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Bullhonkie

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My Desktop - 1600x1200, 471K (not work, family, or child safe at all)

Originally posted by: MaxDSP
jeez, how can you guys like not have any icons or folders on your desktop?
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I don't keep anything on it at all on mine other than a console and useful statistics. I access everything from lslnkmenu (the drop down menus along the left side of my top bar) and a popup menu (accessible via right-click on any empty space of the desktop).
 
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Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: Bullhonkie
My Desktop - 1600x1200, 471K (not work, family, or child safe at all)

Originally posted by: MaxDSP
jeez, how can you guys like not have any icons or folders on your desktop?
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I don't keep anything on it at all on mine other than a console and useful statistics. I access everything from lslnkmenu (the drop down menus along the left side of my top bar) and a popup menu (accessible via right-click on any empty space of the desktop).
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You know, I've never thought that a woman in a drawing was attractive, but if ever I did, it would be the one in your background.

Updated WindowsXP background. It's a pic from D'Iberville, MS
 
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Liviathan

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I love that background dude...where did you get it??

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Originally posted by: Bullhonkie
My Desktop - 1600x1200, 471K (not work, family, or child safe at all)

Originally posted by: MaxDSP
jeez, how can you guys like not have any icons or folders on your desktop?
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I don't keep anything on it at all on mine other than a console and useful statistics. I access everything from lslnkmenu (the drop down menus along the left side of my top bar) and a popup menu (accessible via right-click on any empty space of the desktop).
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Barnaby W. Füi

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Originally posted by: Arkitech
Where's a good place to store images on the net
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there are the various ATOT pic servers

for screenshots you can use deviantart.com, i normally run apache and host my own stuff from my home cable, but i've been upgrading the server, so apache is offline, thus i submitted it to deviantart :)
 
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Arkitech

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Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Originally posted by: Arkitech
Where's a good place to store images on the net
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there are the various ATOT pic servers

for screenshots you can use deviantart.com, i normally run apache and host my own stuff from my home cable, but i've been upgrading the server, so apache is offline, thus i submitted it to deviantart :)
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cool thanks


speaking of apache, was it difficult to get it setup? Did you ever have any problems with intrusions
 
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apriest

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www.aaronpriestphoto.com
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Originally posted by: apriest
01-31-03 09:58 NewTek Toaster2 video editing workstation.
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haha, very nice :D
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When it doesn't crash. We went through 2 motherboards, 2 video cards, 2 network cards, 3 OS reloads, 4 patch upgrades, and 3 alterations to the stripe set on the RAID before we got it to be reliable. I can't even add up the hours on hold with tech support, messages posted to newsgroups, and days spent working on it. I can't say I'm really overly impressed... It's a nice screenshot though! Hahaha!
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ProviaFan

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Originally posted by: apriest
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Originally posted by: apriest
01-31-03 09:58 NewTek Toaster2 video editing workstation.
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haha, very nice :D
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When it doesn't crash. We went through 2 motherboards, 2 video cards, 2 network cards, 3 OS reloads, 4 patch upgrades, and 3 alterations to the stripe set on the RAID before we got it to be reliable. I can't even add up the hours on hold with tech support, messages posted to newsgroups, and days spent working on it. I can't say I'm really overly impressed... It's a nice screenshot though! Hahaha!
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That looks like an interesting video editing application. A question from a video editing newbie: does that program do the same things that Adobe Premiere does, or is it designed for a different kind of work?

Here's my desktop.
 
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apriest

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www.aaronpriestphoto.com
That looks like an interesting video editing application. A question from a video editing newbie: does that program do the same things that Adobe Premiere does, or is it designed for a different kind of work?
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Check out Video Toaster 2 on http://www.newtek.com's website. It does a bit more than Premiere as it has it's own dedicated hardware board. It also has a optional breakout box for live switching between 8 video sources. You could literally broadcast from a newsroom live with it. It's also very good at post production. If you already have Premiere and a decent machine and are looking to do more in realtime, check out the RT.X100. It's quite a powerful board designed for Premiere.
 
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agnitrate

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Originally posted by: afropick
Linux, running the Blackbox Window Manager...

Check it out!
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Blackbox rules. I'm a fluxbox fan myself but they're pretty much the same. I couldn't even tell you how they differ. Anyways, I have 2 questions :

1) How'd you get your term transparent? Is that something aterm supports and not xterm?

2) What are you using to edit those files? vi?

Nice desktop btw :D

-silver
 
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afropick

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Originally posted by: agnitrate
Originally posted by: afropick
Linux, running the Blackbox Window Manager...

Check it out!
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Blackbox rules. I'm a fluxbox fan myself but they're pretty much the same. I couldn't even tell you how they differ. Anyways, I have 2 questions :

1) How'd you get your term transparent? Is that something aterm supports and not xterm?

2) What are you using to edit those files? vi?

3) Nice desktop btw :D

-silver
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The only difference I see is that fluxbox seems to have better documentation... (I used it to figure out how to get GKrellm to run in the slit) :p

1) Yes aterm (and I believe Eterm) support transparent terminals. I prefer aterms because I found a perl script that starts them with a randomly colored tint (you can't tell in the screenshot because of the background).

2) Yes again... I like vi because it does automatic syntax coloring of your code, scripts, html, etc. (plus it looks cool in the console).

3) Thank you.
 
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