Post your desktop!

[Stephonovich]

Nice... fractals. Guaranteed to blow your mind the longer you look at them

Thought I'd update, since I changed. For one, the version of Litestep I was using was having troubles with some themes. So I changed that, then decided I wanted a more minimalist desktop. I eventually settled on this.

Status bar at the top can also control Winamp (sadly, not Foobar... unless there's some tweakable files I don't know about) and shows date/time. Almost unnoticeable blue obtrusions in the lower corners are, l-r, main launcher (programs, control panel... basically like start menu, and the same thing can be had by right-clicking anywhere on the desktop) and active tasks. Very unobtrusive, maximum screen space.

 

[enzoferrari650]

thought i'd contribute too. Heres my most recent one.

originally 1280x1024

 

[dabblerblue]

 

[dj_mocok]

This is mine recently...

Its my A900 pic.

 

[Hyena]

Heeey, I have a desktop!

Nothing special.

 

[MrMajestic]

 

[Construct]

That's my 15.4" laptop, resized from 1920x1200 to 960x600.

The picture is of me and my YFZ450.

 

[Stephonovich]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Construct That's my 15.4" laptop, resized from 1920x1200 to 960x600. The picture is of me and my YFZ450.

Good heavens man; how much RAM do you have?! I count WinAmp, 7 Firefox Windows (Firefox has tabs, y'know...) 6 unknown, 4 Folders, 2 M$ IDE of some type, 4 command prompts, Task Manager, Gordian Knot, 4 Trillian windows, Telnet or SSH, 3 VirtualDubs (last I checked, Gordian Knot only opened one instance of VD...), OpenOffice, and finally, The GIMP. Oh yes, and in the systray, I see Norton AV. Encoding video is going to eat up all your CPU power, for one, and probably at least 50-100MB of RAM. OO takes up another 75 or so. GIMP, another 25-50. Norton, 25MB. I can't begin to imagine how much RAM that many instances of Firefox takes up. Just this one I've got open is sucking down 85MB of RAM, and that's only with three tabs open.

Anyway, nice desktop. That high of resolution is definitely nice.

 

[Construct]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stephonovich Good heavens man; how much RAM do you have?! I count WinAmp, 7 Firefox Windows (Firefox has tabs, y'know...) 6 unknown, 4 Folders, 2 M$ IDE of some type, 4 command prompts, Task Manager, Gordian Knot, 4 Trillian windows, Telnet or SSH, 3 VirtualDubs (last I checked, Gordian Knot only opened one instance of VD...), OpenOffice, and finally, The GIMP. Oh yes, and in the systray, I see Norton AV. Encoding video is going to eat up all your CPU power, for one, and probably at least 50-100MB of RAM. OO takes up another 75 or so. GIMP, another 25-50. Norton, 25MB. I can't begin to imagine how much RAM that many instances of Firefox takes up. Just this one I've got open is sucking down 85MB of RAM, and that's only with three tabs open. Anyway, nice desktop. That high of resolution is definitely nice.

I've got 1GB of RAM for now, but I'm planning on upgrading. At the time that screenshot was taken I was probably using around 950MB. VirtualDub (Main window, status window, and XviD status window, hence the 3 windows) gets set to idle priority while I work. Believe it or not, I do use tabbed browsing within Firefox. That screenshot is definitely at the extreme end of my laptop use. I tend leave things open while I'm working on them so it's easy to switch to them. Windows does a pretty good job of paging things in and out as necessary.

At home I've got dual Xeons (4 virtual processors with Hyperthreading taken into account) and a 15,000RPM SCSI drive. That's where I learned the art of extreme multi-tasking.

 

[null]

Wow! All of you guys have pretty fancy desktops.

...Mine is simple; just a pic I took of my kitty.

 

[D-EJ915]

Here's mine...did I post it before? Whatever...

 

[MrSlacker]

well here is mine

please dont ask about any icons *cough* HL2 *cough*

 

[null]

D-EJ915, you use America Online!? For shame! For shame!

 

[Stephonovich]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Construct I've got 1GB of RAM for now, but I'm planning on upgrading. At the time that screenshot was taken I was probably using around 950MB. VirtualDub (Main window, status window, and XviD status window, hence the 3 windows) gets set to idle priority while I work. Believe it or not, I do use tabbed browsing within Firefox. That screenshot is definitely at the extreme end of my laptop use. I tend leave things open while I'm working on them so it's easy to switch to them. Windows does a pretty good job of paging things in and out as necessary. At home I've got dual Xeons (4 virtual processors with Hyperthreading taken into account) and a 15,000RPM SCSI drive. That's where I learned the art of extreme multi-tasking.

I usually have Firefox, Foobar, and Miranda IM open. Sometimes BitTornado, as well. If I'm doing coding, Programmer's Notepad, and if it's web development, usually Photoshop as well. I usually hover around 350-400MB RAM used (512MB total), and have yet to use it all up. Games are another thing... UT2004 can run on 512MB, but 1GB would do it a world of good.

Dual Xeons, eh? The question begs to be asked... why aren't you on Team Head-Fi Folding@Home?! Those suckers have some serious power. I got to build a high end server with dual 2.8 Xeons, 1GB ECC (later upgraded to 2GB) RAM, and a RAID of 5 15K SCSI drives. That sucker HAULED. Last I heard, it was being used as an internal at UNL. Seems kind of overkill for somethign like that, but whatever. The guy in charge of the build process requisitioned it for about a month for 'testing purposes'. Yeah, right. He ran @Home clients on it

Although his officemates complained about the noise level (servers are rather noisy... and powerful. It managed to blow papers off a table that was a good 10 feet away), so he could only run it at night.

 

[enzoferrari650]

mr.slacker, how do u get shortcuts to logoff and shutdown?