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tlarkin · 07-20-2008, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Anti


	It was a pattern used in System 7. Now I feel old.

eww classic Mac OS?

Anti · 07-20-2008, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin


	eww classic Mac OS?

It's there for the retro, that's all.

I'll likely be changing it soonish.

johngpt · 07-20-2008, 07:11 PM

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	It's there for the retro, that's all. I'll likely be changing it soonish.

Retro?

If it weren't for retro rockets, I'd be crashing into everything!

freelunch · 07-20-2008, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by johngpt


	Where did you stash the icon for your hard drive?

I have the Finder preferences set to hide the internal drives. They appear in the Finder sidebar for me.

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	BTW, nice photo, very crisp, nice tonal range.

Thanks. I seem to keep going back to it...

Anti · 07-21-2008, 06:25 AM

Back to the energetic.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8118/picture2rb9.png

freelunch · 07-21-2008, 06:39 AM

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	Back to the energetic.

It certainly is! Is this your creation or a download?

I notice you are from my neck of the woods. Spent my first twelve years in Pleasant Hill before my dad got a job in San Jose.

Anti · 07-21-2008, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by freelunch


	It certainly is! Is this your creation or a download? I notice you are from my neck of the woods. Spent my first twelve years in Pleasant Hill before my dad got a job in San Jose.

I nab most of my desktops from Deviant Art. I've seen some aaaamazing work from there. Though I have created some desktops of my own, found at itoilet9.deviantart.com.

Pleasant Hill, eh? Pretty nice place to be.

freelunch · 07-21-2008, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Anti


	Pleasant Hill, eh? Pretty nice place to be.

I'll take your word for that – the last time I saw Pleasant Hill was 49 years ago!

Yeah, Deviant Art. Some of the stuff I've seen there makes me wonder why I bother to take pictures. Too good.

Just to keep this on thread: The greenhouse at Syon House, west London.

Anti · 07-22-2008, 04:41 AM

Droppin' a new one. I change often. On top of that...my desktop is pristine. PRISTINE.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6246/picture1sd1.jpg

Not one icon.

johngpt · 07-22-2008, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by freelunch


	I have the Finder preferences set to hide the internal drives. They appear in the Finder sidebar for me.

Ah!. Something else of which I hadn't been aware. Every day, something new.

Do you participate in photography forums, such as The Photo Forum?

johngpt · 07-22-2008, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by freelunch


	I'll take your word for that – the last time I saw Pleasant Hill was 49 years ago! Yeah, Deviant Art. Some of the stuff I've seen there makes me wonder why I bother to take pictures. Too good. Just to keep this on thread: The greenhouse at Syon House, west London.

Nice work!

And now I think I see why I'm able to view your image from my work pc. It's hyperlink shows it's from your .mac homepage, which for some reason, isn't blocked by our work filters. I post from flickr usually, and both it and deviantArt are blocked here. So most images in this post I can't see until I'm home.

tlarkin · 07-22-2008, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by freelunch


	I'll take your word for that – the last time I saw Pleasant Hill was 49 years ago! Yeah, Deviant Art. Some of the stuff I've seen there makes me wonder why I bother to take pictures. Too good. Just to keep this on thread: The greenhouse at Syon House, west London.

Wow, that is an awesome pic!

dexterbip · 07-22-2008, 02:28 PM

Never done this before, but I thought I'd have a pop at showing off my desktop. Manet and plaintext, what's not to like:

freelunch · 07-22-2008, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by johngpt


	Every day, something new.

Yeah. Me, too.

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	Do you participate in photography forums, such as The Photo Forum?

No. Should I?

I gravitated to the Mac fora in 1999 when I bought (and had to learn to maintain) my first Mac (a beige G3 minitower). I learned a lot about my machine and OS 8.5 to 9.1. However, since Panther (and my dual 1.8 PPC G5) I have had fewer and fewer problems.

So, I have gravitated to the chat rooms to make my visits more interesting. This thread, for instance.

Cheers!

freelunch · 07-22-2008, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin


	Wow, that is an awesome pic!

Thank you. It helps to make a great picture when you have a great subject. The "awesome" part for me was the blue sky. It's a rarity where I live.

I will confess to some Photoshopping to help the symmetry, but the building and weather were wonderful.

freelunch · 07-22-2008, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by dexterbip


	Never done this before, but I thought I'd have a pop at showing off my desktop. Manet and plaintext, what's not to like:

What were you planning to do with that untitled hard drive?

dexterbip · 07-22-2008, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by freelunch


	What were you planning to do with that untitled hard drive?

Ah, it's actually a bootcamp partition I've never gotten around to giving a proper name. It's not like I use it for anything except playing Deus Ex (oh, and for viewing the occasional website which unforgivably will still only work in IE), so it hardly seems worthwhile.

freelunch · 07-23-2008, 07:18 PM

Today my wife and I took a walking tour of the City of London (the financial district) called Secret Gardens of the City. I've lived in this town for 22 years and worked in the area for part of that time. This guy took us to places you'd only ever find with a guide. Plus, it was a beautiful day.

In contrast to the Victorian greenhouse posted above, have a look at this:

This is what is left of a Roman wall built sometime in the 4th century AD. The "square mile" of the City of London used to be completely walled in by the Romans. I guess, but I don't know, that the target on the wall is used by surveyors to check for movement. They were placed every few meters and the wall is about 20 feet high. 1,700 years is a pretty long time to stand.

Anti · 07-26-2008, 05:53 AM

More desktop goodness.

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9613/picture2mw0.png

That custom dock is the only thing I haven't changed...and I've had that on since Feb 2008.

That's long.

johngpt · 07-26-2008, 11:01 AM

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	More desktop goodness. http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9613/picture2mw0.png That custom dock is the only thing I haven't changed...and I've had that on since Feb 2008. That's long.

As loud as this one is, I like it. It has a great sense of movement. It's very much as I imagined back in chem and physics of what the P orbitals should have looked like, not what we were shown.

07-21-2008, 06:25 AM	#185
Anti MVP Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Concord, CA Posts: 1,530	Back to the energetic. http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8118/picture2rb9.png __________________ Xodium Dot Net.

07-22-2008, 04:41 AM	#189
Anti MVP Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Concord, CA Posts: 1,530	Droppin' a new one. I change often. On top of that...my desktop is pristine. PRISTINE. http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6246/picture1sd1.jpg Not one icon. __________________ Xodium Dot Net.

07-26-2008, 05:53 AM	#199
Anti MVP Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Concord, CA Posts: 1,530	More desktop goodness. http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9613/picture2mw0.png That custom dock is the only thing I haven't changed...and I've had that on since Feb 2008. That's long. __________________ Xodium Dot Net.

07-22-2008, 02:28 PM	#193
dexterbip Triple-A Player Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 136	Never done this before, but I thought I'd have a pop at showing off my desktop. Manet and plaintext, what's not to like:

07-23-2008, 07:18 PM	#198
freelunch Triple-A Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 212	Today my wife and I took a walking tour of the City of London (the financial district) called Secret Gardens of the City. I've lived in this town for 22 years and worked in the area for part of that time. This guy took us to places you'd only ever find with a guide. Plus, it was a beautiful day. In contrast to the Victorian greenhouse posted above, have a look at this: This is what is left of a Roman wall built sometime in the 4th century AD. The "square mile" of the City of London used to be completely walled in by the Romans. I guess, but I don't know, that the target on the wall is used by surveyors to check for movement. They were placed every few meters and the wall is about 20 feet high. 1,700 years is a pretty long time to stand.