Desktops

[xerent]

Post your desktops here for all to see!

http://www.studioxe.com/desktop.jpg

[BlackSyphon]

Haha cool... So you like Di Hack Sign (I forgot the spelling) I was just wondering, I kinda like the pictures more than the plot of the story in most cartoons. Di Hack is one of them.. do you like the story tho? My desktop is nothing special. It has Rurouni Kenshin all over it...
Hehe...

:) :) :) :)

du

[paulk6]

how do u get a screen shot of your desktop?

EDIT- nvm i just got a program off of download.com

[xerent]

Yea... the correct syntax is .hack//sign , but since people don't like to say 'period hack backslash backslash sign, it's most commonly referred to as either hack sign, or dot hack sign. ^^. I love the story of .hack//sign. I'm almost done with the series... I'll probably watch a couple eps tonight.

Oh, and I can't see your desktop... I have to apply to join the group, which I am not keen on going through. ^_^

And to get a shot of your desktop, hit the 'print screen' button on your keyboard, and then 'paste' in one of your photo editors, MSPaint works for this as well.

[paulk6]

yeah that works too...

[Ap0llo]

thats cool:p

[paulk6]

now i just need a site to host it on...

[xerent]

imageshack.us is popular

[paulk6]

okay here we go

http://www.imageshack.us/files2/desktop2.GIF

[S_K_O_F]

ah ha ha

paulk6 is a little diablo 2 cheater

:D :p

[paulk6]

thats just single player
I have never hacked battle.net and I never plan to
unlike A.F.I. who hacked with a pindlebot and mephbot and got his acct deleted
lets see your desktop S_K_O_F

[xerent]

BURN!

[DaRkPuPpEt]

http://www.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=files2&image=Untitled7.jpg

[Snarr]

OK I got the MESSIEST desktop EVER!
The last 2 folders I just created cause it was too messy to present like that.
OOO also notice the SHOW DESKTOP icon on my desktop...

http://www.imageshack.us/files2/Desktop12.JPG

[...]

hey xerent, can u send me in a pm a skeleton of a resume?
i need to make one up and im a little rusty on which i need to put down on it

[xerent]

If you have MS word, they have resume templates.

They're pretty lame, but they give you an idea of how it should look. As for my own technique... it's a secret! ha ha!

[...]

o, so you have a little pattern on it that hypnotizes your interviewers eh;)

[xerent]

I use a specail watermark font that inputs subliminal mess.... heyyyy.... that's not a bad idea.

[...]

too lazy to find it on word, so i just copied my moms, lol:p

[xerent]

Snarr's desktop is so........ french!

[...]

french....ew....hairy....ew

[Snarr]

Grrr shut up dotdotdot! post your desktop instead of talking so much.

[xyxaxyz2]

My desktop is much too messy to post :cool: and my desktop's plain blue...undistracting.

[...]

http://www.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=files1&image=desktop30.jpg

so plain aint it:p

[Snarr]

Wow thats 1 sad desktop i much rather my 'french' desktop

[...]

anything is better than french:p
my gramma would smack me if she heard that:)

[thrdflrmshr]

desktop (http://filebox.vt.edu/users/upton731/desktop.jpg)

I have a Mac OS X skin on XP, and I have Object Dock (http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/) down there, which holds all my shortcuts. I hate clutter on my desktop, so I have nothing on there. Seems to work.

[Wurtil]

http://www.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=files1&image=mybackground.GIF

Your friendly neighborhood Dark Lord,
Wurtil

[Ri'Orius]

http://atlas.walagata.com/w/riorius/PYDSciOly.JPG

Pretty cluttered. My taskbar gets really cluttered, so I've got it at double-width for twice the storage space before that little scrollbar comes up...

[Wurtil]

The Dark Lord is very impressed with your bravery Ri'Orius, why, you've barely been 18 for a month (according to your hunting license), and yet you proudly display naughty housewives and sorority webcams as your favorite activity while surfing the TAO forums. On second thought, the Dark Lord is just going to keep quite, and forget the mental images of what every other member of TAO is doing at the same time that they are responding to these threads. . .

Your friendly yet shaken neighborhood Dark Lord,
Wurtil

*edit - The Dark One almost forgot, keeping the PDF files of how to make crystal meth OFF of your desktop is probably a good idea. So sayeth the Dark Lord Wurtil.*

[...]

yes yes, i really need a pr0n folder too:)

[Hashish_Scout]

Desktop (http://www.imperturbable.net/images/desktop.pdf)

No...I don't like the matrix at all...

I don't necessarily do "that stuff" while replying to posts, but every1's gotta have a pr0n folder, except for girls, since girls are weird like that. :)

[Snarr]

Broken link i reckon

[Ri'Orius]

>.>
<.<

*runs from thread shamefacedly*

:p

(hint to the slower members of the forum: ask yourself the question in the last IE window)

Oh, and props to the Dark Lord: I don't think the other people to whom I've shown that picture caught on to the PDF file.

[Hashish_Scout]

Meep. The link works now.

postcount ++

[Rescorlian]

Not much, I don't like a cluttered desktop so I don't make alot of shortcuts, I end up scrolling through my start menu alot.

http://www.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=files2&image=desktop39.jpg

[...]

ooooooooo
lots of notepads
i wunder wut they say........:)

[Hashish_Scout]

Poor Rescorlian. The friendly people in Japan have inserted something slimy and hi-tech into his brain into making him like Dragonball Z.

For a bunch of people with infinite powers, they're usually pretty boring :). It might help since they consider it a sin to use more than 50 frames in an episode.

It's probably a bad idea to say anything about Rescorlian's preferences, but Dragonball Z is too irresistable. Anyone with hair that bad deserves to lose to naked lizard superbeings with supernatural powers once in a while.

[...]

you would think that in all their battles each of the planets would just be covered in craters:confused:

[drakonfire]

well one of the planets has been destroyed by their fighting, earth was as well, but wished back (or was it just shattered... been to long...) anywho, i like DBZ, no dissing on goku and friends


oh and resc what skin is that for trillian?

[Rescorlian]

*starts raising power level* WHAT WAS THAT HASISH!!!! :D:D your lucky you have such an awsome name, your gonna get away with it this time, but next time.... :)

The notepads contain all the info I could need during a day, from account passwaords and names, to phone numbers, to the best way to piss my sister off :D

Man hashish, the hair rocks man! who wouldn't love to have hair that was gold, stood straight up, (the best part) never needs to be brushed or cut! And they didn't insert anything into my brain, sadly enough it a siposotory (sp?):(

[...]

hey resc, im going into saskatoon next wednesday i think
you should come meet me at that mall thats just off the yellowhead and help me shop for stuff for my place, its awful plain:p

[Hashish_Scout]

The spelling is "suppository", and eeeewww...

[Rescorlian]

Yeah tell me about it hashish, you should see what I did to them as revenge. not pretty...

Mall just off of the yellowhead?? There are 5 malls in toon town

Confederation mall
Midtown mall
Centre at circle and eigth
Lawson heights
Market mall

Confed is just off of another highway but not the yellowhead

[...]

its the confederate mall thats right on the yellowhead on the left i think, im pretty sure its the confederate mall at least, ive only been to the circle drive one once

[Rescorlian]

aww man, centre is the best! Good range of stores, plus from my experiance, always has the hottest babes walking around:D Confed isn't on the yellowhead, I can't remember what highway it's off of, but you get on the dalmeny highway to access the highway to get to it. (confused? so am I)

[...]

o nvm, i jus talked to my mom, we go up thru delisle to get to saskatoon, i thought it was the yellowhead but its just a freeway
we go through 2 towns on it tho...i ferget wut towns they are

edit.....do you have your house right beside the yellowhead?
and do you own a quad or a trike?

[Rescorlian]

I live in a town called radisson right on the yellowhead, no I have no sports vehicles as such :( you?

[...]

o, shitty
cuz when i was going on the yellowhead to edmonchuck i saw some guy on a quad on a dirt road that lead to a house that was about...o i dunno 200 metres off the highway

[Rescorlian]

No idea man, this might help, I live right in between Saskatoon and North battleford, like I mean right in the middle!

As for meeting you next wednesday, I have no idea, I have no plans that far in the future, but I'm sure it could be arranged, you'll just have to remind me the day before or I'll forget, hell I could even get my bud donald to come along.

[...]

lol, hilarious, my rents are coming too since they are the financial backers for all the furniture and stuff at my place:p im gettin a small fridge with like a hockey team logo on it:D

[Rescorlian]

Cool, what hockey team?

[...]

dunno, dallas hopefully
or wutever looks the coolest

[noidea]

here is my desktop

desktop (http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v103/altterego/?action=view&current=desk.jpg)

[thrdflrmshr]

I've seen the Alcohol logo before, but what is it?

Yeah call me stupid, but I really don't know.

EDIT: Yeah I did a Google search for it, thinking I'd get spring break destinations and hard liquor sites, but the first one that popped up was Alcohol's website. I found out that it is a CD Recording/Emulation software that can store images of up to 31 CD's on your hard drive, eliminating the need to switch out discs.

from http://www.alcohol-software.com/

Alcohol 120% can handle the creation of 31 virtual CD & DVD-ROMs, allowing the user to play discs without needing the physical disc. It also allows users to make copy CD & DVD to CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD-RAM / DVD+RW.

* Supports:
* Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP

* Can handle up to 31 virtual CD & DVD-ROM drives, all at once!
* So you can run several CD & DVD programs simultaneously.

* The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200X.
* This means you can play a CD from the virtual
CD-ROM with 200X reading speed.

* Supports normal CD & DVD and CD RAW
sub-channel reading methods:
* RAW reading method enables to emulate all CDs.

* CD formats supported:
* CD-DA, CD+G, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Video CD, Photo CD, Mixed Mode, Multi-session CD

* DVD formats supported:
* DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio

* Support for all current (ATAPI & SCSI) drives:
* CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R

* Supports dumping from original disc to the most popular image file formats:

o Media Descriptor Image file format (mds)
o CloneCD Image format (ccd / img / sub)

o CDR WIN Image file format (cue / bin)
Available for disc with one session only, cannot store sub-channeld data

o Standard ISO Image format (iso)

Available for disc with one data track only, cannot store sub-channeld data

* Supports almost any format of CD disc image files for Emulation and Recording:

o Media Descriptor Image file format (mds)
o CloneCD Image format (ccd/img/sub)
o CDRWIN Image file format (cue/bin)
o NERO Image file format (nrg)
o Standard ISO Image format (iso)
o BlindSuite image file format (bwt/bwi/bws)
o DiscJuggler image file format (cdi)

* Supports Bypass EFM error function, it will try to correct regular bit patterns.
This function is disabled in the USA and Japan.

* Offers "Ignore Media Type" option.
This option will force all software to ignore whether the disc is CD-R or CD-RW, allowing it to be recognized as a CD-ROM disc.

* CD writing methods:
Session-At-Once, Disc-At-Once, RAW Session- At-Once, RAW Session- At-Once + SUB, RAW Disc- At-Once (with full PQ/R-W sub-code support)

* DVD writing methods:
Session-At-Once, Disc-At-Once

* CD formats supported:
CD-DA, CD+G, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Video CD, Photo CD, Mixed Mode, Multi-session CD

* DVD formats supported:
DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio

* Support for Buffer-Under-Run prevention technologies including:
BURN-Proof™, JustLink™, Power-Burn™, SafeBurn™, and Seamless Link

* Support for all current (ATAPI & SCSI) drives:
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW

* Support for simultaneous recording to multiple:
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW.

* Full support for Firewire
(IEEE-1394) and USB protocols


But... It's not free, so it's pointless. If you found a crack, good for you.

Otherwise, I don't want to spend that much money on emulation when I hardly play PC games and iTunes does all my mp3 "emulation" much better, with an unlimited number of "discs."

[noidea]

well its very useful for me, i download from internet a lot of .bin files (programs and games), then i can test them with the virtual drive before burn a CD or DVD(good DVDs +r/-r are rather expensive here just said 2 $ each one), and runs much faster from the virtual drive than from the CD/DVD drive because the .bin file is in the hard disk.

[thrdflrmshr]

SilverEcho asked me how to do this (http://filebox.vt.edu/users/upton731/macosx_skin.jpg).

The skin is found at ThemeXP.org (http://www.themexp.org/); it's called MacOSXAqua32. I got it a long time ago, so I don't know if it's still there, but a quick search could find a neat Mac OS X skin.

StyleXP (http://www.tgtsoft.com/) was used to apply the skin. I got a crack for the program on Kazaa Lite K++, so I didn't have to pay $20 after using it for 30 days. StyleXP does scroll bars, buttons, fonts, everything.

The dock at the bottom is called ObjectDock (http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/), a free program from Stardock that emulates (very well, I might add) the dock that comes standard with Mac OS X. Wincustomize.com (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=29) , Stardock's skinning site, has many icons, docklets, backgrounds, and running indicators for ObjectDock. Click the link to Wincustomize.com (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=29) and click a library that you want to browse. On my dock, the 5 docklets I have running (on the left side) are SysCmd (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=SysCmd&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on), a great docklet that has a bunch of scripts built in, so you can do things like open the "Run..." dialog or shutdown the computer with one click, Battery Status (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=battery+status&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on), SysStats (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=SysStats&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on), which is an amazing docklet that lets you monitor CPU usage, temperature via MBM (http://mbm.livewiredev.com/), XML weather from weather.com (http://www.weather.com/index.html), among other things; it's really a must have for anyone who runs Object Dock. Next is Capture (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=capture&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on), a neat docklet that allows you to take a screenshot on a timer, from the screen or the window, into a number of formats, and save it with a title of your choice and into a folder of a path you specify. The last is SysStats again, only this time running the XML weather feed instead of the digital clock. The digital clock I have came from another set of config files for SysStats, that I couldn't find again on WinCustomize. A digital clock does come with SysStats though.

I hope that this post is helpful to all you Mac wannabes out there. I'm getting a Mac soon enough, as soon as I have $2500 to spend on the one I want. Until then, running StyleXP and ObjectDock on a Dell Latitude D800 is as close as I'm going to get.

[S_K_O_F]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
SilverEcho asked me how to do this (http://filebox.vt.edu/users/upton731/macosx_skin.jpg).

The skin is found at ThemeXP.org (http://www.themexp.org/); it's called MacOSXAqua32. I got it a long time ago, so I don't know if it's still there, but a quick search could find a neat Mac OS X skin.

StyleXP (http://www.tgtsoft.com/) was used to apply the skin. I got a crack for the program on Kazaa Lite K++, so I didn't have to pay $20 after using it for 30 days. StyleXP does scroll bars, buttons, fonts, everything.

The dock at the bottom is called ObjectDock (http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/), a free program from Stardock that emulates (very well, I might add) the dock that comes standard with Mac OS X. Wincustomize.com (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=29) , Stardock's skinning site, has many icons, docklets, backgrounds, and running indicators for ObjectDock. Click the link to Wincustomize.com (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=29) and click a library that you want to browse. On my dock, the 5 docklets I have running (on the left side) are SysCmd (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=SysCmd&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on), a great docklet that has a bunch of scripts built in, so you can do things like open the "Run..." dialog or shutdown the computer with one click, Battery Status (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=battery+status&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on), SysStats (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=SysStats&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on), which is an amazing docklet that lets you monitor CPU usage, temperature via MBM (http://mbm.livewiredev.com/), XML weather from weather.com (http://www.weather.com/index.html), among other things; it's really a must have for anyone who runs Object Dock. Next is Capture (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=capture&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on), a neat docklet that allows you to take a screenshot on a timer, from the screen or the window, into a number of formats, and save it with a title of your choice and into a folder of a path you specify. The last is SysStats again, only this time running the XML weather feed instead of the digital clock. The digital clock I have came from another set of config files for SysStats, that I couldn't find again on WinCustomize. A digital clock does come with SysStats though.

I hope that this post is helpful to all you Mac wannabes out there. I'm getting a Mac soon enough, as soon as I have $2500 to spend on the one I want. Until then, running StyleXP and ObjectDock on a Dell Latitude D800 is as close as I'm going to get.



BLASPHEMY!!!!

[S_K_O_F]

ok...this is the desktop on my work computer
I will put my home computer desktop on here when i get home tonight

http://www.sbuniv.edu/~sarndt/MYDESK~1.JPG

btw...i made no changes at all before i took this image...it looks like a mess but to me it is organized chaos and I can use my icons without having to search at all or even think about it

wait till you see my home machine

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by S_K_O_F
BLASPHEMY!!!!

:)

It was fun doing it though. Try it, if not Mac OS X, another XP skin. It's better than your Olive XP style that I see in all your screenshots.

[S_K_O_F]

I am too boring to care enough to do the work to change my olive style

[Shuichi]

http://home.earthlink.net/~n4t3/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/desktop1.jpg


Paaa~

[Hashish_Scout]

Way cool. You have RPGMaker 2003. I had that on my old PC. Great fun! You could make little adventures about evil ogres who hated watermelon prostitutes or anything you wanted. :) I used to know all the little tricks of that thing.

EDIT: And to thrdflrmshr, those docklets are pretty cool, but you just can't beat Mac's impeccable class :). Good to hear you'll be getting one.

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by Shuichi
http://home.earthlink.net/~n4t3/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/desktop1.jpg


Paaa~

What is the point of that Windows key disabler?

I use my windows key all the time: win+L to lock the computer, to access the start menu since I don't use the taskbar, etc. Maybe you use that for when you're playing games or something?

Originally posted by Hashish_Scout

EDIT: And to thrdflrmshr, those docklets are pretty cool, but you just can't beat Mac's impeccable class :). Good to hear you'll be getting one.

Yeah, the last one I owned was a IIsi like 12 years ago or something. I fell in love with OS X over the summer. It beats the pants off of XP in almost all aspects. The only thing is the lack of software support (age-old complaint,) but even that is being rectified constantly. Plus, Macromedia, Adobe, and lots of HTML editors are better on Macs, and for someone in web design, a Mac is as good as it gets. I just have to get lots of money, then I'll be happy :) Oh, wait...

[Hashish_Scout]

My dad worked on a lot of volunteer work on the school when we got my computer, so he managed to bullshit his way through getting an educational discount (which is actually fairly hefty). He's such a great guy. :)

[thrdflrmshr]

Think I could get a student discount because I'm a student at Virginia Tech? Hmm, I think I'm going to look into that...

[Hashish_Scout]

Glad to have helped, sir.

*flys away into the sunset*

EDIT: Woopah. I just realized I'm over 1300. I'm getting ever closer to the coveted 1337 post count...

[ArcPaladinZero]

I hit the 1337 mark three times I think, so try and beat that, ha! :p

[Hashish_Scout]

They kept deleting your spam threads, huh?

[ArcPaladinZero]

Sadly enough they did. :(
Oh well, it's all good now. :)
Now I'm heading for the 2000 mark... at my slower than usual rate I should get there by sometime next week hopefully.

[SilverEcho]

thrdflrmshr.... I cant find any Imac skins...... Where in xpthemes is it.... AHHHH!!! Ive been looking for a loooong time in there.... Cant find it.... Oh yeah. I have Object Dock!

[thrdflrmshr]

If you really want it that bad, I can email you the zip file. Just PM me and I'll be glad to help you out.

You also might want to look into Stardock's skinning prog, called WindowBlinds (is it by Stardock? It's on wincustomize.com, at least.) Anyway, it's pretty cool and has a lot of features.

Just get a Mac and you won't have to worry about finding the right skin.

[Omega_Paladin]

Silly humans. The 2000 mark has been reached by the immortal Dancing Banana already. Do not attempt to reach my heights. Oh, and is the RPG thingy freeware or what?

[Hashish_Scout]

Yuuup.

pc ++

[SilverEcho]

AHHH I cant find an I-mac skin. And if someone could find me a good background imagr that would be cool...

[noidea]

For styleXP you can find a MacOSX theme here

http://www.customize.org/view/22658


For windowsblind here you have a few of them

http://www.customize.org/list/windowblinds/0/5/rank-desc/mac

and here

http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=mac&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=1

[SilverEcho]

Thanks but the first 2 links dont work >.<

[BKoT]

Guess I'll add mine to the mix....

Desktop at work:
http://www.depotek.com/images/Desktop-work.jpg

Desktops at home (dual monitor setup)
http://www.depotek.com/images/Desktop-HomeLeft.jpg
http://www.depotek.com/images/Desktop-HomeRight.jpg


Yes, these screen really show that I can't stand desktop icons. :p

[SilverEcho]

Where did you find that skin? MEWANT THAT SKIN! If theres a link please what is it?

[xerent]

Bah... desktops were meant to have icons on them!

[SilverEcho]

LOL exept if you have an I-Mac with a port at te bottom...

[thrdflrmshr]

Why were desktops meant to have icons?

I hate the way a desktop looks with all those icons just thrown on there with no organization. Now, if you have NexTStart or Desktop X or Sysmetrix or one of the widget-holders, then I can understand icons, but they're organized categorically and they have neat skins.

SilverEcho, get WindowBlinds from Stardock.com (http://stardock.com/), and search Wincustomize.com (http://wincustomize.com/) for skins. They have a ton.

[Kuja]

Yo ho ho!

I think I'll be throwin' me self in the mix. Here's me desktop, it's from the best cinematic of all time, from the way to under-rated game Final Fantasy IX. Check it out, that game's a doozy;).

And I kinda screwed up when I pasted it, there's like three of the desktops pasted on top of one another.

Me Desktop! (http://www.imageshack.us/files2/Desktop15.JPG)

The Devious One
-Kuja

[Yoshi]

Desktop (http://www.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=files2&image=Desktop13.jpg)

[Northwind]

OMG Yoshi,

That is . . . horrifying!

[Omega_Paladin]

The greeness....and the flames......and the greeness......AAAAAAAHHHHHH! CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD! Oh well :D. Nice desktop.

[Hashish_Scout]

That is a truly horrifying desktop, Yoshi.

By the way, Omega, is it just me, or is dancing banana on your n00b hunting license acting a bit...excited?

[Omega_Paladin]

How so? It seems normal to me. Need to get a picture of my destop up on here........

[Hashish_Scout]

Meh, probably my computer. It looks like he's on exctasy, like he only has three or four frames or something. Your avatar is acting normal.

[Omega_Paladin]

Creepy, because on mine he is acting normal. Damn, still trying to resize the pic of my desktop and it keeps going all screwy. Get it to you people in....I dunno....whenever I do :D.

[DKR]

Ack! thats... nasty... too bright... eyes hurt :(

[xerent]

so...

green....

ow...

[Hashish_Scout]

Originally posted by BKoT
Guess I'll add mine to the mix....

Desktop at work:
http://www.depotek.com/images/Desktop-work.jpg

Desktops at home (dual monitor setup)
http://www.depotek.com/images/Desktop-HomeLeft.jpg
http://www.depotek.com/images/Desktop-HomeRight.jpg


Yes, these screen really show that I can't stand desktop icons. :p

Holy crap, BKoT! Dual monitors? Trillian? Kickass skin? Weird media player? Awesome background? Your computer is from the future, sir!

[Yoshi]

The greeness....and the flames......and the greeness......AAAAAAAHHHHHH! CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD! Oh well . Nice desktop. I got the flames from here (www.cooltext.com)

[BKoT]

Originally posted by Hashish_Scout
Holy crap, BKoT! Dual monitors? Trillian? Kickass skin? Weird media player? Awesome background? Your computer is from the future, sir!


:D Haha! Thanks.

For anyone interested, here are some links...
Remove all desktop icons: Desksweeper (http://no-nonsense-software.com/freeware/)
Wallpaper: http://www.deviantart.com/view/3605088/
Windowblinds (http://www.windowblinds.net/) skin: Nascent (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=1550)
SysMetrix (http://www.xymantix.com/sysmetrix/index.html) skin: Rubicon (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=28&SkinID=1128) (with some unathorized modifications...)
Trillian (http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/&e=7421): Stock skin
3D Mail Effects (http://www.3dmaileffects.com): Stock skin

[Hashish_Scout]

flamingtext.com has the same lemony fresh scary text with the added bonus of even more scary text, as well as scary buttons, rules, bullets...anything you need to make your crappy geocities site come true :)

[Navarre]

What Can I Say...I like Dragons

My Desktop (http://www.imageshack.us/files1/Desktop1.gif) :D :eek: :D

[Ark Knight]

BKot those are some cool things! But I dunno ow to install Nescence or whatever.... It says "Open under program" then theres a list of programs I can choose to open it with... Wich one? O.o Oh yeah, and I got Trillian:D

[BKoT]

Arc Knight

You need to be running WindowBlinds first. Then inside the WB config screens, you'd import that Nascent skin scheme.

[Petit Charat]

xerent wins the thread for hot rena action, even though .hack//sign in general is a pretty shitty anime.

[Snarr]

Originally posted by Petit Charat
xerent wins the thread for hot rena action, even though .hack//sign in general is a pretty shitty anime.

WHAT?! No way I got nude chicks with cool body painiting on my desktop I win by FAAAAAAARR!!

[Kuja]

Originally posted by Rescorlian
*starts raising power level* WHAT WAS THAT HASISH!!!! :D:D your lucky you have such an awsome name, your gonna get away with it this time, but next time.... :)

The notepads contain all the info I could need during a day, from account passwaords and names, to phone numbers, to the best way to piss my sister off :D

Man hashish, the hair rocks man! who wouldn't love to have hair that was gold, stood straight up, (the best part) never needs to be brushed or cut! And they didn't insert anything into my brain, sadly enough it a siposotory (sp?):(

Yo ho ho!

I know this is a bit late in the thread, but I'm with Resc on this one! I may not watch DBZ, but I would absolutly LOVE to live that life. Instead of waking up in the morning going "Wonder what they'll suspend me for today?" I'd get to wake up saying "Better go train with my mega super planet eating laser beam shooting flying energy ball of death move for when I have to destroy Neptune!" Sure the show may be a bit farfecthed, but any life with constant fighting, infinite powers and orange jump-suites beats my regular day of Ridelyn-fueled anger!;)

The Devious One
-Kuja

[plusminus]

since all we've seen are windows desktops, and since I just set this up...

my (non)desktop (http://www.iownjoo.com/freeimghost/plusminus/desktop.jpg)

with apologies to S_K_O_F

[Hashish_Scout]

Ummm....I have a Mac. Don't diss the Mac! What is that, anyway? Some sort of clunky alien hybrid thing? I'm so confused. It looks like a computer, but what one I do not know...

[plusminus]

Originally posted by Hashish_Scout
Ummm....I have a Mac. Don't diss the Mac! What is that, anyway? Some sort of clunky alien hybrid thing? I'm so confused. It looks like a computer, but what one I do not know...

Ah yes, I must have missed it because the only link I found to yours was giving me a 404. Perhaps there's a working one in this thread elsewhere, but as you can see from the clock in my screencap, I'm up well past my bedtime, and am not about to go searching.

Anyhow, it's a Linux system, running WindowMaker. Linux has roughly one million different window/desktop managers, though many are similar. There are certanly more windows-y ways to go, perhaps I'll post another screenshot tomorrow...

The background image, of course, has got nothing to do with Linux. The quality isn't very good though, perhaps I'll have to make my own when I get a chance.

EDIT: And whatever you want to call it, it certainly isn't clunky. :D

[Hashish_Scout]

How can it be a good desktop if it isn't filled with gel, cool animation, and strange utilities? :D

[plusminus]

1) because I just re-installed my system yesterday
2) because WindowMaker is different like that. Right-click on the background and you get a start-menu-ish menu at your cursor. Except more customizable.

[xerent]

My new desktop! Bow before it's glory!

http://www.studioxe.com/desktop2.jpg

[Dromar]

my wall paper is

http://mysite.freeserve.com/dromaruk/mywallpaper.bmp

it's a bit map but it's really small, and i have it center... not tiled :eek:


*goes back to ploting the down fall of QuicksandSlowly*

[Snarr]

-=LOL=-
Imagine having it tiled

[xerent]

you mean it's not tiled?

What the bloody hell is wrong with you?

[h()()t]

well I don't have a vary cool desktop


click here (http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/421471955/3.jpg)

[Dromar]

heh I did have it tiled but then i got alittle freaked out one day and changed it

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by xerent
My new desktop! Bow before it's glory!

http://www.studioxe.com/desktop2.jpg

What is that menu program you're using? I like it alot.

[xerent]

It's not a program. It's a webpage.

Go to Desktop Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Web > New

From here you can enter a web page you want on your desktop, either a url, or a local page you have on your computer (Which is what I did)

The links are all your normal a href stuff, in a table. I used Magic:The Gathering font.

<font color="aaaaaa">..::google</font> <form action="http://www.google.com/search" name=f>
<input maxlength=256 size=120 name=q value="">
This is what I used for the google search bar.

[Snarr]

It's evil, desktops are suppose to have icons on them.

[xerent]

It's evil, desktops are suppose to have icons on them.

Computers are supposed to suck too.

My machine is absolved from both those statements.

[thrdflrmshr]

That's awesome, xerent. Thanks, I'm going to try that.

That Google code should be helpful too.

EDIT: When you do the href stuff to programs and such, do you have to do anything special? I made a webpage for my desktop, but it thinks I'm wanting to download my broswer when I really want to open it. Is there anything I can do, or will I always have to be prompted to open it?

[xerent]

I've been trying to find away around that myself. In the meantime, I've gotten used the the click-space combo, much less noticable.

[BKoT]

Xerent, I do something similar, having a local web page that contains my most used links and a google search form. I don't use it as my desktop though because doing so uses the IE HTML rendering engine and I'm about as anti-IE as it gets.

There are a couple of useful bits that can be added to the Google code.

Another input tag that bumps the returned searches to maximum.

<input name=num type=hidden value=100>

And an addition to the text box input
<input maxLength=256 size=40 name=q value="" onchange="this.form.submit();">

The added javascript allows for the form to be sent by just clicking anywhere else on the page. (although, since most people are already typing into the form anyway, slapping the return key isn't that hard.

[Rabi en Rose]

ok xerent, i'm going to teach you a little trick that will open the program instead of downloading it. In your html head, put the following:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function ShellExJ(filename)
{
var folder = filename.substr(0, filename.lastIndexOf('/'));
var objShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
objShell.ShellExecute(filename, '', folder, 'open', 1);
}
</script>
This will set the parameters you use for ShellExJ to transfer the command to windows shell instead of internet explorer.
Now you can make your links like this:

<a target="_self" onClick=" ShellExJ('C:/Blah blah blah/program.exe')" href="javascript:;">program</a>


problem solved. paranda's such a nice guy, he let me look at his source code for his desktop :)

[thrdflrmshr]

Ok, I copied that into my head, but it says it can't find the JavaScript. Do I need a script library file for it to reference?

[ArcPaladinZero]

My desktop (http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/theviper2288/desktop.jpg) is fairly simple. I use Trillian and Winamp more than anything. Taskbar is a bit funny looking because I have it on auto-hide, that's why it is covering up Trillian like that.

[xerent]

Neat! Thanks!

However, that href= bit in the link tag opens up a new IE window, looking for whatever is in quotes. If I get rid of it, it works beautifully, save for the fact that I don't get a cursor change when I hover over the link.

Grr.

[Rabi en Rose]

Hmm well for some reason, probably a safeguard back when these forums supported html coding, java script is getting parsed by the forums as two words. That space shouldn't be there. Delete it and see if your problems are fixed. Again, javascript should be one word.

edit3: ok this makes absolutely no sense.

[Snarr]

What are you talking about?

javascript
javascript
javascript
javascript
Javascript
JAVASCRIPT

[Rabi en Rose]

Originally posted by Snarr
What are you talking about?

javascript
javascript
javascript
javascript
Javascript
JAVASCRIPT
Dunno. Quote my original post with the code in it and read it from the edit box. You should see that the text says javascript as one word, yet on my post it shows the word as two.

[xerent]

Yea... I tried that, and IE still tried to navigate to it.

I ended up solving the problem, by including the href=, but just leaving it at that.

EDIT -- No, I lied. nothing was solved.

[Ark Knight]

Originally posted by ArcPaladinZero
My desktop (http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/theviper2288/desktop.jpg) is fairly simple. I use Trillian and Winamp more than anything. Taskbar is a bit funny looking because I have it on auto-hide, that's why it is covering up Trillian like that.
I like the background. Where did you get it?

Also, we should keep this thread alive, I like seeing people's desktops...

[thrdflrmshr]

Here is my new desktop (http://filebox.vt.edu/users/upton731/TAO/desktop.jpg).

I just changed the background since last time, and I have a few more icons on my ObjectDock. That's my girlfriend, by the way. :D

[paulk6]

You are one lucky man...

[Tama Drummer]

This is just the bacround that I made, not my hole desktop. It's OK for now...

CLICK CLICK CLICK HERE! (http://mercury.walagata.com/w/tamadrumer/backround_8-tama.bmp)

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by paulk6
You are one lucky man...

The luckiest. She's amazing.

Tama, is that your drumset? It looks pretty cool.

[jobeani]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
Here is my new desktop (http://filebox.vt.edu/users/upton731/TAO/desktop.jpg).

I just changed the background since last time, and I have a few more icons on my ObjectDock. That's my girlfriend, by the way. :D

that's crazy man my gf looks almostly exactly like your gf

[ArcPaladinZero]

Originally posted by Ark Knight
I like the background. Where did you get it?


http://deviantart.com/

Good site, great for wallpapers.

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by jobeani
that's crazy man my gf looks almostly exactly like your gf

Cool! Wait...

[Aro23r]

Here is mine.

http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img10&image=desktop.JPG

Boring, but it has a lot of games on it, which I love. :)

[thrdflrmshr]

Sheesh that image is horrible.

[Duffman]

Catch.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/720/Desktop.jpg

This guys is absolutely awesome... All should check out his site and his gallery.

[sOOisiDal]

oh man wurtil!!!! looking at ur desktop is like looking into a game heaven!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

[Tama Drummer]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
Tama, is that your drumset? It looks pretty cool.
Unfortionately no... that's way too expensive for me, I paid about 1,500 total for all my drums (5 cymbals, 6 toms, 1 bass, 4 snares, hardware, bags, heads, pedals...), and that kit might be worth 1,500 just for the drums. Maybe more, maybe less. I actually am not exactly sure what type those are, I'm guessing Starclassics. I just found the pic and did some work to it, resized it, the hole bit. My kit's black, but I still don't have any good pictures of it yet, at least not till I get my pictures developed. OK, I think I have confused people now with my drum talk, so I'll go away...

Oh, and here's a picture that's a bit more like my kit, exept I have some more cymbals and drums. And my kit's black, everything but the snare which is orange fade.

I hope this link works, I just found it... (http://www.uppersandusky.k12.oh.us/highschool/techclass/pagnard/Tama_Set.jpg)

[thrdflrmshr]

Very cool indeed. My drummer has a Yamaha Stage Custom, and some of his cymbals are Zildjian, like his A Sweet Ride. It sounds great overall. He really wants an OCDP set though, but they are insanely expensive.

[Tama Drummer]

Yea, I was looking at some of them at www.indoorstorm.com where you can actually play some of the drums. The next kit I'm thinking about getting, when I get back in a band and get money and need a good kit for live sound and stuff, I thought about trying Spaun. Pearl sucks... (had to put that in here :)) But then again, do I really want to be Spaun Drummer? NO! I need new cymbals, I'm currently using Sabian B8s which is like the cheapest you can get by Sabian. Yea, they suck ;) I want to get some AAs and Hand Hammered... HAH! One Hand Hammered ride costs as much as all my cymbals together! Well, maybe not all... *sigh* I wish there was a drumming forum, I would "own" that one...

[thrdflrmshr]

My band is hardcore/punk, but my drummer also plays jazz. He's so good. He's got some really nice cymbals, but, as I am not a drummer, I can't really tell you much about them.

[Tama Drummer]

Jazz is fun, I don't really like to listen to it, but playing it is fun, it gets you moving :). Blues and country and rap and pop are really the only styles of music I don't really like.

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by Tama Drummer
Blues and country and rap and pop are really the only styles of music I don't really like.

Definitely. Some Blues is ok, simply because so much is based on it. Other than that, I totally agree.

[thrdflrmshr]

Now that I am at work, here's my desktop in the office.

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/upton731/TAO/workscreen.JPG

[Elentari]

Thar ye be, isn't he sexy?


Me Desktop (http://img29.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img29&image=untitled57.jpg)


Edit: Might I add that this is my school computer.... soon to be cleared of all that I hold dear :( (my massive collection of pictures and the like... )

[thrdflrmshr]

Ack, tiled wallpapers are so 1998.

[Tama Drummer]

here's mine...
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3994/desk3.jpg
It's animated of my desktop...

Edit: Oh, and I hate tiled backrounds... looks wierd.

[thrdflrmshr]

So your desktop has that huge guy bouncing around all the time?

[Dark-Death]

heres mine but all my games r on my other computer its just my sister is allways on that so i have to use this 1
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/914/mydesktop3.jpg

[Elentari]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
Ack, tiled wallpapers are so 1998.


:mad:

I can tile my desktop and like it if I bloody well want to, and if it looks "so 1998" then that's your problem.



:Note to reader: I am, in fact, kidding in this post. Do not be offended by anything you read, because I of course don't mean it :)


On a more serious note, I like it tiled better than centered... so nyah. For a while there I was switching my background every other day or so... it was great fun... I only recently found the gorgeous Depp picture and it's there to stay, tiled or no.

[Ark Knight]

I'm still trying to find a good background, my other computer f-cked up, so everything installed isn't here, and yes... it's a 1998 transformed to XP then back to 2000... I found a good background, but was still at school so I forgot the adress =P

[Tama Drummer]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
So your desktop has that huge guy bouncing around all the time?

Yup! :P It takes me longer to log in now. ;)

[thrdflrmshr]

:mad:

I can tile my desktop and like it if I bloody well want to, and if it looks "so 1998" then that's your problem.



:Note to reader: I am, in fact, kidding in this post. Do not be offended by anything you read, because I of course don't mean it


On a more serious note, I like it tiled better than centered... so nyah. For a while there I was switching my background every other day or so... it was great fun... I only recently found the gorgeous Depp picture and it's there to stay, tiled or no.
I just hate to see the same image all over place. Oooh, it'd be cool to make a tileable wall for that pur[pose, but it'd get old fast. Maybe if you procured one larger image to put there, it'd be a lot better.

I'm still trying to find a good background, my other computer f-cked up, so everything installed isn't here, and yes... it's a 1998 transformed to XP then back to 2000... I found a good background, but was still at school so I forgot the adress =P
http://wincustomize.com for good wallpapers.

also, try http://deviantart.com

Yup! :P It takes me longer to log in now.

That's ridonkulous. How is that any fun at all?

[xerent]

Personally, I couldn't stand that desktop. It's so bright, like staring into a lightbulb, and then with spastic stick figures jumping around, well, that has siezure-in-3-months written all over it. ^_^

[thrdflrmshr]

More like seizure-in-3-minutes.

[Stiltz]

See my desktop and fear me.

http://www.uploadyourimages.com/view/727418desktop01.jpg

[Ark Knight]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
I just hate to see the same image all over place. Oooh, it'd be cool to make a tileable wall for that pur[pose, but it'd get old fast. Maybe if you procured one larger image to put there, it'd be a lot better.


http://wincustomize.com for good wallpapers.

also, try http://deviantart.com



That's ridonkulous. How is that any fun at all?
I've also tried Google ImG Search :P

And Stiltz, your background... It's so... Evil!!!

[thrdflrmshr]

A second screenie from the office computer, because I didn't show my actual desktop in the last one. I must have been preoccupied with that awful nonsense called work. (http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6421/workscreen_2.jpg)

[Elentari]

:eek:


That is *so* adorable.

Here's some of the other ones I like to use... (there are a lot.. I picked some of my favorites)


Scary, more of a joke (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img30&image=BigSmile.jpg)

My Baby (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img30&image=KittyCute.jpg)

Pretty Flowers (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img30&image=Peaceful.jpg)

Dragon I found... (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img30&image=Protector.jpg)

Cute Puppy (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img30&image=Puppy.jpg)

Spring (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img30&image=SpringD.jpg)

Another Dragon (http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img12&image=BlackDragonD.jpg)

Edit: I like yours too third!

[thrdflrmshr]

See, some of those are really cool. Especially your cat and the flowers.

Tiled = bad

[Elentari]

Well, in most cases it is, but sometimes, like the Depp picture, it's just too much trouble to find a larger picture, and the tiled looks just fine. The more the merrier :D.


Ooh, I forgot to add, these aren't my home backgrounds...

[Tama Drummer]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
More like seizure-in-3-minutes.

Oh no no no... I made a special one to do that. I made it two frames, one all black, the other all white. Reapeats. Binks very fast. I set it as my backround, and I found I could even look at my computer. But now I am looking for a new one, I had some the I found, er, I'll post the link when I find it.

Edit: This isn't the one I was thinking of, but very similer.
http://www.cognitivedistortion.com/
The one I was thinking of was like Ian something Design, but I forgot his last name and the link.

[Serge]

-.-

[thrdflrmshr]

You should save desktop images as a jpeg. The compression logarithm works better for pictures with many colors and no solid areas of one color.

Anyway, you'll notice that I don't have any desktop icons at all. They suck. All my shortcuts are on the dock, and I can get anywhere I need to from there. I also like to look at my desktop image uninhibited.

And you use MSN explorer? I didn't know people still did that.

[Serge]

Yep, I use MSN Explorer. I never saw any point in using anything else.

[ArcPaladinZero]

Ew bad Serge. *hugs Firefox*

[Tama Drummer]

Um, does anyone know a site, something like ian anderson design? I can't find the link...

Edit: Nevermind, I just found it.

http://www.ianadesign.com/

[Elentari]

You know, I don't like firefox. It's.. ugly looking...

[Serge]

What do you use ele? And what's so good about FireFox? And what do you use thrd?

Personally, I think MSN works just fine. It has a great pop-up blocker, and it can get me from website A to website B as fast as a 56k dial-up modem can.

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by Elentari
You know, I don't like firefox. It's.. ugly looking...
You can get other skins for Firefox. It's not nearly as ugly as IE.

Originally posted by Serge
What do you use ele? And what's so good about FireFox? And what do you use thrd?

Personally, I think MSN works just fine. It has a great pop-up blocker, and it can get me from website A to website B as fast as a 56k dial-up modem can.
What's so good is that it has built in Google, a popup blocker that really blocks popups, no Avtice-X controls for malicious code to install spyware, and it's faster than anything I've used before. It has support for all the media plugins you need, and Java, too.

MSN just has too much extra fluff that is totally pointless. If you want the extras, get Mozilla's full package. It has email, broswer, blah blah blah. I just wanted a browser, and no extraneous crap. Firefox gives me just that.

[SlipknotiCX]

Slipknotic goodness :D

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5671/desktop25.jpg

[Aro23r]

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2228/desktop38.jpg


Stolen from a website, but.... who cares? Looks cool enough.

[sOOisiDal]

Dude.......


You have BearShare? Thats like the most evil thing ever!



Kazaa is the only way to go.......Well that and LimeWire.

[Aro23r]

Originally posted by sOOisiDal
Dude.......


You have BearShare? Thats like the most evil thing ever!



Kazaa is the only way to go

I don't know about you, but I like to not have that garbled shit in the middle of all my songs.

[sOOisiDal]

Hm.....


What songs did you download?


Sometimes people put stuff in the middle of certain songs.

Something about copyrights or the like.

[DKR]

I'm not cheap so I don't download stuff illegally and for free ;)

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by sOOisiDal
Dude.......


You have BearShare? Thats like the most evil thing ever!



Kazaa is the only way to go.......Well that and LimeWire.
Wrong. WinMX was the way to go, and it still is really awesome, even though the number of users has declined significantly.

Now, Soulseek is the way to go, if you only want music. I don't bother to download movies or software, but I have 13.5GB of music on my HDD.

Originally posted by Aro23r
I don't know about you, but I like to not have that garbled shit in the middle of all my songs.
I have hated Kazaa from the beginning. Spyware, corrupted files, slow downloads, CPU leeching, and overall shittyness really turns me off of a piece of software.

Everyone should check out http://zeropaid.com.

[ArcPaladinZero]

Kazaa is obviously the way to go if you want destroyed songs and some various things in the mail from RIAA but I doubt it's anything important. Anyways, I'm a Winmx user and have been for quite some time. There's not that great of a selection but it's the cleanest by far. Between movies and music I had to get a seperate harddrive to store those. Currently I'm taking up about half of the 120 gb harddrive for those.

[sOOisiDal]

Well than I must have Kazaa-Magic 2.1.....

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by sOOisiDal
Well than I must have Kazaa-Magic 2.1.....
The last time I used Kazaa was KLite K++ 2.1. Even that sucked.

[sOOisiDal]

KLite is amazing.


*press' force transfer for all downloads*

[DeadFishGuy]

My Desktop. (http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9992/deadfishdesk.jpg)

[Cephas]

Nice! I need some of the things you have on the right hand side of your screen! Boss Language translator... :rolleyes:

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by sOOisiDal
KLite is amazing.


*press' force transfer for all downloads*
No, it's not. Do you even know what the force transfer is?

[sOOisiDal]

erm.......I feel i need not give you any information.

[thrdflrmshr]

Stop using Kazaa.

[SlipknotiCX]

Kazaa isn't that bad. IP blockers to block Ip's from RIAA searches and from users DL'n from you. Also, just stop sharing if you don't wanna get caught. And the garbled songs, eh...usually my second try on a song turns out to be perfect.

I don't use mine too often. Only on rare songs that I can't DL from mIRC.

[Tama Drummer]

I never really liked copying CD's and burning them, although I don't have money to buy them either. But I do know why bands get pissed off, like Metallica although I thnk they went a bit too far, because they're loosing money.

Edit: ah man... i just saw this, Slipnotix lives in PA... that's way too close... I live in PA...

[Hydrant]

My desktop (http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2773/desktop31.jpg)

yeah it is partially obscured by and AIM window... but I wanted to show off my AIM theme

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by SlipknotiCX
Kazaa isn't that bad. IP blockers to block Ip's from RIAA searches and from users DL'n from you. Also, just stop sharing if you don't wanna get caught. And the garbled songs, eh...usually my second try on a song turns out to be perfect.

I don't use mine too often. Only on rare songs that I can't DL from mIRC.
Even if you do find the uncorrupted version of a song that is named correctly, most likely the ID3 tags aren't correct, which is bad for iTunes users.

And how do you account for the huge slowdown in CPU speed, the horrible organization, and the overall shitty interface?

[Elentari]

Hydrant. I am in love with your skin. ;)


(skin, theme, whatever... skin sounds better :D)

[Stitchface]

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2620/destopscreenshot.jpg

[thrdflrmshr]

I'm amazed at how many people use older operating systems.

[Stitchface]

Im only fifteen and I dont crap money out of my ass and neither do my mum or dad so im gona upgrade my pc when im older and earn the money so plz dont be such a snooby asshole

[Cephas]

WXPP and Office XPP at work
WXPP and Office 2003 Pro at home :D

I was just about to post my desktop, but there is nothing on it but wallpaper. No 'my computer', no 'my documents', no nothing! The wallpaper is from Elfwood, so I can't post it.

[Demon night]

i just made it in like 3 mins....


http://img1.imageshack.us/img1/7557/happi.gif

[SlipknotiCX]

Originally posted by Tama Drummer
I never really liked copying CD's and burning them, although I don't have money to buy them either. But I do know why bands get pissed off, like Metallica although I thnk they went a bit too far, because they're loosing money.

Edit: ah man... i just saw this, Slipnotix lives in PA... that's way too close... I live in PA...

Where at? :D

Even if you do find the uncorrupted version of a song that is named correctly, most likely the ID3 tags aren't correct, which is bad for iTunes users.

True, but if you look at my desktop at the red bar at the bottom (PCDJ Red), I can fix em there. Which ownz :p

Also...you are absolutely correct on the slow CPU speed. It sucks bad. And I have no prob with the I-face at all. I'm just too lazy to mess around with anything else LoL. This works so I stick to it :D

[Tama Drummer]

Originally posted by SlipknotiCX
Where at? :D


*locks doors*

[Serge]

Yeah, I noticed the older versions of windows people were using. However, thrd, you are a computer elitist, but from what I have heard, Kazaa does suck.

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by Cephas
WXPP and Office XPP at work
WXPP and Office 2003 Pro at home :D

I was just about to post my desktop, but there is nothing on it but wallpaper. No 'my computer', no 'my documents', no nothing! The wallpaper is from Elfwood, so I can't post it.
I have WXPP at work and Office 2003 Pro at work.

I have WXPP at home, and am upgrading from OXPP when I get back to school. I really like the redesigned Outlook, and that's the only reason I want it. Plus, I get it for free.

I also have no icons on my desktop. It looks so much better that way.

Ok, the comment about older operating systems was not meant to be caustic. It's just that even XP is almost three years old already. W2K is four years old, W98 is six years old. I'm just wondering how anyone can get anything done on machines like that. MS is due to upgrade XP any time now, and people are still using the OS from two or three generations ago.

[Ark Knight]

I have 1998...

[thrdflrmshr]

Has anyone heard any news of a new MS OS? They're about due for one next year.

[Elentari]

I have 1998, and I'm proud of it :D

Here's mine at home...


Can you tell I like flowers? (http://www.siliconinsight.com/brooke/archives/geraniums2.bmp)

[thrdflrmshr]

Hehe... You're a flower girl.

[Tama Drummer]

Changed mine... (http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/696/temperary.jpg)

[ArcPaladinZero]

Changed mine too! (http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/theviper2288/desk.JPG)

[Elentari]

That's a great one Arc... *high five* ;)

[Serge]

I guess I may have misinterperated your comments, thrd, but I was also talking about the "MSN Explorer? I didn't know people still used that..." comment.

To the point, I may go searching the web for a new background fo rmy desktop, I just realized I have had this one since I got this computer.

[ArcPaladinZero]

Originally posted by Elentari
That's a great one Arc... *high five* ;)

Animal shots are great and I just have a thing for b/w photos.

[thrdflrmshr]

I changed mine three! (http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3300/workscreen_3.jpg)

Originally posted by Serge
I guess I may have misinterperated your comments, thrd, but I was also talking about the "MSN Explorer? I didn't know people still used that..." comment.
Yeah, and then someone started talking about operating systems.

I still think MSN is useless and bloated.

[Elentari]

Oo! I like it, reminds me of amber....

[thrdflrmshr]

Amber is a pretty cool song by 311. Did you know that they played for three hours and eleven minutes on March 11, either last year or the year before. They have a DVD of the performance.

[truffleshfl]

*Bump*
http://img56.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img56&image=desktop60.jpg

[Lord Achilles]

Woot.

http://img48.exs.cx/img48/378/br1.jpg

[thrdflrmshr]

http://img19.exs.cx/img19/2403/desktop115.jpg

[Elentari]

http://img61.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img61&image=Desktop20.jpg

[plusminus]

http://img36.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img36&image=2004-08-23-003805.jpg
the BG (and everything else) looks much better without jpg compression, BTW

[teester]

i just read the first few posts and heres what i have to say

.hack//sign sucks

ive watched the shows

played all 4 games

read the books and shit

it still sucks

[T3km4n]

Plus, you use the gimp too? I love it.

http://ileet.net/wall/haiku.jpg
that's my desktop

[plusminus]

plusminus = linux nrrd
I made the background pic myself in GIMP, in case you were wondering... nothing terribly complicated, just a few filters layered over each other.

[Duffman]

I want to get linux... I heard somewhere they you can install it right over the top of windows... is that true? If so i should get a copy... And a couple of hundred manuals to unbrainwash me :P.

Ain't she purtty. (http://img46.exs.cx/img46/5141/Desktopcopy2.jpg)

[thrdflrmshr]

I'm pretty sure you can boot Linux from a CD. My hallmate does.

[ck1]

Man..... I need a life. (http://img44.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img44&image=BackgroundTAO.jpg)



:D

[plusminus]

Originally posted by Duffman
I want to get linux... I heard somewhere they you can install it right over the top of windows... is that true? If so i should get a copy... And a couple of hundred manuals to unbrainwash me :P.

Knoppix is a linux distro meant to be run straight from CD. Slackware also has a live CD that requires minimal setup and no installation. Config files and such are kept on your windows hard drive.

[thrdflrmshr]

I love nerds.

[cs_zero]

u think u need a life?!?!?! (http://img32.exs.cx/img32/6193/TAO-desktop.jpg)

[thrdflrmshr]

I'm guessing that's an inside joke. You haven't been around TAO enough, then. When we start getting your inside jokes, then you're spending too much time here.

[cs_zero]

no, no joke intennded, i think my desktop is really very dull.

[T3km4n]

So, that is you?



. . .




. . .



BAHAHAHAHAHA!

[cs_zero]

no, im the one that took the picture, my friend has the one of me, i was wearing almost the same thing (it was our uniform for the game), i havent gotten it yet

[ArcPaladinZero]

Nothing really new here. This is one of my favorite backgrounds though. (http://www.uploadyourimages.com/img/568828backg3.jpg)

[Duffman]

Originally posted by plusminus
Knoppix is a linux distro meant to be run straight from CD. Slackware also has a live CD that requires minimal setup and no installation. Config files and such are kept on your windows hard drive.

Soo...... what do you suggest? :D

[plusminus]

Originally posted by Duffman
Soo...... what do you suggest? :D

If you just want to give Linux a shot without needing to sacrifice anything, Knoppix is a good choice (I think, I've not actually tried it. But it comes recommended, and Glamdring would tell you more about it). I'm sure there are others too. I'm a Slackware devotee and as such might be tempted to recommend the Slackware Live CD to you, but it's not the easiest place to start. Not *hard*, but certainly not as easy as many other distros.

If/when you're ready to take the plunge and install it on a disk, there are about a million options, depending on how much time you want to put into it, what you want it to do, and how much computer power you have, among other things.

[Glamdring]

knoppix is, indeed, the thing to do if you want to try linux but don't know anything about it yet. Actually, in that case the first thing to do is use your well-honed googling skills and browse some help forums. There are masses of them out there devoted to linux info. Then use knoppix.

Here's what you do... you go into your bios and set it up so that it boots from cd by default, and then goes to windows if there's no cd. It'll tell you how to do all that. Once you've set it up like that, you don't really have to change it unless you have some other boot cd that you regularly leave in your drive but don't want to use...

From that point on, use your noggin and I'm sure you'll be fine. You're a smart little aussie, you can figure it out. ;)

I do recommend it if you've never tried it. If you have a wireless connection though, you won't be able to hook up to the internet. In fact, I think the only way you *will* be able to is if you're connected to broadband by ethernet. Otherwise, you have to mess around with loading drivers, etc., and that's not something you're going to figure out just by using your noggin, no matter how aussie it happens to be...

Right, the point. I had a point I think... ermm maybe not. Well here's *a* point for you... it's good, but look around online for info about it first, if you want to actually do anything with it.

[thrdflrmshr]

Doesn't Linux use TCP/IP? Even with wireless, you should be able to connect.

[plusminus]

I have no experience with wireless connections whatsoever. I can tell you that Linux will work with a wireless system. But how much effort it takes, I have no idea.

[Glamdring]

the problem is that there's no driver for the wireless usb adapter that I have, and I believe that's what most people who use wireless have, correct? It wouldn't be too difficult to find coding to make it work, but I don't know enough about it.

[plusminus]

Like I said, I don't really know about wireless. I'm assuming you've already searched Google a bunch, and if there really is no driver for it, then you're out of luck (for the moment...).

Just out of curiosity, what make/model of USB adapter is it?

[Duffman]

Hmmmmmm well hopefully i'll be getting broadband soon. I might postphone linux until i get it. I only use dialup at the moment. I wouldn't assume that would be too much of a difficulty.

Thanks for you help guys. I'll be googling.

[plusminus]

It is fairly easy to use Linux with dial-up, I believe.

It is not so easy to obtain Linux with dial-up, apart from paying for it. (Which isn't a bad idea, but after you've found a distro you're comfortable with and would like to support.)

[Duffman]

Why do you guys suggest using the Live CD varieties instead of installing the actual operating system on a dual Boot? (I have Dual Bios). Is it just incase i don't like?

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by Glamdring
the problem is that there's no driver for the wireless usb adapter that I have, and I believe that's what most people who use wireless have, correct? It wouldn't be too difficult to find coding to make it work, but I don't know enough about it.
Ah, if the radio is integrated, then there should be no problem. USB drivers are a bitch and a half to begin with, let alone getting some that work on Linux.

[drakonfire]

Originally posted by Duffman
Why do you guys suggest using the Live CD varieties instead of installing the actual operating system on a dual Boot? (I have Dual Bios). Is it just incase i don't like?


becuase you can (i know, i've done it) completely screw EVERYTHING over if you dont know what your doing exactly, its easy enough to avoid, but there are some points where its also easy enough to do, and besides, the Live CD's give you a VERY good taste for linux without having to invest hardly any time


that said though you may want to get a friend with a broadband conection to download and burn the Live CD(s) for you

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
Ah, if the radio is integrated, then there should be no problem. USB drivers are a bitch and a half to begin with, let alone getting some that work on Linux.
Also, most wireless radios are now inserted through the PC/MCIA or mini PCI slot, and are not USB.

[T3km4n]

What is the difference with Linux, I mean what is different about what I see and everything.

[thrdflrmshr]

Everything.

[T3km4n]

Oh.