----------------------------------- md Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:57 am Desktops, sept 2006 ----------------------------------- So, desktops in september http://gallery.nxor.org/thumbs/ebbb8fca4cc282d69be699160cce95d9.pnghttp://gallery.nxor.org/thumb.php?url=desktop-2061005.png&size=800 ----------------------------------- we64 Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:45 pm ----------------------------------- So I suppose you do your writing on the keyboard tray? ----------------------------------- md Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:24 pm ----------------------------------- not so much; mostly it's there to keep it out of the way; I might even remove it... [edit] I very rarely do anything in the way of writing; that's what I have a computer for! ----------------------------------- Clayton Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:13 pm ----------------------------------- heh, i like the organization, looks like my history binder after a semester :oops: [edit]heh i have the same case as u, cept mines green:D, is that a picture of you by the web cam with someone?[/edit] ----------------------------------- rdrake Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:17 pm ----------------------------------- My (relatively) neat desktop. http://rdrake.org/dev/hardware/desktop/comp1.jpg On the top is my old laptop, now a server. On the bottom, the machine some of you knew as Darkmatter. http://rdrake.org/dev/hardware/desktop/comp2.jpg My console, router, cables, etc.. http://rdrake.org/dev/hardware/desktop/comp3.jpg ----------------------------------- md Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:38 pm ----------------------------------- heh, i like the organization, looks like my history binder after a semester :oops: I assume you are refering to the lack of apparent organization... it's actually quite organized; what I use most is on top, what I use least is on bottom heh i have the same case as u, cept mines green:D, is that a picture of you by the web cam with someone? Yes, myself and my girlfriend. ----------------------------------- Dan Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:15 pm ----------------------------------- My curent desktop set up is under repares but once i get it set up again i will post some pics. Will be intresting to see.... ----------------------------------- Dan Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:53 pm ----------------------------------- Here are the pics of my desktop: http://www.compsci.ca/dan/pics/New%20Room/ It is all ran by the one P.C. and the laptop can remotely control it all. I still need to get my linux box resetup and have it share one of the montors. ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:01 pm ----------------------------------- I shall call him... "Hacker" and then smack you around for having a World-of-Warcraft keyboard. You addict ----------------------------------- Mazer Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:18 pm ----------------------------------- That keyboard saddens me :( ----------------------------------- Dan Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:27 pm ----------------------------------- It is acuatly a zboard that has difrent keysets that you can put in it. I also have a keyset for noraml computer use and genreal gaming. All of them alow you to reporgame every key to do what ever you like. It can be quite usefull... ----------------------------------- Clayton Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:01 pm ----------------------------------- my sisters desktop: http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3115/picture6111gq0.jpg MY desktop: http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8541/picture611vr6.jpg ----------------------------------- apomb Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:19 pm ----------------------------------- http://www.rdrake.org/apomb/adrian-room/2006-09-11--21.27.22/ this is three angles of my desktop, it suits me ----------------------------------- timmytheturtle Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:46 am ----------------------------------- Once I find a camera. I'll take some pictures of my desktop. CompWiz333: Does the fan on your CPU spin at all? It doesn't look like it's spinning yet your machine is on. ----------------------------------- md Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:54 am ----------------------------------- It's probably just that the shutter speed is so fast the fan seems not to me moving ----------------------------------- apomb Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:59 am ----------------------------------- timmytheturtle, it definately spins ... the excessive noise is proof of that >_haha cornflakes right, the camera's shutter speed just stopped it from blurring, its kinda cool looking like that. ----------------------------------- MysticVegeta Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:17 pm ----------------------------------- omg and I thought my desktop was the most inorganized one... wow amazing. ps: dan, I like your keyboard, looks cool. ----------------------------------- apomb Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:26 am ----------------------------------- What are you saying there Mystic? :wink: you think MINE is messy? :P ----------------------------------- Clayton Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:26 am ----------------------------------- I think hes talkin about md's personally, but you might be right CompWiz :P ----------------------------------- md Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:23 pm ----------------------------------- it's still sept; so http://www.magnify.ca/irc/md/screenshot.png Thank's to jeb for hosting it while I get my internet sorted out. It's much more impressive to watch then it looks in a screenshot; compiz in all it's glory running natively in X (new nvidia drivers rock.) Yes it kinda looks like vista; but I like the theme. ----------------------------------- Mazer Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:31 pm ----------------------------------- You and your compiz! Does shift+backspace still restart X? ----------------------------------- rdrake Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:13 pm ----------------------------------- You and your compiz! Does shift+backspace still restart X?I usually kill X with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE+BACKSPACE. Never seems to fail me. ----------------------------------- md Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:41 pm ----------------------------------- it's still normal X; everything X does this does. The new nvidia drivers (still beta) mean you don't need to run xgl in order to get all the benifits of compiz. ----------------------------------- apomb Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:01 am ----------------------------------- i updated my kernel >_< so my newest nvidia drivers are gunna have to be reinstalled all over ... is that the case with compiz md? ----------------------------------- md Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:34 pm ----------------------------------- i updated my kernel >_< so my newest nvidia drivers are gunna have to be reinstalled all over ... is that the case with compiz md? Is what hte case? If you update your kernel so that it's incompatible with teh nvidia drivers interface of course you'll need to recompile your nvidia drivers. However the nvidia-beta drivers install just like any other nvidia driver (with a few patches...). After that it's just a matter of getting compiz installed and linked to the nvidia GL libraries. I'd post how I got it working, but I don't rightly remember (there was a lot of experiementing); and it's different for most everyone. ----------------------------------- Mazer Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:36 pm ----------------------------------- it's still normal X; everything X does this does. The new nvidia drivers (still beta) mean you don't need to run xgl in order to get all the benifits of compiz. Holy shite, I want in on this! ----------------------------------- md Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:21 pm ----------------------------------- Mazer; find an ebuild for the new nvidia drivers and get them working; then get the xgl-coffee overlay (as per the gentoo wiki) then you'll need to edit hte ebuilds to use the system libGL instead of it being hardcoded to xorg-x11 (I'll tell you how on irc if you want) plus you need a couple of patches; then it's just a mattter of getting the packages. I've discovered that it runs great at first but slowly slows down. Not entirely sure why, and I dunno if it'll go away if I use it more. It's just that after leaving it running all night when turned my screen on in teh morning things were strangely slow. Oh, it also does some really nice switcher things; kinda like apple's stuff. ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:11 pm my desktop ----------------------------------- ok, here's my crippy desktop. don't blam the res plz, i can't touch a thing right now, this is my step-dad's comp. btw, if we put up the res anymore, we won't be able to see very well on our little 15". http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k249/war_caymore/MKdesktop.jpg ----------------------------------- ericfourfour Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:34 pm ----------------------------------- http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4549/desktoplv9.jpg If you look closely, I bet you could figure out that I like rts games. Also, the background is from Infinity. Don't bother asking why I have 2 java IDEs because I don't know either. ----------------------------------- md Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:49 pm ----------------------------------- Mmmm... I don't want to discourage people from posting their desktops... but usually people post screenshtos of their themed desktops ;) Also, more pictures of physical desktops! ----------------------------------- Amailer Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:20 pm ----------------------------------- My physical desktop looks um strange.... http://www.aarondm.com/images/screenshots/resized/desktop_sept_06-6.png ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:29 pm ----------------------------------- Pft. The whole point of the desktop is for it to be cluttered. Just like the whole point of tabs is to have many of them open. ----------------------------------- md Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:55 pm ----------------------------------- Yeah, I mean look at the clutter on my desk! 1 bit to the person with the messiest desk! ;) ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:50 am ----------------------------------- Ooooohhhh.... I get it :lol: I need a digital cam first of all, or a webcam, and i got neither. Plus, i need at least 4 mroe USB 2.0 ports (my comp runs 2 USB 1.0s) for half of my stuff to work. In case youre wondering why i still run 1.0s, my step dad is to paranoid to upgrade them, and we run a comp made in the 20th century. ----------------------------------- Genesis Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:55 pm ----------------------------------- we run a comp made in the 20th century. You also run Ares, which may not be the wisest thing to be doing. ----------------------------------- rdrake Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:58 am ----------------------------------- 1 bit to the person with the messiest desk! ;)Physical or virtual? This is mine after some cleanup. http://rdrake.org/compsci.ca/ss1.jpg http://rdrake.org/compsci.ca/ss2.jpg Of course, here's my FreeBSD desktop. Behold my Jibahertz value. http://rdrake.org/compsci.ca/ss3.jpg ----------------------------------- md Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:52 pm ----------------------------------- Physical desktop or virtual, I can spare two bits ;-) But no just spewing garbage everywhere to make it look messier... it has to be an authentic picture of yoru everyday desk. ----------------------------------- apomb Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:14 am ----------------------------------- i think if dan still had his old room pics, he'd definately win, hands down ... my everyday desk is already posted up here somewhere, its not that messy, just my room in general is cluttered. ----------------------------------- md Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:24 pm ----------------------------------- hmm, old pictures don't count. Nope, the contest is messiest physical desktop (in it's natual state; must be usable), nad messiest virtual desktop (which I think goes to rdrake). Contest is open until I decide to close it, and it starts now. Prizes are 1 (one) bit for each winner :P ----------------------------------- Clayton Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:53 pm ----------------------------------- hmm, my desktop after some cleanup: (and yes i use this) http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7448/messydesktopqj0.jpg ----------------------------------- md Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:50 pm ----------------------------------- Umm... two IE icons NEXT to each other? and upgrade icons for software? I think you need to do a better job cleaning up ;) It's not nearly as hard to read as rdrakes however ----------------------------------- apomb Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:16 am ----------------------------------- lol, one of my teachers Remote Desktop'd to his home desktop, and i wasnt really paying attention, so i didnt know it was his, right, and it looked almost as bad as rdrakes, and i was like "wow, someone doesnt know how to organise their desktop!!" like REALLY loud, and he quickly closed the terminal, and everyone kinda looked at me, i was left wondering what all the trouble was, until my freind caught me up to the situation, i laughed out loud. ... thats one thing i hate about windows, so many icons on the desktop. ----------------------------------- rdrake Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:56 am ----------------------------------- lol, one of my teachers Remote Desktop'd to his home desktop, and i wasnt really paying attention, so i didnt know it was his, right, and it looked almost as bad as rdrakes, and i was like "wow, someone doesnt know how to organise their desktop!!" like REALLY loud, and he quickly closed the terminal, and everyone kinda looked at me, i was left wondering what all the trouble was, until my freind caught me up to the situation, i laughed out loud. ... thats one thing i hate about windows, so many icons on the desktop.Pft, mine's cleaner now. http://rdrake.org/compsci.ca/ss4.jpg Even easier to read with my new background too ;-). ----------------------------------- Mazer Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:29 am ----------------------------------- What is it with Windows users and crappy backgrounds? :wink: ----------------------------------- rdrake Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:30 am ----------------------------------- What is it with Windows users and crappy backgrounds? :wink:You know you're just jealous. ----------------------------------- md Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:29 pm ----------------------------------- pfft, jealous of you? never! /me mirrors all the comics