install and the overall new features aren't worth the headache.

version 7 is nearing final release, but for now use FC5, so far it is the best version yet.

Yes you can still get 5. Go to fedoraproject.org, click on the get fedora and follow the links to the i386 (or x86_64 if running a 64 bit system) and in the URL you will see ...../1386/6/iso.... whatever.. change folder "6" to "5" and the iso's are still there :D (all the way back to 2 I believe, but stick with 5)

[Twey]

Really? I haven't found any yet. What bugs in particular?

/EDIT: Oh wait, I remember: GRUB wasn't installed properly by the installer (had to boot to rescue CD and use grub-install manually), and the installer refused to read packages from the CD until I disabled DMA. OK, yeah, use FC5.

[ItsMeOnly]

Ever done that on an VMS?
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,alphastation-decwindows.png,big,1,0.jpg (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,alphastation-decwindows.png,big,0,0)
CDE on VMS, too
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,alphastation-cde.png,big,1,0.jpg (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,alphastation-cde.png,big,0,0)

[boxxertrumps]

Is THAT windows 3x?

[BLiZZaRD]

Really? I haven't found any yet. What bugs in particular?

/EDIT: Oh wait, I remember: GRUB wasn't installed properly by the installer (had to boot to rescue CD and use grub-install manually), and the installer refused to read packages from the CD until I disabled DMA. OK, yeah, use FC5.

That and the install loaded the i586 kernel instead of the i686 kernel so during install you had to specify "linux i686". Not a big deal really unless you didn't know.

Also depending on some of the packages it would install the xen kernel instead of the normal one, made loading xwin impossible as well as most other GUI aspects.

Once it was loaded and updated 6 was/is fine it's just a lot of hassle, especially for a new person.

[lainlives]

5 screen captures all of them on my new windows install
http://lainlives.cabspace.com/enter/1.bmp
http://lainlives.cabspace.com/enter/2.bmp
http://lainlives.cabspace.com/enter/3.bmp
http://lainlives.cabspace.com/enter/4.bmp
http://lainlives.cabspace.com/enter/5.bmp
note the red text is supposed to scroll


Wow if fell left out i got fedora core 2 on my other computer

[Twey]

Ever did that on VMS?Aaah, beautiful!
Is THAT windows 3xNo, that is not Windows 3.x, you blasphemer :p That's a VMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS) variant.

[boxxertrumps]

Sorry, Windows 3x (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Windows_3.11_workspace.png) Looks very similar...

Should have read the text above the picture...

[DanielSmith]

i usually use ACA Capture Pro (http://www.acasystems.com/en/screencapturepro/) ,here is my shot (http://boinc.mundayweb.com/desktop/konfabulator_small.jpg)

[jscheuer1]

For all you folks who like the 'death and metal' look (&#169; 2007 yours truly):

http://loisimages.com/john/bones2_o.jpg

At least that's what it looked like a few hours ago with the top down.

[jnscollier]

wow, all of you guys have such few icons on your desktops!! I have about a million folders and application icons on mine. Seriously, about 3/4 of my desktop is covered with icons.

[jscheuer1]

wow, all of you guys have such few icons on your desktops!! I have about a million folders and application icons on mine. Seriously, about 3/4 of my desktop is covered with icons.

Try desktop cleanup wizard. :)

That's a windows only thing, I think. Anyways, when installing new programs I usually do not select or deselect (if it is selected) the option of having a desktop icon added. I also routinely delete any desktop shortcuts I don't think I need. I can easily do this because I am quite familiar with how to make new ones if I want them and with finding programs on my computer that have no icons on the desktop or in the start menu.

[boxxertrumps]

i usually use ACA Capture Pro (http://www.acasystems.com/en/screencapturepro/) ,here is my shot (http://boinc.mundayweb.com/desktop/konfabulator_small.jpg)

Why did you PAY for a screen capture program?
it comes with the OS, you just hit the "print screen" button then paste it into an imp...

[jnscollier]

It's one of those things where I'm always thinking I'll need something later on down the road. Bad habit i know. lol.

[Twey]

There are issues with the standard Windows screen-capture utility... it doesn't display OpenGL- or ActiveX-rendered widgets, and it does odd things to scrollbars. It's a lot less flexible than a dedicated program, too (although, as you said, an image editor removes a lot of this, it's an extra step).

I use KSnapshot for this reason, even though KDE provides built-in screencapture functionality. KSnapshot does most of the things that program claims to do (but it's free :)).
wow, all of you guys have such few icons on your desktops!! I have about a million folders and application icons on mine. Seriously, about 3/4 of my desktop is covered with icons.The only icons I have on my desktop are my (rather bulky) TODO list, and my CD drive, which KDE puts there automatically, and which I can't be bothered to remove, even though I rarely use it. KDE provides a list of commonly-used applications at the top of the main menu, which happen to be my web browser, mail client, chat client, media player, and terminal, the only applications I use regularly (read: fire up at boot). I find this faster and neater than minimising all my applications, clicking an icon, and restoring them all. If I need something else, I tend to hit alt-f2 and type its name (which tends to be faster than clicking anyway).
As I think BLiZZaRD mentioned, Linux desktops also have the concept of "drawers," a single panel icon (as seen in the quick-launch bar in Windows) each of which can store a large number of further icons, rendering desktop icons redundant for a lot of users.

[killerchutney]

heres mine. (p.s. I don't have vista, it's a transformation pack)
http://www.killerchutney.co.uk/imgs/mydesktop.JPG
p.s. ImageShack is slow and has ads. Use my one http://www.killerchutney.co.uk/imgupload.php

[Twey]

I don't have vista, it's a transformation packDo you get glass?
p.s. ImageShack is slow and has ads. Use my oneI think it's only for we Brits... no-one else seems to have this problem, but as you say, I frequently find ImageShack so slow that the browser gives up and closes the connection before getting the page.
So, folks, yes, please do use his. :)

[killerchutney]

Do you get glass?Sort of, its either none or 100% transparency, unless you get somw strange program that costs money :(

[boxxertrumps]

I was over at tykonda's house last night... i saw that theme and almost had a heart attack...

Then he told me it was only a skin...

[ItsMeOnly]

http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic,php,hpcde-comfortable.jpg,lista,1,0.jpg (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic,php,hpcde-comfortable.jpg,big,0,0)
HP Visualize B132L revisited

http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic,php,alphastation-cde2.png,lista,1,0.jpg (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic,php,alphastation-cde2.png,big,0,0)
...and Tru64 on AS600

[boxxertrumps]

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/boxxertrumps/height1.png - 200kb..
Why's my router accessing my website?
Very odd.

[Twey]

Is the webserver on your LAN, or outside?

[boxxertrumps]

My lan, its the comp i bought for myself last july...
if it was remote then it would show my public IP, (24.57.242.226) right?

[Twey]

Yeah, but it would be plausible that there would be another machine on the server's LAN that just happened to have the same IP as your router. As it is, I'm not sure. I'd start getting paranoid about now. :p

[lainlives]

it is very possible for the the servers lan to have a computer with the same ip as u because my ip address has 3 in the same city...

[Twey]

Yes, except that it's on the same LAN, so it can't be.
boxxertrumps, if I were you I'd make sure someone hasn't compromised your router... check network logs for any other connections made by that router, upgrade the firmware, flash the settings and change the password. It could also be someone spoofing their IP, especially if your network is wireless.

Do you have the query string sent by the "router?"

[boxxertrumps]

I dont know how to begin doing what you just told me too...
its not wireless, and its understandable that its been comprimised because i havent changed the password. Or default UN.
Sooo...
I have some things to do...

EDIT: why do you have router in quotes?
But i only have the IP and timestamp of its acsess...

[Twey]

I dont know how to begin doing what you just told me too...Disconnect the router from the internet, then look for the reset button on it. That'll take care of any surprises the attacker may have left. After hitting that, log in and set it up (change the username and password this time!), then browse to the manufacturer's site and download the latest firmware for it. There'll be a config page on the router somewhere where you can upload a new firmware version. Do a thorough virus scan on your machines, too, and check that there's nothing unusual left behind and no ports left open: if there are it's likely the attacker has compromised one. It's possible that more sophisticated measures could have been used -- if you want to be completely certain, you'd have to reformat them all -- but I think it unlikely.
its not wireless, and its understandable that its been comprimised because i havent changed the password. Or default UN.Oh dear.
EDIT: why do you have router in quotes?Because if it were a wireless network, it would be possible to connect and send a request to the web server that looked as though it came from the router, which is one possible way of avoiding suspicion.

[tech_support]

Here's my new Windows Vista Desktop.
Sleekly and shiny, but not sure if it's secure.
That's why I have NIS.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8963/vistadesktopav2.th.png (http://img258.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vistadesktopav2.png)

EDIT: Or... If you're an ImageShack Hater/Can't use it here's a link:
http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/jpg/p4160113.jpg

[Twey]

That's why I have NIS.Haha, I gave up on NIS years ago, it kept crashing my system (and it took up more memory than every other program I was running combined) :)

I can't see the image... ImageShack, especially the US mirrors, can be very slow for us in the UK: the request usually times out.

[techno_race]

but not sure if it's secure.

More secure than any other Windows operating system. That is, as long as you installed antivirus software. I did and left everything else the way it was (in the security category, of course) and I haven't been hit by any malware yet. Well, I dunno about the BSoD caused by clicking a link, but...nothing anything could find. Except some program I can't remember the name of. :confused::confused:

I'll get some more shots and put them up here. Don't forget - I'll be online all day. :D

P.S. Twey - I won't use ImageShack. :)

[techno_race]

Couldn't do it.

To stop the "How do I customize with Windows?" thing,
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/1857/xpym3.th.png (http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xpym3.png)
(ImageShack :p)

I'll customize that.

[ItsMeOnly]

And another desktop to play on :)
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,jensen-vms-cde.jpg,big,1,0.jpg (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,jensen-vms-cde.jpg,big,0,0.jpg)

[tech_support]

Haha, I gave up on NIS years ago, it kept crashing my system (and it took up more memory than every other program I was running combined) :)
Heh. Are you aware that NIS2007 only uses 744KB of memory now?
Anyway, what Anti Virus/Internet Security do you use?

I can't see the image... ImageShack, especially the US mirrors, can be very slow for us in the UK: the request usually times out.
There's an edit with another link. (I heard that this is from the UK)

[Twey]

Heh. Are you aware that NIS2007 only uses 744KB of memory now?I wasn't. I haven't used it since said bad experiences :)
Anyway, what Anti Virus/Internet Security do you use?I use Linux. My Windows machines and virtual hosts have no direct Internet access, for security purposes.

[boxxertrumps]

I'm glad that avast is available for linux.
But i haven't had any problems with viruses yet, it took about a month for windows to become noticeably compramised.

[Twey]

I'm glad that avast is available for linux.It's really only of help for scanning Windows files, say on a fileserver. Most professional Linux anti-virus suites (such as ClamAV) are based around the assumption that you'll be doing that.

[boxxertrumps]

So.. There's no linux specific antivirus? i mean, there's really no point unless i login as root, i rarely do that, but when i do...

[Twey]

Not really, no. Avast, ClamAV, BitDefender, and others offer a Linux anti-virus solution, but there are so few Linux vira (something like forty-five vs. several hundred thousand, if I remember correctly, and none of the forty-five still in the wild), that their features are based around the assumption that you'll be handling files from Windows users. You can still use most of them to check for Linux vira, of course, but it's not really worth it. Rather, you should secure your machine from other attacks, by keeping yourself up to date with patches, and scanning regularly with an automated vulnerability detector like Nessus.

[pcbrainbuster]

Yeh Twey is right, when I had linux I used to do the same...

[boxxertrumps]

45? Words cant describe the feeling.

but pcbrainbuster, used to? I can hear torvalds rolling in his... bed.
Why did you give up linux?

"Im Not Dead Yet!"

[pcbrainbuster]

Well to tell the truth I've never had Linux, I just said it for fun and was gonna post that here later today if anyone cared :)... But whats a torvalds?

[boxxertrumps]

Linus torvalds is the foremost authority on linux, created the logo and started the development of the linux kernal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
You know your cool when you have a wiki article on you.

[pcbrainbuster]

There is ONE BIG problem with that site but no one has seems to use that to there advantage...

[Twey]

Actually, I overestimated that:Wikipedia lists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses) only 14, none of which are still dangerous to a fully-updated system.
There is ONE BIG problem with that site but no one has seems to use that to there advantage...What problem?

[pcbrainbuster]

Well I'm sure "everyone" knows this but you can edit virtually any info there...

This could get seriously serious in some cases...

[Twey]

And the article here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/) (written in 2003) lists it as 40:60,000. As you can see, reports vary wildly, but all of them agree on one thing: there are one heck of a lot more Windows vira, and none of the current Linux ones are dangerous any more.
Well I'm sure "everyone" knows this but you can edit virtually any info there...

This could get seriously serious in some cases...Not really, for the same reason it's not a serious problem that a vandal can rewrite public physical bulletin boards: people will see it, put it right, and penalise the vandal.

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL :) The way they discribed a virus would make you think having a virus meant that you computer is popular !:)!

[boxxertrumps]

i have an opinion on the wiki issue, and I'll tell you what it is.
I'd rather have the public opinion instead of a select few publishing a book.
If anyone can edit it, then the article will fall onto the most widely accepted position of everyone who reads it.
With a closed article, only a few people's opinions will be heard, with a greater chance of it being biased.

Sure, there are people who would replace the article on Adolph Hitler with

You <censored>Jew hating <censored> <censored> <censored>!!! the others people didn't deserve it either, you <censored> homophobic <censored>!
But these edits would be reversed, and as twey said, Prosecution would ensue.

[lainlives]

uummmmm.. WOW this thread is highly off topic
oh well its what the modern internets for :D

[Twey]

Sure, there are people who would replace the article on Adolph Hitler with
You <censored>Jew hating <censored> <censored> <censored>!!! the others people didn't deserve it either, you <censored> homophobic <censored>!It's a mark of their intelligence that they'd use second person to a man who's been dead for the past half a century, conspiracy theories aside :)

[boxxertrumps]

It's also why the article has been locked.

[techno_race]

Eh? No it hasn't.

[Twey]

It's semi-protected.

[techno_race]

Huh? That didn't make sense.

[Twey]

The article is semi-protected: only editable by registered users. Contrast with fully protected, in which mode the article can be edited only by moderators.

[techno_race]

only editable by registered users.
Huh? That makes about as much sense as saying "only buyable by people with money." All the threads are only editable by registered users. :confused:

If I'm confused about what you mean by a 'registered user,' I must be a 'registered user.' :p

[Twey]

Huh? Are we even discussing the same thing here? I was talking about the Wikipedia article Adolf Hitler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler), what about you?

[techno_race]

What Wikipedia article? I was talking about semi-protection...what's semi-protected again?

[Twey]

The article we were actually discussing before you rejoined the thread. :)

[techno_race]

Here's my Vista:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/491/desktop2sn7.th.jpg (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop2sn7.jpg)

[boxxertrumps]

The article we were actually discussing before you rejoined the thread. :)
Cut him some slack, it was national mary jane day yesterday...
(Its already over... and my freind has some stashed in my comp.)
Good thing it isn't to hot...

EDIT: WHY SO MANY ICONS!?!?!?

[lainlives]

Cut him some slack, it was national mary jane day yesterday...

it was also the anneversery for the colombine shooting (mostly americans will know this) hitlers birthday, anneversery for the release for kmfdm's adios, and something else but i cannot remeber

[boogyman]

EDIT: WHY SO MANY ICONS!?!?!?

:eek: no kidding.


I have 4 on my desktop.
My Computer
Recycle Bin
divindinglimits (my site)
codes library


Hell I feel cluttered even with that many :D but I do have alot "pinned" to my start menu ;)

[mburt]

I like using the start menu on Windows.

[boxxertrumps]

something else

Adolph Hitler's birthday, i think.

[Twey]

hitlers birthdayAlso, it's "Adolf," with an F :)

[mburt]

What a royal pain... the English language. :p

[pcbrainbuster]

OI! I am English !!! and by the way we think your wierd to so watch it :p...

[Twey]

Actually it's a German name.

pcbuster, they think we're weird too :)

[nwalton]

I really enjoy the tangents on these Lounge posts. :) But since I don't have anything to add to this one, here's my desktop (at 1/2 size). I hope you don't mind a noob joining the fun.

978

[pcbrainbuster]

In due time we'll all be equal... Believe it or not Twey but I saw the future and found out that any one who worked agaist us in this thread (eg calling us wierd in a form/sense) will pass away with ripped limbs and what not while you and me with no injuries but peacefully, then it will be our turn to work against them, muhahahahahahaha :p

For those of you who can't tell, this is a joke and is not intended to be any disrespect but... you know the rest :)...

[boogyman]

For those of you who can't tell, this is a joke and is not intended to be any disrespect but... you know the rest ...

the sad thing is that, this comment is necessary haha

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL, nice one :)

[lainlives]

Adolph Hitler's birthday, i think.

i got it its just hard to see after the parritheses

awfull spelling

kkkooooooooonnnnnnnnn!!!!!!

[techno_race]

WHY SO MANY ICONS!?!?!?
Somehow all my computers manage to get all those icons. When I got this one, I tried not to put too many on there. It didn't work. Read every single label and tell me which you think is scariest. Chances are, "T." or "Type name of new folder," or "New Folder," or "MFP," or "404." Or maybe "www.html." :rolleyes:

[boxxertrumps]

Anywho... i've finnally gotten fedora running, so i have a new desktop.
http://boxxertrumps.bo.funpic.org/desktop.png - 732.87KB 1280x1024px
I had forgotten that ati didn't release driver info to the general public. (eg: linux)

[Twey]

Yeah, if they did someone would have come up with decent drivers :-\
That's just kompmgr, right, not Beryl? What's the droplet-shaped thing on your panel?
Not many people put their taskbar on a side panel... I find it's annoying it tries to squash the text rather than laying it out vertically, especially with Japanese text which is traditionally written vertically. I think it would make for much better readability. I should try to implement that at some point...

[boxxertrumps]

Im not sure if its beryl or not...
but i had to visually distinguish konquerer and fire fox from eachother on the panel, the drop is konquerer (couldn't find a decent pic for it...)

EDIT: i'll try along the top for a while...
is there any way to reduce the sise of the icons? i want to have the FF icon over the konq one,, and the same for the clock and recycle bin...
EDIT2:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/boxxertrumps/th_desktop1.png (http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/boxxertrumps/desktop1.png)
And Now its beryl, just need a reboot after i update...

[Ryan Fitton]

Well here's mine... :)

http://h1.ripway.com/ryanfitton/screenshot002.PNG (http://h1.ripway.com/ryanfitton/screenshot001.png)

[Twey]

I preferred the cliff in your deleted post.

[killerchutney]

Yay for Ubuntu and Vista dual boot!!

I've already posted the desktop of vista, so now its Ubuntu's turn.

This is random beryl stuff all in one:

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/6016/desktopuh0.th.jpg (http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopuh0.jpg)
Bottom left: What happens when you increase the initial vertices and water viscosity to full :P

Bottom Right: the release window water effect done repeatedly.

Top Right: WOBBLY WINDOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

Top Left: the screenshot program trying to close before picture is taken, result is black burn effect.


http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7804/normaldeskfl9.th.png (http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=normaldeskfl9.png)

And this is just my desktop, no fancy effects :(
And its gnome, I'm sure some of you Linux fans will not be pleases :)

[lainlives]

I hate Vista.

[ItsMeOnly]

New desktop to play with:
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,Silicon+Graphics+Indigo2/desktop.jpg,gear,1,0.jpg (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,Silicon+Graphics+Indigo2/desktop.jpg,gear,0,0)
Chopin: SGI Indigo2

[lainlives]

New desktop to play with:
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,Silicon+Graphics+Indigo2/desktop.jpg,gear,1,0.jpg (http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/pic.php,Silicon+Graphics+Indigo2/desktop.jpg,gear,0,0)
Chopin: SGI Indigo2

wait is that file accurate? 200mhz MIPS

[ItsMeOnly]

pretty much, why?

[lainlives]

well it doesnt seem much better than a N64

[ItsMeOnly]

Well, SGI was heavily involved in its development, in fact, there was a complete N64 daughterboard for Indy as development platform.

Technically, neither is better, N64 was aimed at games, so it has built in texturing and filtering- Indigo2 was aimed ad CAD, so there's no hardware texturing, but pixel fill rate is 12 times faster (polygon fill 10, or 2- depending on N64 mode), thanks to 8 geometry engines and 2 raster engines...

[lainlives]

At least it has more memory than my n64.

[Trinithis]

I rarely use my desktop (aside from DLing some stuff). Instead, when I go on my computer, I open my own folder that has everything I need in it.

A link to a picture of my "desktop" folder:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Trinithis/desktop.png

(My screen res is 1024x768, but the image was shrunk.)

[lainlives]

http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07284/Clipboard01.jpg (http://xs.to)
heres my new one




that is indeed windows


dumb wallpaper i had to change my rez so it wasint so streched

hmmmph

[djr33]

I'm using a randomly generated image from the PHP GD library, since I've been playing with that. Take a look here-- (and refresh to see the variations):

[URL REMOVED-- sorry, the server was getting a heavy load from this script.]

[lainlives]

that is awsome

most gradiant things is from color a to b

[jscheuer1]

Looks like a sideways closeup of my lawn under some weird light.

[tech_support]

Ha. I don't have a lawn anymore :p (New house design... drought...)

[Sliight]

I'm using a randomly generated image from the PHP GD library, since I've been playing with that. Take a look here-- (and refresh to see the variations):

I'm assuming since this is screenshot stuff, that is "wallpaper"? If that is in fact your wall paper, based on the appearance I would expect to the left of said wall paper there are a ton of beads you have to walk through to gain entrance to the kitchen? Be careful not to walk over the lava lamp as you head into the kitchen to relieve the munchies...

[Sliight]

Organized chaos with an active desktop to have a linked calendar and both time zones... easier than thinking about +3 when talking to east coast clients :)

http://www.usejeff.com/screenshot.html

[djr33]

Hahaha. Yeah, it's a bit overwhelming. But I'm using a wider render, so it's not quite so chaotic.

And my desktop is such a mess in the first place that it's all but unusable. I should clean it up at some point.

[Trinithis]

all but unusable

Don't you mean "all but usable". ;)

[djr33]

Ha, no. I meant "almost unusable"

[lainlives]

http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07302/lainlivesscreenshot.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs217&d=07302&f=lainlivesscreenshot.jpg)

[Twey]

KDE-themed Vista? Oh dear.

[lainlives]

KDE-themed Vista? Oh dear.

NO its XP Home

[Twey]

KDE-themed Vista-themed XP? Wow, your desktop has an identity crisis :p

Where'd you get all the themes?

[lainlives]

KDE-themed Vista-themed XP? Wow, your desktop has an identity crisis :p

Where'd you get all the themes?

i found an xp-style on customize.org for the vista (normally i use a kde one i made)

and i made this kde litestep theme because the one i found on the internet didnt work with my version

[lainlives]

oh yes and the transparencies are done by nvidia nview desktop manager

[lainlives]

is orange better?
http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07302/Clipboard10.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs217&d=07302&f=Clipboard10.jpg)

or this
http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07302/Clipboard11.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs217&d=07302&f=Clipboard11.jpg)

[Twey]

Ooh, I like the purple.

[lainlives]

Ooh, I like the purple.

the last one is vista them running in xp (aero)
what i did was i took vistas explorer.exe and opened it in a hex editor and for all teh dll files it needs i renamed them to .dl1 and put the neccisary vista dll's as dl1's in my system folder did the same for uxtheme.dll it ran ok anyway but crashed often so i changed back

i was using the windows blinds version of that untill my trial ran out so i got the vista version and tried to get it to work in xp

[lainlives]

KDE-themed Vista-themed XP? Wow, your desktop has an identity crisis :p

Now this is and identity crisis.

http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07303/Clipboard21.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs217&d=07303&f=Clipboard21.jpg)


And what I said in the chat window is what happened when I replaced 6 of the XP files with vista ones. But I fixed it.

[lainlives]

Now whats wrong with this image?
Well there are 2 but you should notice one.

http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07315/screenshotlainlives01.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07315/screenshotlainlives01.jpg)

[ItsMeOnly]

513 MB of RAM???? I assume Microshaft switched to 1000-numbering... duh...

[lainlives]

513 MB of RAM???? I assume Microshaft switched to 1000-numbering... duh...
Why would they do that?

I got more ram in my gaming machine but....

I blew my PSU...
...up

[Twey]

Now whats wrong with this image?Hmm... 1) it thinks it's genuine, 2) part of it looks like Vista? :p

[lainlives]

Hmm... 1) it thinks it's genuine, 2) part of it looks like Vista? :p

yea i get windows free from work (no. not stealing) I have a vista cd but to hell if i'm installing it...

...again.

I have around 65% of windows XP looking like vista now. :P

[lainlives]

Sorry 56k users...







http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07323/IM000312.jpg
http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07323/IM000311.jpg

[tech_support]

Oooh. Nicely modded case. I'm doing mine tomorrow. I'll post the before and after shots.

[lainlives]

Its construced out of copper and 1 way glass but the cooling system isnt done yet so the pastel green fan cools it nicley

[Twey]

Haha, wow, very retro.

[lainlives]

The water pump is 125v so my computer has 2 plugs comming out the back
and the big aluminum heat-sink on the bottom right is cooling my crappy harddrives since they are all in a tight space, the 500gb is off on its own.

[lainlives]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iz5w29WB9cY

not my video or psp, but i got that theme

my psp is my current pc, since its shafted

[tech_support]

For Christmas.
http://alotofstuffhere.com/stuff/screenshots/xmas.JPG

[jscheuer1]

For Christmas.
http://alotofstuffhere.com/stuff/screenshots/xmas.JPG

Ho, Ho, Ho!

[lainlives]

nice?? media center or is it another xp with the MC syle?

[tech_support]

Haha. Nah, it's XP with the MC style.

[tech_support]

I <3 Sweets. :p
http://alotofstuffhere.com/stuff/screenshots/sweety.PNG

[Trinithis]

Here's my current desktop:
http://d.imagehost.org/t/0726/Screenshot.jpg (http://d.imagehost.org/view/0726/Screenshot.png)

(Yes, the screen is vertical @ 1050x1680 res.)

[TheJoshMan]

My desktop... (yes it's cluttered)


http://www.eight7teen.com/images/current-desktop.jpg

[Snookerman]

Beautiful huh?

[Twey]

Heh, where'd you get the wallpaper? I'd like to use it for my stepfather's desktop (die-hard Chelsea fan :D).

[Snookerman]

Hehe, tell us how he reacted:
http://www.arsenal.com/fanzone/wallpapers

[magicyte]

Chelsea fan

I hear Chelsea is a good team.

-magicyte

[Snookerman]

I hear Chelsea is a good team.

Yeah but Arsenal is The Best team!

[magicyte]

My desktop is really clean and neat. Check out attachments.

BTW, that's my screen on the computer I don't program on (I use the internet on here). My programming computer's desktop is a different story... no, seriously...

-magicyte

[X96 Web Design]

I keep my resolution at 1280 x 1024, so it's a big file....

http://x96wd.tech.officelive.com/images/desktop.jpg

I am one of those people who has no icons. :)

Here's my background:
http://www.ufplanets.com/wallpapers/sacrificeofangels.png

[Twey]

BTW, that's my screen on the computer I don't program on (I use the internet on here). My programming computer's desktop is a different story... no, seriously...You run Windows on a machine designed for development? Weird.

[jscheuer1]

Here's my background:
http://www.ufplanets.com/wallpapers/sacrificeofangels.png

WOLF 359 (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Battle_of_Wolf_359)?

or just a 'photoshopped' image?

[X96 Web Design]

Not sure, I just Googled "Star Trek" :)

Looks like someone's Photoshop compilation. Don't think it's Wolf 259...

[traq]

Not sure, I just Googled "Star Trek" :)

Looks like someone's Photoshop compilation. Don't think it's Wolf 259...

check out the credits on the bottom of the image - by Derek Brealey, using some of the better 3D Trek models out there. I don't know the guy but, from his collection, it looks like he hangs out at scifi-meshes (http://www.scifi-meshes.com).

BTW, with an image that crowded on your desktop, I can see why you don't use icons. :p

the first pic here is my current desktop, my wedding (last November).
the next was my previous desktop, a picture of Titan eclipsing the sun with Enceladus and Saturn's rings in the foreground.

[magicyte]

New desktop:

http://localhostr.com/files/da73a9/desktop.png

I LOOOOOVE Hewlett Packard.

[X96 Web Design]

It seems like you're using Vista (the gadgets), but where did you get the XP theme? I've been looking everywhere for one!

[magicyte]

It seems like you're using Vista (the gadgets), but where did you get the XP theme? I've been looking everywhere for one!

I am most definitely using Windows Vista. As for where you can get the Windows XP theme, I am not sure. Ask Nile (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/member.php?u=26676). He was the one who suggested it to me.

Also, I have a new desktop- and I think that it is much prettier:

http://localhostr.com/files/73c9c8/desktop.png

[jlizarraga]

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6739/desktopwmt.png

I drew the sheep. :P

[Twey]

Haha, I like your sheep :D

Inkscape jobbie?

[jlizarraga]

Hand sketch to Illustrator for shapes, then to Photoshop for strokes, colors, etc.

I had to look up what Inkscape was. :P

[Twey]

Had a Spring retheme:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=104j1b8&s=5

[X96 Web Design]

I got a new one - finally got rid of Windows! :D

http://x96-tutorials.uuuq.com/preview/screenshot.png

[Twey]

Why do you have two mixer applets?

What does the blurred drive say, 'warez'? :p I don't think I've ever seen a sensitive drive name before!

[jscheuer1]

2/3rds actual size and optimized:

http://home.comcast.net/~jscheuer1/side/desktop_4_o.jpg

[Twey]

Yes, one of the big annoyances for me on both *nix and Windows is the absence of a panel that can render text vertically. It should be fairly easy to render text each letter below the last, but for some reason it's never been implemented. This would be especially handy since there are some languages that are actually written this way — I've really always preferred my panels on the right-hand side, as I think is featured in one of my Konqueror screenshots up there somewhere *waves vaguely up the thread* where I used an icons-only view. I think this is mostly caused by a lack of support for vertical text at a toolkit level. A lot of browsers still lack support for the tb-lr and tb-rl text directions of CSS, too.

That's an awful lot of icons you've got there. How do you ever find anything? :) Your systray looks like you're running just about every app known to man, too. Have you been noticing slowdowns recently? :p

Nice background though. Very scenic.

[jscheuer1]

A lot of what is in the systray is disabled. I chose an option that shows disabled items (some of these have slashes through them, others are simply off), so that they may be easily activated when needed. Some of it is also the odd habit of Opera and EditPad to appear in the systray even though they are just ordinary applications.

What's actually running there are - volume control (hardly worth mentioning), the ATi monitor application, virtual sound, power/battery monitor, printer, CD/DVD silencer, AVG Anti-Virus, and SpyBot.

Oh, and I happen to have TaskManager running there too in that shot because I've been testing a new script visa vis memory leaks in IE. Usually that one's not there.

I do tend to allow a lot of application icons pile up on the desktop. I'm so used to it, it actually helps me find things. However, the most frequently used items (image and text editors, browsers, calculator and my one game I like - wintris), are in the start menu at the top level.

The image is from Cadillac Mountain, Mount Dessert Island, ME, snapped by yours truly during sunset.

[Twey]

A lot of what is in the systray is disabled.But still resident in memory.
Some of it is also the odd habit of Opera and EditPad to appear in the systray even though they are just ordinary applications.Big applications nowadays often preload themselves — that is, store themselves in memory and perform initialisation so that they load much faster when you want them. That means that they're taking up about as much memory as if they were actually running.
I do tend to allow a lot of application icons pile up on the desktop. I'm so used to it, it actually helps me find things. However, the most frequently used items (image and text editors, browsers, calculator and my one game I like - wintris), are in the start menu at the top level.Not just applications — there's even a favicon.ico there :p Whatever works for you, I guess, but especially if you don't use them much, you might consider clearing it up occasionally: as I recall, having a large number of icons on the desktop fairly drastically increases the time taken to log in, on Windows.
The image is from Cadillac Mountain, Mount Dessert Island, ME, snapped by yours truly during sunset.Good shot! What's your camera?

[Master_script_maker]

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3389/desktop1.th.png (http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3389/desktop1.png)

[jscheuer1]

It's tough to beat sunrises and sunsets. Who thought those up.

@ Twey,

Camera: Konica Minolta DiMage Z6

I've decided it was time to do a bit of pruning, got rid of some icons. However, Opera and EditPad, they are strange. The do not appear in the tray until launched - it's a weird thing. My understanding is that they just go there after launch to be available from more than one location. If closed, they disappear from the tray. Most of the other tray apps I either want or have also now gotten rid of.

[mburt]

He must work for the FBI with that kind of drive name :P.

[magicyte]

How do you like my Windows 7 theme for Vista (http://localhostr.com/files/4e3245/desktop.png)?

[X96 Web Design]

@Twey:
One mixer is for the "Master Volume" and another directly controls my speakers. I use headphones now and then for audio stuff and it helps to have two...

And I blurred the drive name because it had my initials in it... Didn't want to give out my "personal information"!

[Twey]

I'm sure nobody's going to track you down with just your initials :p But OK.

I see — I usually just set all my other devices to maximum and then controll the whole using the master. You can double-click the mixer to get a full mixer application with all your channels, you know.

[X96 Web Design]

Yeah - My initials aren't the most indentifying info... :)

I reinstalled Ubuntu, and re-configured my entire theme and added a bunch of cool transparency thingies... Here's how it is now:

http://x96webdesign.uuuq.com/xtra/screen01.png

And, yes, that's why I had 2 mixer applets... Now I don't even have one - I just adjust the volume on my speakers.

//X

[Twey]

Lookin' good! :)

Yes, I've always preferred hardware volume. It's much more convenient.

[techietim]

http://pub.techietim.ca/screenshot_thumb.jpg (http://pub.techietim.ca/screenshot.jpg)

[djr33]

Is that meant to give new meaning to the phrase "computer box"?

[Nile]

This is mine.
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6492/90830707.th.png (http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=90830707.png)

[Twey]

Scuba-diving in the Nile?

[X96 Web Design]

Ewwwww! Windows! :p

Cool Theme... Your Windows 7 theme I assume...

// X96 \\

[Twey]

I can't say I like it. Taken individually the pieces look nice, but they don't fit together (the taskbar with the dock, for example). Also, that big ugly Comic Sans speech balloon is just hideous. :p

[Nile]

The speech thing is hideos, I just like it to say things out loud. Its fun when you want to annoy somebody. And the doc is installed, I use RocketDoc. (Its on autohide, that way I dont have to look at it). Anyways, I don't have a problem with windows...

I've changed it around a little, and figured it'd be more space-saving if I did this:
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5530/desktop2p.th.png (http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop2p.png)
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5503/desktop1c.th.png (http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop1c.png)

Since Chrome is so simple, I usually don't have it maximized, I have it so I can see my icons. So why not put it where it won't take up space?

[magicyte]

I've been messing around with some stuff and finally figured out that this was the best I could get. Of course, this is only being run in Vista. I still can't figure out how to connect to the internet in Ubuntu :p, so I can only show Vista. Here:

http://localhostr.com/files/9491aa/capture.png

[Trinithis]

http://g.imagehost.org/t/0684/Screenshot.jpg (http://g.imagehost.org/view/0684/Screenshot)

[tyebone]

I think mine is the cutest so far. Call it 'my girls' Sorry couldn't get a screen shot of it. Started on a Mac, and still can't figure it out. My pichttp://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww257/tyebone/n607067381_1632529_521.jpg

[Master_script_maker]

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