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[TheShortTimer]

Rather the horror.

You stop poking around when you run into other people's junk.

Yep, literally and figuratively. I just remembered purchasing a PC from a flea market donkeys years ago and regretting looking through the hard drive after encountering images of what was the presumably the former owner - and his partner posing for the camera as they performed XXX acts. I'm hardly a prude - it's just that I could've really done without viewing their quality of material.

My second eBay purchase was a 17" DLSD-HD. I've never wiped a drive so fast as that one. A week or two later the seller asked if I had perhaps retained a copy of the drive.…

NO.

This is why I now live by the warning of Dr. Zaius when it comes to files on second-hand computers.

 

[Amethyst1]

They are collected or commissioned by myself, not the previous owner’s.

I'm sorry then - I was under the impression that "pixelated" meant: not your images.

but there are 7 GB of pirate music.

Good music?

 

[Amethyst1]

This is why I now live by the warning of Dr. Zaius when it comes to files on second-hand computers.

A friend of mine pulled a hard drive from a PC that was sitting by the dumpster. The... stuff... that was on it made him take the drive to the nearest police station.

 

[eyoungren]

A friend of mine pulled a hard drive from a PC that was sitting by the dumpster. The... stuff... that was on it made him take the drive to the nearest police station.

Back in the mid-90s, one of the people I was gaming with found a dumpster full of hard drives behind a local business.

He grabbed all of them and brought them home then passed them around to the rest of his friends (some who were part of the gaming group). Turns out there was a reason all those hard drives were in the dumpster. Every last one of them was infected with the Stoner virus.

Took him and his friends a good long while to recover from the catastrophe that resulted.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Huh, the only memory of this caliber that I recall was at the intersection of Craigslist blueberry imac avenue and Goat street just left of 2G1C way. Luckily for me, I was never asked for a copy of the offending drive, so away it went in place of a fresh copy of Tiger. I do think it is still worth looking at old drives because you can find really cool old software that way.

Heck who knows, maybe selling a pc with that sort of stuff on it is someones idea of a fun Friday night.

 

[Amethyst1]

I do think it is still worth looking at old drives because you can find really cool old software that way.

Like... Toter's Maze!

 

[Dave1423]

My Late 2009 Mac Mini

 

[eyoungren]

Work MBP…

This is a wallpaper that came up during a 'black denim wallpaper' Google search. It's actually, blue, but I made the image grayscale so it would convert to black and white and then changed it to RGB for screen.

I searched for an image that was above 5000px wide. The intent was to cut the image in two so it appears to 'span' both Cinema Displays (much as my own MacPro wallpaper does). I actually had to size it down a bit which made me happy. Normally I have to size UP.

Anyway, the two screens…



And the result…

 

[B S Magnet]

Work MBP…

This is a wallpaper that came up during a 'black denim wallpaper' Google search. It's actually, blue, but I made the image grayscale so it would convert to black and white and then changed it to RGB for screen.

I searched for an image that was above 5000px wide. The intent was to cut the image in two so it appears to 'span' both Cinema Displays (much as my own MacPro wallpaper does). I actually had to size it down a bit which made me happy. Normally I have to size UP.

Anyway, the two screens…

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And the result…

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This shade and texture looks ripped right from of that one Twin Peaks episode.

 

[eyoungren]

This shade and texture looks ripped right from of that one Twin Peaks episode.

I'll have to look that up…never watched that show when it was on. √

 

[Amethyst1]

I searched for an image that was above 5000px wide.

I haven't searched for black denim wallpaper, but there's a decent amount of 5120×2880 (and maybe also 5120×2160, due to these 'stupid' ultrawide monitors...) wallpapers out there. So... just some vertical cropping needed.

 

[eyoungren]

I haven't searched for black denim wallpaper, but there's a decent amount of 5120×2880 (and maybe also 5120×2160, due to these 'stupid' ultrawide monitors...) wallpapers out there. So... just some vertical cropping needed.

Yeah, a lot of that seems to come up in the same searches. Some of it's really good, just not what I'm after. In this particular instance I just wanted something with a textured but dark background. In the past I have deleted important stuff off my work desktop because I drag-selected and didn't see it. And my copying the wallpaper on the MP idea has kind of stopped because I recently change the MP wallpaper.

When it comes to tracking stuff down for the main Macs though I'm usually looking for specific stuff because I intend to take it into Photoshop and manipulate it. Some of that wallpaper you mention is okay for that, but most of it has themes I'm not pursuing.

I've got a Chrome extension (added into Vivaldi) that lets you search for stuff higher than 'Large' on Google. Helps a lot with my tendency to be overspecific in my searches.

GitHub - polywock/advanced-image-search: An extension to search Google images.

An extension to search Google images. . Contribute to polywock/advanced-image-search development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[B S Magnet]

I'll have to look that up…never watched that show when it was on. √

The episode in question doesn’t come up until the third season (the season which was filmed in in the last decade), but you’ll know it once you get to it.

 

[Amethyst1]

I've got a Chrome extension (added into Vivaldi) that lets you search for stuff higher than 'Large' on Google.

(Until) A few years ago you could tell Google Image Search how many megapixels you wanted and locate truly humongous images. That was fun.

 

[eyoungren]

(Until) A few years ago you could tell Google Image Search how many megapixels you wanted and locate truly humongous images. That was fun.

Yep, that was one of the reasons I installed this extension. Somehow it forces Google to search that way again.

 

[Amethyst1]

Yep, that was one of the reasons I installed this extension. Somehow it forces Google to search that way again.

I’ll have to look into this

 

[eyoungren]

I’ll have to look into this

 

[theMarble]

Yep, that was one of the reasons I installed this extension. Somehow it forces Google to search that way again.

Thank you so much! Just installed it on my main machine (in Vivaldi aswell!). I've been looking for something like this from ever since Google Images removed the custom res searches. I swear DuckDuckGo ditched it soon after but then bought it back.

 

[B S Magnet]

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I can only hope that a similar extension for Firefox will turn up. I really miss this search functionality.

 

[PhillyGuy72]

STILL running my 11 year old mid-2010. On Sierra, no need to update to High Sierra with this.
Had a few hiccups, HD died about 7 years ago, Apple replaced.
Display issue very early on that was taken care of real fast by Apple.

SSD was installed a few years ago, did that through YouTube DIY video.

*I will have to take the screen off again, get inside and blow out the dust, yearly maintenance thing. Ugh..this old house and the dust, it's everywhere and it does get into the vents, fans. smh.

 

[eyoungren]

When I am looking for wallpaper to personalize a device, I obsess until I finally run into what I either really like or want. And then, the wallpaper rules the device for a very long time.

One particular piece of art has been a favorite of mine since I found it and fooling around with Tin Eye tonight gave me options.

This is pretty much where I'm going now, I think I've either got it or am very close.

One last thing…if you've haven't tuned out (I don't blame you if you have), the character on the left (Polgara the Sorceress) has the color red behind her to match the color of the liner of her cloak. But, the character on the right (Moiraine Damodred, or Moiraine Sedai if you wish) is of the Blue Ajah. The symbol behind her is blue.

Yeah, yeah, nitpicky and nerdy I know - but fantasy has been my thing since I was a kid.

And, here is a flat image of the PSD showing it laid out between all four displays.

 

[eyoungren]

Getting there…

Composite of the four monitors. The black bar at the bottom is the null space beyond the bottom of the two 30" Cinema Displays and between the two inside edges of the vertical 24" CDs.

 

[Procrastinus]

My favourite

 

[eyoungren]

Haven't posted here in a while because the backgrounds keep changing. At some point I made myself think about what I really wanted and I decided that there would be one image that stretched across the four aluminum Cinema Displays and that the two verticals would hold only my writing influencers (from fantasy works). Works out pretty well now.

The HDTV background is also just one image. I decided since I put mainly music or video apps up there that the image should just be simple as it's going to be hidden most of the time. So I used a dark background.

The acrylic Cinema Display is what I had issues with. It's intended to be a monitor for my three primary windows and all my drives/servers/aliases. But I also wanted to show my primary writing influencers and the heavy influence fantasy magic has on my writing. This is the second incarnation of that (the first was awful and I didn't post it).

Primary displays:

Left wing (Polgara the Sorceress from David Eddings's books)


Left monitor


Right monitor


Right wing (Moiraine Damodred from Robert Jordan's books, as painted by a South American artist)


HDTV


ACD (Audrey Meadows and Amanda Blake from the Honeymooners and Gunsmoke, respectively. The mage in the center is intended to represent me, although he looks more handsome I think)



The background images of the trees are artwork from the band called Eldrim if anyone is interested in looking them up.

 

[eyoungren]

The entire thing…