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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      
42609.34 In reply to 42609.33 
I remember around 5 years ago I got a big folder of images from Google satellite of various locations. I think they were mainly industrial, geometric looking, had them cycling through as my background at my last job. Wonder if I can find the folder.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
42609.35 In reply to 42609.34 
That sounds cool.

I had a script ages ago that got a random Wikipedia pic of the day from the pic of the day archives and made that my wallpaper every hour or so. Was all grand, some nice pics in there, until I started getting pictures of diseases and famines and atrocities and stuff.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      
42609.36 In reply to 42609.35 
Yeah, that goes grim quickly.

Think it was a collection from - https://earthview.withgoogle.com/

Oh, there's a map too https://new-images-preview-dot-earth-viewer.appspot.com/map/
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 From:  Manthorp  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
42609.37 In reply to 42609.34 
I've been exploring GoogleEarth VR for aberrations in the procedural modelling, and some of my screengrabs have made it to the desktop.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  Manthorp  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
42609.38 In reply to 42609.34 
I've been exploring GoogleEarth VR for aberrations in the procedural modelling, and some of my screengrabs have made it to the desktop.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   
 To:  Manthorp     
42609.39 In reply to 42609.38 
:D
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  Manthorp     
42609.40 In reply to 42609.38 
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.

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 From:  Manthorp  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
42609.41 In reply to 42609.40 
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.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  Matt  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      
42609.42 In reply to 42609.1 
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.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   
 To:  Matt     
42609.43 In reply to 42609.42 
No desktop icons and no dock/taskbar <3
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 From:  Dave!!  
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42609.44 
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...
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  Dave!!     
42609.45 In reply to 42609.44 
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.
“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)  
 To:  Dave!!     
42609.46 In reply to 42609.44 
Is that a local sea view? Just wondered because of the wind farm.
never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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 From:  Dave!!  
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)     
42609.47 In reply to 42609.46 
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!
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)  
 To:  Dave!!     
42609.48 In reply to 42609.47 
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. 
never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)     
42609.49 In reply to 42609.48 
Beats oil spills, smog &such.
“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)  
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
42609.50 In reply to 42609.49 
and God smiles on windfarms

 
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 From:  Dave!!  
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)     
42609.51 In reply to 42609.50 
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.
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)  
 To:  Dave!!     
42609.52 In reply to 42609.51 
It's big at around 72 square kilometres, but not in the top 5 around the UK. 
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 From:  Dave!!  
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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.
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