Good Evening Chaps! Here we shall post picrures of our desktops. This includes start menu, time in the bottom right hand corner and desktop icons. We shall also discuss our desktop pictures, and where we got the wallpaper and so on...

So let us start with my desktop picture ....



Now this desktop is from my Laptop. Its a nice compaq. The wallpaper is so pro, but I change it every now and again. Now on this computer I used to have Windows Vista, but it ran way to slow for my likeing, so I re-installed windows xp and copied over some of the Vista Icons to remind me of the old days (my computer Icon is vista)

The weird stuff folder on my desktop is where I put all this random crap that people give me, or that dosen'y fit anywhere else ( I dont use My documents )

I have deticated the top of the screen to Half-life and Half-life editing and the bottom to Halo and Halo editing. And you can see at the top, "reddawn screenshots" folder, full of pictures that may or may not be on a forum soon. The game-makeing folder is full of stuff for game-makeing. Its about 1gb big, and jam packed with programs, most of them stupid. The weirdst program in there is a pogram to add bots to half-life 1 multiplayer games. Thats a fun one. :razz:

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Aaron's Stuff

sry about the file size, Can't seem to trim it down.

To make it a thumbnail it has to look something like this; [*URL=http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitlesdsdsdsddpb8.jpg][/URL*] with out these * things.

Nice desktop, I see you have battlefeild 2142. I always wonderd it that is a good game. You also have firefox, evil!!!.

Where did you get that wall paper from anyway?

edit: so id decided to show the picture again ehh, I'l show you....

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Aaron's Stuff

I trimmed mine down so no-one could see all the trial software I'm using. :razz:

The plants are my autocad pride and joy atm. :smile:

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i eat paint

aww, I wanna see the trial software. But I see you have google earth. 2 questions. Did you download it, and how big is it? Did you make those plants?

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Aaron's Stuff

Hubble photo of the Helix nebula, the remnant of a supernova that chinese astronomers recorded as a "guest star" (the white dot in the center is the offending star).

Quicklaunch > Desktop

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Cool. I love pictures of space and planets and stuff. Its a really big world out there.

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Aaron's Stuff

ya totoalyz

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Here's mine, the background is Raphael's School of Athens


I have a classic painting as my background. Can't you see how much better than you I am?

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

Lol, Windows 2000/98. Lol fire fox. Lol wallpaper. :biggrin:

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Aaron's Stuff

I used to be quite an icon whore -- then I put them in those folders you see in the image, and I was suddenly able to see my desktop.

Ps. Desktop colors are pitch black with phosphorus green text :razz: It's very easy on the eyes, particularly when you have to work on a long paper.

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

Hay G.Ballblue. Whats with the wallpaper. Whers that from. And why does everyone have firefox

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Aaron's Stuff

56k warning ahoy!: http://img520.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopgt5.jpg

my desktop image is a nice high quality photo I found, unfortunately it makes the size very big

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Signature? What signature!?

Nice. Yet another person with firefox. Man its so evil....

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Nice desktop, I see you have battlefeild 2142. I always wonderd it that is a good game. You also have firefox, evil!!!.
Where did you get that wall paper from anyway?

1. Firefox is god
2. BF2142 is a decent game, not worth $50 bucks though. If its on sale get it.
3. My back round is a fractal. Did some Google image searches for fractals one day until I found a cool looking one.

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Aaron's Stuff

I change it every once and a while. Right now i have this. The only thing that never changes is the back round collar.

For your information, Aaron, I'm running windows 2000. I see nothing wrong with that. For the avoidable security risks I've not been immunized from by upgrading, I'm without the security risks from XP. (Not to mention a few dozen megs of memory and a few million neurons saved by not having some of the new "helper" programs.)

rs6, I'm going to go look up fractals on Google Image Search. I can't believe I forgot about those.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

? quote:Nice. Yet another person with firefox. Man its so evil....
You have to be a moron to think firefox is stupid. wait wait. Maybe I shoudl ask first..what browser are you using now? If your using opera, then good choice, its almost as good. If you say IE, then your a whore, switch to Firefox and watch all your spam go away. Honestly if your even remotely computer savvy you'd know firefox is a much better choice in terms of web browsers.

Anyways heres mine, not much in terms of background, but the fancier the back ground the longer it takes to load the desktop when your tabbing from Source engine to hammer. =P

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Posting And You

XP is 2000. The security holes existent in the 2K kernel are present in the XP kernel. Not defending it or anything, just pointing that out.

He uses IE. We've had this discussion before.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

I've used windows 3, 95, 98 (and its two other versions), 2k, and XP

If I had to oder them in order of how much I liked them:
XP > 2000 > 95 > 3 > 98 > 98 SE > ME

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Signature? What signature!?

Hay omega, I got I.E 7 and I swear, I havent got any spam or pop-ups. Its awsome.

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Aaron's Stuff

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you catch me with a corny desktop; me and my gf playing Munchkin in the french alps :wink:

anyway, it's good that these topics always make me clean up my desktop :smile:



ps: no its not win 98, it's XP with the classic theme
pps: the incredibles is not for me its for my gf

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

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Omg Andrei, you got vtfedit to. How mad is that program. Now lets have another looky. Oh yeah, Vista ay. What one you got. I got Home Premium, its good but its not worth it when xp is slightly worse but heaps faster. Hmm another firefox person. World Domination is it ay.

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We have?

edit: Ahh Blister, I see you have uploadrd one aswell. Lets have a look. Cool, thats whay you look like. Its always werid looking at pictures of people on snarkpit. They totaly blow your expectaions of the person eg: Orph :razz: .

I see you have Internet Explorer. Bloody Legend. Cool.

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Aaron's Stuff

maybe this thread should be re-titled as 'explain your desktop to aaron' or 'what's the best web browser'.

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i eat paint

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Oh yeah, Vista ay. What one you got. I got Home Premium, its good
but its not worth it when xp is slightly worse but heaps faster.

</div></div> I got ultimate, and so far i've found it a little more stable than XP. So far...

I swear, all the Vista Versions are the same to me.

:dodgy:

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aaron_da_killa said:
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edit: Ahh Blister, I see you have uploadrd one aswell. Lets have a look. Cool, thats whay you look like. Its always werid looking at pictures of people on snarkpit. They totaly blow your expectaions of the person eg: Orph :razz: .

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just take a look at the gallery of horror

Yeah, been there. Its cool. Fishy, Fishy, lol. Ooooh the cable guy is on tv.

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Aaron's Stuff

Here be mine:

Click for full size (56k warning).

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SourDough2.0 - With Strawberry Jam

Yo RUmple, that background is ace!

The background on mine is a matte painting from Star Wars episode 3. It's by an artist named Dusso. www.dusso.com Check him out!

That wallpaper came from http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper heaps of very nice wallpapers there.

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SourDough2.0 - With Strawberry Jam

Normally it is 1680x1050, but I've scaled it down as posting it fullsize would be a bit pointless :smile:



I normally have a bit more clutter on it, but not a great deal - I like a clean desktop. The "scratchpad" text file in the bottom left I use to keep any notes I need to make, like jotting down a phone number or a random game idea or something. Other than that I use shortcuts to all my drives rather than bother going through My Computer, and I don't use My Documents at all so no point in having that on there.

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That wallpaper came from http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper heaps of very nice wallpapers there.

Wow, there's some sick stuff on that site. Nice link man!

Here be mine:

Click for full size (56k warning).

Can't...help it...must...resist...urge!

/foams

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Kinda looks like pubes though.

Andrei, you've just made me scared of Romanian women....

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i eat paint

Looking surprisingly tidy...

Ahh the power of sleep, I wake up and theres more stuff to reply to:

Gwils Desktop= Interresting wallpaper. I see you have winamp. What do you have against Windows media player?

Rumple's Desktop= What is that wallpaper anyway. Blacl hairy thing in orange nothingness. You have also 'upped' your start menu bar thing. Thats a good idea. I might do that.

ReNo's Desktop= Very Spic and Span. Whats with the wallpaper. Did you make it, or is it from a game or something.

French Toast's Desktop= Cool wallpaper. Rumple should be pleased (lol). Its hard to belive that that is a painting. Whats with the sidebar? Wheres that from. And was it your birthday recently.

Now out of all of us, Who do you reackon has the best deaktop. You can choose on wallpaper, tidyness whatever.

You can even choose me :dodgy:

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Aaron's Stuff

It's a screenshot from a map that I made to mess around with lightmaps. I was trying to duplicate a scene from a map this other guy made. And yes, I'm an IE user. I've never had any problems with it, and I seem to get along without any of the features from firefox, so I have no reason to switch, unless one of you good gents here could convince me...

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Blog: www.playingarchitecture.net
LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202

Nice Desktop Riven mate. I see you got some good games there. If only I started reddawn now, I could use the source engine. Ohh the pain.

Does it take longer to compile hl2 maps?

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Aaron's Stuff

Yes, for the most part, I believe it does... a lot longer

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Blog: www.playingarchitecture.net
LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202

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No offense aaron, what are the perks of WMP, apart from drms and ram consumption. Rolls eyes It's no better than itunes. Personally I use VLC, super quick, not much ram consumption, simple interface. I'm an efficiency freak though, so you can ignore me now..

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Theres nothing to 'extra' about windows media player, although its nice how you can copy audio cd's to your computer with it and stream live radio. Its more of the fact that there is nothing wrong with it. No bugs, no glitches. It does its job. Playing music.

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Aaron's Stuff

About the bar on the right side of my desktop. It's a handy app from Google called 'Google Desktop'. It installs that little bar on the right, and there are hundreds of little modules that you can just add to it. I have a clock, a scratch pad, GMail, a google search, and a wikipedia search. Great tool.

And thanks to that link I got, my new wallpaper is this one.

Theres nothing to 'extra' about windows media player, although its nice how you can copy audio cd's to your computer with it and stream live radio. Its more of the fact that there is nothing wrong with it. No bugs, no glitches. It does its job. Playing music.

WMP absolutely blows....No bugs my ass.

winamp for music, VLC for videos is the way to go.

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WMP absolutely blows....No bugs my ass.

If you got wmp 10 or above then there should be no bugs. I haven' encounted any.

And frenchtoast, I like that picture with all the balls, you know.

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Riven, I love what you did to the shadows in that map :biggrin: I take it you had the lightmap grid scaled down to something such as 2? 'Tis a pity that large scale maps can't take advantage of shadows like that, for framerate reasons :/

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

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Oh I know, that map alone which is just comprised of that scene took like 6 minutes to compile, no HDR. Normally it would compile in less than 30 seconds, but yea, the grid was at 2 for most of it. Just wanted to see what Source could do...

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Blog: www.playingarchitecture.net
LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202

aaron_da_killa said:
Now out of all of us, Who do you reackon has the best deaktop. You can choose on wallpaper, tidyness whatever.

i vote for Gwil's