Desktop Loveliness

Post #29,574 by pwhysall 2/24/02 7:34:36 PM Reply	Desktop Loveliness I'll show you [link\|http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.whysall/current.png\|mine] if you show me yours... Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #29,579 by Andrew Grygus 2/24/02 9:09:24 PM Reply	Mine are strictly utilitarian . . . . but I'll tell you what I did to one of my employees once. I took a snapshot of her normal working desktop with PMView and set it as her wallpaper. Then I fixed OS/2 to come up with a mostly empty desktop and load the wallpaper. The few real things that did appeared were precisely fitted over their images on the wallpaper. The only problem with this trick is not getting yourself hoplessly confused while testing it. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #29,632 by ben_tilly 2/25/02 11:45:01 AM Reply	Mine are probably more utilitarian still Generally I use fvwm2, with most panels filled by 2 maximized xterms. (Maximized up and down for maximum scroll space.) Cheers, Ben
Post #29,581 by kmself 2/24/02 10:44:29 PM Reply	Sure [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/\|Turnabout's fair play]. Slightly dated, but largely thematically accurate. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #29,583 by bepatient 2/24/02 11:01:07 PM Reply	Oh...playing voyeur? Well...[link\|http://www.bepatient.net/screen.jpg\|I guess thats alright.] You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #29,587 by Andrew Grygus 2/25/02 12:01:38 AM Reply	Ok, ok, but keep in mind . . . . that only a few of the 24 [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com/junk.html\|currently open windows"] are visible. I call them up off the Ctl-Esc window list as needed. There's a desktop under there somewhere (green seaweed), but I haven't seen it for a couple of days. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #29,717 by CRConrad 2/26/02 3:04:00 AM Reply	Hmm... you cooking up something special? or, "Mmm, Bulgur Wheat!", as our hero would say. Sounds Bulgarian (they're down there right next to Turkey, you know). Any good? Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #29,797 by Andrew Grygus 2/26/02 1:02:46 PM Reply	Very good, very easy to make. I make this one several times a year. I used to use a Ramond Sokolov recipe I found in the back of an issue of Natural History, but he presumed the Turkish hot sauce was not available and faked it with tomatoes and Tobasco sauce. Since my local grocery store now stocks at least three brands of the real thing, the recipe is even less trouble now. Hmmmmm . . . While going to the bookshelf to find a book by Sokolov (to check the spelling of his name) I stubbed my toe on something that turned out to be New World Translation of the Holy Scroptures. Just what the Hell has been going on here? Oh well, I think it just fell down form the little shrine Denise built on the top shelf around the cardboard box (U.S. Postal service $13.95) from the Neptune Society, which supposedly contains the ashes of Peggy's mother (she travels a lot so it was sent here). Peggy seems to have lost interest, so Mom's been up there for going on 2 years now. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #29,800 by Yendor 2/26/02 1:10:29 PM Reply	I've just been browsing... ...for recipes myself. In my case, it was [link\|http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/americas/cajun/03/rec0336.html\|Stuffed Pork Chops]. But in the meantime, [link\|http://www.recipesource.com/\|RecipeSource] is damn fine. (NOTE: RecipeSource is formerly known as SOAR, the Searchable Online Archive of Recipes housed at UC-Berkeley.) -YendorMike Real programmers use "vi a.out".
Post #29,608 by boxley 2/25/02 9:50:28 AM Reply	mine is a cli prompt, browser and whatever app I am using "I'm selling a hammer," he says. "They can beat nails with it, or their dog." Richard Eaton spy software innovator
Post #29,619 by Yendor 2/25/02 11:00:59 AM Reply	Re: Desktop Loveliness [link\|http://www.timescapes.org/~mike/images/desktop.jpg\|Turnabout is fair play]. -YendorMike Real programmers use "vi a.out".
Post #29,626 by drewk 2/25/02 11:19:48 AM Reply	Ewww ... what is that orange about? We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html\|Thomas Friedman]
Post #29,630 by Yendor 2/25/02 11:34:04 AM Reply	Hook 'em Horns! [link\|http://www.utexas.edu\|The University of Texas at Austin]. -YendorMike Real programmers use "vi a.out".
Post #29,637 by drewk 2/25/02 12:15:54 PM Reply	Wow, school colors on the desktop And I'll bet you still have your graduation tassel hanging from the rear-view mirror of your pickup, too. Or is the local custom to hang it from the gun rack? We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html\|Thomas Friedman]
Post #29,640 by Yendor 2/25/02 12:35:59 PM Reply	Heh. I got a tassel at graduation? Hmmm. I'm gonna have to go find it... -YendorMike Real programmers use "vi a.out".
Post #29,666 by bconnors 2/25/02 5:41:05 PM Reply	Probably lost it somewhere on "The Drag" or Sixth Street BConnors "Prepare for metamorphosis. Ready, Kafka?"
Post #29,752 by Yendor 2/26/02 9:51:57 AM Reply	Oh yeah... Let's not forget the "vanity" plates I'm waiting for from the State of Illinois. LNGHORN Muahahahahahaha. -YendorMike Real programmers use "vi a.out".
Post #29,773 by CRConrad 2/26/02 11:50:05 AM Reply	What "horn", exactly, would those (be trying to) refer to..?
Post #29,781 by Yendor 2/26/02 12:24:13 PM Reply	That would be... The longhorn bull, of course, that is our mascot. Or the saxophone I play from time to time. Take your pick. -YendorMike Real programmers use "vi a.out".
Post #29,832 by CRConrad 2/26/02 2:31:52 PM Reply	So you're not trying to imply somethin'bout your anatomy...?
Post #29,881 by Yendor 2/26/02 4:36:15 PM Reply	Don't need to. Any womenfolk interested in finding out if my reputation is true are welcome to apply within. -YendorMike Real programmers use "vi a.out".
Post #29,705 by Ashton 2/26/02 12:09:54 AM Reply	HOLY SHT, Batman!! So THAT's what I've been missing.. by not biting a whole crate of bullets of large calibre, erasing everything from CP/M on, refilling head with 37 nested layers of new stuff. Multitasking, multithreaded organ pipes take on new meaning, and (if one overlooks the clinical diagnosis of impending psychic disintegration) - taken as a Rorshak - why.. I WANT one o'those too! The idea you could suffer acutely for a few days, getting all the curves & locations, background colors and subliminal surrealisms set up and then - USE it, maybe not reboot for years 'cept maybe to blow the dust outta the case and replace a HD with a bad rod bearing ? Ignore all o' them kernel upgrades and stuff LONG AS YOU WANT! and still not be er incompatible, illegible and drummed outta the Corps...* (And with any luck, may Never see a kernel panic! and fer DAMN sure Never a GPF. :-) {sniff} Damn damn.. 95% o' the world's folk are staring at an Edsel designed by a committeee chaired by Dan Quayle; customizing the iron wheels with stick-on decals and hangin fuzzy-dice on the mirror.. n' youse guys got Aston-Martin DB-7s with intercoolers and ejection buttons for the unwanted-passenger seat. With personal theta-rhythm enhancers on background. And no DLLS. No built-in redirects. No weekly patches. Security as a fore- not after- thought. Why it's almost enough to galvanize even me.. into a paradigm shift. Almost.. but.. Denial is a powerful force for Procrastination ... .. . Ashton
Post #29,718 by CRConrad 2/26/02 3:06:51 AM Reply	Nitpick: "Rorschach", not "Rorshak". HTH!
Post #29,721 by Ashton 2/26/02 4:21:51 AM Reply	Yeah.. it does have a certain symmetry Succumbing to the non-spelling generation, I guess. Well, long as I can get Djugashvili right, can Brzezinski be far behind? A.
Post #29,725 by CRConrad 2/26/02 5:12:59 AM Reply	But we spell ol' Josip as ~ 'Dzjugaszvilij' here! Or something like that; I honestly can't quite remember for sure... And his patronymic is Vissarionovitj these days, where it used to be Vissarionovich. In German, I guess, it must be Vissarionowitsch -- and I won't even try to render his original last name into (ironically) my native tongue! Never mind, though -- there is no global standard for kyrillic-latin (and latin-kyrillic?) transcription, AFAIK. It changes over time, too -- the Romanovs used to be the Romanoffs in Western languages; and the copy of Verne's _Courier of the Tsar_ [my translation of the title] I read as a kid was full of Baron Ignatieff and Gregor Michailovitsj [made-up examples], who'd doubtless be Baron Ignatjov and Grigorij Mikhailovitj now. (In Swedish -- in English, they'd be, les'see... Baron Ignachev and Grigory Mikhailovich?) But what's (X-NSAdv.) Zbigniew gotta do with anything -- are you saying he's Kissinger's and Stalin's secret love-child?!? Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #29,916 by Ashton 2/26/02 8:22:51 PM Reply	ie Absolute proof that, there is no such thing as absolute proof (or exact spelling, pronunciation). Damn.. looks like there's another One addicted to memorizing any bizarre names as surface. Zbigniew has to be right up there with (variously) Iosip, Josif - Uncle Joe. It's gotta be a shared glitch in the DNA. Fortunately no tj's here that I've ever seen, so guess it's a -hoovian aberration. I imagine though that Czech would do us both in. An ~ earliest recollection (re words) was seeing a box in my aunt's garage, maybe sometime ~ 4 yrs. old. And I proudly 'read' the label (actually place of origin) to her as, "Chick-ago ill". And natch I thought she was putting me on when she pronounced 'Chicago' (and maybe mentiond the idea of abbreviation re the "Ill"). Found it odd later - to recall my exact pronunciation - now, obviously permanently. Imagine if we'd been exposed to actually Interesting stuff at that time, when the brain was picking up everything, like a sponge.. Shit, we coulda been Smart instead of - Cheers, A. PS heard one about the San Francisco transit company (called MUNI for municipal rwy. of course). Guy's friend Gloria was complaining about the service during a troubled time; wag replied - Sick transit, Gloria - MUNI..

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