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jinxer
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Reply #70 on: January 19, 2006, 08:26:13 AM

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.

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Reply #71 on: January 19, 2006, 08:55:32 AM



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

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Reply #72 on: January 19, 2006, 09:09:35 AM

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  undecided)

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).

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Reply #73 on: January 19, 2006, 11:34:06 AM

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.  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.

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Reply #74 on: January 19, 2006, 11:40:12 AM

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):



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

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Reply #75 on: January 19, 2006, 12:07:32 PM

Okay... everyone all together:


AWWWWW....   

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Reply #76 on: January 19, 2006, 12:18:32 PM

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.

Heart PuTTY.

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

I also use XWin32 on occaision.

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Reply #77 on: January 19, 2006, 12:49:17 PM

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

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Reply #78 on: January 19, 2006, 01:43:10 PM

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.

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Reply #79 on: January 19, 2006, 03:45:20 PM

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

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Reply #80 on: January 20, 2006, 06:20:45 AM

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).

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.

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Reply #81 on: January 20, 2006, 06:23:37 AM

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).

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 :)

As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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Reply #82 on: January 20, 2006, 06:27:11 AM

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.

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Reply #83 on: January 20, 2006, 07:55:43 AM

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.

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Reply #84 on: January 20, 2006, 09:22:39 AM

Speaking of Mass Effect, has there been any talk of a PC port?

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.

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Reply #85 on: January 20, 2006, 09:26:08 AM

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.
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Reply #86 on: January 20, 2006, 10:27:16 AM

Microsoft does need a good Nippon Ichi on their side though.

Fuck yeah.

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Reply #87 on: January 20, 2006, 12:19:14 PM

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

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Reply #88 on: January 20, 2006, 12:27:53 PM

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

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Reply #89 on: January 20, 2006, 12:47:50 PM

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.

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

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Reply #90 on: January 20, 2006, 03:33:04 PM



Work PC.

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

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Reply #91 on: January 20, 2006, 03:40:51 PM

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

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Reply #92 on: January 20, 2006, 04:13:48 PM

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Lotus Notes

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.
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Reply #93 on: January 20, 2006, 05:12:49 PM

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 at the bottom for program shortcuts.

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