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Angus
02-18-2003, 02:28 AM
I know this is a bit of a hokey thread idea. And really it's something that people do when they have too much interest in something dumb as hell like Hello Kitty that they do **** like this. But what the hell!

Feel free to post pics of your VPR's desktop with wallpaper and whatever else you feel inclined to include in your pics.

http://www.mphasemedia.com/assets/angus_vpr_desktop.jpg
Yuniverse
02-18-2003, 02:57 AM
that looks a lot like a mac desktop to me... hehe
:D
Unregistered
02-18-2003, 08:57 AM
Speaking of mac desktops... if you really really want your XP desktop to look like a Mac, go to www.aquaxp.com...funky...
Unregistered
02-18-2003, 09:04 AM
Whoops, I added dots to the end of the URL... here's the working link: http://www.aquaxp.com
Angus
02-18-2003, 11:37 AM
Those icons I'm using are actually from a custom Sony VAIO set that they used to use with their lappies a couple years ago. They're nothing like your typical Mac OS 8-9 icons other than the fact that they're in the classic "Copland" style and blue. I happen to like them quite a bit and lately I'm really diggin' them cause they so nicely match the 200A5s blue LEDs. My Internet Explorer icon is probably the only icon on my system that's a direct poach from Mac OS 9. I've been looking for a way to enable 128x128 icons in windows for a long time so that I can use some of the really nice Aqua style icons. But so far no luck...Windows is stuck at 48x48 max.
Ioman
02-18-2003, 11:56 AM
oooh I dig your desktop Angus!

I need to wait until I get mine back from Best Buy, hopefully this week. I have a killer desktop wallpapaer on it too. I might change my icons, I like yours a lot. I always thought the VIAO laptops had a cool startup and overall theme.
Yuniverse
02-18-2003, 02:36 PM
Originally posted by Angus
Those icons I'm using are actually from a custom Sony VAIO set that they used to use with their lappies a couple years ago. They're nothing like your typical Mac OS 8-9 icons other than the fact that they're in the classic "Copland" style and blue. I happen to like them quite a bit and lately I'm really diggin' them cause they so nicely match the 200A5s blue LEDs. My Internet Explorer icon is probably the only icon on my system that's a direct poach from Mac OS 9. I've been looking for a way to enable 128x128 icons in windows for a long time so that I can use some of the really nice Aqua style icons. But so far no luck...Windows is stuck at 48x48 max.

Yeah I like your desktop as well.

What i meant by looking like a mac desktop, was that the arrangements of the icons as well as the copeland style and color. :)
Archon
02-18-2003, 02:36 PM
I dont have a VPR, but heres my desktop ;)

http://www.falconrising.com/pics/desk.jpg
Angus
02-18-2003, 02:39 PM
Oh, yeah I forgot about the icon arrangments. I started doing it that way a long time ago back when OS 8.5 was around. I've since forgotten that it's not the default way Windows arranges them. Hehe.

That desktop is from www.planetofthedrums.com . They actually have 4 up there, all of which are cool and in high resolution. Nothing irks me more than someone making a background and the largest resolution they do it for is 1024x768.
sonoronos
03-04-2003, 10:39 PM
Here's my screen.

www.nd.edu/~ekang/desktop.jpg (http://www.nd.edu/~ekang/desktop.jpg)
Yuniverse
03-05-2003, 01:00 AM
Originally posted by sonoronos
Here's my screen.

www.nd.edu/~ekang/desktop.jpg (http://www.nd.edu/~ekang/desktop.jpg)

Are you running virtual PC on a mac?
that looks like a napster icon i see up there:D
sonoronos
03-05-2003, 10:16 AM
That is indeed a Napster Icon ;)

I run three programs on my 185A5 that are essential to me (and I don't miss OS X at all)

1. Cygwin with the Xfree86 Test server 77+ running Multiwindow mode.

2. JSPager, a free virtual desktop pager.

3. Y's Dock, a piece of japanese software that has the quickest (although probably least accurate) OS X dock implementation around.
IronSerif
03-05-2003, 04:10 PM
As everyone knows I own a vpr thing...rrriiigghhttt

Anyways...heres a screencap :)

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze4494h/desktop.jpg
IronSerif
03-07-2003, 12:26 PM
Got a few people wondering what software I used for monitoring

Here's the link for it
http://coolmon.arsware.org/
Ioman
03-08-2003, 12:54 AM
Originally posted by IronSerif
As everyone knows I own a vpr thing...rrriiigghhttt

Anyways...heres a screencap :)

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze4494h/desktop.jpg

I dig the background bro, did you get that from ThemeXP?
IronSerif
03-08-2003, 11:40 AM
Originally posted by Ioman


I dig the background bro, did you get that from ThemeXP?

Thanks man. I think that's where I got it from...they got a lot of good stuff there :)
Angus
03-08-2003, 03:09 PM
Yeah definitely a big thank you for the CoolMon thinger. I downloaded that last night and have been playing with it for the last few hours. I now have a nice little strip of information at the bottom of my desktop that displays CPU usage, RAM useage, battery charge (percent since time remaining doesn't work?), LAN IP, WAN IP, and the weather. I'd also like to put the throughput in and out of my network port but I need to find a nice nonobtrusive place for it first.
IronSerif
03-10-2003, 07:55 AM
I also run another program right next to the coolmon. I'm feeling kinda neutral about the other program. I really don't pay too much attention to it as I do with the other. I might get rid of it, but it's not doing any harm sitting there..

It's not like it's a resource hog :)