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Postby Mich » Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:28 am

lol, I didn't think that Star Wars and QC would ever look that good together, but you have just proved me wrong.
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Postby eriador » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:00 pm

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Postby puppets » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:14 am

I've had this desktop now for a while, but it reminded me of Ender's Shadow.


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Postby Mich » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:57 pm

Well, if Bean carries a teddy bear and has an enormous beret, sure. :D

It's a very well-rendered scene, though. Do you know who made it?
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Postby puppets » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:56 pm

No clue, I wish I did though

And actually when I saw it, I thought of a young Sargeant.

Like before Poke found him.
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Postby Wil » Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:46 am

Three pages I had to go back to get this! Anyways, this is my desktop to celebrate Valentines day.

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Postby Dr. Mobius » Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:44 am

Yeah, I never change mine anymore so it never gets bumped.
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Postby eriador » Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:51 am

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I got rid of the Star Wars, but the QC is tenacious.

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Postby jotabe » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:16 am

Someone needs to get rid of their macs and get pcs :D

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Postby Mich » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:00 pm

Just a point of pride that eri reminded me of:

I recently was able to abolish the cacophony of icons on my desktop. It is not perfectly clean.

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Ah, so neat and clean. Especially with the hidden Start Menu (at the very bottom).

Of course, I would die if I didn't have shortcuts:

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RocketDock makes me happy that you don't have to go Mac to be obsessively neat! Not that I don't want a Mac, for graphic-design purposes.
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Postby eriador » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:35 pm

Eh... Wil has the idea for clean and customizable. Better on that front than OS X. My gripe with Macs is that it's kinda hard to customize... but then again, it doesn't need as much tweaking. Oh well.

P.S. Wil, what distro is that?

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Postby jotabe » Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:00 am

Any distro that tries to resemble MacOS is a shame for the pc-users. Heresy i say!


Oh Fathers Stallman and Gates who art in our PCs,
hallowed be thy code.
Thy new distros and SPs come,
they will be done in our homes as it is in the demo.
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and forgive us our pirated software as we forgive those who leecheth our wifi.
And lead us not into Apple, but deliver us from Mac.
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Postby Wind Swept » Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:52 pm

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Woo! New computer.
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Postby eriador » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:09 pm

Oh Fathers Stallman and Gates who art in our PCs,
hallowed be thy code.
Thy new distros and SPs come,
they will be done in our homes as it is in the demo.
Give us this day our daily bandwidth,
and forgive us our pirated software as we forgive those who leecheth our wifi.
And lead us not into Apple, but deliver us from Mac.
Amen
Makes as much sense as any other religion ;)

But seriously, what's so wrong with OS X? It's based on GNU! Stallman should have no problem with it. It's practically KDE's older, hipster brother.

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Postby zeroguy » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:33 am

But seriously, what's so wrong with OS X? It's based on GNU!
Based on GNU? That's news to me. Not that I'd consider that a good thing, anyway.
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:51 am

I think you mean BSD.
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Postby jotabe » Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:12 am

There art two worlds, and both art good.
There is the world of the open code, and the free programmer dwelleth there. It is the world of the creativity, the challenge and the Linux..eth.
There is the world of the closed code, and the hired programmer dwelleth there. It is the world of the deadlines, where the money is made and payeth and earnedeth and much joy is had by everyone; it is the world of Windoweth.

Then there is the underworld, and it is bad...eth. The programmer doesn't dwelleth there, but the engineneer, the architecth and the artisteth, which are root of all evil*. T'is the dominion of Mac.


*Actually the root of all evil are lawyers, politicians and journalists, but everybody knows they don't have** computers, meh.

**Even if they had computers, they wouldn't know how to use them, lulz
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Postby eriador » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:53 pm

I think you mean BSD.
Right you are sir... I thought that there was some sort of GNU blood in the unix underpinnings of OS X, but I was wrong.

jota, I agree, closed source is not so great... however my needs are better served by a semi-closed-source system (the kernel, Darwin, is based on BSD and the source is distributed under BSD licenses) running open source (for the most part) software.

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Postby zeroguy » Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:37 am

There art two worlds, and both art good.
There is the world of the open code, and the free programmer dwelleth there. It is the world of the creativity, the challenge and the Linux..eth.
There is the world of the closed code, and the hired programmer dwelleth there. It is the world of the deadlines, where the money is made and payeth and earnedeth and much joy is had by everyone; it is the world of Windoweth.
There is the world of the truly free code, from which all programmers can partake, regardless of the dividing lines of ideology. A world of common sense, without zealotry, without RMS and the GPL; of the BSDs. The world of non-copyleft free licenses. Oh, and "eth" and all that.

Seriously, I'm amazed by how many people actually believe in the laughable concept of releasing GPL'd code in the name of freedom or technological advancement. It's not a bad license, but by no means is it freer than most.

And hey, open source projects make money, too. Normally I say "look at redhat" and people laugh, but now you can say "look at novell, ibm, sun". The model is being proven.
jota, I agree, closed source is not so great...
Erm, where did he say that?

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(the kernel, Darwin, is based on BSD and the source is distributed under BSD licenses)
The source is distributed under the APSL, which is notably different than any BSD license (e.g. it's not compatible with the GPL).
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Postby Wil » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:47 pm

Newest desktop... I've made the jump to DUAL SCREENS :D

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I'm still tweaking it quite a bit. Right now I have it set to use both monitors as ONE GIANT 2560x1024 widescreen desktop, but we'll see what happens. It took me a long time to find a picture that I really, really liked that spread across both monitors.

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Postby Janus%TheDoorman » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:50 pm

And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good.

Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.
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Postby Mich » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:56 pm

Mammon awoke, and lol! it was naught but a follower.
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Postby zeroguy » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:47 am

Is it bad that I know the name "Mammom" from Chrono Trigger, but don't know what it really is?
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Postby Darth Petra » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:41 am

Mine is plain black. It used to be a silloutte of Mother with a knife from the stabbing scene in Pyscho, though.
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Postby Janus%TheDoorman » Tue May 20, 2008 11:29 pm

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Did a LOT of tweaking over the past couple days. Still haven't gotten conky, the sidebar on the right to display the weather properly, but I'm working on it.
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Postby zeroguy » Tue May 20, 2008 11:48 pm

That open terminal certainly looks productive. ;)
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Postby Janus%TheDoorman » Tue May 20, 2008 11:53 pm

I just got the embed up and running properly, but it's not as awesome when it's only a few lines long. Fortune was the fastest way to fill it up, and the most entertaining to see.
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