I was quite impressed the other day looking at how much had been made 3D.
Wanted to check if a canal path joined to a bridge to plan a walk and didn't expect it to be so clear.
The answer was no, so I walked elsewhere.
It miffed me a bit. Keighley has not yet been modelled, and it's a little - pointedly ignored, I felt - absence amid a sea of dodgy procedural modelling.
No Taskbar/Dock/Menu and no desktop icons. Use Command+Space on Mac and Windows key on Windows and type to search for the app I want to open or switch to.
Same problem as Kos. Left hand screen is Macbook Pro and middle and right are two 24" monitors. Two different DPIs and resolutions, but I rarely use the Macbook for much other than email or slack, so it doesn't bother me too much.
EDITED: 4 Mar 2023 13:35 by MATT
No desktop icons and no dock/taskbar <3
This is my current desktop. Despite having three screens, I don't use them for my main PC, only for my work laptop. Well, I also use the left hand screen for my Silicon Graphics machines from time to time...
When the internet as we know it was in its infancy in the early '90s, my brother worked on an Indigo at a medical research laboratory, and showed me the mosaic browser in action on it.
ISTR they cost ~US$7Kat the time.
EDITED: 2 May 2020 14:46 by DSMITHHFX
Is that a local sea view? Just wondered because of the wind farm.
Yep, taken from a nature reserve about a mile from our house last year. I often use local pics these days as wallpapers, simply because the scenery up here in the north of Scotland is so pretty. I have mixed views on the wind farm. On one hand it does spoil the view a bit, but on the other hand Trump hates it and spent years unsuccessfully challenging it. So it wins some bonus points for that!
EDITED: 2 May 2020 17:38 by DAVE!!
There's a big wind farm off the coast here as well. To be honest, the horizon isn't especially exciting; there's no scenic coastal curves or spits of land - and I've got quite used to it.
Beats oil spills, smog &such.
and God smiles on windfarms
EDITED: 2 May 2020 20:03 by WILLIAMA
That's a biggie! The one in Aberdeen only has 11 turbines, but they are some of the biggest in the world apparently. We live several miles north of Aberdeen so they're a lot smaller in the pictures. In Aberdeen, they look absolutely massive, despite being several miles offshore.
It's big at around 72 square kilometres, but not in the top 5 around the UK.
To spice things up a bit, here's also the desktop from my Silicon Graphics Indigo2 machine. The operating system is IRIX 6.5.22 here.
And here it is running "fsn" (pronounced "fusion"). This is the 3D file navigator program that famously appeared in Jurassic Park in the "this is a Unix system, I know this!" bit. It is an actual program, albeit one of limited real-world use.
:D
That's cool. Why*/how?
*as in are you supporting some ancient tech, or just for fun? No justification required beyond fun.
Fun, basically. My dad worked at the VR centre at a local university back in the 90s, I went in from time to time during the school holidays and fell in love with the SGI machines there (beautiful and impressive things, coming from a world of beige PCs as I was back then). Several years later, I got my hands on a couple of the older student systems when they were being let go cheaply.
Got bored with them mid-2000s and popped them in the loft, but caught the bug again after moving house a few years back (and finding them in the loft). I've since added slightly to my collection to acquire my most "sought-after" machine (the Indigo2). It's just pretty cool to play around with a system that was worth around £50,000 when new - especially with their connection to the movie industry, plus playing with pure old-school Unix is also quite fun.
Now that's a proper desktop.
Do you do anything fun with it?
A few odds and sods! IRIX is an interesting OS to customise and play around with, and I've done a bit of work with porting a couple of apps to IRIX, mainly rdesktop (open-source Remote Desktop client), plus also some work a while ago with OpenTTD. Other than that, the Indigo2 sounds great for music and can rip vinyls quite nicely, playing the odd retro-game like Doom or various ScummVM games is also fun.