Very - is that just some random artwork or is there some lore behind it?
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Very - is that just some random artwork or is there some lore behind it?
Zen
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To be boldly honest with you Papa, I don't know if there is any "lore" behind this wallpaper. This was just one of those late at night things, I was bored and killing time by surfing Desktop Nexus. I think this image can be found inside their "abstracts" section, then look for their "fantasy" option, it's in there!
Zen
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Best One In A Long Time....
Well I guess at some point yesterday the Technology God's were smiling down upon me. For last night, when on my way home from the grocery store, I noticed a fairly decent computer monitor box sitting by a street side garbage bin. I slowed my car, confirmed that it appeared that this was intended to be thrown out, parked my car and walked to the box, mainly out of curiosity.
Got to it, the box was in great shape, and I thought, the box is the only thing being thrown out, there's no monitor inside the box! So I opened it, glanced down and saw a black colored monitor in it! I glanced at the box for the company it said " AG Neovo", glanced again for the size, for just looking at it the thing was big. The box said "L-W24 inch", I was like "no way"! I quickly looked around, the coast was clear, grabbed the box, squeezed it into my car and headed home.
Once home I check it out, plugged it in and the amber colored standby light came on, but instead of saying "no signal" the screen said "monitor locked, enter pass-code"! I thought no wonder someone was throwing this out, they probably forgot the darn pass-code to unlock the monitor, plus I thought that it was odd for a monitor to have a lock. So off to Google I went, I tried for hours trying to dig up something, then about 3 hours into the search I found something on someones Blog. They provided the universal AG Neovo pass-code, now this was a real "B-Word" to do, had to use the 5 buttons on the front in a certain pattern, reminded of some attack combo codes on a Playstation 2 controller.
About the third or fourth try I got it, the monitor unlocked. I hooked it up to the blue colored analog connector on the side of my laptop, turned the laptop on and whoolaa the computer automatically turned off the built in LCD monitor and was using the external one!
I got it's resolution set at 1280 x 1024, real sweet looking! Also to add a cherry on top of this hot fudge sundae I pulled out my Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard combo kit, hooked it up to the laptop and put the laptop in hiding, now at my recliner I have a mega monitor, keyboard and mouse, looks real clean on my small little side table.
But enough with all that, to break this monitor in proper, I just put the finishing touches on a new desktop look for the laptop. I spent about an hour and a half on this, mostly putting time in trying to color match everything as so it can all be "themed".
Here it is folks..............
If anyone out there wants to try and recreate something like this the following is all one would need.
Ubuntu 10.10 (Desktop Version) (64bit)
Ubuntu Can be found for download at the provided link..
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download
The Bisigi Theme Package For Ubuntu
There are two ways to go about securing yourself these theme packs.
(1) Click on the provided link and it will take you to a web based download for it.
http://www.bisigi-project.org/?page_id=6&lang=en
(2) Go into Ubuntu's "Software Center" and type to word "Bisigi" in the search engine, it will pop up!
I'm using the "BALANZAN" theme.
Oxy-Mouse Custom Theme Package
Place this code inside the "Terminal" to get the Oxy-Mouse Theme Package.
"sudo apt-get install oxygen-cursor-theme oxygen-cursor-theme-extra"
I'm using the Oxy-Orange colored mouse pointer.
Cairo-Dock (OpenGL Hardware accelerated dock program)
Can be found by two ways..
(1) Click on the provided link and select a version.
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8724
(2) Click on the Ubuntu Software Center and type "Cairo" it will pop up!
I was able to import most of the icons that make up the Balanzan theme pack to the dock's icon file folder, no adjustments needed, they share the same format.
And lastly, the wallpaper was something I found while trolling Desktop Nexus. If you like the wallpaper, and think you would ever use it, I'm providing a direct link to it, for I'm not going to post an image at it's max is 1280 x 1024 on this site, that's crazy, dial up people would hate me!
Here's the wallpaper link...
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/utterlyawesome.jpg/
Well that's it, this one was a task to do, but it was way fun, haven't had this much fun with an Ubuntu customization in a good long time, plus having this thrown out monitor helped motivate me!
Hope you all like this one!
Well I guess at some point yesterday the Technology God's were smiling down upon me. For last night, when on my way home from the grocery store, I noticed a fairly decent computer monitor box sitting by a street side garbage bin. I slowed my car, confirmed that it appeared that this was intended to be thrown out, parked my car and walked to the box, mainly out of curiosity.
Got to it, the box was in great shape, and I thought, the box is the only thing being thrown out, there's no monitor inside the box! So I opened it, glanced down and saw a black colored monitor in it! I glanced at the box for the company it said " AG Neovo", glanced again for the size, for just looking at it the thing was big. The box said "L-W24 inch", I was like "no way"! I quickly looked around, the coast was clear, grabbed the box, squeezed it into my car and headed home.
Once home I check it out, plugged it in and the amber colored standby light came on, but instead of saying "no signal" the screen said "monitor locked, enter pass-code"! I thought no wonder someone was throwing this out, they probably forgot the darn pass-code to unlock the monitor, plus I thought that it was odd for a monitor to have a lock. So off to Google I went, I tried for hours trying to dig up something, then about 3 hours into the search I found something on someones Blog. They provided the universal AG Neovo pass-code, now this was a real "B-Word" to do, had to use the 5 buttons on the front in a certain pattern, reminded of some attack combo codes on a Playstation 2 controller.
About the third or fourth try I got it, the monitor unlocked. I hooked it up to the blue colored analog connector on the side of my laptop, turned the laptop on and whoolaa the computer automatically turned off the built in LCD monitor and was using the external one!
I got it's resolution set at 1280 x 1024, real sweet looking! Also to add a cherry on top of this hot fudge sundae I pulled out my Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard combo kit, hooked it up to the laptop and put the laptop in hiding, now at my recliner I have a mega monitor, keyboard and mouse, looks real clean on my small little side table.
But enough with all that, to break this monitor in proper, I just put the finishing touches on a new desktop look for the laptop. I spent about an hour and a half on this, mostly putting time in trying to color match everything as so it can all be "themed".
Here it is folks..............
If anyone out there wants to try and recreate something like this the following is all one would need.
Ubuntu 10.10 (Desktop Version) (64bit)
Ubuntu Can be found for download at the provided link..
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download
The Bisigi Theme Package For Ubuntu
There are two ways to go about securing yourself these theme packs.
(1) Click on the provided link and it will take you to a web based download for it.
http://www.bisigi-project.org/?page_id=6&lang=en
(2) Go into Ubuntu's "Software Center" and type to word "Bisigi" in the search engine, it will pop up!
I'm using the "BALANZAN" theme.
Oxy-Mouse Custom Theme Package
Place this code inside the "Terminal" to get the Oxy-Mouse Theme Package.
"sudo apt-get install oxygen-cursor-theme oxygen-cursor-theme-extra"
I'm using the Oxy-Orange colored mouse pointer.
Cairo-Dock (OpenGL Hardware accelerated dock program)
Can be found by two ways..
(1) Click on the provided link and select a version.
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8724
(2) Click on the Ubuntu Software Center and type "Cairo" it will pop up!
I was able to import most of the icons that make up the Balanzan theme pack to the dock's icon file folder, no adjustments needed, they share the same format.
And lastly, the wallpaper was something I found while trolling Desktop Nexus. If you like the wallpaper, and think you would ever use it, I'm providing a direct link to it, for I'm not going to post an image at it's max is 1280 x 1024 on this site, that's crazy, dial up people would hate me!
Here's the wallpaper link...
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/utterlyawesome.jpg/
Well that's it, this one was a task to do, but it was way fun, haven't had this much fun with an Ubuntu customization in a good long time, plus having this thrown out monitor helped motivate me!
Hope you all like this one!
learninmypc
Posts: 9,679 +724
Nice,um,everything. Great find.:grinthumb
Zen
Posts: 763 +49
Not sure if your kidding or not.. but if not, its three 1920 x 1080 monitors with Eyefinity applied.
I don't think that I was really kidding around here. It's just I've never had that much experience, to be totally honest, no experience at all when it comes to running three monitors at once. So at times when I see someone with a screenshot as decked out and massive as yours, the first thing that comes to my mind, because one and two monitor setup's is all I know, is "wow, way big monitor there"!
But I'm impressed, maybe after I save up my money, which will be a long time coming, for I'm about ready to dump a lot of it in a move, maybe then I can build myself a system and deck it out with triple monitor SLi support.
I like your lightning thing you have going on there, always been a big fan of lightning!
treetops
Posts: 3,064 +784
Its one of the many loading screens for the game dota, a warcraft 3 user created custom map. I would not be the least bit surprised if there is a book worth of lore behind dota.
Zen
Posts: 763 +49
It's been a little while, but recently I created myself a new desktop look. Nothing to fancy, kind of on the dark side of the color realm, blacks, dark purples ect. ect.
Here take a look......
Resized for the forums to 800 x 600, truly it's 1280 x 1024!
This new desktop works very well for me during those late night hours, almost no annoying monitor glare at all. Also there's something new now in regards to my created desktop looks, I'm pretty much just now using my own editorially created wallpapers. The one of Ashley Scott here is one of many of my editorial creations.
Well that's about it from me, hope you all like this one, I sure do!
Here take a look......
Resized for the forums to 800 x 600, truly it's 1280 x 1024!
This new desktop works very well for me during those late night hours, almost no annoying monitor glare at all. Also there's something new now in regards to my created desktop looks, I'm pretty much just now using my own editorially created wallpapers. The one of Ashley Scott here is one of many of my editorial creations.
Well that's about it from me, hope you all like this one, I sure do!
Leeky
Posts: 3,357 +116
Shes rather nice Zen, but still couldn't bring myself to have desktops with women on them, cute, sexy, fit or not. :haha:
I'm, still rocking my 3600x1080 city landscape.
Rather gutted though as going to need to find something new once I'm running 5760x1080. took me sodding days to find the one I have now then get it right for everyday usage.
I'm, still rocking my 3600x1080 city landscape.
Rather gutted though as going to need to find something new once I'm running 5760x1080.
took me sodding days to find the one I have now then get it right for everyday usage.
Zen
Posts: 763 +49
To be honest Leeky, Within the past 4 weeks of my forum absence, I'm slowly gravitating away from strictly sexy female desktops, I've started investigating and trying landscape desktops as well. Now I haven't had the time due to being in the process of my move, which is almost done, but I haven't had the time to create a landscape desktop creation, worthy of posting it's image. But give me some time, like a couple weeks or so, after the dust settles from my current chaos, I'll create one and see what you think!
Have had http://www.flickr.com/photos/d3sign/6078752561/sizes/l/in/set-72157624293252042/ set as my background for a while at work. But most of the time I go for just plain black, extreme minimalism.
One of my other flickr favs is my current backdrop
One of my other flickr favs is my current backdrop
learninmypc
Posts: 9,679 +724
IF you have WOT installed, simply type her name into a google search & click on images.Mouse over the images till you find one you want. Mouse over it & it'll pop up a bit bigger & on the right side it might say
Full-size image
336 × 438 (Same size), 37KB
The words "Full size image" might be a link. If it says same size,it is. Right click,save to your My Pictures folder where you can go to set it as your desk top picture. Enjoy.
display 1366 x 768
using slide show theme
using slide show theme
learninmypc
Posts: 9,679 +724
avoidz
Posts: 461 +59
learninmypc
Posts: 9,679 +724
It's Amber Heard in 2011's Drive Angry
Thanks.
Zen
Posts: 763 +49
Well within the past couple months, I guess I got into the "signs of the times" and stepped up a little and purchased a second monitor, and am now enjoying the wonderful world of dual monitors.
This is my current setup........
I'm really liking using dual monitors, work on one screen, play on the other, all at the same time!
Enjoy!
This is my current setup........
I'm really liking using dual monitors, work on one screen, play on the other, all at the same time!
Enjoy!
Zen
Posts: 763 +49
I know what you mean my friend, I've been wondering for the past couple months, how I got along with just one monitor all these many years. I know I'm just kind of pissing in the wind here by stating already known facts, but I love how I can move a download window to one monitor, keep an eye on it and browse the web on the main monitor. Or watch my web radio players GUI on one screen, while typing an e-mail on Outlook on another! If this whole dual monitor thing pans out for me, which I am totally suspecting it will. I might do a little research as to how and make my computer support 3 monitors. But for now Leeky, I'm fine with two, I promise you, there are no quick runs to Best Buy in my immediate future!
Leeky
Posts: 3,357 +116
I'm going for three displays next, but I'm not totally convinced it will be as productive. Won't know til I try it though, and its no great loss as I could always revert back to two displays and use the 3rd for something else.
Whether or not your computer can handle 3 or more displays will depend on the graphics card.
Whether or not your computer can handle 3 or more displays will depend on the graphics card.
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