What's your PC desktop look like

[Marclau]

Just wondering if anyone has changed their desktop to reflect our hobbies.

Since I have reignited my Astronomy hobby again after nearly 20 years, I thought I would show off what my desktop looks like.


(http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz323/Marclau59/OrionNebuladesktop.jpg)

[leinad]

My current Desktop, 50% crop frm 1920.1200 :)

[Glenhuon]

Here's mine. First time I've had one of own pics up there, usually have something from APOD.

Bill

[sheeny]

Here's my current desktop. The image is an IISer's but I've forgotten who.:(:doh::whistle:

Al.

[Baddad]

Hi Marclau & All, :)

Those desktops are rather neat, tidy and well presented. Not to neglect interesting.:thumbsup:

In my military years, I was given a desk sign:

" A clean and tidy desk
is a sign of a sick mind."

Sorry people I could not resist.:lol::D

Cheers Marty

[Marclau]

Hahahahah thanks Marty............wow, looking at the other desktops, i might have to place stacks more of shortcuts and folders on..........:)

[M54]

I don't know how to upload my desktop image:shrug:, so I'll just post the hubble photo I use.:P
M74

[IvanTheTerrible]

A pic I took a few months ago.

[bobson]

Molly,

On your keyboard right hand side just above Delete and Insert key there is Print Screen key. When pressed it will copy to memory whatever is on your screen. Open any pics program like Photoshop or even the one that comes with windows (paint). Paste it there and save it wherever you prefer, smaller of course (save as,for web).

cheers

bob

[Kevnool]

Currently this is it.
Cheers Kev.

[IvanTheTerrible]

Hit the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard and it will store a copy of whats on your screen in clipboard. Open you favourite image program an paste as new image.

[Kevnool]

Al i tried to open Registak 5 but it wouldnt :rofl: :whistle:
Cheers Kev

[Marclau]

Nice Kev, bloody nice...............jealous here..........
Ivan, I love the look and eiryness of the dark desktop and amazing foto......

[Karls48]

Just shortcuts to programs I use on black background. I still remember times when 16K of memory was a lot and it cost fortune. Today I got 2Gigs but I’m still kind of reluctant to waste it.

[M54]

Thanks Bob and Ivan,
I was able to save an image in my picture file but it refuses to upload.
I don't know why because the other pic uploaded ok.:shrug::P

[Kevnool]

Molly right click on your pic and the properties and look at the size of the pic, If its over 200kb it wont upload and you have to go and shrink the pic till it gets under 200kb.
PM me if you get stuck on shrinking it and i,ll explain it.
Cheers Kev.

[RB]

Did you reduce it to below 200kb for the forum?

EDIT: Kev types faster than I can. LOL

[IvanTheTerrible]

Funny thing is when I took the photo I wasn't happy with it. Changed it from color to greyscale and it changed my outlook on it.
I try and use pictures I have taken for my destop.

[Octane]

Al,

That looks like Jase's outstanding image.

Regards,
Humayun

[barx1963]

This is it, not much just one of my widefield shots.

[dpastern]

Well, here's mine, very messy at the moment, I'm too lazy to clean it up lol. I have a 24" widescreen LCD monitor, so I can fit lots on it. The wallpaper is an original image (natural light Robberfly with prey - native Australian Bee).

Dave

[kinetic]

Usually something like this:

No seriously, it's been Gendler's Andromeda for ages :)

Steve

[sheeny]

Thanks H. I knew it was someone's!:lol:

BTW I have a copy of your Rho Ophiuchus on my desktop at work.:thumbsup:

Al.

[Enchilada]

:lol::lol:

Must also use it on the Mac!!

[Phil]

Here's my current desktop. The photo is not mine but love it so hope the owner of this photo does not mind me using it as my desktop.
Phil

[jjjnettie]

I regularly change my desktop backgrounds and always use images of astronomical interest.
ATM I've one of my own on display. (I've been told I live in a nettie centric universe so why fly against public opinion:P)

[Marclau]

Wow, love it Phil and probably equal favourite along with Ivan's black and white beauty.

[AstroJunk]

I've set up a bunch of Hubble images to cycle through on windows 7 - That's my fave:)

[Marclau]

thats nice Astro............very nice............not sure if its done, but we should create a poll.............ummm

Also, how are you finding Windows 7? Running Beta I assume? ANy compatibility issues?

[Ric]

Seeing as I am at work :whistle:

Here is my current work desktop.:D

The home lappy definitely looks more exciting.

Cheers

[Galactic G]

My desktop is a shot of the Earth spread across two screens.

When I spin my 'Compiz Cube' my skydome picture is a panorama of somewhere out in space.

I found both these pictures on the net, and therefore, have no idea where they come from.

[AstroJunk]

I'm Lovin' it. I call it MacWindows - all of the pretties and runs all my software!

The only issues I have had have been with [ironically] IE8 which has a cookie handling problem, otherwise near flawless.

[Jen]

:) Well this week.....I stole my pic from Hubble or usually i have an astro pic from some of the lovely work in here :lol::lol: I have Saturn at the moment but i change my desktop neally once a week LOL most of the time it is astro related until the kids say mum why dont you put us up there :lol::lol:

[[1ponders]]

What the hey :shrug: :P

One of my desktops

[Jen]

:lol::lol: i gotta quote on my post check out the bottom of the my pic ive been busted with 3 pages of IIS open at the same time :lol::lol::lol:
:whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle :

[M54]

OK, thanks to Kev for explaining how to shrink the pic.
Here's my desktop with its sad little collection of shortcuts compared to everyone elses.:P

[Glenhuon]

I had a pic of my first grandkid, Seth, on my desktop at work. 3 months old lying on a white sheepskin and wearing only a santa hat.
A comment was made to an engineer sitting at the next desk re naked children and all that it has conotations of nowadays. So I used Paintshop Pro to put a nappy on him and sent it to the girl in question with the comment I had put it on so he wouldn't pee on my keyboard. Never heard another word :)

Bill

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: lol Bill :thumbsup:

[DJDD]

my wife's brain...

[Kevnool]

Times have changed so have the desktops and OS systems i suppose.
Heres the latest.
Cheers Kev.

[supernova1965]

Mine changes pictures every minute through a lot of images from ISS

[mithrandir]

Not everyone runs Windows. The background is Terzan 5.

[michaellxv]

Mine still reflects another interest. The model is not mine but the photo is.

[Craig.a.c]

It's good to know that I'm not the only person living in the past and still using Windows XP.

[mithrandir]

"Not broken? Don't fix."

[Kevnool]

Mine still shines Craig.
Cheers Kev.

[that_guy]

Ahem!!

[that_guy]

Been watching back to the future??;):P:D:)

[supernova1965]

Yeah can't resist it even though I have seen it 10.00000000000 times. Oh and empty your recycle bin:P and you got a red x on you action center:D

[Gemini2544]

This is my desktop photo.

[that_guy]

648 mb worth of data in the Recycle bin...!! thanks for the tip ;)
what'a red x?? :confused2:

[that_guy]

and
REAL thanks for the red x... I figured what it was and checked it...VIRUS DETECTED!!!!

Thank you Warren!
Tony

[Baddad]

Hi All, :)

:lol: My mistake, :P I thought, as I read the thread title that it referred to what the real desk top looked like. I further thought, "None of ya' g-- damned business."

I'm not one for being neat. When I was the boss of an electronic repair platoon in the Aust. Army, the guys gave me a picture plaque. It stated, " A clean and tidy desk is a definite sign of a sick mind." :lol::lol:


Cheers Marty

[Omaroo]

LOL! Totally non-astro. I like a nice clean, elegant desktop.

PS - I've turned my desktop Windows QuadCore 64-bit PC off, for probably the last time, and gone fully MacOSX 10.5.8 on a 64-bit Dual-G5 Tower. Beautifully slick to use. :)

[supernova1965]

I love the MAC desktop I always hated the early ones but since TIGER I have loved MAC's

[GeoffW1]

Hi,

Its actually a shipwreck just now, as far the other way as you could get I guess. Koputai will understand :D:D

Cheers

[Jabba]

:thumbsup:

[Liz]

whats the easy way of getting a pic of you desktop??? The usual R click doesnt work.
I have a pic that Mark took of a kingfisher as my desktop :) Bful.

[mithrandir]

So does than mean you have a quad core box to give away? I've got a dual CPU Pentium-III that could do with an update, to join the Q6600 I already have. :)

[supernova1965]

Hit the Print Screen key along the top of the keyboard then paste it into your picture program or what ever you want to paste it into:thumbsup:

[Omaroo]

LOL! Sorry Andrew - but it'll probably be turned into an enterprise Linux server. The Q9550's scream with Centos 5 running on them. :thumbsup:

[supernova1965]

Have you ever tried Sabayon Linux very nice distro worth looking at

[Omaroo]

Always worth having a look Warren, for sure. :thumbsup: I'm a keen user of Centos, and have been for about 5 years. Being a port of RHEL it's phenomenally stable and in my opinion the core is as rock solid as Debian any day. I already have dozens of virtualised Centos servers running, and some of the virtual host machines have been running non-stop for 4 years without a restart. Brilliant. :)

[mithrandir]

I'm a Slackware man. Have been for over 10 years. I've got a Thinkpad T400 running 13.0 64bit, Q6600 running 12.2 32bit that I'll get around to switching to 13.0 64bit and the P-3 running 9.something.

[Jabba]

Click the 'Print screen' tab up the top right hand corner of your keyboard whilst on your main 'Desktop' screen. Then open go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint. Then in the paint program, right click and paste, your desktop image should convert into that program. Then go to File > Save as.... save it wherever its easiest to access it.

Then when you reply in this thread, just go to 'Go Advanced' down the bottom, click it and then you will see a a box down the bottom which says 'Manage Attachments', click it, press browse, find where you saved your file, then upload it. then vwaaala!

[supernova1965]

I have found that with Sabayon for laptops it is the only one that installs wireless hardware straight from the install disc no further configuration needed.

[TheDecepticon]

This is my Astro PC.

[Omaroo]

Oh! USS Valley Forge! :thumbsup:

[Liz]

I change the pic weekly, mostly from pics here on IIS .... a great resource ;)
ta Jabba :)
....oh, thanks to Mark for this pic.

[troypiggo]

I hope Mr Pugh doesn't mind I borrow his recent M45. I don't like shortcuts or messy desktops either.

[Omaroo]

Must be a Mac user trait.... :)

[rogerg]

Once upon a time I used to change my desktop image regularly but have to admit in the last 5 odd years I've either just used the default or forgotten to change it for ages.

This image on my observatory computer is a dinky 10 minute film exposure I did one night while doing polar alignment checking. It's nothing I've ever thought was great but some how it ended up on my windows background 5-8 years ago and hasn't moved since! :shrug:

So ironic for an astrophotographer.

Perhaps soon when I get a new Obs PC I'll find something more worthy.

[troypiggo]

Possibly :) But I've always been like that - on my Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops. Uncluttered. Totally unlike my office :(

[Lismore Bloke]

The Imac I'm using now is a bit cluttered with files and folders but it does have one of strongmanmike's glorious Orion images on it.

:scared3: Hope he doesn't mind ....

[erick]

"Holy Batmobiles, Batman!!!" :D