Desktop Demographics
Ok, I've noticed certain trends in the desktops of the computers of people that I've worked with/for/etc.
I'm curious about your desktops.
You show me yours and I'll show you mine.
uh......I have a few more icons on my desktop than you
My home one is MUCH more cluttered..
[SIZE=1]Well, it was until I cleaned it up this evening.....see later in the thread *G*[/SIZE]
I cut down the desktop icons when they bust into the Firefox text. I just think that the guy who did the Firefox iconography is brilliant. It makes me want to evangelize about it to myself. And so I do.
Woo! Other firefox users! Yay!
Firefox makes me happy, as does the graphic. I mean, come on, a fast-rendering browser with tabs and no pop-ups? And it has a cool mascot? I was sold at the "fox" part. Sweet.
Work...
Full size
here, if you're interested. I run 1600x1200 at work, and I'll post my home desktop which is slightly more interesting, tonight.
oh, perth, you freak. you have your title bar on the side. I bet you're left handed, too. weirdo.
Originally posted by lumberjim
I bet you're left handed, too. weirdo.
Ambidextrous, actually. :p
I bet you're left handed, too. weirdo.
Shutup -- being lefthanded doesn't mean anything.
...but the taskbar on the side means you are at least bi-curious.
Originally posted by Kitsune
I bet you're left handed, too. weirdo.
Shutup -- being lefthanded doesn't mean anything.
...but the taskbar on the side means you are at least bi-curious.
lol...i think being ambidextrous lends to that probablitiy as well....
and now for the deciding question...perth, can you whistle?
lol...i think being ambidextrous lends to that probablitiy as well....
I'm not saying anything about a certain OS or anything, but the closer that taskbar is to the top the closer you are to, uh, "being on the bottom".
Originally posted by lumberjim
lol...i think being ambidextrous lends to that probablitiy as well....
and now for the deciding question...perth, can you whistle?
You lost me on that one, but I'm a glutton for punishment, so I'll answer anyway. No, I cannot whistle.
(Insert comment about ambidexterity indicating amazing bedroom prowess here)
ow. i was afraid you'd say that. Out of respect for you, my friend, I will hold my tongue.
actually, on second thought.....no......yes. well.......nevermind. party on perth!
Oh, come on. I can take it. Hit me.
If someone'll tell me how to take a screenshot, I'll do it...
Mine at work...
I run
Drempels which is like an acid-trip on your desktop (its an animated wallpaper). But, for some reason, Drempels will not show up on a screen shot so I disabled it to show my underlying wallpaper - the Sombrero Galaxy.
Also, I disabled icons on the desktop and use the tool tray next to the start button to keep the handy stuff.
ok, but don't say i didn't warn you. you know i love you like a brother, even though we've never met in person.
that said.....
I have heard numerous times from numerous sources ( although i spent the last 5 minutes searching google and found nothing to substantiate this) that gay people are less likely to be able to whistle. I think I heard it on Leno first. There was something about being able to roll your tongue into a tube, and flip it over, too. probalably bullshit, perth, but with the ambidextrousness, and the left side task bar.......?
*tasteless joke about a touchy subject omitted out of respect
Thanks for the help, Beestie!
I'm going to have to post mine just to break up all this...windowsness...I'm surprised we havn't got at least one OSX or Linux desktop yet.
Originally posted by jaguar
I'm going to have to post mine just to break up all this...windowsness...I'm surprised we havn't got at least one OSX or Linux desktop yet.
I'd show my SUN Ultra 10 if I could figure out how. I tried tho: I used UNIX' screenshot function, ftp'd it over to the PC side but even Irfan couldn't open it. Any ideas?
Oh, and didja hear the one about the French hos that took up skydiving? :D
Originally posted by lumberjim
I have heard numerous times from numerous sources ( although i spent the last 5 minutes searching google and found nothing to substantiate this) that gay people are less likely to be able to whistle. I think I heard it on Leno first. There was something about being able to roll your tongue into a tube, and flip it over, too. probalably bullshit, perth, but with the ambidextrousness, and the left side task bar.......?
Oh geez. I got a good chuckle out of that. I can roll my tongue into a tube, for what it's worth, but not flip it over. Rest assured however, that I really dig chicks. And not guys. Not that there's anything wrong with that. :)
* In your windows machine you will need to install IrfanView. Install both IrfanView and Plugins.
* Then login to solaris environment. At the command prompt, type snapshot
* This will start snapshot program in a new window, which will keep blinking (Really annoying. Who the hell designed it?)
* Click on the tab snap in the snapshot program window.
* Click on the window you want to capture (e.g. the Virtuoso Schematic Editor Window with your schematic inside)
* Click the button save and select the directory where you want to save the image. (Default name of the image is snapshot.rs)
* Now ftp this image-file to your windows machine.
* Rename the file with extension .ras (i.e call the file schematic.ras or something)
* Open this file in IrfanView. You should be able to view this image. (If not, then probably you forgot to install the plugin package of IrfanView)
* Save this file as a bitmap. File -> Save as ---- (select the .bmp format)
shamelessly grabbed off google somewhere.
And what would be the file extension in Windows for the stupid SimpleText picture I get with the Mac Screenshot function, Jag?
.pict
most editors should open them, almost certain photoshop does.
Don't have photoshop... but Internet Explorer could open it, and then I just took another screenshot of my Windows machine and cropped it. :)
I have to ask, what godawful legacy app keeps you running OS9?
I notice a lot of pictures that look busy.. The icons are hard to see against the background.
Here's mine. Forgive the numerous icons. THey were put there by my work.
Picture is one I took years ago of the hull of a rusty old shipwreck in Maine.
Originally posted by jinx
Busted. This does not match the one you posted in the "show us your desk" thread. :3eye:
D'oh!
Jim made and put that other one on there. It wasn't "me".
Originally posted by glatt
I notice a lot of pictures that look busy.. The icons are hard to see against the background.
Yeah, I like a background with a large area of little variation, for example the sky in my shot. I normally line my icons up against the sky, but was doing some desktop cleanup and didn't bother disabling auto-arrange when I was done. The only reason desktop icons are even enabled on my system is because I cannot retrain myself regarding the location of "My Computer". The desktop generally gets treated as a dumping ground for files I'm going to use temporarily and then get rid of.
Jag, the big two are Peak and BarbaBatch. I regularly deal with 50,000+ files at a time, and BarbaBatch is the only reasonable batch processor capable of handling them. And Peak made a new version for OSX, but it's painfully buggy and actually REMOVED several of my favorite features as compared to the previous version.
I have an OSX partition too, you can see the conveniently placed "Startup Disk" icon on the top left so I can switch back and forth whenever I want.
Some I'm guessing you do pro audio work, mind if I ask what?
Videogame sound. The games that require the massive numbers of files are the sports games, because they have these complex commentary logic trees so the right announcer call can be made depending on what's happening on the field.
So, TS, what's your theory about desktops and do Cellarites uphold or debunk it?
Busy, yet easy to read...this is my work desktop.
interesting that there are at least 2 iotd's shown. beeestie, was yours one too?
Uh...whoops? Sorry about the size, folks. Small file size does not equate to small scale on the screen. Should have redimensioned it before uploading.
Mine changes every couple of weeks, and there are a liberal number of IOTDs thrown in the mix.
Originally posted by lumberjim
interesting that there are at least 2 iotd's shown. beeestie, was yours one too?
Possibly. I have a whole bunch of pics that I rotate as wallpaper so if I see something interesting, I just toss it in the folder. I think that particular pic came from the Hubble site. My favorite site to grab wallpaper from is
3Dtotal. Next in the que is "diner" from Jason Lee
MacDesktops Has a huge collection of very cool desktops, updated weekly, they have all sorts of cool stuff and generally excellent taste
*ahem* .
I actually forgot I submitted that about 7 months ago now, then out of the blue I got an email from them, kind of embarassed of it now but cool at the same time.
Where's that solaris shot beestie?
I just want to say that jinx's desktop is a total UI abomination and needs to be shot.
Also, side-docked toolbars are the devil.
That is all
Side-docked toolbars own.
Actually, I think I would ideally like to have my Start button at the top-left, but have my applications remain along the bottom. I think it's just a matter of how I think and work. The start button works better for me at the top-left. One could also make the argument that there is more real estate horizontally than vertically, thus a side-docked toolbar on either side is less intrusive. But when you're running at anything above 1024x768 it's kind of a moot point.
Originally posted by Undertoad
I just want to say that jinx's desktop is a total UI abomination and needs to be shot.
Also, side-docked toolbars are the devil.
That is all
yeah. i like the unaltered shot better shelb. that's a picture i took from underneath one of our cherry trees, tiled in psp 8.0 with the seamless tile feature.
Originally posted by lumberjim
yeah. i like the unaltered shot better shelb. that's a picture i took from underneath one of our cherry trees, tiled in psp 8.0 with the seamless tile feature.
Yeah, well, clear a path to your own damn computer and have at it.
Mine...
The abreviations of the different files are those of some of my classes :
DR911 = International Humanitarian Law
DP911 = Missions of Armed Forces
LM911 = Operations Research
LM982 = Modern Tendancies in Management
LM983 = Simulation of modern entreprises
TFE = My paper I have to give in to get my diploma
My desktop at work: Picture entitled, "Today, I am learning to fly"
:)
(I hope this works - just attach it, right?)
Heh. Explodingdog is cool. He doesn't update much anymore, though.
Explodingdog rocks.
I found it just about the date that he'd stopped updating regularly. I'll soon give up, (there's only been one update in the past six months?) - and no doubt he'll start up again. Be sure to let me know!!
Originally posted by Elspode
Busy, yet easy to read...this is my work desktop.
HOLY CRAP SPODE! That is my desktop! Few more desktop icons, but otherwise exactly the same....I love the billions of little "worlds".
Sorry, didn't mean to sound so nerdy....just feaked me out a little ;-)
Home:
I actually prefer fewer damn icons on the desktop ... I mean there's a perfectly good start menu, dammit ... but they install there automatically and I never get around to doing anything about it. I have deleted icons for programs I uninstalled. I think.
[size=1]edited to fix IMG target so it actually displayed[/size]Home:
Full-size
here if you're interested.
I'm running 1280x1024 right now because for some bizarre reason (read: drivers are wrong and I'm apparently too damned lazy to correct) 1600x1200 doesn't work.
Twisp and
Catsby courtesy of
Gabe and Tycho.
That's my husband's desktop too. :)
That's because Twisp and Catsby kick all kinds of ass. :)
Indeed they do.
By the way, what the fuck is your signature file supposed to mean?
It's the Bible! Translated!
No, actually, it's spam. I thought it was kind of cute in it's composition. But I'm bored with it now, so I'm gonna shorten it up some or remove it entirely right after posting this.
Hehehe, Bruce, even your desk top is Dodaddy!
Here's my home version
Work system. This is the summit of Mauna Loa. I didn't take them. Not yet...
[ edit ] Attachment no worky. :(
Hehehe, Bruce, even your desk top is Dodaddy!
Yeah, I send out a daily email with some words of wisdom, sometimes some jokes and always 12 to 14 pictures, so my desktop is mostly jpgs and gifs qued up for that. Nice eagle. :)
Ah! Sperlock no longer needs the wierding module...
Good to finally have my laptop back.
Here's my current desktop. The shell window is courtesy of rxvt for windows - part of Cygwin. The wallpaper I created with my shareware program Backdrop.
Did you hide the nipple on purpose? So that nobody can raise charges against you and UT?
And btw, Troubleshooter, what can you tell us about our desktops? Give us some stats an weird psychological explanations
Originally posted by Pi
Did you hide the nipple on purpose? So that nobody can raise charges against you and UT?
Nipple doesn't show in that picture due to the density of the mesh.
The woman is Fiona Johnson. Most famous for being the "Women in Red" in the Matrix.
I just find it amusing you have a seperate pic of a woman as your shell background.
Not entirely sure, attention to detail? Overkill? Stange juxtoposition of bash and beautiful women? I can't entirely put my finger on it but something about it amuses me.
*cough*TS*cough*
**whistling, tapping toe, strumming fingers waiting to be psychobabblized over my desktop**
More importantly, waiting to see all the psychobabble dirt on all my Cell(ar) mates. :)
Originally posted by dar512 Why amusing?
Just a wild guess but it could be the way they are staring at us like those women in the 1-900- commercials that start coming on every twelve seconds at 3:00 am on Saturday morning. :cool:
You're right! It's the dodgy camerawork/porn expression staring back at you while you write shell scripts.
Originally posted by jaguar
Not entirely sure, attention to detail? Overkill? Stange juxtoposition of bash and beautiful women? I can't entirely put my finger on it but something about it amuses me.
To each their own, I guess. I can't understand how people can live with the default Windows setup - background, sounds etc.
If I'm going to staring at the screen for 8 hours a day, I want it to look nice.
I can't understand how people can live with the default Windows setup - background, sounds etc.
If I'm going to staring at the screen for 8 hours a day, I want it to look nice.
Ditto, that's why I run OSX and a photo I took ;)
Here's the one I use at work. The background rotates every 15 minutes. Mostly landscapes I took, and a pile of astronomy pics.
Home is a mac... I'll get that one later today.
- Pie
<edit> PS: Oh yeah, the Fox rocks! :) </edit>
UT - where did you get a firefox logo with enough resolution to expand to a desktop? It looks very hip.
-sm
Originally posted by dar512
To each their own, I guess. I can't understand how people can live with the default Windows setup - background, sounds etc.
If I'm going to staring at the screen for 8 hours a day, I want it to look nice.
Actually when I'm working, I'm not looking at my desktop, but I AM working. ;)
work. My desktop here is a sloppy repository of current 'stuff' that I access using ^D. After I took the screenshot, I deleted everything that was selected.
Okay. Here's mine. Well, the Windows XP side anyway. I haven't figured out how to do a screenshot in Linux yet. And resizing is a pain with the crappy drawing program I have. I need Photoshop.
There are some damn cool desktops around here.
Brian: I used The GIMP. In the file(?) menu, select Acquire -> Screenshot. By the way, that is the background that I use on my Windows installation at home.
Originally posted by Torrere
There are some damn cool desktops around here.
Brian: I used The GIMP. In the file(?) menu, select Acquire -> Screenshot. By the way, that is the background that I use on my Windows installation at home.
How do you define the desktop then? Do I highlight it? Or does the function just go ahead and read my mind (Linux has ceased to surprise me with neato hidden tech).
GIMP is a program I have yet to use, I'll play with it and then try to do a snapshot. Then I will try to figure out the screensaver. It's set to ON but the screen only goes dark. Must be a power saver feature I have enabled somewhere. Or something. Or Linux refuses to display silly screensavers. ;)
Brian
Yeah...I like to stare at it sometimes and imagine that a little green guy out there somewhere is looking a picture with my galaxy in it, wondering if *I* exist.
Originally posted by blue
HOLY CRAP SPODE! That is my desktop! Few more desktop icons, but otherwise exactly the same....I love the billions of little "worlds".
Sorry, didn't mean to sound so nerdy....just feaked me out a little ;-)
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Heh
Bruce, they have these really cool things called "folders" in Windows...
Originally posted by Troubleshooter
Ok, I've noticed certain trends in the desktops of the computers of people that I've worked with/for/etc.
So what are these trends you're looking for?
Originally posted by Elspode
Bruce, they have these really cool things called "folders" in Windows...
Yeah, I got lots of those, but the picture stash is something I'm working with all the time. As you can imagine, going through 12 to 15 a day (everyday), it's a constant process.
I never just sit and look at the desktop, so I don't need a pretty picture, I need it functional.
That's why they put beverages in see through bottles, so you can tell at a glance, where you stand.:)
I use Jaguar's wallpaper rotation set to 15 minutes. I have a fairly large collection of wallpapers, with astronomy pictures and abstracts taking up the majority of what I have. This one is from a cd collection called Digital Juice, which has really nice work.
They're still coming in, let it ferment.
I use Jaguar's wallpaper rotation set to 15 minutes.
I don't use rotation and somehow I doubt you have that background (I made it) so what did you mean?
oh and try camino rather than moz, native interface is nice.
Ah! so jaguar, you must be an Artificial Intelligence derived from the latest Apple operating system software. I always thought you were a hyperintelligent South American feline that learned to type in English, or maybe a British car that has been specially modified by Knight Industries for the sad task of transporting around a German singer and/or lifeguard.
hilarious! go fuck youself.
Here's mine. The dog's name is Galena. I have a problem with letting icons overlap photos, so I almost never use a full screen photo.
Okay, I change my desktop on Friday. Here is the latest. Might not be safe for work.
*laughs
Took me 10 seconds to work out what you meant.
Originally posted by elf
Explodingdog rocks.
I found it just about the date that he'd stopped updating regularly. I'll soon give up, (there's only been one update in the past six months?) - and no doubt he'll start up again. Be sure to let me know!!
He's updated a couple of times recently. Hard to say if he'll keep it up, though.
The critter on my desktop is one I drew and colored in Photoshop myself. His offical finished piece is <a href="http://www.splurd.com/jenn/wolfview.php?img=mousering">here</a>, along with some of my other artwork under Jenn's Art.
maya and milkshape, what are you making?
updated mine with another piece I did a few days ago and shiny new icons. It's made from a pic of bjork.
Hey that's great Jag. Is there a way you send me that pic?
OK, TS. It's been 10 days so what the hell is this all about?:confused:
Sure Pi, was rez are you running?
I haven't done anything specific with Maya and Milkshape as of yet. A chunk of my classes in college dealt with 3-D modeling and animation and I've been trying to come up with a doable project.
Check out
Alice. I used it quite a bit for a class in college. It's a 3d interactive animation tool based on Python (Guido, not Monty). It's designed for beginners, but is powerful.
Originally posted by jaguar
Sure Pi, was rez are you running?
1024x768
thx
Oh man Cyber i love that crab vs. pipe vid! saw it on yur desktop and couldnt help myself! Its like a cartoon!
Not sure how i forgot to post this..
here
Moving servers at the moment so dns might crap itself out.
Ok, anybody expecting some sort of psychobabble from what I was looking at is going to be disappointed. This was just a demographic survey, not a Fraudian analysis.
From what I've seen of the desktops it seems that the trend I noticed in the homes and PC's of normal people the men seem to have less crap running in the systray and fewer icons on the desktop. The icons that ARE on the desktop are generally shortcuts to programs. The women usually have shit strewn everywhere on their desktop and around 6 to 8 things running in the systray.
Now looking at the desktops here I would say that most of the guys here have some very feminine computer operating habits or they are not normal.
Part of the problem with assessing this is that xp hides your systray now and the mac and linux crowd don't get counted properly because I can only go by their desktop as I don't have enough experience with their interfaces to judge their running programs.
So taken as a whole the women seem to be pretty much on track and most of the guys are gay.
As someone above, The icons in middle I work on, then delete or move. BB
Heh...you have a vagina on your desktop. :)
