That is awesome! Steampunk itself is awesome! Which makes your wallpaper doubly awesome!
Has anyone ever made a GWC decktop wallpaper? I am sure Chuck and Sean still have some pics (hopefully HD) of the ships and logo. It would be cool if they could link them up and perhaps we could fool around with making some really cool wallpapers. 
Here’s mine at the moment.
MercuryShadow, what distro are you running?
Fedora 11. From the PDF on your desktop I’m guessing you’re running Kubuntu, have you upgraded to Karmic yet? KDE 4 has rubbed me the wrong way, but I’ve heard that 4.3 is pretty good. Amarok 2 sucked pretty bad when it came out, too. KDE 3.5 and Amarok 1.4 were awesome, but I had to go back to Gnome. I actually just downloaded the Fedora 12 KDE Beta and am in the process of installing it in VirtualBox, we’ll see how good it is.
However, I login to dozens of remote boxes for work and dig sshmenu but haven’t found a good KDE equivalent that I can use with Konsole. Any ideas?
Is it wrong that I am not surprised to see Seraph has a man trapped in a glass box. 
Can you hook me up with a deal on one of those. I have an…experiment I need to run. Yeh, that’s it. An experiment. :rolleyes:
I’m a first time KDE user so I can’t really compare it to earlier versions, but Kubuntu 9.10 has worked pretty well for me. I had a weird sound problem at first but that was easily fixed. I have never been a fan of amarok but it seems all right, for what little I need from it. I usually use GNOME but I decided I’d go differently on this development cycle. I haven’t decided if I am going to stick to it yet or not.
Sadly, i don’t know anything about SSH (I’m a linux user for fun, not work 
) so I can’t help you there.
Is it wrong that I am not surprised to see Seraph has a man trapped in a glass box.
Can you hook me up with a deal on one of those. I have an…experiment I need to run. Yeh, that’s it. An experiment.
He’s not trapped … he can leave at any time he wants … I’ve just convinced him that sticking around is worth his time :3
And I’ll be sending on in the mail shortly.
SSH isn’t for work only. You can use it to remotely login to your Linux box and do things. I highly recommend checking it out. Are you a fairly new Linux user? I’m by no means an expert, but I’d consider myself pretty advanced, if you have any questions I’d be glad to help.
I’m not new exactly, been using Ubuntu since 8.04 (that damned bird) and been using every new distro since. But I’m not super l337 about it, I know my way around the usual commands, apt-get and all that but I wouldn’t say I’m advanced. I’ll keep the offer in mind, thanks.
No prob. The true strength of Linux is in the command line. Most things that can be done with a GUI can be done quicker (and, many times, even better) when you use the terminal.
my desktop… my windows XP has the same desktop, just with more OSXish interface
What dock are you using?
I use cairo-dock. So far it’s the one dock app that looks best, does everything (also can do desklets), and very quick in response.
It actually support full 3D icons, dock and effects rendering and can use OpenGL to do hardware acceleration. Though my video card is older than BSG mini-series, so I just run it in none OpenGL mode.
I never got the point of using a dock, personally. It takes up valuable screen real estate. I use Gnome Do and can launch just about anything I need without even reaching for my mouse (or in the case of my laptop, the trackpad :)). If you guys want to check it out, fire up your terminal and enter the following:
sudo apt-get install gnome-do gnome-do-plugins
After it’s installed, it should show up in the Accessories submenu (under Applications). At least that’s where it is on my box, but I’m running Fedora so it may not be in the same location in Ubuntu.
EDIT: I see hansioux is already running Gnome Do. Sweet.
yes, i have Gnome Do… though I still don’t know how to use it unfortunately T_T
I use the dock mainly for aesthetics (it’ poor man’s OSX), but great thing about Cairo Dock is a unique setting that isn’t found on most docks. You can tell it only to hide when a window has been maximized or full screened.
Therefore you don’t always have to look for it with the cursor like autohide is with most docks, but at the same time when you max a window you get the full desktop. I have to say it’s the main reason i stuck with Cairo Dock.
can i say one thing that’s really weird…
during my last work, i have to deal with linux servers without x-win terminals, and I can do everything in command line just fine. But in ubuntu or any GUI interface, I simply loses my ability to use the command prompt
The first thing you want to do is right-click on the menubar icon and click “Preferences”, then click the “Keyboard” tab. Configure the keyboard shortcuts (I personally have the “Summon” action set to Ctrl+Shift+D, and “Text Mode” set to the Period key). Now you can bring up Gnome Do with a quick keystroke. From there, start typing the name of a program and Gnome Do will try to guess what you want to do. If your choice isn’t there, hit the down cursor and you’ll see other choices. One of the coolest things about Do, however, is the plugins. It’ll index all of your Firefox bookmarks, so if you know the title of the bookmark you can type a few letters and then hit enter and Firefox will launch and point to that site. Or, if you have copied a URL to your clipboard, you can bring up Do and hit the Period key to enter Text Mode, then paste in the URL and tab over and hit enter and Firefox will open with that URL. Saves you the time spent opening the browser and finding the bookmark/pasting in the URL.
That’s weird about not being able to use the command prompt when logged in to an X session. Even when logged into my laptop with plenty of GUI tools available, I almost always have a terminal window open. Even the mail client I use for my work email (mutt) runs in a terminal window!
i still am not clear how to use it. so after i called up the Gnome Do popup, and clicked period . to enter text mode, and i enter “gedit”, press enter nothing happens. I click down it shows the icon of gedit, but nothing happens =_=
i believe it must be a great program since so many people recommended it. but i still haven’t figured heads or tail out of it.
it’s great to be able to use command prompt for everything. the problem is you can’t get the majority of people to switch to linux that way… the sad thing is as great as ubuntu or anyother linux GUI is, it still depends too heavily on being able to use command prompt to do some of the most basic stuff… you literally can’t do anything if you don’t know the sudo command.
maybe google will change everything… but then they’d just be another microsoft… maybe even worse, what they do for China is sickening already… i am not too sure i’d like google dominance any better than microsfot… so hopefully, ubuntu or KDE versions or Fedora will get things right before world gets taken over by companies willing to stop free speech and expose users personal information to a totalitarian state…
Here’s the background for my laptop. It’s a Halo3 characters tribute with my head on the Elite and Chuck’s head on the MC (You can just see his beard popping out the bottom of the helmet.)
Scaled down to fit the forum here of course 
My gods…Sean uses a PC? :eek: Time to turn in your artist card and think about what you have done.
Wow. That is a shock! I thot that even 1,923 years in the future, Sean would still insist on using a Mac. 
http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showpost.php?p=36566&postcount=4