Wallpapers ??

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Madd · #1 Post by **Madd** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:08 am

Hi

Is there an archive of available wallpapers anywhere on the site ??

I'm new here and don't know all the ins an' outs yet 8o

Cheers.

Madd

Music Head · #2 Post by **Music Head** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:50 am

nope,

but thats sounds like a good idea to have

Madd · #3 Post by **Madd** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:57 am

Hi Music Head :)

Thanks for the reponse !!

And maybe some day we WILL get a nice collection of wallpapers ;)

Cheers.

Mad

Da_elf · #4 Post by **Da_elf** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:17 pm

i have to stay away from wall papers. they waste too much resources.

Music Head · #5 Post by **Music Head** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:32 pm

for some reason my dad put up a wallpaper of wat i think is the inside of someones stomach,

Madd · #6 Post by **Madd** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:09 pm

Hi :)

Da_elf ....
Yes. Unfortunately some wallpapers do take up rather a lot of room. I regularly "prune" mine so that I just have a few favourites stored at any one time.

Music Head ....
Hehehe !! Or maybe it's really modern art and he's just SO much more sophisticated than you thought ??

Cheers.

Madd

Pidgeot · #7 Post by **Pidgeot** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:27 pm

Madd wrote:Da_elf ....
Yes. Unfortunately some wallpapers do take up rather a lot of room. I regularly "prune" mine so that I just have a few favourites stored at any one time.

That's not what he meant. What he meant was that they use too many system resources, like CPU speed and RAM.

In general, this should not be an issue, though, as long as you stick to BMPs and use tiling or centering.

Broomie · #8 Post by **Broomie** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:31 pm

There was a Halloween QFG2VGA wallpaper the AGD's posted up here. Alas, tis gone unless anyone saved it.

Da_elf · #9 Post by **Da_elf** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:36 pm

exactly pigeot. usually i optimise windows down to bare bones with no screen saver, no energy saver, no wallpaper, no clock, no desktop icons, basically just whats needed to keep it running. 3d takes up tonnes of computer resources and ive only got 3GB ram in the main system and 2 in the other

Ghost_Rider · #10 Post by **Ghost_Rider** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:52 am

Hey Da_elf, your signature "there are two ways to tackle any problem, unfortunately only the 3rd way works", reminds me of another similar saying: "There are 3 types of people in life - those who can count, and those who cannot"

Sometimes people at work have 50 or more icons/shortcuts on their desktop, a huge .bmp wallpaper, active desktop, live weather updates running in the background.... and they say, "My computer is running slowly!" 8o

Of course, if you do not understand that these things hog the resources, then you think nothing of it. Funny thing is, when you have more than 50 shortcuts, how the heck can you find anything?

Da_elf · #11 Post by **Da_elf** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:11 pm

actually the cool saying thats close to the one you said is "there are 10 types of people in the world. those who know binary and those who dont"

Ghost_Rider · #12 Post by **Ghost_Rider** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:10 am

Never heard that one before, but I like it. Very clever.

Of course, no one will get it unless they actually do understand binary.

Music Head · #13 Post by **Music Head** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:04 am

isn't binary where you satart with 1 and 2 and 4 and 8 and keep going, and your supposibaly able to make any number by just adding these numbers together???

Khalon · #14 Post by **Khalon** » Thu May 05, 2005 8:29 am

yes, just as decimal is when you start with one and then ten and then one hundred, and are able to make any number just by adding these.
You're talking about what the digits stand for, basically...

In decimal, they stand for ascending powers of ten, the rightmost being ten to the power of 0 (10^0=1), the second being ten to the power of one (10^1=10), the third being ten to the power of two (10^2=100) and so on.

In binary, they stand for ascending powers of two, the rightmost being two to the power of 0 (2^0=1) and so on, much as in decimal. Thus the second digit stands for 4, the third digit for 8, and so on.

Thus:
Decimal Binary
1 1
2 10 (a two and no ones)
3 11 (a two and a one)
4 100 (a four and no twos or ones)
5 101 (a four and a one)
and so on.

Hence "There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who know binary, and those who don't" translates to there being 2 kinds of people. Actually, I think you'd still pronounce it 2, regardless of what base you're in, so it mightn't translate very well when spoken, unless you were to say "There are one zero kinds...", which would let people know something was strange right away...

If you ever want anything else explained in an excessively longwinded fashion, you know who to call.

Music Head · #15 Post by **Music Head** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:50 am

jpnuar1 · #16 Post by **jpnuar1** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:34 pm

Khalon wrote:If you ever want anything else explained in an excessively longwinded fashion, you know who to call.

What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow?

Pidgeot · #17 Post by **Pidgeot** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:49 pm

jpnuar1 wrote:What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow?

Roughly 11 meters/second, or 24 miles/hour. Explanation in link.

jpnuar1 · #18 Post by **jpnuar1** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:55 pm

Pidgeot wrote:Roughly 11 meters/second , or 24 miles/hour.

You call that longwinded? Hah! I fart in your general direction.

;)

Jafar · #19 Post by **Jafar** » Fri May 06, 2005 12:41 am

jpnuar1 wrote:
Khalon wrote:If you ever want anything else explained in an excessively longwinded fashion, you know who to call.
What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow?

African, or European?

Ghost_Rider · #20 Post by **Ghost_Rider** » Fri May 06, 2005 3:18 am

Music Head wrote:huh

Hey if you think that binary is confusing, just wait until you first come across hexadecimal!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal or simply hex is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16 usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f.

For example, the decimal numeral 79 whose binary representation is 01001111 can be written as 4F in hexadecimal (4 = 0100, F = 1111).

Swift · #21 Post by **Swift** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:56 am

The only AGDI wallpaper I know of is the Halloween wallpaper.

Music Head · #22 Post by **Music Head** » Fri May 06, 2005 10:05 am

Ghost_Rider wrote:
Music Head wrote:huh
Hey if you think that binary is confusing, just wait until you first come across hexadecimal!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal or simply hex is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16 usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f.

For example, the decimal numeral 79 whose binary representation is 01001111 can be written as 4F in hexadecimal (4 = 0100, F = 1111).

hey leave the 13 year old alone, i'll catch up

Swift thatlink don't work

Ghost_Rider · #23 Post by **Ghost_Rider** » Sun May 08, 2005 4:59 am

If you're interested in computer/tech stuff you should take some courses in it later on. I really enjoyed those courses.

Music Head · #24 Post by **Music Head** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:01 am

i got soo much stuff i wanna do when i get older but whre to start, hmmmm

Ghost_Rider · #25 Post by **Ghost_Rider** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:15 am

That's always good to hear! There are too many people these days that don't want to do anything at all. Well, at least that's the case here. I think part of it is that they force everyone to take the same courses up until you're around 16. Many people lose interest in school by that time because they can't take what they want to take until later on.