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Old 11-07-06, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by VeloChris
What OS are you using?

As khuon got it - Windows XP, bar is called ObjectDock. I had a Mac skin, but like khuon had mentioned, it made the machine run a tad slower - I like the functionality of the dock bar moreso than the wannabe-apple look - you can google and download it.
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Ok, you got me, another non-windows geek.

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Ok, you got me, another non-windows geek.

And you are even watching "Good Eats" my favorite show, thank god it wasn't "30 Minute Meals"
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Originally Posted by octico
Good job, you are a bike riding geek!! My goal was to find if there were any NON windows geeks here, I guess I am not alone.The problem in our field is that most programmers spend more time in front of the monitor, and less time in front of the stem.
Here's my desktop circa 1989... it was actually from my school's computer in the microbiology dept.


And one from my Mac (dual-screens):


An earlier screen shot from my PC running Mac OSX86, LINUX and Windows simultaneously using the Parallels VM:


But that ended up being too much of a resource hog having 3 independent OSes running at the same time. So I've trimmed it down to running OSX86 only and using the WINE API layer to run Windows programs without actually having Windows loaded:


We're closing in on the age of the universal OS that'll run any program. Most likely it'll be some sort of UNIX-based OS for its protected kernel and superior task & thread-scheduling; it can really manage multiple CPUs/cores with close to linear scaling.

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Some desktop-background pictures that flip through every 30-minutes....




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Great backgrounds, Danno. Thanks.
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Danno where did you get those images, different locations?
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Originally Posted by mateo44
Great backgrounds, Danno. Thanks.
You're most welcome. Hope you enjoyed them.

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Danno where did you get those images, different locations?
Yeah, when I got my widescreen LCD, I had quite a hard time finding suitable background images. Found some on the Tiger installation DVD. Others from digital-camera review websites. Some from 3D rendering websites like 3D-StudioMax. Also searched on Google and various other search-engines for "hi-resolution image,pictures,photos,etc." and kept the interesting ones. Google and Yahoo now has an "Image" search engine and you can even specify resolution. etc.

BTW, turn on the "safe search" feature if you don't want to pull up all the X-rated pictures.

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Old 11-09-06, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
BTW, turn on the "safe search" feature if you don't want to pull up all the X-rated pictures.
There's porn on the internet now?
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I want a Mac now.

No I don't. Shut up!
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Originally Posted by voltman
I want a Mac now.

No I don't. Shut up!
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Old 11-09-06, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by voltman
I want a Mac now.

No I don't. Shut up!
New MacBook Pros are out...
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Old 11-10-06, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by voltman
I want a Mac now.

No I don't. Shut up!
What was that from? "Mama's Boy"?
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