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From:	Manthorp	21 Apr 2020 16:03
To:	ANT_THOMAS	38 of 59

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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 www.mynameislegion.org
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From:	Lucy (X3N0PH0N)	21 Apr 2020 16:33
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:D , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	21 Apr 2020 17:07
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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. A
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From:	Manthorp	21 Apr 2020 19:33
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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 www.mynameislegion.org

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From:	Matt	21 Apr 2020 22:20
To:	Lucy (X3N0PH0N)	42 of 59

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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:	Lucy (X3N0PH0N)	21 Apr 2020 23:17
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No desktop icons and no dock/taskbar <3 , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	Dave!!	2 May 2020 13:50
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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)	2 May 2020 14:23
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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)	2 May 2020 17:25
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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!!	2 May 2020 17:37
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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)	2 May 2020 18:06
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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)	2 May 2020 18:28
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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)	2 May 2020 20:02
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and God smiles on windfarms never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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From:	Dave!!	2 May 2020 21:04
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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)	2 May 2020 21:20
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It's big at around 72 square kilometres, but not in the top 5 around the UK. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	Dave!!	4 May 2020 20:26
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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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From:	Dave!!	4 May 2020 20:30
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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. ---
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From:	koswix	4 May 2020 20:53
To:	Dave!!	55 of 59

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:D

That's cool. Why*/how?

*as in are you supporting some ancient tech, or just for fun? No justification required beyond fun.


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From:	Dave!!	4 May 2020 21:28
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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. ---

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From:	Lucy (X3N0PH0N)	5 May 2020 03:55
To:	Dave!!	57 of 59

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Now that's a proper desktop. , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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