What's on your desktop?

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

A side note about automatic wallpaper changers on Windows. There is tons of crap around. A pretty good one is AWC:

http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/ - Very configurable.

If you're on Vista, ignore the Setup warnings and read this thread. (You need to register the mscomctl.ocx manually, from inside a dos box which you started via "run as admin")

[Subotnick]

That AWC link looks handy. Always wanted an application like that, especially at Christmas to turn my desktop into an advent calendar!  I'll check it out shortly. Thanks.

TTFN.
Me.

[Mark]

Currently on my desktop is the message: BOOTMGR could not be found. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

Guess who didn't realise that Vista writes its boot.ini to the first logical partition on a HDD (and who, like a tit, deleted said partition, trapping all his data on the second one)?

When my laptop has had its data recovered by the nice man at the PC repair shop, and once my OS is cleanly reinstalled, I shall have a picture of my daughter on my desktop. 0:)

[Kullervo]

Thart doesn't look like a photo though. It looks more like something Saul D. would "create" on his computer and then mistake for "great art".

I think it looks strange because of the time it probably took to take the photo. A very long exposure time makes things that move look fuzzy and weird.

[mahler10th]

Nice merge, moderators.   

[Mark]

Nice merge, moderators.  

Oh yes, I hadn't even noticed that your thread had been merged with mine.

[Opus106]

I think it looks strange because of the time it probably took to take the photo. A very long exposure time makes things that move look fuzzy and weird.

It's actually backlit by the Sun.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2316

[lukeottevanger]

Nothing better on the desktop than a picture of your grandchildren.

Except your children - these are mine on my desktop, albeit a photo taken 18 months or so ago. The Boy's angelic curly locks have since been removed, I'm afraid.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Guess who didn't realise that Vista writes its boot.ini to the first logical partition on a HDD (and who, like a tit, deleted said partition, trapping all his data on the second one)?

AFAIK Vistas Bootloader doesn't interpret boot.ini any more. It just adds comments if it finds one from a prior OS.

When my laptop has had its data recovered by the nice man at the PC repair shop, and once my OS is cleanly reinstalled, I shall have a picture of my daughter on my desktop. 0:)

The nice man at the PC repair shop also has your pictures now

[bhodges]

My wallpaper is this photo of a gas station by Ed Ruscha, one of my favorite artists.  PS, it came from www.artnet.com, which has many interesting images.

--Bruce

[drogulus]

   

[mahler10th]

Some really interesting desktops here.
Nce one drogulus.

[Mark]

AFAIK Vistas Bootloader doesn't interpret boot.ini any more. It just adds comments if it finds one from a prior OS.

I was over-simplifying. I know that it does things differently these days. Bloody annoying, though. I'm busy reinstalling everything now.

The nice man at the PC repair shop also has your pictures now

Happily, not. Nor my 100Gb of music, nor my videos. Some ... *ahem* ... cracked software, perhaps, but little else - all that stuff was backed-up/moved over before my balls-up!

(PS: Did you get my PM?)

[Novi]

That's an awesome background, mahler10th. Mine was a satellite photo of the "Earth at night", until earlier today, when I accidentally changed it.  Now it's the attached; a photo a former friend of mine took many, many years ago.

Ha ha, love that phrase - reminds me of my favourite telly show, Judge Judy  .

[drogulus]

     

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

all that stuff was backed-up/moved over before my balls-up!

You may know that unencrypted stuff, which only has been deleted (or drive has been formatted) is simple to get back? OK maybe you were simplifying again Just in case. I once bought a used HD and there were (deleted, but who cares) the whole family events pictures on it

Yes, got your PM, thanks, just haven't tried the service yet....

Currently I give Vista a try, never used the license I have for it. Still there are some special reasons why I don't use it as my main OS. But my wife does. Haha, note the tooltip. The Grammophone August Mag just arrived

[mahler10th]

Haha, note the tooltip. The Grammophone August Mag just arrived

Yes.  That would be Vaughan Williams Hickox is talking about?

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Hickox/Jolly discussing VW, yes. It's the typical composer praising and chronological symphonies walk through.

[Sergeant Rock]

This is my current desktop, a picture of Mrs. Rock: click on thumbnail for full size image:

<<Image removed by Admin>>


Sarge

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

This is my current desktop, a picture of Mrs. Rock: click on thumbnail for full size image:

Very lovely, though a bit distracting.

Even the thumbnail "could cause cardiac arrest in a yak" (Woody Allen)...