Post your desktop

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 3:49 am

This is mine
I always use the top right corner for games, and the downright for internet use.

I once made a screenshot of the desktop of a friend of mine, and then made it his background.
Then i moved all of his icons to his my documents directory.
You can guess what happend

[EDIT] Mmm, can't seem to attach the file, it's to big.
Anyone has any ideas how to make the file smaller?
I tried making it smaller, but it still comes out 146k large

[EDIT2] Removed the background.... will post them all together as soon as I figure out how I can make it smaller

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 5:44 am

This topic is so utterly uninteresting so it's fun, good idea Bloodmist!

Here is my plain and minimalistic desktop at work, the picture is shot by me, it's the vulcano Gorely's(sp?) fabolous exposion caldera at the Kamchatka penisula.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 5:50 am

LOL...CE (if you are on a Win98 clone), just save it as a JPEG with Save As in paint (open the drop down to select file type)...then click 'options' at the bottom right...you should get a bar to chose how high-res it is

Below :

My fascinating desktop, a testament to my former emphatuation with virtual snooker simulations and mario roms

Possibly the onle thing of any interest is my IIRC 400+ page text document of David Bowie lyrics...

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 5:53 am

@Frogus: Thanks, as you can see I deleted the old post. I just rescaled the image to 65% instead. I'm om 2k at work, btw.

Your desktop

How do you survive all those icons, it's a virtual test of visual screening ability

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:02 am

Mine... is extremely interesting...

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:03 am

I have a natural instinct to collect things, and then leave them where they are. On my other PC I have literally run out of space on the screen, so as I have to delete soemthing every time I want anything new...the problem is I can never remember if what I am deleting is of massive internal importance to the workings of my machine

So it is pot luck...apart from with the snooker games

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:08 am

When I saw Dottie's desktop, I was struck by how much our desktops actually tell about our minds and personalitites

@Frogus: That's funny, I seem to have a natural instinct to throw things away

Sometimes even when I need them, like important papers, unpaid bills or clothes I just bought. However, whereas I am a horrible slob in all respects (ask Dottie what my flat looks like) I keep obsessive-compulsive order in both my computers.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:12 am

@Caernorhabditis: What were you thinking? Black, dull or empty?

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:14 am

@Sleep, what doesn't kill my computer makes it stronger.

@CE, of course, my room is the physical incarnation of my desktop - complete, with real paint, real snooker, real David Bowie

, and real endless meaningless forgotten documents and music-players of all sorts...

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:15 am

I should probably remember to post the picture this time....maybe

Erm, this is mine, enjoy...I like to be blasphemous in work

Dottie, that is about the same as mine at home, I like unclutered desktops, minimalism rules!

Frogus, it's a bad idea to have that many desktop items, it slows your PC down because it has to load all of them icons up at startup.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:15 am

Originally posted by C Elegans
When I saw Dottie's desktop, I was struck by how much our desktops actually tell about our minds and personalitites

@Frogus: That's funny, I seem to have a natural instinct to throw things away Sometimes even when I need them, like important papers, unpaid bills or clothes I just bought. However, whereas I am a horrible slob in all respects (ask Dottie what my flat looks like) I keep obsessive-compulsive order in both my computers.

Hmmm...so CE's would be completely empty, but pretty enough to distract us

and of course I have the urge to throw away my bank statements as well

EDIT - Just saw Dottie's...ROFLMFAO....

excellent

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:18 am

@Sleep: Agreed.

Although I do use it as download area from time to time...

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:21 am

frogus, I am honoured

Dottie, well if more than 15 icons make it on to my desktop then I start to get claustrophobic

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:23 am

I feel incomplete as a man without at least 78 items on my desktop

Bloodmist · Post by **Bloodmist** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:27 am

Originally posted by frogus
My fascinating desktop, a testament to my former emphatuation with virtual snooker simulations and mario roms Possibly the onle thing of any interest is my IIRC 400+ page text document of David Bowie lyrics...

Wow! I thought my desktop was crowded

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:27 am

Good thing CE dropped round when she did, looks like we need some counciling

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:29 am

@Sleep: Yes, the same is true for me, I do find the system somewhat redundant.

@Frogus: You are not the type that increases screen resolution every time you're running out of free desktop area then?

And dont ask me about Caernorhabditis flat, I have no idea whatsoever why she still expect me to remember details...

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:38 am

Originally posted by Dottie
@Frogus: You are not the type that increases screen resolution every time you're running out of free desktop area then?

And dont ask me about Caernorhabditis flat, I have no idea whatsoever why she still expect me to remember details...

LOL...of course! I can't believe I didn't think of that...*twiddles with wires* *eyes glaze over*

Hehe..must make POST YOUR BEDROOM soon

Originally posted by Bloodmist
Wow! I thought my desktop was crowded

Bloodmist, you will faint when you see my other PC.

ED - Anyone speak swiss german by any chance?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 7:22 am

Originally posted by Dottie
@Caernorhabditis: What were you thinking? Black, dull or empty?

Monotonous, without variation, and empty

by Frogus
Hmmm...so CE's would be completely empty, but pretty enough to distract us

LMAO, Exactly!

But not completely empty...did you notice the small coloured squares? Those are my post-it notes to myself, containing a lot of information about all my projects and such...

So it looks more empty than in actually is.

by Sleep
Good thing CE dropped round when she did, looks like we need some counciling

Not for you, you just have an artistic sense

by Dottie
And dont ask me about Caernorhabditis flat, I have no idea whatsoever why she still expect me to remember details...

Well, not long ago you said: I can see the cleaning lady has been here today

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 7:34 am

@Caernorhabditis: Seeing and describing... very different things.

And that sounds like my life, not my personality.

But perhaps you claim one is the cause of the other here...