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I cast the first stone.

(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9510/desktop2vr.th.jpg) (http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop2vr.jpg)

(http://www.f13.net/schild/wallpaper/wallpaper_jan06_thumb.jpg) (http://www.f13.net/schild/wallpaper/wallpaper_jan06.jpg)

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I will be the only person that posts their REAL desktop, not some gussied-up-for-show bullshit.

(http://www.f13.net/staff/shockeye/desktop.jpg)

You know damn well my desktop is always this clean. And I'm far too nice to just hand out AIM handles.

Pretty much what Schild said.

Mine's not very exciting and the background hasn't changed in probably a year now:

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/235/desktop8vx.th.png) (http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop8vx.png)

I'm much the same as schild, I hate junk on the desktop. I moused over the dock for y'all:

(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8648/click3rl.th.jpg) (http://img32.imageshack.us/my.php?image=click3rl.jpg)

Here, mouseovers if you're feeling voyeuristic. My stuff folder is a mainstay, I tend to organize it about once a month though this one is getting kind of old. Everything I use is on quick launch and it gets cleaned out a LOT. Gotta keep the games organized or I'll go nuts.

(http://www.f13.net/schild/wallpaper/wallpaper_jan06_thumb-2.jpg) (http://www.f13.net/schild/wallpaper/wallpaper_jan06-2.jpg)

Lawl, suicide girls.

I did it all for the Shockeye.

At one point my desktop was actually FULL of icons. There wasn't space for a single new one. So I made a folder called "Desktop", copied everything into it, put it in C: and now I'm filling up my main desktop again.

My desk at work is exactly the same. I have about 50 different papers just lying around on it. I employ a very flat organizational system you could say.

Mine's an odd size because I have 2 LCD monitors (1280x1024 and 1024x768). And yes, not showing off, I just go nuts if I can't find stuff.

(http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1139/desktop8ro.th.png) (http://img40.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop8ro.png)

It isn't Vista, btw, but a skin using Windowblinds 5.

(So sad, not on Schild's "devs" IM list! ^ ^,,, )

(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9940/desktop7jo.th.jpg) (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop7jo.jpg)

I use to have fancy setups using StyleXP, but I didn't bother to reinstall everything the last reinstall of my OS.

http://Strazos.4tehwin.org/wp-images/MyDesktop.JPG

Not nearly as pretty as it use to be, but it's really not worth the hassle.

That's mine at work:
(http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2418/deskatwork3ze.th.jpg) (http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deskatwork3ze.jpg)

The wallpaper is only a couple of hours old :) I'll edit from home later

Boring home dekstop:

(http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4748/myboringdesk6oj.th.jpg) (http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=myboringdesk6oj.jpg)

(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/57/megrimwall25xz.th.jpg) (http://img32.imageshack.us/my.php?image=megrimwall25xz.jpg)

Raar!

(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6884/desktop7cm.th.jpg) (http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop7cm.jpg)

Pretty simple and grey, easy on the eyes.

Used to have a messy desktop like Shock so the desktop folder was born and now my desktop looks clean.

I have a 360 degree picture taken from the top of Mt Everest.  It's an active desktop so I can scroll the horizon around and look off in different directions.

I won't post a picture because it would take effort and not really tell you anything (other than that I link to about 15 different network drives on my desktop)..

(http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2025/desktop1og7yu.th.jpg) (http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop1og7yu.jpg)

I recently got all hot and heavy into the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon series. So sue me.

Edit: In the remote possibility that I could get sued, I've blurred out any full names in the stickies in the picture. Probably wouldn't make a diff, but just to make sure....

Some lawyers read these boards;  Can I sue him ?

(http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9387/desktop1gg.th.jpg) (http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop1gg.jpg)

Oi Oi. Could I use that skin with Windowblinds but turn off what it does to the start menu? I just like the folder translucency around the edges.

Also, it's your fault you're not on that list. I have all my contact information in my profile. L0ser.

Signe: Har.

schild: Yeah, you can turn off elements, so you could have everything but the start menu skinning.

Since I'm at work now, here's the work desktop. Yes, I'm perverse.

(http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/3808/desktop8lb.th.jpg) (http://img66.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop8lb.jpg)

My home desktop is a bit untidy at the moment.

(http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/3547/desktop2xd.th.png) (http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop2xd.png)

You people are crazy with the image shack, eh?

(http://home.twcny.rr.com/iamthey/images/desktop2.jpg)

My desktop image scrolls through a folder of images, right now it's wildlife. I dumped my messy links first, neener neener. I tend to drop a ton of weblinks and downloaded stuff onto the desktop, then later dump them into folders. Those folders are monstrously huge.

Reader Rabbit ate my theme last night.  My machine is too unstable to commit to something fancy.  Imagine "moon background" and "silver" color.  Two days ago it was "orange trees" and "olive".  I put most things in the quickbar, which is two-high.  I also make extensive use of the address bar; basically anything in my path is typed into the address bar, including explorer.exe, compmgmt.msc, cmd.exe, etc.

The work desktop is similar but more boring, and I usually run dual monitors.  Lots of obscure icons.

(http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/2246/desktop6xr.th.jpg) (http://img363.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop6xr.jpg)

Here is my work desktop. Do I win for the most unexciting?

(http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8623/picture19nk.th.jpg) (http://img31.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture19nk.jpg)

You did, until Lum pointed me to the flyakiteosx site. Here's my new desktop. If I don't move my mouse over the top or bottom, the screen is completely blank. The best possible desktop ever.

Lum (Your home desktop) and Fabricated - Where did you get those desktops? Love the art style.

(http://www.rebelpenguin.info/images/screenshotdesk.jpg)

My Desktop.

Filled with Steele.

Actually, I really like Fabricated's background - where'd you get that one?



(green!)

Sure you can. You can always sue someone.  The hard parts are proving damages and collecting money. 

Everytime I click on a Useless news link, my mind is damaged one post at a time.  Someone needs to pay.

Heavily edited (:nda:) work desktop. (http://www.animeofthestate.org/images/desktop011706.jpg)

Too lazy to make a thumbnail, and I can't show my one at home... I'm using a somewhat sexy image of my wife as wallpaper. I like to show her off, but if she found out I posted it here she would give me a sweet little smile and then rip my head off.

Obviously, by sexy, you mean shampoo bottle in the ass. Right?

Work desktop:

(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2064/desktop3dn.th.jpg) (http://img3.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop3dn.jpg)

Yes, the stock Windows desktop image.  I've reinstalled Windows (multiple times) recently and haven't quite gotten everything shipshape again yet.

If you take away the rolling hills (and the non-standard icons) that's my work desktop, too.  No, i'm not allowed to change it.

My job is awesome!

o_O

We should do a thread where people post pictures of their actual desktops/cubes/offices/rooms.  Any time someone visits our building, one of the stops on the tour is my office.  It more than makes up for my dull desktop wallpaper.

I'd be up for that. Though, I'll warn you, I'm cleaning tomorrow.

My backgrounds are from Ukitakumuki, one of the very few great artists on DeviantArt.

http://ukitakumuki.deviantart.com/

Incredible stuff.

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c175/roguespur/Desktop17012006_thumb.jpg) (http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c175/roguespur/Desktop17012006.jpg)

I haven't read Elric in many, many moons but I get that pic out and set it on my desktop fairly often. Sometimes I get an Astronomy Pic of the Day or something from Digital Blasphemy.

:) @ all the game shortcuts.

I'd be down for some of that sweet class action.

What's up with the KoH Demo? Buy the whole game, it's awesomly awesome! :)

  (http://surlyboi.net/images/desktop2.jpg)

I really need to change that...

Is that Dr. Smart?

Sadly, no. That's my birthday party last year.

I should probably be insulted by the Serek Dmart reference, but my sense of disdain is all out of whack lately.

Work:

(http://www.yegolev.com/images/desktop18_01_2006_th.jpg) (http://www.yegolev.com/images/desktop18_01_2006.jpg)

With the windows minimized for your pleasure.

Is that...like... 800x600?

No, I am using the other available res: 1024x768.  LCD, whatchagonnado?

Actually if I was at my desk... not sure what it would look like since I have a second monitor: a CRT that runs at a different resolution.  That might look worse.

Love the Venture Brothers

Here's my work desktop, nothing juicy showing though:

(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/1333/desktop5qh.th.jpg) (http://img57.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop5qh.jpg)

You can see I've got foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) running as my MP3 player, as recommended by TheTijuanaBrass. Background from http://www.digitalblasphemy.com which I also saw on someone else's desktop. The desktop calendar on the side is called Rainlender (http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=projects&project=rainlendar) (skinable and stuff).

I really expected a comment on my "start" button.

No, but something else caught my eye glancing at what you had on the screen. Do you work at IBM?

Alright here's my desktop, not from work.
(http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/753/desktop9xz.th.jpg) (http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop9xz.jpg)


The one from work is standard win2k theme with some boring work stuff icons and default background.

You know too many people.

A lot of them is people accumulated from my CS days when you needed to contact people for clan wars etc, I've since long given up on that career though.

He has people who are offline showing. That would drive me nuts.

Not now.  We are totally in bed with them, though.

Agreed. I just downloaded the demo in the first week of the new year. In my town of 15,000 the only place with software is Walmart; which does not have Knights of Honor. I'll Amazon it sometime along with a book purchase.

Don't miss me in the credits  :-D
(under special thanks, but still... I MADE TEH CREDITS)

Awesome game tbh, very under appreciated. But you should see what they're working on now...  :nda:

edit: See? See how I squeezed that nda smilie in there? I'm running with the big dogs now   8-)

You need to make with the asian hotness.  I swear to holy-hell that I can't concentrate on shit while your avatar is winking at me and whispering "Me rikey suck your dick rong time, Gee Eye".

I need to take a walk.  Shower.  I am going home now.

Yegorev, you rack disciprine.

It was the Lotus Sametime client, wasn't it?

Yah, along with Notes, 4 instances of Putty, and the web pages on the IEs he had loaded.  Just screamed IBM test team member to me.

So I google up knights of honor and am greeted by the sound of a sword being drawn from a scabbard. LOUD. Right into my fucking headphones. Guess I won't be buying that game.

My wallpaper is http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downloads/wallpapers/wallpaper20.html and I work on my desktop so it's filled with files and folders that are not interesting in the slightest. Wont post a screeny cause some of it is :nda: even though nobody cares, but hey, if I get told not to let people see it, that's what I'll do.

To my eternal shame I must admit we use Lotus Notes and Sametime as well, and we are just a Banking House.

I had to use Notes at the last job I had, I pity those of you who are still using it.   We're using Groupwise here which is at least a bit more intuitive about things.

I long for the days of GroupWise.  Sure, it take a lot more understanding, but it's not so bloody vulnerable to nonsense.

Awesome.


What game does the Fixes.doc refer to? And what does the BioWare SFX Dashboard do? :evil: (no, I don't actually expect an answer  :|)

Danke, that's one of my faves.  I use nuonsoft wallpaper cycler, so I have a shit-ton of other images.  Mostly girls, some games, other abstract.  I have visual and auditorial ADD, so I keep my music on shuffle and my backgrounds changing constantly.

(http://home.comcast.net/~ian.parker/desktop.jpg)

Not my usual desktop image. I did that as a little joke. Heh.

Fixes is a list of dialogue bugs in one of my Mass Effect worlds, and I don't think Dashboard is some kind of state secret. It's a launcher for the art/design tools used to build Mass Effect (which was codenamed "SFX"before a title was decided on).

I have been using Bloated Notes for so many years that it no longer bothers me.  Still, thank Baby Moses for Gmail.  I might as well work for IBM, considering my string of workplaces.  I am even issued an IBM laptop, and should still be eligible for the IBM credit union.

I am one of the few people on my team still using vanilla Sametime.  Most everyone else uses Notes Buddy (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/notesbuddy).  I am happy with being insulated from unwanted smileys and pictures.

PuTTY is for everyone but IBM does seem to have developed a fondness for it.  Hopefully that means either aixterm or the AIX version of xterm will start working with it better eventually.  Our corp standard terminal emulator is Hummingbird Exceed, which is total shit and doesn't do ssh without a patch.  I only use it when I have to run an X application, which is rare, and even then I just execute the exceed.exe on my laptop and launch things from a PuTTY session.

Pfft, what's with all this artsy crap, don't you people have families or anything?

This has been my desktop for almost 2 and a half years (resized down from actual, icons go in the black half on the left):

(http://www.its2.uidaho.edu/video/music/M-DT10-03.jpg)

That's the first pic I ever got of my daughter smiling, around 3 months age.

Okay... everyone all together:


AWWWWW....   

 :-)

I  :heart: PuTTY.

I've never had a problem with my version of Hummingbird (7 I think).

I also use XWin32 on occaision.

I like PuTTY too. I'd rather use Cygwin/X than Hummingbird.

I am sure Hummingbird works great, but since I can click an icon in my quickbar and find myself at a ksh prompt, PuTTY wins.  Key-based authentication is like bacon.  I don't care for the X server for text, either.  I am willing to suffer through the aixterm oddities for something like this:

http://www.yegolev.com/images/samp_term.jpg

Colors washed-out for some reason, maybe Firefox.

Yuck, installp, no danger of failing to recognise that OS.

Speaking of Mass Effect, has there been any talk of a PC port? I really don't want to entertain the idea of getting a 360 just for one game to get my fix.

I bought the original Xbox only because and for Jade Empire. Played a lot of games since, ofcourse, but I just couldn't live with the idea of not being able to play Jade, so I bought the console. I guess that's what exclusive titles are meant to do :)

Well, I was originally driven to get a PC better than my old, old Compaq by the need to play  non-lag-fucked Baldur's Gate.


....But i Really don't want a 360. Really.

I have an Xbox because while my house was being built all of my entertaining junk was packed into a storage unit for about seven months.  My wife found me incredibly intolerable and thought games might help, so she insisted I get an Xbox.  I am not ruling out 360 ownership, but I don't see it happening in the short term.  Plus, that first Xbox was shit-shit-shitty.

I honestly don't know. Those discussions would be happening far over my head. If it did come to pass, it would certainly be after ME had been out as a 360 exclusive for some time.

I certainly want to see it - X-Box has never focused on the game genres I enjoy (RPG, TBS), so I'm not about to drop $1K (no HDTV) just to play a game I made.

Yes, it's a goddamn shame that RPGs and TBS titles simply don't exist on Microsoft's system. Sure, it'll get Oblivion, but that'll be more like GTA: Medievia. I can only hope Mistwalker helps the situation. Microsoft does need a good Nippon Ichi on their side though.

Fuck yeah.

Great thread. I learned something about Windows that I didn't know from one of the screenshots, but am too embarassed to reveal it.

Tease

Only joking, I knew it wasn't him.  I would never wield Smart with the blade out.

(http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/8700/desktop6du.th.jpg) (http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop6du.jpg)

Work PC.

Just realized looking at that, that I still have the Oblivion trailer sitting on my desktop.

Your doggie always makes me smile.  He has such kind, concerned eyes.  Our shepherds always had that look, too. 

I haven't used it since 2000 but I liked Notes as a user. I was a magazine journalist and our Editor-in-chief was a Notes freak who developed an entire collaborative publishing system within it, e.g. I write a feature article, attach pics, attach all source materials, and mark it "ready", which alerts my section editor. Section editor reads it, makes changes, queries some things with me, marks it ready for the sub-editor. Sub-editor tweaks it, marks it ready for page layout. Artist marks it layed-out, ready for proofreading. You could publish to our website, have a discussion about the article within it, share source material with colleagues, continue doing all this while overseas/interstate on assignment, and generally it worked.

The editor-in-chief eventually left, made version 2.0 and sold it back to the company (biggest magazine publisher in Australia). His website is: http://www.itechne.com/

P.S. My home desktop is a black-background file dumping area. Everything I'm working on or downloading goes to my desktop. There are also shortcuts to folders where these things will eventually end up when I've finished with them, so once in a while I spring clean. My work desktop is standard Windows 2000, restricted to nothingness by anal network policies: we're the highest rating TV news in Australia, and we can't even watched streamed videos.

P.P.S. ElMuffinMan how are your large taskbar icons achieved? I like the look.

I keep the taskbar at the top of the screen and Yzdock (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2790.html) at the bottom for program shortcuts.