cheers ramrod, i'll take that as a complement :)

Went for the 'cheeky' theme as you can see. Its only work in progress, needs the taskbar skinning and the dl changed to speed script and then I guess I'll leave it alone for a bit.

Ooooh Matron:D :D Cool Desktop:D

nope tried all the different combinations - and 3 screen capture tools - nada :confused:

is it really there - am i imagining things? :erm:

*edit* i have a not so cunning plan.....

well, i tried to take a photo with my webcam, bit it looks trully awful - so heres a closeup of the mysterious dissapearing scripts...

http://www.masterlymayhem.com/pictures/webc.BMP

what a rigmarole that was :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D

Heres mine (maybe)

think that would start to spin me out after a little while....

It used to be a bit off putting, but Im used to it now :angel:

Wierd eyelashes on the upper lid....

Mine, God bless object desktop ;)

Mine...

I like the tv listing you have on yours Peter

ok - since I've recently started playing with linux again - here's my linux desktop (resized for speed)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thomas....mall_linux.jpg

The original is here

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thomas....arge_linux.jpg

ps - yes i DO like linux now (especially now that I got it to print out accross my network):D :D :D

Quick question about samurize, why does my active script not work for free disk space? I can get everything else running fine, but this script shows as "not activated" or something.

I found the rest of it pretty easy to use, I was suprised.

I still love the Amiga:

down at the very bottom of the script options bit on the right you got 'drive space properties'. Have you selected your drive?

Yep done that, select C but I still have that message, and it is just showing my HD as 30 gig full, even though it's ony gt something like 6 gig on it?

What's the 2 boxes at the bottom for? You can type in them (can't remember what they are labled as now I'm not at home).

The boxs at the bottom are for disc space, total, free, used and in what increments you want it displayed in, by the sound of it you have got total drive space set as the default :)

Thought it was something I hadn't added in, these are the text boxes, so what do I type in the, sorry to sound stupid.

Thanks bye the way.

You dont have to type, there's a drop down list, I hope this cures it for you, if not let us know :)

Think I have done that, I can't check now, but I have 2 text boxes towards the bottom, ca't for the life of remeber what they are labled as. Thanks I'll check it al when I get home. :)

My Dell has an inferiority complex, it thinks its a mac!:p

not much but heres mine...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dupre2000/seddo.jpg

I like the whats on tv.;) How do you do that?

samurize, and just takes some minor scripting, you can also add in sky channels. but i havent had time to get it sorted, and with limited room...

also thinkin about changing the OSX bar at the bottom to just one long taskbar.

Looks really good:) I'm going to have a tinker its a must have.

:) the File Menu and OSX bar are part of Object Desktop, the TV bits are samurize.

My Desktop

Same with my Dell! :D

(it has the 'Aqua Blue.jpg' desktop pic from OS X)

Mac, that has now reminded of food thanks everyone, look like I'm to McDonalds for dinner. :)

some seriously cool desktops out there!!! here's my humble one......

and like, magic, it appears!!!.....

Incidentally, on the pic of my desktop you can (just) see the clock at top right of my first monitor, and the new taskbar at the bottom :)

and I AM running windows lol

Hey, one for you mac users out there. One of the guys at work (a Uni) got a new 17" powerbook, and set the wallpaper as the fishtank screensaver. It didn't take up any noticable processor power, and all of the apps were running fine. From what I can gather, with a little 3rd party software, you can get any screensaver to run as wallpaper.

For what it's worth, my work mac has all of the previous and current Tomb Raider movie pics, randomly changing every 60 secs.

Indeed you can. You can also choose a photoshop image as wallpaper if you like. Versatile things, Macs ... ;)

Heh! I tried the desktop screensaver trick on my creaky old G3/500 PowerBook. I had to SSH in from my Windows box and kill the process as the PowerBook became completely unresponsive. I guess it couldn't handle Flurry as the desktop picture :D

Here's mine, until I've worked out how to make samurize configs stay behind other applications I'm not putting any more on it :(

right click on the samurize icon and click on pin to desktop

Here's how I've got mine now.....

Will be getting samurize soon though.

LMAO... yeah

If this is ticked, click it again to make it un-ticked, so it stays behind the other windows ;)


Also ive decided to wait for a few releases of config files... i seem to be hopeless at creating my own :S

Ok, I'm playing around with samurize, got simple meters showing cpu usage, disk space etc (alas don't seem to have temp sensors)
Question now is, how do I modify my desktop icons to look spherical and funky? :D

here is a good place to start for cool icons.

Heres my iBooks desktop

Nothing too special

Execpt for the fact that im still stuck with os 10.1.5 and i have installed ASM to bring back the old Application menu

cool...... :D....well, there goes my afternoon :)

Here's mine

So many questions tho!
How do I get rid of the shortcut names and shortcut arrows?

that is rather cool Xaccers.

I had best think about putting one on mine but there is normally so many windows open that I rarely see it.

You need to modify the registry but Google search for XTeq XSetup which can do it for you.

TweakXP can do this also (I think?)
My desktop:

removing the names is very simple. simply delete the name then hold down alt and type 255. for the first thats ok but for the others you will need to type alt 255 2 times , 3 times etc so they are all not called the same. you must release the alt key between each repetition though. tweak xp has a function to remove the shortcut overlay as well. enjoy :)

Tricky- why edit out your local ip addy? 192.168.0.xxx
It does not give anybody anything that they can get to your comp with :)

No real reason, I was just in a cut and paste frenzy...:shrug:

I can't get rid of the Recycle Bin name!
I've tried the reg hacks and they haven't worked :(
What am I doing wrong?

xaccers, create a short cut to it. Use tweak xp to remove the real icon from the desktop, then rename the short cut.

Simple really :)

That is great I really like that

How big was that jpeg Xaccers?

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So many questions tho! How do I get rid of the shortcut names and shortcut arrows?

Tweakui ?
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe

May have mis-read but came across this avril one if any good.

Tyke

You're only young once; you can be immature forever:spin: :spin:

Just found this link for a program called 'Winwall'.
It changes your wallpaper for you utomatically or whenever you want.


http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=60958

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:p :D

Yet again, Windows users are forced to scour the web for useful gizmos us smug Mac geeks get as part of the deal .... :D

But isn't that anti-competative? :D

What about all those poor desktop rotation developers out there that Apple are preventing from making any money?
Bad Apple! Go sit in the corner! :D

Well there has to be some advantage to being in a minority... ;)

You're right though, Apple gets away with murder. The Apple-designed digital media software that's bundled with them would have had the US supreme court in fits if it had been M$ bundling with Windows. And Apple has pushed Final Cut Pro so hard that Adobe has backed out of the market for Mac video editing to concentrate on a Windows-only version of its own software. Who would have thought we'd see the day?

Towny, what you forget is that mac is a proprietry system, unlike Windows/DOS/PCs... which are, in a sense "open source" where people can find snippets of code, and use standard programming techniques and applications for building programs. Where-as macs are owned by Apple, and in theory, like xbox, only allow "signed" programs to run, thus making it an Apple only machine.

Apple dont fall into the anti-trust sections of the US law, because its there technology to do with as they want.

Utter BS - there is absolutely nothing 'open source' about any Micro$oft product. Its source code is a very closely guarded secret. Apple's Darwin, on the other hand, is truly open source as you well know and have discussed in other threads. It's UNIX, for goodness sake ... it doesn't get much more open than that.

As for hardware, yes, Apple's hardware is proprietory, but then so is PC. The only difference is IBM have licenced their product; Apple by and large have not.

As for US anti-trust legislation, it is designed to protect against market dominance and has nothing to do with whether a product is proprietory or not. For a whole range of reasons (poor marketing by Apple in the 1990s being one of them) Microsoft has a dominant position in the desktop Operating System market. This leads to closer scrutiny of their business practices than for Apple, which has a comparitively tiny share of the desktop OS market.

quick question......

what version of samurize do i download so i can start fiddling with my desktop?????? :confused:

oh and heres mine atm (minus icons as i have this pic as an image on my pc!)

not sure how big it is tho! :shrug:

0.85d im using

which version of samurize do i d/l?

sorry pc went nuts.....so not the new version then?

I really wish you wouldnt reply to me, you make yourself look more stupid to the people in my office, everytime you do.
When they finally teach you to read, notice i said that Windows/DOS/PC's are more "open source" <= notice the speach marks, go ask a parent what that usually means.

Windows has standard layers in which applications can run, and those systems are open for people to use with programming languages, Microsoft VS is still the most compatible environment for Windows, where-as borland does a good job, and works through some of its own layers, libraries and work arounds. UNIX isnt even slightly open source, Linux is, UNIX isnt... hence why SCO are suing everyone under the sun, its alot harder to program for Macs than PCs because there architectures are completely different, theres masses and masses of reffernce code for x86 structures, because its open, everyone knows it, microsoft have to conform to this in order to get things to run. Apples run on a system that is proprietry, like MP3... but in this case, most of the coding and technology isny avilable for people to access, even if you wrote a program for UNIX or Linux, it would work probabaly at best 80%... thats a generous number, but it wont work, if it did... there would be many people besides mac users using iTunes...

now before you reply to this, go read a book on computer architecture, or like me, take a degree in software engineering, then come back and comment.

[EDIT: Such uninformed drivel isn't even worth a reply]

Then go and utter your drivel where no-one has to listen to you instead of in a public discussion forum.

It's a pity you don't use your vast knowledge and experience to help members of this forum. All I ever seem to see you do on here is log in long enough to post a line or two of patronizing, unhelpful hot air.

I shall leave others more technically qualified than I to judge how well you are applying your degree. But I can't help noticing the smell of BS on the air.

I'm guessing a GCSE in manners wasn't a prerequisite for your geeky degree course.

odd how any time i post all you do is bad mouth me, you just like jumping in and antagonising people my guess. Any info i provide is factual and based on what i know from my job and degrees.

I would say that there is plenty of documentation available for the API's which make the job slightly easier, so long as you use M$ approved compilers and languages and there are plenty of snippets of code available making coding an app somewhat easier. However then you have all the fun of the instabilities, slightly different versions of API's and of course the DLL's.

It once took me 70 hours to code a serial comms app for a uP slave, all because MS decided you dont really need to access the serial ports.

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Windows has standard layers in which applications can run, and those systems are open for people to use with programming languages, Microsoft VS is still the most compatible environment for Windows, where-as borland does a good job, and works through some of its own layers, libraries and work arounds. UNIX isnt even slightly open source, Linux is, UNIX isnt... hence why SCO are suing everyone under the sun, its alot harder to program for Macs than PCs because there architectures are completely different, theres masses and masses of reffernce code for x86 structures, because its open, everyone knows it, microsoft have to conform to this in order to get things to run. Apples run on a system that is proprietry, like MP3... but in this case, most of the coding and technology isny avilable for people to access, even if you wrote a program for UNIX or Linux, it would work probabaly at best 80%... thats a generous number, but it wont work, if it did... there would be many people besides mac users using iTunes...

VS is overpriced second rate bloatware, Dev-C++ is far better and includes GDB support which walks all over the so called MS debugger. Still dont get Electric Fence however :)

As for UNIX, well it gets messy. Linux is UNIX like, actually a development of minix and shares code with BSD. BSD is a genetic UNIX to borrow ESR's term and the source is freely available under a non-viral license. SystemV source code (TRUE UNIX if you must) was untill recently freely available and had huge amounts of BSD code stolen and inserted into it. UNIXware and Solaris, the two 'big' commercial unicies are closed source, however there has been the accusation by former SCO coders than unixware is full of GPL code, especially the linux personality layer. Solaris shares characteristics with linux and includes some LGPL code seperate from the OS itself, eg the desktop.

AIX is a completely different kind of UNIX created by IBM, which was only able to be called UNIX via the license from Novell and later transfered to SCO(who BTW are now a band of fraudsters).

Apple still win however on design.

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now before you reply to this, go read a book on computer architecture, or like me, take a degree in software engineering, then come back and comment.

I code in ASM (x86 and MIPS) for fun, BOW BEFORE ME!!! :D

Now I'm off to recover my SuSE sytem after playing with the kernel a little too much:Peaceman:

ok folks......be nice and dont make me paste links to the T&C.

Having a heated debate is good - insulting each other isnt :nono:

ASM *shudders* reminds me of my Cobol days...

Kudo's for SuSE tho :)

COBOL eh...so how much money did you make leading up to the year 2000 changing all that code...

PS this is getting of topic ... at present ... Can we keep a line... Cheers all

ok, back on topic, heres my current desktop... got a bit bored with the OSX one this week...

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respect:)
I bow down before your desktop.....
Though may I suggest that you remove the links from your desktop so that the true splendour of the map can be appreciated:D

Maybe it's your attitude towards other people, you need to turn that finger round and point it at yourself for once.

Enough... :notopic:

i was looking for a scan of the metalic one floating around HMV. I have the movie poster or Middle Earth on my wall. The Desktop one is apparently a sketched out one from the book, and enlarged.

If anyone has a decent picture of the whole of Arda, gimme a PM :)

Also, amusing to see after i post a picture of the 3rd Age of Middle earth, Gandalf pops up ;-) White or Grey?

Could anyone post their Samurize script for retreiving the uk tv listings as the download section of the samurize site is unavailable at this time

much appreciated

http://www.annalsofarda.dk/Annals-of...ables/Maps.htm has some nice maps.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/irene.keeler/uktv_v3.zip this one?

Thanks Paul :cool:

The Maps arent bad, still no Arda :(

also, has anyone actually got the UKTV script to update properly? Mine tends to stall and stop updating sometimes.

I could post my latest desktop from my win pc,
But i think it would be breaking some kind of picture rule on this site :D

Is that an actual amiga??

Love that wallpaper BTW!

No probs :)

I had to re-set my script to make sure it was pointing to the right text file, apart from that no problems. What settings are you using?

New and updated theme. I was bored but I like it

This is my current one. (wow it worked!)

Heres my latest desktop from my ibook

Very nice ... And an alias for your apps folder in the dock too! Why didn't I think of that?

*adds it for this evening's todo list*

I see from your SBOD that you're still using osx 10.1.x ... you should get 10.2, it's way better, especially if you have an older iBook - you'll notice a significant increase in speed.

Here's my latest work desktop - photo is the Trifid Nebula, courtesy of Hubble.

Clever way of sorting files out.

Yeah i should really upgrade to 10.2, but 10.3 will be out soon so i may aswell wait for that.

I thought everyone added there apps folder to the dock, lol

Heres my latest:

edit - where's my file?

Here's what mine looks like now....

Did you attach it?

mine is nice and simple seeing as how this pc is only a day old :D

I attached it but it just comes up empty.

I managed to work out how to upload to our webspace, so here it is.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jason.r...e%20Galaxy.bmp

:)

How do i submit mine?

Take a screen dump (use the print screen key on your keyboard) then either attach the file to your post using the option below the Your Reply window, or upload it to your ntl webspace and put the URL within your post.