2880x1200. I have an 18.1" LCD with remarkable color reproduction on the left and a 15" 1600x1200 laptop screen with terrible color on the right. I also routinely have 20 windows and 12-14 apps open...

 

yea as soon as i posted i thought about it for a second then went straight to the best motoring site and there they were..so here it is

 

This thread (and Muz's desktop) inspired me to change my wallpaper to some of my photographs:

 

Here's mine

 

What app is that telling you your CPU and RAM usage at the lower left? That's pretty slick. I haven't had one of those since before I switched to Windows 2000 a few years back.

 

It's a combination of 2 programs. Coolmon and Motherboard moniter.

http://coolmon.arsware.org/

It's kind of a pita to setup but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty cool

 

the last 3-4 hours spent on this:


took forever for me to figure out how to get sound to play in movies

 

ahhh.... gkrellm over there on the right side. I'd forgotten about that thing. Very useful bit of software.

nice.

 

Tomorrow I'm gonna try and get my windows box to be able to share files among linux.

So far, I dont like red hat 9.0. It's very slow and hogs up a lot of processor (WindowsXP was better at processing). Any other distro's out there for me to try that works well? I was thinking of giving debian a shot. It generally looks a lot nicer than most of the other distro's out there.

I'm just trying out red hat to give me a little feel for linux. It's nice and i'd switch over completely...but there's no support for video games and my video card drivers in linux are garbage. Everything else is nice though. The net especially is much faster and videos are played really smooth and colors seem more vivid.

So far for my first day, it's coming along pretty good.

 

I think Mandrake is best for desktops or laptops. I use Red Hat on the server, tho. I keep a win98 box around for games.


mandrake 9.2


I almost never use Windows at all anymore. Just to boot up, click on the Neverwinter Nights shortcut, play, and shutdown. People ask me Windows questions because I'm a "computer guy", and I can't answer them because it's been years.

I use linux for my job and at home, desktop and server. Once you get used to the "Unix way", the Windows way just seems stupid. And, (dons flame proof suit) the "Mac way" has always been stupid. But at least Mac is Unix underneath now, so I can skip all that candy-ass clickedy-click and open a shell to get some real work done, if a Mac is all thats available.

good luck.
-geekd