Friday desktop thread **OFFICIAL**

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tm37

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Originally posted by: Rallispec
Originally posted by: hypersonic5
Huh? My link wors fine in Opera. Try copying and pasting.

in IE it works like a geocities like, has to be dragged and dropped to the adress bar or you get an error

Yep. Just did it.
 

Electrode

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there's not very much info in the top post, but no one else started an FDT today, so I have no choice but to declare this FDT to be

OFFICIAL


I'll post my desktops later.
 

Rallispec

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Originally posted by: Electrode
there's not very much info in the top post, but no one else started an FDT today, so I have no choice but to declare this FDT to be

OFFICIAL


I'll post my desktops later.




you're getting slow and sloppy. i expect more out of you.... you gotta hop on these thigns early.

what ever happened to starting them on weds, stating it was friday in taiwan.
 

tm37

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Originally posted by: IcemanJer
LOL, and I thought ScottyB's 19 minutes past midnight EDT was pretty fast..


Not back it the day. WHat ever happened to electrode? It was rallispec or electrode.

Coolmon links also aren't there.
 

IcemanJer

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Originally posted by: tm37

Not back it the day. WHat ever happened to electrode? It was rallispec or electrode.

Coolmon links also aren't there.
wow.. being gone from ATOT for a few months and so many things changed.
 

Rallispec

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Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: IcemanJer
LOL, and I thought ScottyB's 19 minutes past midnight EDT was pretty fast..


Not back it the day. WHat ever happened to electrode? It was rallispec or electrode.

Coolmon links also aren't there.

I just got lazy and tired of writing up the first post with all the links to various proggies in it. Electrode is just a slacker. Him and his stupid .PNG files. ;) :p
 

tm37

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This is how a friday desktop thread should look at the start.

From 5 july

Originally posted by: Electrode
I hope everyone's July 4th was as nice as mine. :)

Here are the ever-so-important links:

UXTheme lets you use new skins in Windows XP.
Coolmon and StatBar put system info on Windows desktops.
GKrellM puts a system monitor bar on UNIX desktops. (note that mine are just windowmaker dockapps, not gkrellm)
Transparent is a program that can remove the solid color backgrounds from desktop icon labels on Win95/98/ME/NT/2K, allowing your wallpaper to show through.
Rainlender puts a calender on Windows desktops.
Desktop Weather puts weather info on Windows desktops.
Pic hosting services: 1 2 3
No Geocities links please.

How to take a screenshot

Windows: Hit printscreen (not alt+printscreen or any other combo), then paste in paint, photoshop, etc. Then save as JPG or another browser-friendly format.
UNIX: Use The GIMP or ksnapshot, which I think is included in the kdegraphics package.

My desktops:

Living Room Workstation:
Desktop JPG PNG
Pic Small JPG Big JPG

Bedroom Workstation:
Desktop JPG PNG
Pic Small JPG Big JPG

Server:
VNC Desktop JPG PNG
Pic Small JPG Big JPG

Let's see yours! Please mark pics that can't be safely opened at work, or in the presence of parents or wife. It's hard to enjoy an FDT when you have to have your mouse on the 'close' button in case a pic of half-naked woman pops up. :frown:

Also, I took some firework pics tonight. They didn't come out all that great, but some look nice.
Here they are

 

Rallispec

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Originally posted by: IcemanJer
Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
Max XP :Q!!!!
you should rename "Recycle Bin" and those icons to the MacOS names. make it more, ah, believable. :D

before that he should punch his server in the face and get it to run at least a little bit faster.

holy slowness batman!



edit: what is the macOS recycle bin? just called "trash" right?
 

IcemanJer

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Originally posted by: Rallispec
edit: what is the macOS recycle bin? just called "trash" right?
yeah, it's "trash", "Macintosh HDD".. I think it's "network browser", and no my documents.
 

tm37

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Originally posted by: Rallispec
Originally posted by: IcemanJer
Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
Max XP :Q!!!!
you should rename "Recycle Bin" and those icons to the MacOS names. make it more, ah, believable. :D

before that he should punch his server in the face and get it to run at least a little bit faster.

holy slowness batman!



edit: what is the macOS recycle bin? just called "trash" right?

I was think as that crawled down my screen "thank god you can't post imgs in the thread like at rallispec.net"

COuld you image after a few people tried to view that over and over again by refreshing the page:Q

 

LongCoolMother

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not my fault nobody will provide image hosting anymore *eyes everyone*...

not my fault im on stupid wireless spnt broadband which provides 7 mbps down/46 kb/s up... *eyes everyone again*

im going to rename recycling bin to trash. and what was my computer? my hdd?
 

Rallispec

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Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
not my fault nobody will provide image hosting anymore *eyes everyone*...

not my fault im on stupid wireless spnt broadband which provides 7 mbps down/46 kb/s up... *eyes everyone again*

im going to rename recycling bin to trash. and what was my computer? my hdd?


shall i get out the list of free at pic hosting services? ;)


on my old powermac, its just listed as "hard drive". hasnt been turned on in a year though, so it actually doesnt say anything.
 

Electrode

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Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: Electrode
actually, I just got sick of doing it. FDT's really don't interest me anymore.

QUITTER!

Maybe I'd be more interested if the desktops were a little more varied. Every desktop is the same:

Windows XP
Silver, Mac OS X, or the theme with the screw in the start button
StarBar or Coolmon, or both
Bubbley desktop icons
digitalblasphemy, artofgregmartin, or porno wallpaper

For one thing, why is it that so many of you people bash macs every time you see them being discussed, but take so much time to make your cardboard cutout WinXP desktop look lile OS X? I just don't get it! :confused:
 

IcemanJer

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Originally posted by: Electrode
For one thing, why is it that so many of you people bash macs every time you see them being discussed, but take so much time to make your cardboard cutout WinXP desktop look lile OS X? I just don't get it! :confused:
Liking a pretty desktop doesn't mean we like the underlying operating system.
 

Rallispec

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Originally posted by: IcemanJer
Originally posted by: Electrode
For one thing, why is it that so many of you people bash macs every time you see them being discussed, but take so much time to make your cardboard cutout WinXP desktop look lile OS X? I just don't get it! :confused:
Liking a pretty desktop doesn't mean we like the underlying operating system.

its not helping your cause any though.


and for the record, i make all my own desktops backgrounds. :)