post your thinkpad desktop screenshot

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gosha16 · #1 Post by **gosha16** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:40 pm

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i see these threads all over other forums but not here and since i received a request about my desktop, i figured why not start one

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for the person who asked me about my theme, first you need to patch a file to get themes to work in xp. first go here to do that. then go find yourself some visual styles at http://skins.deviantart.com/windows/visualstyle/

enjoy =)

the programs on my desktop are CoolMon and rainlendar

edelrc · #2 Post by **edelrc** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:29 pm

This is mine! (I will only put a link because of our dialer friends):
- http://sitemaker.umich.edu/edelrc/files/desktop.jpg (Only a 40kb pic)
- http://sitemaker.umich.edu/edelrc/files/desktop2.jpg (144kb pic)

Very simple page with the IBM wallpaper and times for my two cities: Detroit and Vigo.
(Yes not battery installed... I am trying to save it!)

#3 Post by **JaneL** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:35 pm

Please don't post pictures in the forum. Some of us are on slow dialup connections, and it makes it difficult to follow the forum. If you want to show a picture of something, upload it to your own webspace somewhere and include a link in your message.

Thanks!

gg3761 · #4 Post by **gg3761** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:46 pm

Hey edelrc,
Like your wallpaper. Where did you get it? It's not on my T42.

edelrc · #5 Post by **edelrc** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:21 pm

Got it from IBM.
Go to IBM and in the search field type Wallpaper and then Search.
Teoretically you will go to this page http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/thinkpad/commu ... nload.html however at this very same time a blankpage comes on... try later on!
There are the Euopean, American/Canadian and Asian versions. Then I custumize the cities times to those I am interested.
If the page does not work later on, ask me for if and I will post it somewhere.

JohnV · #6 Post by **JohnV** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:36 pm

gosha16...how did you get MBM to work? I couldnt foigure what motherboard to select?

John

EnsignRicki · #7 Post by **EnsignRicki** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:39 pm

My Desktop

Txiasaeia · #8 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:47 pm

nonny wrote:Please don't post pictures in the forum. Some of us are on slow dialup connections, and it makes it difficult to follow the forum. If you want to show a picture of something, upload it to your own webspace somewhere and include a link in your message.

Thanks!

Okay, that's it. This particular thread is "post your thinkpad desktop screenshot" - if you're on slow dialup, why would you even BOTHER to look at this thread? Are you going to look at other people talking about their screenshots?

If you click on a link that says "post your thinkpad desktop screenshot," then you're going to have to expect, surprise surprise, that you're going to be downloading some rather large screenshots in order to follow the thread in the first place. Complaining about the fact that people are posting their screenshots in such a thread is absolutely ridiculous.

#9 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:52 am

EnsignRicki wrote:My Desktop

Hehe, now people are making Windows look like KDE!

gosha16 · #10 Post by **gosha16** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:53 am

JohnV wrote:gosha16...how did you get MBM to work? I couldnt foigure what motherboard to select?

John

where do you see mbm? i dont have have it running and im not using the mbm plug in for coolmon

Deb Suran · #11 Post by **Deb Suran** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:26 am

Hubble Space Telescope Wallpaper. I've loaded a bunch and rotate through them, but keep coming back to this one.

EnsignRicki · #12 Post by **EnsignRicki** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:11 pm

Txiasaeia wrote:Okay, that's it. This particular thread is "post your thinkpad desktop screenshot" - if you're on slow dialup, why would you even BOTHER to look at this thread? Are you going to look at other people talking about their screenshots?

If you click on a link that says "post your thinkpad desktop screenshot," then you're going to have to expect, surprise surprise, that you're going to be downloading some rather large screenshots in order to follow the thread in the first place. Complaining about the fact that people are posting their screenshots in such a thread is absolutely ridiculous.

On other forums I frequent threads with pics (especially large ones) have titles such as

post your thinkpad desktop screenshot (56k=stay away)
post your thinkpad desktop screenshot (56k=nope sorry)
post your thinkpad desktop screenshot (56k=take a hike)

You get the idea. If the pics are small or if they are linked instead it would look like

post your thinkpad desktop screenshot (56k=come on in)
post your thinkpad desktop screenshot (56k=yes please)
etc.

It's just a suggestion. Take it as you will.

EnsignRicki · #13 Post by **EnsignRicki** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:13 pm

carbon_unit wrote:Hehe, now people are making Windows look like KDE!

Gotta spice things up now and then.

Txiasaeia · #14 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:11 pm

EnsignRicki wrote: On other forums I frequent threads with pics (especially large ones) have titles such as
...
You get the idea. If the pics are small or if they are linked instead it would look like
...
It's just a suggestion. Take it as you will.

The problem is that this poster is apparently surfing via a 14.4 k connection from work - this says to me that she's not interested in a pleasant browsing experience, but that she doesn't want to get caught. If you're not supposed to be web browsing while at work and you're asking people not to include images (in a screenshot thread!) so that you can surf undetected, well, I don't have any sympathy whatsoever.

#15 Post by **JaneL** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:07 pm

That's a pretty entertaining scenario you've cooked up there. All wrong, of course, but entertaining, nonetheless.

Txiasaeia · #16 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:26 pm

nonny wrote:That's a pretty entertaining scenario you've cooked up there. All wrong, of course, but entertaining, nonetheless.

Oh, I'm not "cooking up" anything here. The bottom line is that you 1) surf from work and don't want to get in trouble, and/or 2) surf away from home on a 14.4 line, open a screenshot thread and then complain about it.
Bottom line: if you surf from work, don't complain about stuff that can get you fired - stop surfing. If you're using a 14.4 connection, don't open a screenshot thread, or browse in text mode - it's really that simple. You're being ridiculous.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=1057

nonny wrote:>P.S: I'm sorry if this message offended you in any way. If it did, you are welcome to call me on it and I will edit it approprietly.
>

Consider yourself called on it. Some of us access this forum from work.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... c&start=15

nonny wrote:Nonny, were you really offended by it? I can edit it if you want? I know people access it from work. I didn't think it would be a problem since I was AT work when I wrote it (and my friends at my office read it and liked it, including women). But if it offended you that much I can delete that part.
>
Actually, yes, I was personally offended by your use of a vulgar sexual term for the TrackPoint.

Aside from that, the real problem is not the juvenile language. It's that some of us read the forum from work, and browsing web sites and forums that have vulgar language or graphics could get us fired.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... light=cell

nonny wrote:I have had a cable modem at home for over 2 years. However when I am away from home and not at work, I access this forum using my cell phone as the modem for either my notebook or my PDA. I haven't been at home a lot in the last few months.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... l&start=15

nonny wrote:>God this is getting old.
>
Imagine how old this all gets trickling in over a cell phone connection. That's 14.4 by the way.

GoyoNeuff · #17 Post by **GoyoNeuff** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:18 am

I'd like to know...What's the difference between Visual Styles, WindowBlinds XP, and WinStyles???

Thanks a lot!!

K.

gosha16 · #18 Post by **gosha16** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:31 am

visual styles uses winxp built in theme engine, so there is next to no resource hit, windowblinds uses a 3rd party program to change the look of windows which uses resources. winstyle, although ive never used it, seems like it allows you to do a few themeing things at once. it does use windows themes, however it seems like it lets you select a windows theme, wmp skin, a font and a wallpaper at the click of a button, hence the "theme manager" idea

GoyoNeuff · #19 Post by **GoyoNeuff** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:19 am

I think is visual styles which uses a 3rd party program, so it'll use more resources.
So, when you said resources, are you saying that visual styles will run smoother and faster than windowblinds?

K.

Txiasaeia · #20 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:56 am

You can get a hacked .dll file (uxtheme.dll, I think) that will allow WinXP to natively support .themes files. Uses no more resources (i.e. memory) than WinXP does itself.

epbrown · #21 Post by **epbrown** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:58 pm

All my backgrounds are 1983 Porsches - I rotate between pictures of each of my cars, which are that year's 911, 928, and 944.

Emanuel

dclee012 · #22 Post by **dclee012** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:53 pm

lol i hear u txiasaeia about the bandwidth-nazi living in a broadband world.

Deb Suran · #23 Post by **Deb Suran** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:02 am

dclee012, please do not refer to any participant of this board as a "nazi" - it is offensive and is not acceptible behavior, here or anywhere else.

eriqesque · #24 Post by **eriqesque** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:13 am

I was waiting for this...
It's from a Seinfeld episode it was funny then and it's funny now
so get a grip and a sense of humor while your at it.

ian · #25 Post by **ian** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:22 pm

I find that reply rude and offensive.

Txiasaeia · #26 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:15 pm

eriqesque wrote:I was waiting for this...
It's from a Seinfeld episode it was funny then and it's funny now
so get a grip and a sense of humor while your at it.

NO! No pictures for you!

eriqesque · #27 Post by **eriqesque** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:41 pm

Huh?
I was referring to this

i hear u txiasaeia about the bandwidth-nazi living in a broadband world.

Txiasaeia · #28 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:32 pm

lol

In the episode, the guy says, "no soup for you!" That's the joke

eriqesque · #29 Post by **eriqesque** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:59 pm

Txiasaeia wrote:lol In the episode, the guy says, "no soup for you!" That's the joke

LOL that's right

I remebered the soup-nazi part
but forgot that part

Deb Suran · #30 Post by **Deb Suran** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 6:28 am

Not all of us watch television, or Seinfeld, or find the show or that remark funny. Certainly this Jewish daughter of refugees from the Nazis, whose parents' families were killed by them, does not find it amusing to see anyone called a Nazi.

I do have a sense of humor, but not about the casual use of offensive epithets. There's no need fom them here, we have a long history of being a polite board where everyone is treated with respect. Please honor that history and refrain from name-calling. Thank you.

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