Post your Desktop January-March '11

[=sw=warlord]

New year, another desktop thread.
http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/8476/90056974.jpg

[hry]

1930

[Guardian]

http://i610.photobucket.com/albums/tt184/TC-GuardianAngel/Mapping/Desktop.jpg

[k4is3rxkh40s]

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/4372/desk12011.jpg

[CabooseJr]

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9427/18539667.jpg

[Necr0matic]

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/82/desktopum.png
WINDOWS XP + Windows Classic Theme = WIN
As you can tell, I like to keep things clean.

[ThePlague]

1936

[Con]

edited this (http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/br.jpg) so it looked more like a scene from the movie and less like a scene from a game

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8489/capturebhh.png

[Cortexian]

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9005/desktopjan052011.jpg

Clipped the other two monitors off because they're just copies. Working on blending a couple similar images together into a trip-wide wallpaper.

[iizahsum]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7605/screenshotgu.png
Laptop.

[Con]

wait what, steam on linux? where have I been...

[Amit]

wait what, steam on linux? where have I been...

I was going to post the same thing but I decided not to for some reason. Not too much point to it. Only a small handful of games work. The main Valve games usually work, though.

[iizahsum]

· Left 4 Dead Full (Steam)
· Team Fortress 2 (Steam)
· Half-Life 2 Retail (32-bit)
· Guild Wars All Versions
· Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 1.7
· The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 1.2.x
· Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 1.x
· Counter-Strike: Source Retail and Steam
· Final Fantasy XI Online Windows Client W00
· Fallout 3 1.x
· Steam Official Release
· StarCraft I Retail CD/DVD
· StarCraft II Retail
· EVE Online 6.33.x - Incursion
· Supreme Commander SC 1.x.3xxx
· Bioshock 1.0
· Garena 3.0
· The Sims 3 All
· Warhammer Online Live
· Gothic 3 1.x
· Homeworld 2 1.x
· Aion: The Tower of Eternity 2.0.x
· Dragon Age: Origins 1.x
· World of Warcraft 4.0.x
· Warcraft III The Frozen Throne: 1.x

List of popular games that run on Linux

Edit: Besides a hand full of other games like Metro 2033, Crysis,or BFBC2 I only ever play Half-Life ( enitre series) or TF2. So it works out well for me if I don't feel like getting on my other computer or am out of the house.

[Timo]

http://timo.modacity.net/pix/desktop/0herp2011-01-07%201136.55.552.jpg
New Year, new skin: Blend 2.0 (http://zainadeel.deviantart.com/#/d364ccx)

[Warsaw]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7605/screenshotgu.png
Laptop.

Would +rep if I could. I've been meaning to do the same thing for awhile now, even have the 10.10 ISO ready for installation.

[TVTyrant]

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn117/TVTyrant/John-Elway.jpg?t=1296390964

And yes I am a Broncos fan lol.

[Con]

I'm working on getting dwm all set up for my laptop, probs gonna add more specs to the top right status area

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/769/desksq.png

[InnerGoat]

haha con's got touhou what is this


http://innergoat.modacity.net/computer/Desktop_Jan26_2011.jpg

[Warsaw]

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1913/desktop2w.png

[Amit]

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/943/screenshot20110209at843.png

[TVTyrant]

+rep...

Damn.

[Amit]

That wallpaper came up randomly in the rotation lol. I just took whatever was showing at the time. Kinda ironic since I still hate apple.

[Warsaw]

Fuckin' around with shit:
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/7342/zunedesk.png (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/zunedesk.png/)

[TVTyrant]

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn117/TVTyrant/patrickpeterson2.jpg?t=1297327348

Patrick Peterson of LSU. One of my favorite players right now.

[Patrickssj6]

Too many design whores in here :v:

[Tucker933]

http://www.tucker933.com/ftp/misc/desktop(2.10.11).jpg

[Amit]

So clean that it hurts my eyes.

[Cortexian]

One of my monitors allocated to dad because he's old and was complaining that he couldn't see his little monitor. Going to buy himself a 30" I think, for now:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3184/dualg.jpg

[TeeKup]

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/2106/desktop2011.png

Yeah.

[DRL333]

http://www.drl333.tucker933.com/My%20Desktop.jpg

[Amit]

Windows 7 Laptop:

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3596/osxdesktopfeb11.png

I thought I'd try out a Snow Leopard transformation pack. It's pretty awesome. I'll be changing back to Shine 2.0 for 7 soon, though. I'm mainly pulling a prank on some friends who like the OS X 10.6 interface, but have never used it.

[Patrickssj6]

I never understood why people use skins...it just fucks up the system. I never use my desktop anyway, I have a rotating background so I know when 15 minutes pass. The rest is done by shortcuts or start.
http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/uru3pr8r/dbg.png

[Amit]

I never understood why people use skins...it just fucks up the system. I never use my desktop anyway, I have a rotating background so I know when 15 minutes pass. The rest is done by shortcuts or start.

Skins only mess up your computer if you install them incorrectly, if the design was bad and some bug messed up your system, or your system just can't handle it. I almost never look at my desktop so it's a waste to put gadgets and icons there, which explains why on my usual taskbar, I have 10-12 icons for things I use frequently. If there is any utility I need I pin it to the Start Menu. After that if I want to access a program I don't normally use, I hit the start button and start typing the name of it. Search in the Start Menu is fast and accurate, which I found surprising the first time I used 7.

[TVTyrant]

Patrick, nice weather forecast btw. Where the fuck do you live, Alaska?

[Patrickssj6]

Patrick, nice weather forecast btw. Where the fuck do you live, Alaska?
Luckily I am not there right now but that's obviously Germany :P I am at the top one.

[Amit]

I just looked at the image and I lol'd. It's too obv that he's from Germany lol

[Patrickssj6]

Yeah the bottom one is Poland...just waiting for some nice weather to invade (don't want do a Napoleon there if you know what I mean).

[Cortexian]

It's been consistently -10 ° Fahrenheit here for the past week or so >.>

[Amit]

It's been consistently -10 ° Fahrenheit here for the past week or so >.>


Don't conform! Use Celsius :D

[Warsaw]

Fahrenheit is more precise but Celsius (or Centigrade, as I was taught) is easier to remember and work with. I have mine set to the latter:
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/043/e/4/zune_desk_2_by_von_krupp-d39ckxz.png

[Cortexian]

I converted it since most people use Fahrenheit here lol. -30 C.

[TVTyrant]

Farenheit FTW. Makes about as much sense as anything else lol.

[Patrickssj6]

Celsius and all metric units are much better because they are consistent and interchangeable and have a base system with Greek/Latin prefixes.

Example:

1 Liter of Water = 1KG
1 cubic decimeter of Water = 1KG
1 cubic meter of Water = 1t

With that you can easily interchange everything.

Millimeter - Milli means "a thousands" so it's a thousands of a meter.
Kilometer - Kilo means "a thousand" so it's thousand meters.

Milli - Mikro - Nano - Piko

0° Celsius = Freezing Point of Water
100° Celsius = Boiling Point

4° Celsius of Water has the highest density. That's why beneath the ice the water is hoter which is essential for all life forms to survive in winter.

etc etc.

It is just so beautiful :iamafag:

[TVTyrant]

And what is the basis for all those measurements? I mean, the math makes more sense, but they have different origins too. The imperial system was based on ease of use in Britain's colonies. A foot and an inch are both extremely easy to estimate since they are based on parts of the human body. For someone living in the middle of nowhere, in a time where he might not have had measurement tools, dimensions are much easier than in metric because you simply put your foot down and you have a length thats applicable. An inch is the length of the first to second joints in your index finger. Yes it is variable, but it would have been easy to use at the time.
I like farenheit for its precision. Celsius covers a larger area of temperature per degree. Farenheit seems more diret to me. And I don't especially care about the soundness of celsius :smugoff:
The reason we haven't standardized is because we don't give a shit :realsmug:

[Patrickssj6]

Well a foot is not really a foot :P

1 meter is roughly one step and we all have our body measurements (hands spread is 15cm etc.) as well. It's funny you use a German Physicist's system and we use a Swedish one :S

[TVTyrant]

Oh definitely. My point is just that 200 years ago for Americans it was simply a more applicable system than metrics. And like I said, we live a continent away, so its never really mattered if we switched or not :P

[Warsaw]

The Celsius scale is bigger, which is why I said Fahrenheit is more precise. That's also the reason engineers over here use degrees Rankine as opposed to Kelvins. That said, metric is far easier to work with, so I would just put up with decimal points.

E: Made it infinitely more useful now:
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/044/8/1/zune_desk_2_by_von_krupp-d39ckxz.png

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4200/zunedesk2.png (http://img444.imageshack.us/i/zunedesk2.png/)

[Amit]

Oh definitely. My point is just that 200 years ago for Americans it was simply a more applicable system than metrics. And like I said, we live a continent away, so its never really mattered if we switched or not :P

Well this is 200 years later where everyone is packing at least a few rulers in their home.

[Cortexian]

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/8766/desktopfeb182011.jpg

[Bastinka]

The Celsius scale is bigger, which is why I said Fahrenheit is more precise. That's also the reason engineers over here use degrees Rankine as opposed to Kelvins. That said, metric is far easier to work with, so I would just put up with decimal points.

E: Made it infinitely more useful now:
lolrectangletheme

Whoah that setup is ugly, especially how the start menu clashes with everything else and theres the left-over default icons which are very off-putting. Also very low res :C

http://i.imgur.com/m9nMC.jpg

[Patrickssj6]

At least you have a good taste in girls :P

[Amit]

Whoah that setup is ugly, especially how the start menu clashes with everything else and theres the left-over default icons which are very off-putting. Also very low res :C

There's no rule that says the image needs to be high-res, just as long as we can see it properly. I think the reason the colour of the taskbar looks off is because we're viewing it on a very bright background (modacity blue post box). I imagine it's not so bad with the dark bezel from the monitor as a border.

[Con]

I think I'm about done customizing my laptop. I added config file functionality to dwm so I don't have to recompile to change colours anymore.

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/8162/deskby.png

[ThePlague]

:)
http://k.min.us/im46Eq.png

[FredKrueger]

http://krueger.webuda.com/jing/2011-03-31_2005.png
Likely to change in a few days.

[WaeV]

Just picked up Stardock Fences.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/WaeV/Examples/2011-03-31.png

[Amit]

Image

Holy shot tags, Batman!

[Cortexian]

Just picked up Stardock Fences.
Seems like something I'd be interested in...

[FredKrueger]

My bad, used to tags from other forums.