Show off your spotty desktops!

[Purge]

Donno how common this type of thread emerges but heres mine:

http://home.comcast.net/~ruralclass/desktop.png

[Tachikoma]

Nothing terribly interesting:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/desktop.jpg

[cahaz]

great.

this one paper is in french btw , do you know what the word is meaning?

[the_steadster]

Heres mine. Very cluttered, my desktop is just a dumping ground for me. The pic is one from nasa, taken from the moon of the Earth rising - I thought it was pretty cool..

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-5/731447/desktop2.JPG

[cahaz]

a bit of topic, sorry , but why there's no stars in the space?
oh, yeah because it wasn't reall when they said they where on moon. :smt043

[the_steadster]

I read a long winded reply to this, i'll try to find it somewhere...

Got it:



Good: The stars are there! They're just too faint to be seen.

This is usually the first thing HBs talk about when discussing the Hoax. That amazes me, as it's the silliest assertion they make. However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. Therefore we should see them from the Moon as well.

I'll say this here now, and return to it many times: the Moon is not the Earth. Conditions there are weird, and our common sense is likely to fail us.

The Moon's surface is airless. On Earth, our thick atmosphere scatters sunlight, spreading it out over the whole sky. That's why the sky is bright during the day. Without sunlight, the air is dark at night, allowing us to see stars.

On the Moon, the lack of air means that the sky is dark. Even when the Sun is high off the horizon during full day, the sky near it will be black. If you were standing on the Moon, you would indeed see stars, even during the day.

So why aren't they in the Apollo pictures? Pretend for a moment you are an astronaut on the surface of the Moon. You want to take a picture of your fellow space traveler. The Sun is low off the horizon, since all the lunar landings were done at local morning. How do you set your camera? The lunar landscape is brightly lit by the Sun, of course, and your friend is wearing a white spacesuit also brilliantly lit by the Sun. To take a picture of a bright object with a bright background, you need to set the exposure time to be fast, and close down the aperture setting too; that's like the pupil in your eye constricting to let less light in when you walk outside on a sunny day.

So the picture you take is set for bright objects. Stars are faint objects! In the fast exposure, they simply do not have time to register on the film. It has nothing to do with the sky being black or the lack of air, it's just a matter of exposure time. If you were to go outside here on Earth on the darkest night imaginable and take a picture with the exact same camera settings the astronauts used, you won't see any stars!

It's that simple. Remember, this the usually the first and strongest argument the HBs use, and it was that easy to show wrong. Their arguments get worse from here.

HB's are hoax believers - This description was taken from http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html


Also, in case anyones interested, i got the picture from http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html Only problem is that they aren't quite wallpaper size, but still very impressive

[Alien Workshop]

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[Johnny]

I still haven't installed everything after the upgrade, so don't strange the lack of icons on the desktop. :smt023 Still need to install tons of stuff, including Dreamweaver, Photoshop, DevC++, ...

http://img54.exs.cx/img54/7914/imagem3.jpg

RIIIIIIIDGE RACER!! http://autoracing.cidadeinternet.com.br/forum/images/smiles/hdriver.gif


:smt040

[SilverBolt]

Wallpaper deleted at the request that someone may be punished at school for looking at porn :smt023

[Paulo]

For posting purposes i took one of my non-x-rated wallapers

I would say thank you but i dunno that wallpapers scary!

[Purge]

For posting purposes i took one of my non-x-rated wallapers

I would say thank you but i dunno that wallpapers scary!

he he I love it though, sadly living at home I couldn't use it, just another year or so ^^;

[Evangelion-01]

For posting purposes i took one of my non-x-rated wallapers

I would say thank you but i dunno that wallpapers scary!
LOL indeed

[Greatsaintlouis]

Here's my current one, I rotate manually about every week or so, whenever I get bored. My desktop is usually a lot worse than this, as it's a bit of a miserable dumping ground for all my downloaded crap.
http://www.sou.edu/~stlouisc/desktop.png

Thanks, Dreamcast GD-ROM omake! :smt023

[Yceman]

My desktop is only a blue background with only 6 or 7 icons and 1 of those quickstart buttons, so I don't think it's worth a whole screenshot. Most of the time there's a program maximized on the screen, so I barely see the desktop.

[WolverineDK]

hmmm nice desktops guys :smt023 :-)

[Evangelion-01]

i just keep it simple, dont have a pic coz i turned all the useless services off and the name of the shortcuts have blue around it and it just looks bad.
http://img8.exs.cx/img8/6949/untitled397.jpg

[madhatter256]

Here's mine. It's actually at 1280x1024 resolution. YOu can view the full size one at the bottom URL.

http://img54.exs.cx/img54/2238/mydesktop.png


http://img54.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img54&image=mydesktop1.jpg

[Alien Workshop]

That's a cool wallpaper madhatter256 :smt023

[ASSEMbler]

http://www.assemblergames.com/bbspics/desktop.jpg

Behold the power of a non Explorer based shell !! :drinkers: :drinkers: :drinkers: :drinkers:

[madhatter256]

Is that longhorn beta? or overhyped linux?

[ASSEMbler]

Aston

[madhatter256]

Aston

Never heard of it.

[GaijinPunch]

I'm beginning to theink that Assembler has a thing for Asian chics. My home desktop is shit... I'll post a pic of my work one.

[sayin999]

http://img69.exs.cx/img69/5378/desktop26.jpg heres mine, have to change the background to something better.[/i]

[s0urce]

Huh everybody seems to be a usenet user ;-)

[s0urce]

http://img44.exs.cx/img44/7848/desktop44.jpg

A month old or so.

[id-republix]

http://www.freewebs.com/idrepublix/destop.JPG

[ShadowofBob]

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/shadowofbob/images/desktop.jpg

Nothing like a fresh install of WinXP slipstreamed with SP2.

[wombat]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~zizzo/forum/overige/wombatdesktop.jpg

or what about an wombat flavored desktop :smt024

[Purge]

http://www.assemblergames.com/bbspics/desktop.jpg

Behold the power of a non Explorer based shell !! :drinkers: :drinkers: :drinkers: :drinkers:

wow you use insignia too? I did a few mods to mine to make it feel more homey
http://home.comcast.net/~ruralclass/pretty.jpg
I managed to animate quite a few things on it, and can give you some of them if you want. Fairly easy to script : ). I think my firefox highlight is the best :P

[arsenal]

http://img69.exs.cx/img69/5378/desktop26.jpg heres mine, have to change the background to something better.[/i]

I see your skyline has either Tein coilovers, tie rods, or perhaps just a sticker. :smt045

[arsenal]

http://www.freewebs.com/idrepublix/destop.JPG

I really miss silver over cruddy dark blue bars. :smt022

[Mr. Casual]

since im on another computer it would be hard to show off mine. i will think of a way.


p.s. silverbolt--uhhh, that stuff is probably why it says "general porn" when people try to log on at school. :smt042

[WolverineDK]

well not to pis silverbolt off but beastiality (even in furry toons) or yiffy for that matter

are illegal in some countries but it is not illegal in Denmark.

[Yakumo]

I thought that I'd join the band wagon :smt033
http://img16.exs.cx/img16/634/screen73.jpg
Yakumo

[koolkid13]

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/9905/desktop82.jpg
Its not much. Chi?

[Mr. Casual]

http://img13.exs.cx/img13/581/dhoko-1-2.jpg
Here's mine.
I change them often, though.

[Alien Workshop]

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[koolkid13]

*looks at people using IE and stabs repetedly in the face* I used to be an IE fan, because it worked. Then I switched to firefox and everything was faster, cooler, and worked better! Now jesus loves me :smt043

[Mr. Casual]

Alright I tried ALT to print screen so I can show my desktop, but it didnt work. What am I supposed to do?

[Purge]

Try just regular print screen and paste in paint. If that doesnt work, then try a program called hypersnap dx. The demo should suffice. Just uninstall after ^^;

[Mr. Casual]

Un-freakin-believable...
I *finally* got it to work.
http://img116.exs.cx/img116/5536/YAY.jpg

[AntiPasta]

oooh that's a very nice background - any idea where I could get it? ;-)

[Paulo]

http://images.google.com/images?q=dragon+force&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&imgsz=xxlarge

[id-republix]

www.workingdesigns.com

Or more specifically, http://www.workingdesigns.com/downloads/desktop_pictures/saturn/dragon_force/Dragon%20Force_B.zip .

[AntiPasta]

thanks :-)

[sayin999]

update the desktop picture, all i can say is ba ba booie!!!!!!!!!


http://img111.exs.cx/img111/3305/desktop47.jpg[/img]

[id-republix]

PC :

http://img29.exs.cx/img29/5207/desktop158.jpg

Laptop:

http://img29.exs.cx/img29/6106/lptp.jpg

[Yakumo]

This is what mine looks like right at this moment. Quite a regular sight too :smt043
http://img125.exs.cx/img125/1439/screen19.jpg

Notice the time? I really must start sleeping like a human.

Yakumo

[Alien Workshop]

I changed it again.
http://img115.exs.cx/img115/1492/MyScreen.jpg

[Zilog Jones]

http://www.skynet.ie/~zilog/pics/desktop.png

I'm in college right now. Fear the mind-numbing boringness of it all. Fear it large!

[Yakumo]

I'm in college right now. Fear the mind-numbing boringness of it all. Fear it large!

Man, that is dull.

Yakumo

[Purge]

I need that learning to learn program... I forgot how to...

[TheDeathcoaster]

Sorry to dig up an old topic, but I've wanted to post ym desktop on here for ages but it hasn't been finished.

Here it is, my finished Desktop :)

http://www.deviantart.com/view/13122563/

[cahaz]

http://img133.exs.cx/img133/644/capture29bo.png


for you , its certainly nothing. but for me, its something im proud off!
finally....linux! :-D

[Survival Tobita]

http://www.unf.edu/~lehj0007/desktop.jpg

This is what it happened to look like when I was browsing the forum today. I have it set up where it shuffles the wallpaper from a selection of about 50 pictures (this is built-in to the OS). Funny story about that. One guy brought his machine in to my work and he had his screensaver set to his My Pictures folder on XP. His My pictures folder was, of course, full of porno. :smt082

[retro]

Assembler / purge, where do you get this insignia shell thing from?

[madhatter256]

Heres my latest one:

http://img152.exs.cx/img152/1997/desktop8ck.jpg

[Yakumo]

madhatter256, what's that a picture of?

Yakumo

[madhatter256]

madhatter256, what's that a picture of?

Yakumo

A game my developer friend is working on, he's the level designer. I think PC Gamer UK is going to do a preview around February on that game.

[Johnny]

My actual one

http://img93.exs.cx/img93/8643/imagem3fx.jpg

Yes, i'm now a Killzone fan. :smt067

[Mr. Casual]

How good is Killzone in your opinion, Johnny? I hear that the A.I. sucks ass, and you cant drive vehicles. When you run out of vehicles, you run out of fun!

[Purge]

Assembler / purge, where do you get this insignia shell thing from? I custom scripted my Insignia theme and added my own modifications. I'd post it for you but my laptops been out of service *points to journal* for a long freaking time... curse my potty mouth...

[Johnny]

How good is Killzone in your opinion, Johnny? I hear that the A.I. sucks ass, and you cant drive vehicles. When you run out of vehicles, you run out of fun!

I haven't played a lot (only played for like 10 minutes, on a game store). One thing is sure, it's not HALO. This doesn't mean the game is bad, but it isn't perfect either.

Pros:
Incredible ambience. Great artistic direction;
Weapons have great impact, tons of firefights;
Amazing sound (weapons, music, ...)
Nice multiplayer system

Cons:
unstable frame rate (the game is too heavy for a PS2).
very basic AI, some times very stupid;
It's a FPS very dependent on scripts and it's very linear.

Read the IGN review
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/561/561669p1.html

[AntiPasta]

In fact, the head of Guerilla games is the uncle of a friend of a friend of mine (Guerilla is Dutch yes :smt033 ) but he hasn't given me a free copy unlike some other friends of mine got :smt067

[Purge]

http://pkgingo.no-ip.com/files/desktop.png

[retro]

purge... but what is insignia? Is it a program that you use to make your own shells? I can't seem to find any info!

[Purge]

insignia is a premade theme for aston

[retro]

ooooh i see!

bah, insignia is only 1024x768?

[Zilog Jones]

My desktop at home is even lamer than in college:
http://www.skynet.ie/~zilog/pics/desktop_home.png
Wallpaper? What's a wallpaper!?

[Mr. Casual]

Why dont you have one, then?

[madhatter256]

Heh, bit torrent.

[Zilog Jones]

One of them's RetroCore :smt023

And about the wallpaper, and lack of - well I got a new hard disk last summer, including the re-installing of everything. I just kinda forgot about a new wallpaper since then...

I really should go to bed! Note the time on that picture...

[Mr. Casual]

Funny, its bed time in America, too. :smt043

[madhatter256]

Just noticed you play BF1942. Wat servers do you play in?

[Zilog Jones]

Random ones. I just choose whatever map I want to play with a decent number of people playing and good enough ping. I play it more often than Vietnam though - maybe it's because I like the maps better, or maybe it's just cause my Pentium III is too crappy for Vietnam...

[madhatter256]

Do you have the Secret Weapons expansion game? If so, see if the ping for ya is good for the EA servers for that game. I play in those servers a lot.

[Zilog Jones]

I don't have it at the moment, but I'm getting it soon (and no, those BitTorrents aren't anything to do with that!). I've got Road to Rome too, but I don't play it much.

[madhatter256]

I don't have it at the moment, but I'm getting it soon (and no, those BitTorrents aren't anything to do with that!). I've got Road to Rome too, but I don't play it much.

Road to Rome sux IMO as well as 90% of all BF fans out there. You'll like Secret Weapons. DO you also play Desert Combat and the other mods out there for the game?

[Purge]

XD I'm not dead... yet... just learning more about my current OS... life... and blogging XD... anyway, update:
http://www.ciprianispasta.com/~pkgingo/Screenshot.png

[AntiPasta]

http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/desktop.jpg

[Alchy]

Sure you've got enough icons there mate? :smt043

[AntiPasta]

Sure you've got enough icons there mate? :smt043

Errr.... they're part of my collection!

(well part of the mess is caused by the fact that Firefox downloads there on default and I can't be arsed to alter that)

[Johnny Vodka]

I also use Aston, and couldn't ever get that insignia special theme because deviant art blows ass.

if anyone has the 868KB file, please say so and then i'll give you my gmail addy or something.

I just never could get the whole file to download. I dont know if it was too popular or what, but it would always stop before it was finished.

[Alchy]

You should get a resumable download manager, like getright. Useful for files like that.

[Johnny Vodka]

Firefox does a good enough job, but this file just quits at like 200 or so..not even halfway.

[zappenduster]

just my little desktop sorry its a 23" @ 1920x1200 maybe some of you have to scroll :-D

http://www.8ung.at/zappenduster/images/desktop.jpg

looks like my webspace is down :smt067 should be up again soon

[Johnny Vodka]

I managed to animate quite a few things on it, and can give you some of them if you want. Fairly easy to script : ). I think my firefox highlight is the best :P


I know this was a while ago, but do you happen to still have any of those animated icons you were talking about?

[ASSEMbler]

My new desktop, the POS compaq kepbaord is for the linux box.



http://www.assemblergames.com/bbspics/desktop.jpg

I have some extra monitors for sale, pm me:

Alienware 19 inch NEC multisyncFE950+
Samsung LCD Syncmaster 191T 19"

[turbocozmo]

hey assembler you might like http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/. It allows for an extrended taskbar, long wallpapers, or you can just mimic your main monitor. It's a great program.



fixed the url

[the_steadster]

Wow, Nice monitors! What size is that sony on the right..23"?

[ASSEMbler]

Yeah, sony 23" and a 19"

The one thing I've learned is that you can't have enough desktop space.

I've been trying to get a triple DVI out card, but they are a bit hard to get. The advantages of doing browsing while having a full page word document open, and another screen playing a DVD is something everyone must experience.