NationStates Jolt Archive

Not sure if this has been done, but hey, what the hell.

Well, people's desktop backgrounds and the general stuff that can be found on people's computer desktop can say a lot about them and I was wondering. What sort of things do people have and is there any particular reason or story behind it.

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo10/xresNTAP/Picture2.png?t=1232284055

Like mine for example is an old photograph I found of my great-granddad who fought at the beginning of world war 2 which is important to me because... Well, I dunno why, It just is to me. (He is the one in the middle sitting holding the cards by the way)

But the point is, does anyone else's desktop have any specific meaning to them? Or even somethign as simple as "Well, I jus', ya know, like the pic and um... It is like, my desktop and everything, like"

Oh, and I want to see who here is a windows user and who is a Mac user xD

(MAC FTW!)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Plasmabaw.jpg

This.

This:

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/images/wallpapers/deathknight_1920x1200.jpg

Standard Vista background.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/gr870sfunk/hitler_stole_seat.jpg

This:

http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq113/Vendor-Lazarus/DesktopBG.png


And sometimes with this as bg instead:

http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g56/60256/60256_1108529659.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l182/maldorians/BackgroundPic.png

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h306/tagmatium/Desktop.jpg
My desktop. Somewhat littered with icons, but I don't think it takes anything away from the rather pretty piece of graffiti art that is my desktop. It's a picture I took a couple of years ago in Bristol, before I came to uni. It was taken when me and some of my mates were going through a period of going on UrbExes, and this piece was located in an abandoned car dealership, which itself was converted out of a rather large town house. This was upstairs in the actual house part, which was probably used as offices by the staff of the dealership. I really like the way the graffiti overlays the old wall paper, as well as continuing over the door.

This (http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1064/scrnbgpk3.jpg)

Nice, huh?!

This (http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1064/scrnbgpk3.jpg)

Nice, huh?!

That... That is the single most creative background I have EVER seen! xD

http://www.weaselhut.net/desktop1.png

Nothing really interesting on my desktop. And yes, I like my icons like that. :p

Standard Ubuntu 8.10 background.

For those not in the know, it's an (intrepid) Ibex made out of coffee stains. Very purty.

That... That is the single most creative background I have EVER seen! xD

Yep, it takes a brilliant mind to come up with a strictly functional desktop, without useless background picture, menu animations, startup music, sounds on every bloody action, etc. etc. etc.

Oh, and: Win2K, haven't yet found a reason to move to anything newer than that.
Oh, and and: no, I'm not at all conservative, just don't like useless bling-bling...

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7169/desktopbackground180109go8.jpg

tadaa!! i don't use desktop shortcuts really - i use the taskbar instead (which has 25+ apps on it, in addition to the 16 in the screenshot)

its a picture i took in SF when i was 17... just came across it the other day and set it as me wallpaper for a while. i tend to change wallpaper every couple of weeks, though very often it'll be a big piccy of my g/f :P

Standard Ubuntu 8.10 background.

For those not in the know, it's an (intrepid) Ibex made out of coffee stains. Very purty.

i haven't seen the Ibex yet... still using the Heron on my linux boxes. i will upgrade (downloaded stuff) but just haven't got round to it yet :(

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q100/TheSteveslols/Desktop.jpg
FUCK YEAH!

http://www.weaselhut.net/desktop1.png

Nothing really interesting on my desktop. And yes, I like my icons like that. :p

Someone enjoys Civ3.

i tend to change wallpaper every couple of weeks, though very often it'll be a big piccy of my g/f :P

IS that to remind you not to look at porn?

Someone enjoys Civ3.

It was my wallpaper of choice for the months of December and January. I don't use the same one for long, but I do love this one. "Everyone loves the President". :hail:

IS that to remind you not to look at porn?

What makes you think that the picture of his girlfriend isn't porn?

This is my desktop (http://666kb.com/i/b5noi3ae0itfoki90.jpg) (yes, this is saint IGNUcius)

My laptop just has a normal XFCE background.

i haven't seen the Ibex yet... still using the Heron on my linux boxes.
Get a sneak preview here (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Ubuntu.png).

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Lordgreyii/Desktop.png

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Unbenannt-4.jpg

Currently it's this. I had the most brilliant picture of the Namib desert until just recently but then I lost it and every time I remember to go back to the site I got it from the site is down because of an exceeded bandwidth limit.

What makes you think that the picture of his girlfriend isn't porn?

lol, well that would explain why he hasn't posted it on here then.

It was my wallpaper of choice for the months of December and January. I don't use the same one for long, but I do love this one. "Everyone loves the President". :hail:

lol, they certainly do.

As for my desktops backgrounds.

The first one is one I have been using quite a bit.
http://s426.photobucket.com/albums/pp343/One_true_Opps/?action=view&current=screenshot1.jpg

And this one is one I revert to when I am in between backgrounds, it usually lasts for a couple of months. For those wondering what it is, it is Linderhoff a place I visited when I was in Germany.
http://s426.photobucket.com/albums/pp343/One_true_Opps/?action=view&current=screenshot2.jpg

Yeah because I'm crap at getting photos on here you might have to click on "full size" to see what it is exactly.

Get a sneak preview here (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Ubuntu.png).
oooh, swishy!

What makes you think that the picture of his girlfriend isn't porn?

no comment :$;)

I like my desktop solid black and uncluttered by unnecessary icons.

Tony Dungy's triumphant handshake with a less-than-enthused Bill Bellyache at the conclusion of the 2006 AFC Championship.

*nod*

*nod*
Pokemon?! Holy mother of Torvalds!

This. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Steinadler_Aquila_chrysaetos_closeup2_Richard_Bartz.jpg)

Mine (XP64) (http://i39.tinypic.com/141jvgw.jpg)

http://i41.tinypic.com/1z5stmr.jpg

The picture was taken by a UN photographer in Darfur, and is hanging in the lobby of the UN HQ in New York. Couldn't resist snapping a picture when I visited this summer.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Lordgreyii/Desktop.png

love it

My desktop currently is a Master of Orion II background; I still change it frequently, generally to Historical figures or paintings by Edvard Munch.

Currently it's this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lastcatastrophe/Background/BeneaththeWaterGardensm2.jpg

But I rotate fairly often. These are some I use a lot:

California is a tragic country (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lastcatastrophe/Background/gatetriptych.jpg)
162 games (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lastcatastrophe/Background/162games.jpg)
A field so green (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lastcatastrophe/Background/SchweiniOver.jpg)
I believe in miracles (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lastcatastrophe/Background/Miraclebg.jpg)

I think mine speaks wonders about me:

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/9066/pixwy6.png

even superman had to get his powers from the Sun >.>

Here's mine.

http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=backgroundjb2.jpg

Here's mine.

http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=backgroundvp1.jpg
Doesn't appear to be working.

Or at least I can't see it.

Which could be the joke...

...if it is one.

Doesn't appear to be working.

Or at least I can't see it.

Which could be the joke...

...if it is one.

No, it's supposed to be there. :(

No, it's supposed to be there. :(
Try photobucket.com

I used to use Imageshack, but then went through a period of nothing but problems, like the one you've got here, before making the switch and I've had no problems since.

Try photobucket.com

I used to use Imageshack, but then went through a period of nothing but problems, like the one you've got here, before making the switch and I've had no problems since.

It's been the opposite for me. Anyways, I linked to the image now.

My desktop background is this, as I ain't showing ANYBODY what secrets I hold: http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p292/Tazuren/1226928116674.jpg

[linked for risque-ness.]

Is everyone here a neat freak?!

My background switches between hubble images. I've got 2 colliding galaxies currently (if you can see them behind the shortcut chaos)

http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv279/utterly_inept/desktop.jpg

SNIP

what city is that in the background? the building code seems strangely different to European standard

SNIP

so. many. unused. icons *twitches*

It's been the opposite for me. Anyways, I linked to the image now.
It's a pretty cool picture, actually.

Once it got working :p

so. many. unused. icons *twitches*

They're not unused!


I look at them all the time.

Once it got working :p

I hear they are improving the engines constantly tbh so the reliability of the aircrafts electronics isn't so much a problem these days as the required downtime for pilots

I look at them all the time.

ah so the icons are the background!

I hear they are improving the engines constantly tbh so the reliability of the aircrafts electronics isn't so much a problem these days as the required downtime for pilots
I meant I couldn't see the image in Gun Manufacturers' post 'cos it just wasn't working on my PC for some reason, not the actual aircraft.

:p

ah so the icons are the background!

have you ever tried to have a screenshot of your desktop as your desktop background?


I have. It's bloody confusing - especially when you have that many shortcuts. Every time you move something it's still there, and you forget you deleted some of them and end up fruitlessly clcking on them! I don't advise it. (amusing trick to play on someone else though)

This:


http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/vakraas/PICT0354.jpg


It's the last survivor of a 19th-century orange orchard that was adjacent to a mid 19th-century colonial settlement archaeology site I worked on between 2005 and 2007 in south Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/zbronto/2-4.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/34dgas6.jpg

My new one. (This thread motivated me to change my old one. I had it for months.)

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l214/fartsniffage/desktop.jpg

This is the laptop I'm using at the minute. My desktop and other laptop are different.

SNIP

what is that strange substance all over the ground is it tarp?

SNIP

oh look you seem to have some sort of fly on the screen, let me get that for you :) (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CC1m6LAoNn0&feature=related)

SNIP

holiday fun you say ;)

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u310/JaegerWolf/Untitled-2.jpg)

Is everyone here a neat freak?!

My background switches between hubble images. I've got 2 colliding galaxies currently (if you can see them behind the shortcut chaos)

http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv279/utterly_inept/desktop.jpg
I've played and deleted almost all of those games.

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2384/picture1fj3.png

My wallpaper is just solid black atm, but I have used Oblivion screenshots (made by yours truely) and I had a Millennium Falcon picture for a while.

These may have been the coolest, though. I used them for a long time after I took the screenshots when I watched Serenity. The resolution from the DVD captures wasn't as clear as I'd like when stretched to a 19" monitor at 1280 x 1024, but cool nonetheless:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/other/Serenity2.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/other/Serenity1.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/other/Serenity3.jpg

BTW, I use XP.

I've played and deleted almost all of those games.

Do you still have Team Fortress 2? We should meet and compete on the Jolt servers some time.

http://i42.tinypic.com/fc5sly.jpg

have you ever tried to have a screenshot of your desktop as your desktop background?
yes, it horrible

Is everyone here a neat freak?!


well, i don't use desktop shortcuts, so i tend to get rid of them. my quicklaunch toolbar on the other hand (as i said earlier) has a pretty big and cluttered arrary of programs and shortcuts milling around in there.

i don't see the point of desktop shortcuts. in order to use them, you have to be able to see your desktop, which means you can't use them while you're running even one full-screen program. run more than one and you start to get into a pain in the ass to minimise them all. you could press win-M but then it messes up the order for alt-tab, which is even more of a pain in the ass.

the quicklaunch shortcuts can be used from within any program (apart from games and other 100% full-screen progs), which makes far more sense to me.

what is that strange substance all over the ground is it tarp?

About 13" of snow

April Fools prank:

1. capture an image if the desktop.

2. set image as desktop

3. hide all the shortcuts, folders, and other icons in a single folder & disguise it as best you can.

4. (windows) hide the taskbar

5. watch as your victim panics because his computer froze. Even funnier if you can get this to work for a mac "my machine has never crashed ever and is perfect" person

Currently im using

http://s671.photobucket.com/albums/vv78/jonpluc/?action=view&current=5d9a33e5c1dbd239d3a5ee3920a10a911cb.jpg

3. hide all the shortcuts, folders, and other icons in a single folder & disguise it as best you can.

Just right click on the desktop, go to arrange desktop icons, and uncheck the "show desktop icons" selection.

Just right click on the desktop, go to arrange desktop icons, and uncheck the "show desktop icons" selection.

Someone did this to me on the school computers, me being quite XP literate (if I do say so), the thought didn't cross my mind ever.

Seems like a useless option, :mad:

http://s671.photobucket.com/albums/vv78/jonpluc/?action=view&current=5d9a33e5c1dbd239d3a5ee3920a10a911cb.jpg

okay your going to have to tell me what is under the veil!

*harasses Muslim women*

Just right click on the desktop, go to arrange desktop icons, and uncheck the "show desktop icons" selection.

Witchcraft!

Someone did this to me on the school computers, me being quite XP literate (if I do say so), the thought didn't cross my mind ever.

Seems like a useless option, :mad:

That trick is as old as XP.

have you ever tried to have a screenshot of your desktop as your desktop background?


I have. It's bloody confusing - especially when you have that many shortcuts. Every time you move something it's still there, and you forget you deleted some of them and end up fruitlessly clcking on them! I don't advise it. (amusing trick to play on someone else though)

I've seen it done to others, to entertaining results. Especially to someone who worked in programming but was computer illiterate, and a douchebag to boot. Freak out.

Don't remember where I found the original picture, but I added a calender and what have you.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj31/chazsapphire/th_Screnn.jpg (http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj31/chazsapphire/Screnn.jpg)

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/5246/picture1ku5.png

It's... oh, eff. A building in Prague? A church, I think?

Mine is a photo, tiled, from Sebastian Michaelis, from the anime ''Kuroshitsuji''. I just love that character. He's one hell of a butler. :D

http://www.cosplay.com/i/costumes/200/156968.jpg

what city is that in the background? the building code seems strangely different to European standard

I have NO FLARKING CLUE! I originally got it from a Russian-style /b/.

My Background
http://i40.tinypic.com/2r38nec.jpg

My Background
http://i40.tinypic.com/2r38nec.jpg

What? No Illegal downloaders like Limewire or Torrent?

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a377/jusenkyoguide/Desktop.jpg

I actually took this picture and I'm rather pleased with how it turned out.

My work PC usually has a digital blasphemy one.

Pokemon?! Holy mother of Torvalds!

Blastoise, man!

Is everyone here a neat freak?!

My background switches between hubble images. I've got 2 colliding galaxies currently (if you can see them behind the shortcut chaos)

I'm surprised you can see the hubble images behind that mass of icons.

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/3121/pieeo6.png/

The Girls of Red Alert 3.

*persnippity*
The Girls of Red Alert 3.

Where did you get that background in big enough resolution for a desktop?

Where did you get that background in big enough resolution for a desktop?

Can't quite remember, I think I just googled it.

Can't quite remember, I think I just googled it.

I found it anyway. Keyword "wallpaper". Using google is a bit like having sex - if you don't find the right words and put them in the right order, you'll never get what you're looking for.

I found it anyway. Keyword "wallpaper". Using google is a bit like having sex - if you don't find the right words and put them in the right order, you'll never get what you're looking for.

Too true, too bad being good at one does not equate to being good at the other... I can never find what I am looking for on a Google search :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/SaintB/libertyprimeunins.jpg

My background.

this is my current background image:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/king1812enator/RoUtjLZSGSI/AAAAAAAAAKs/isiJpWTuKHw/s800/Green+sea+turtle.jpg
I was feeling oceany.

Too true, too bad being good at one does not equate to being good at the other... I can never find what I am looking for on a Google search :(

I see what you did there.

I see what you did there.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/SaintB/madefunny.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/SaintB/madefunny.jpg
you did? where? when?
keep your hands on it, don't let it out of your sights! You need it today of all days:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7836941.stm

you did? where? when?
keep your hands on it, don't let it out of your sights! You need it today of all days:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7836941.stm

That's just depressing news

That's just depressing news

made me laugh.

But then, if you had the crap day I just had, you would've laughed too upon coming home and finding out that today was meant to be shite.

That is me pretty much me. Input, process, output, repeat. Yet he seems kind of content. I wonder what his secret is?

This (http://www.ericashenfelter.com/Wallpapers/silversurfer.jpg) Picture

At the moment, this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/Katganistan/tenthdoctorandfriends.jpg

My work computer has this (http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/112_0309_2002_mosler_mt900s/index.html) as a wallpaper.

Niiiiiice. :)

My desktop (shrunk a bit for manageability). The picture is coverart from the kidneythieves second album, zer0space, converted to grayscale and with a gradient at the edges so that it fits on the screen.
Also you can see that I am a complete mess with no sense of organization.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a36/Fiddlebottoms/backdrop.jpg

My desktop (shrunk a bit for manageability). The picture is coverart from the kidneythieves second album, zer0space, converted to grayscale and with a gradient at the edges so that it fits on the screen.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a36/Fiddlebottoms/backdrop.jpg

I shall go to bed tonight, dreaming of what wondrous things might be contained within a file named "meat.doc"

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp252/KaollaSu/1225854461904.png

I cycle between images of Vocaloid characters. ;)

I have a black screen placed on my desktop to save power and monitor bulb life. Ironically, this no longer has any benefit since I have an LCD monitor. But I find it less distracting than pictures.

On my work monitor I have a picture of orange fall foliage on trees.

XP Pro in both cases.

My desktop background is a picture of yo' momma. She so fat, she take up the whole damn screen!

Woah...that godamn ho just ate all my icons.

My desktop background is a picture of yo' momma. She so fat, she take up the whole damn screen!

Woah...that godamn ho just ate all my icons.

LG must have died, because that sounds like channeling his spirit :P OK, not quite his style, but I lol nonetheless

*edit* This was the Oblivion screenshot I used for a long time. I turned ff the crosshairs, but I should have also turned off the entire HUD.
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/other/OblivionScreenShot83.jpg

That statue looks almost as if he's giving me an exceptionally long finger.

That statue looks almost as if he's giving me an exceptionally long finger.

That's the first thing I though as well. Which reminds me, I've changed desktop picture to this.

http://www.petagno.dk/_art/013_full.jpg

We'll see how it works out as it isn't formatted for my screen.:(

My desktop (shrunk a bit for manageability). The picture is coverart from the kidneythieves second album, zer0space, converted to grayscale and with a gradient at the edges so that it fits on the screen.
Also you can see that I am a complete mess with no sense of organization.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a36/Fiddlebottoms/backdrop.jpg

That gradient works really well with the album cover. Well done.

This is my background - http://monscooch.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/volcano.jpg

That statue looks almost as if he's giving me an exceptionally long finger.

lol - never noticed that!

*hopes no mods are in a bad mood*

This:

http://i43.tinypic.com/2a7cx00.png

I sometimes temporarily add more shortcuts, but usually it stays as clean as that.

Mine at the moment.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff131/mariposa231/untitled-1.jpg

Auntie Witch from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/regnans/Desktop.png

This:


http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/vakraas/PICT0354.jpg


It's the last survivor of a 19th-century orange orchard that was adjacent to a mid 19th-century colonial settlement archaeology site I worked on between 2005 and 2007 in south Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Somewhere near Tarwin Lower?

A photo I took with my phone and quite liked...

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb281/Barringtonia_bucket/Picture1-5.png

EDIT: It's a street featuring trams near my office.

Auntie Witch from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
That was a phenomenal movie. I remember I got interrupted in the middle of watching it and had it paused at that particular moment for hours.

Based on an interesting book, as well. :)

That was a phenomenal movie. I remember I got interrupted in the middle of watching it and had it paused at that particular moment for hours.

Based on an interesting book, as well. :)

Amazing that you were stopped at that scene.

I think Makoto is just about the most wonderfully realised character in any anime I've seen.

I haven't read the novel but, as I understand it, Auntie Witch, or Yoshiyama, is the protagonist from the novel - which explains why she understand's Makoto's problems so well.

Her feline stretch is alluring. The picture is very appropriate for a desktop. I keep finding myself imitating her action while at the computer.

I honestly wish I could find that particular picture. Did you do a screencapture or download it from somewhere?

I kept skipping back to that one scene because I found the contrast between their faces to be hilarious, hence why I wound up paused there for so long. Great use of eyebrows. :D And it really is a quite feline stretch. I've always stretched like that or sat weirdly all over the place (though ironically I've never owned a kitty).

I feel that the consequences of Makoto's actions were carried forth and revealed extremely well.

I honestly wish I could find that particular picture. Did you do a screencapture or download it from somewhere?

Screen capture:

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/regnans/AuntieWitchfullscreen.png

Unfortunately, Photobucket limits the size I can upload.

I kept skipping back to that one scene because I found the contrast between their faces to be hilarious, hence why I wound up paused there for so long.

Absolutely with you on that.

Thank you so much. I'm trying to dig it out of my "Anime" folder, but it's stubbornly resisting all efforts to be found.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff41/838millionman/desktop33.jpg

My desktop background. I have Spore and AOEIII hidden. :D