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Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See?
An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever been curious about what someone else's computing environment looks like? Would you like to see what tools and products someone like Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates, George Bush, or Steve Jobs uses on a daily basis? What percentage of time is spent browsing the web, working in spreadsheets, programming, debugging, designing, or writing documents? How many monitors or devices do they have attached to their PC? What kind of security or anonymizers do they have in place?" For good or ill, open source developers' desktops at least are often visible in screenshots of their pet projects.
Jennas desktop is the one *I* would like to see the most!
I'd love to see RMS' desktop.
Right here :)
Darl.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
I'm curious to see what Georgie Bush's computer's like, but it's a pretty strong bet that someone just gave him an Etch-a-Sketch to play with.
George Bush's Desktop:
None. You can't put a desktop on a Etch-A-Sketch.
Gates uses MacOS, Torvalds uses Windows, and Jobs uses Linux. They're a bunch of swingaas babyyy!
I'm not curious anymore about what Richard Stallman's desktop looks like. I happened to be sitting behind him at the last FOSDEM conference, just before his presentation. Two observations about his desktop as I saw it that day.
:)
First of all, he doesn't use a GUI.
Second, the desktop environment that he was using was not vi.
Michael Jackson's desktop.
I was fortunate enough to be able to find a screenshot of Billy G's desktop
This would fare better as a Fark photoshop contest than as an ask slashdot.
I do not deploy Linux. Ever.
CowboyNeal's Desktop
Vonal Declosion
Especially the alledged copied source folder :)
siggy played guitar
Now we all know the real question here is...how much of this percentage of time involves porn?
Proof here.
I would like to see Jesus' desktop; I bet he uses OS X.
...my monitor died last week.
bhu dhu dhum dhum *crash*
Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week.
#SickNotWeak
Solitaire...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
So, what's your IP address and root password? :)
You are not the customer.
Linus uses an sophisticated email filter with a lot of sco.com addresses in it
Bill Gates uses a scepter and fake British lord's robes of state, to rehearse his meeting with Liz
Steve Jobs would use the stress reduction and temper control cdrom he got at Christmas if Macs could run Windows binaries.
Bush uses a Microsoft Barney
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I'll bet she has icons scattered randomly over the desktop, and all the colors clash.
"wow look at mah cursor! it's got a tail! come over here condi... check this out, lookey, when I move my mouse 'round, there's a lil' tail it's like a real mousey!"
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
Actually, he seems to be pretty proficient with a computer. :-)
[For the high-bandwidth version go to http://bushin30seconds.org/finalists.shtml]
The funny/sad thing was one of his specialties was supposed to be user interface. He wasn't please when the X10 to X11 upgrade moved the windows. Plus the line was in permanent marker.
That was one desktop I didn't need to see...
Here is a Screenshot of the computer on the desk in the Oval Office...
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
since Macintosh is a religion as well.
I'm not clicking any link with the word "goat" in the path.
My own desktop. It's so cluttered with icons and documents that I can't see what background looks like anymore.
:)
Where was that report again?
I'm willing to bet he's got three folders on the desktop:
...of course, there's no 'Sucessful Legal Shit' anywhere...
Actually....I think I may have to see my desktop...There are too many windows open...I haven't seen my desktop in a week or so...
--<Mike>--
This is a perfect Fark photoshop topic. Someone pass it along.
No. . .Bush's desktop runs Scissors.
my friends went on a teacher's computer and took a screenshot of porn set in a Internet Explorer window and set it as the background picture.
Suffice to say, the teacher had many problems closing the window, even after restart.
(I'd like to see Darl's desktop. I bet he has underpants gnomes as his background.)
I haven't gotten down there in a while....
Well, the "Childhood Cancer Foundation" here in Australia hands out stickers that say "Support childhood cancer".
Sure, the more of the little buggers that get tumours and die the better, I guess...
Linus Torvalds: Uses blackbox on three monitors, all full of Xterms running vi. The background is a roll of toilet paper, edited in The Gimp to look like a roll of Transmeta, RedHat and VA Linux stock shares.
Bill Gates: Last night's build of longhorn. Has 5 monitors: one for the PowerPoint slideshow he's rehearsing, one for Outlook, and three for all the extra clocks, sliders, gizmos, icons, etc. that Longhorn puts on the desktop. His background is one of the default WinXP images.
George W. Bush: Cheney and Rumsfeld won't let him touch the "big kid computers", but he has an Etch-a-Sketch with a caricature of Saddam Hussein sitting on a canister of nerve gas.
Steve Jobs: 3 21" Apple Cinema displays. Beta build of OSX 10.4 ("Puma"). Only has one icon on the desktop, but damn if it doesn't look *really cool*.
0 1 - just my two bits
It's what all the Christian Hackers use...
We apologise for the fault in this post. Those responsible have been sacked. -- Signed RICHARD M. NIXON
...has the name "Fisher-Price" on it somewhere.
Shut up Wesley
of course!
"Sanity is not statistical", George Orwell, "1984"
I just sshed to root@127.0.0.1, put in your root password, and typed rm -rf / and will hit enter as soon as this is posted. You've got that long to pull your cord or your hard disk and files will have been your hard disk and files, but not no more!
Eat that, douchebag!
Dennis Ritchie runs NT4?! GAK. It's like finding out your parents are supplementing their pension incomes by making porn.
*Shudder*
Ron
I really would like to see SteveB's computer working. I wonder if he got someone there to write him a natty aphorism-generating engine that runs sort of like motd (even better, just use the motd engine ported to Windows, but a different database, of course, perhaps with some Bayesian word selection generations), along with some sort of flash-based stick figure animation generator, so he can work on his routines. Probably has a rotating background generator that makes those promotional posters and their witty aphorisms that we've all seen for things like "Teamwork", "Security", "Innovate or Die", and "Extend and Embrace".
Or maybe his desktop background is simply that of the embedded webcam on his laptop popping pictures every 5 minutes of his face (face-recognition software lets it know when its master is not there), along with a moving MSFT stock ticker chart with trend analysis, a couple of projected stock trajectories, and where his 1-billion share stop-loss order is at.
Maybe it's got a little WMP video showing Chris Farley's motivational speaker loop from his SNL days, but of course ending before the heart attack as well as a loop of the hypnotist from "Office Space"...which leads to the next question: what is SteveB's trigger phrase?
The other app is probably just an Access-based app that he can edit about 10 text boxes and pump out new PowerPoint presentations, and an Excel spreadsheet to pump out new quarterly reports for the various people he meets regarding MSFT's stock price.
Howard Dean really needs to watch SteveB's various speeches before he does another hypermanic speech.
(_) Bill Gates
(_) Linus Torvalds
(_) George W. Bush
(_) Darl McBride
(_) Richard M. Stallman
(_) The Pope
(_) CowboyNeal
I bet CowboyNeal would win. ;)
I just KNOW he gets the best pr0n!
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Bill doesn't even use a computer. I check his email for him...
My man! also, the squirrel with big nuts, the mustard guy, domo-kun, the masturbating kittens, chirtopher walken, and will wheaton!
It's a trap!
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
I suppose it was Bush's difficulty in dealing with written information that stopped him learning who the president of India was, or Pakistan?
You can pretend that Bush is just a genius masquerading as a dimwit all you want, but if he looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, chances are he is a fucking duck.
That was classic intercourse!
a dual monitor LCD setup in a darkened windowless room, back when they where pretty rare.
Don't be fooled. Darkened, windowless rooms have been about for longer than you think.
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Did you by any chance ask them if Spirit and Opportunity use the same code, or if they were coded independently by two separate teams working on the same requirements?
No, I didn't. I should have, but instead I asked her which one would win in a fight. She said that they were twins, so it would be pretty even . . . then I asked her which one was the Evil Twin, and she laughed and said that was classified information.