Your Desktop, bout time i start another one.

[jpmeyer]

Is there any particular reason why people use MS Messenger other than the fact that it supports Unicode?

[wuaffiliate]

because it links strait to my emails, and 90% of people i know that i didnt meet online are on msn.

aim is full of people ive met online.

irc is full of noobs.

[Dr. Sylvan]

I am constantly amazed that AIM isn't universal, but it is literally the only chatting client used by anyone I met before college, and only one non-TMDer since then. I suspect that a regional diagram of who uses what where would be no less than fascinating from a word-of-mouth marketing standpoint.

[jpmeyer]

I am constantly amazed that AIM isn't universal, but it is literally the only chatting client used by anyone I met before college, and only one non-TMDer since then. I suspect that a regional diagram of who uses what where would be no less than fascinating from a word-of-mouth marketing standpoint.

Same here.  Everyone I ever knew in the US and Europe used it, and the only people I knew that didn't were friends in Japan/Korea who can't use it because it doesn't have support for non-Latin character sets.

[Azhrei]

What I want to know is why people don't use mods like DeadAIM or Trillian. Trillian is really, really good and can contain multiple buddy lists from different programs. I use DeadAIM still because I don't know anyone who uses MS or Yahoo that doesn't have Trillian and I like the transparent windows options.

[nargoT]

What I want to know is why people don't use mods like DeadAIM or Trillian. Trillian is really, really good and can contain multiple buddy lists from different programs. I use DeadAIM still because I don't know anyone who uses MS or Yahoo that doesn't have Trillian and I like the transparent windows options.

The same reason people use IE, because they are idiots or have no choice.  I guess I should throw out a new screenshot with this pointless post.  

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/nargoT/Screenshot.png

Thats my Xfce4 desktop with xchat, gaim, and firefox providing the little notes thing.  Theres a bit of an icon sizing bug so it's not exactly how I like it.

[Dr. Sylvan]

I've used gaim for a year now, and before that I tried Trillian for several months, even though I'm still on Windows. I have trouble using normal AIM when I don't have my own comp around, because normal AIM just sucks so much by comparison.

[Azhrei]

The same reason people use IE, because they are idiots or have no choice.  I guess I should throw out a new screenshot with this pointless post.  

I'm stuck on IE because I've tried using Mozilla and it makes the time to load a page go from Very Fast Cable Modem to Fucking Dial-Up. No idea why, but anything except IE is Slow As Shit on my PC.

[Dr. Sylvan]

I'm presuming you run SpyBot decently often? Sometimes that really makes a difference.

[Magi]

That looks a little like Unicron, man. Savage.

The wallpaper is from deviantart.com. It was made by Niteangel, who is also a member on www.depthcore.com, which is a site CHOCK FULL of awesome wallapaper material such as the one I'm using.

I demand that we NOT EVER EVER EVER be told what's in those folders in the upper right.

As some people know, I live 50% of my life online. I love downloading all those shitty little 2mb clips of some lady getting her arms chopped off, dogs getting sucked down storm drains, various porn clips which help me find the movie they came from, and even little flash clips or games I find while browsing. Yes, you are correct in assuming that there are some questionable things in those folders, but not everything is bad.

The reason it is in "temp 1, temp 2, temp 3" is that after a few weeks, my desktop is cluttered from the stuff that "made the cut" (read: not deleted) and I just basically select everything on my desktop downloaded, and plunk them in a folder. After a while, I accumulate enough data to fill a CD, and I burn them for archive purposes and start again. This process takes quite a few months. As you can see from an earlier desktop, there were less folders, because I had less stuff. I don't download as much crap nowadays though because nothing really impresses me that much; very few things "make the cut".


EDIT: JP's link is dead. You can find the link to the original Lohan Nipple Slip in Wu's Lohan Birthday celebration thread.

[Dr. Sylvan]

Oh man I totally know that "accumulate enough crap to burn a whole CD" process.* Back in the day I could hop on a 10+ TB-shared channel of Direct Connect, test that the search function was working by looking up "XXX" so I would know if my quest to collect Star Trek was actually not turning up results or the program was just unresponsive, and then I would just start finding random things and be like "I have a T3 which if it was only for me would let me access files in Japan faster than those on my hard drive, but since I'm sharing it with 600 people I guess I'll only get 400 KBps".

I also sort my mp3s into Active Playlist (my regular everyday listening), Borderline (might be upgraded to Active), Former Playlist (were recently downgraded from Active), Miscellaneous (complete files with no judgments on them), Non-Music (prank phone call mp3s and such), and Permanent Dismissal folders. I don't know why I don't just delete something instead of maintaining the Dismissal folder... maybe I am just a packrat.

Also, living 50% of your life online makes you a member of Club Sylvan. We're like SkyNet, only without the access to nuclear missiles.

* : Caution: This paragraph filled with JPisms.