Desktop Meme

[darcydodo]

1. Why did you choose the background color/image you have?

'Cause I loves me my Willow. And I made the background the color that it is because... I like blues. I've actually just changed my background image to the new Inara image that I made, but I figured I'd do the meme with this wallpaper because I've had it for so long and also because I'll probably go back to it at some point. The two Willow pictures are taken from the S1 and S3 Buffy DVD wallpapers that are on the DVD website.

2. Why is your toolbar is where it is?

It's kind of immovable, unless I wanted it on the side wall, which just looks dumb in Windows. I'm guessing this is more of a Macintosh user question.

3. Why are the choices on your toolbar present?

On the left side, there's the button that makes the desktop visible (obviously useful), Windows Explorer, EWAN telnet (which I use for accessing GLADIS and other library telnet servers), PuTTY SSH (which I use for accessing my e-mail), an FTP client, Trillian, the character map, Internet Exploder (I only use it when Mozilla can't handle something evil and Microsoft related, and when I want to check webpage layouts in a second browser), EditPad (the new and improved NotePad, but not the newest and disimproved version of EditPad; this is a fairly old version), Word, MozillaFirebird, Semagic (my lj composer), and SC UniPad (which I use for typing in Unicode).

On the right side, besides a bunch of icons that are related to the running of the computer and virus software and stuff, there's WinAmp (for muuuuuuusic), Boingo (which supposedly allows me to get various commercial wireless services at random cafés), and Adaptec CD Creator.

4. What are the desktop icons?

Microsoft Excel: for spreadsheets and the like; I rarely use it, but I want it on my desktop proper because I've always had it there.
DivX Player: my favored .avi player. It can handle most types of .avi files that I've come across, and it does good fullscreen playing.
InterActual Player: Not what I actually use to play DVDs, but I keep it on my computer because it saves me a little bit of buggy rigamarole with the client I actually use. Long story; in short, my DVD player's a tad bit fucked up.
QuickTime: What I use for watching .mpg files, because it can handle them so much better than Windows Media Player can. And I can use it for screencaps. :)
CDex: Good for ripping CD tracks.
EWAN: see above
centralpark.cif: a CD image of Simon & Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park. There's actually a reason that I still have this on my desktop, rather than simply burning it to a CD and getting rid of it. There is far too much information on the CiCP CD, and over the years, we've bought two copies of it, both of which started to skip really quite badly after a month or two of being played. When I got my CD-RW drive, I tried to copy it to CD, rip it to wav, etc., but it couldn't cope with two of the tracks. However, I got this CD image first, and the two problematic tracks are there, intact. They are, however, not actually intact, in that there are bits of skip in them, quite bad in a couple of places. But basically, I'm never going to be able to rip this again in as good a form as it is right here (unless I go buy a third new copy of the CD and rip it right off the bat). So I figure I ought to save it on my computer, too, in case something happens to my ripped copy.
KaZaA Lite: Kazaa without the adware. It's a decent P2P client.
cert2002.txt: I think that's for a UCLA VPN address.
WS_FTP95 LE: My FTP client. I know I should be using psftp, and I do have it (see below), but I much prefer the graphical interface for FTPing. If someone wants to tell me of a good, free, graphical ssh ftp client, I'd probably be willing to switch to it.
Microsoft Word: 'Cause really, what would I do without it? I've not yet figured out LaTeX.
Mozilla (Firebird): Web browser.
Command Prompt: Just the MS-DOS shell, but isn't it a cute little Ionic column? I first started using the column as the icon for the prompt way back when I was still using Windows 3.1, so this is very much tradition for me.
EditPad: see above
Trillian: A million times better than actually having all those different IM clients....
SC UniPad: see above
psftp.exe: Secure FTP client which I only rarely use, because I always get turned about regarding remote and local and all that jazz. And also, spaces in file names are a big problem.
Super DVD Ripper: I've only used this once, and not very successfully. It really should go in the 'Rarely Used Shortcuts' folder.
WinMPG Video Convert: Similarly, I've not used this very often or with much success, either. And hence should be moved.
VPN Client: For getting wireless service at UCLA.
Adobe Acrobat 5.0: Yes, thank you, this is not Adobe Reader 5.0. Arr.
Semagic: LJ client.
PuTTY: Telnet client of choice for accessing e-mail, at least ever since fengshui helped me set it up so that it was more user-friendly. :)
TODOLIST.txt: I've just deleted this, actually. It was a list of stuff I needed to remember to do a few weeks ago (stuff for tour).
spikeicontext.txt: Spike's monologue from "A Hole in the World"; girlwithjournal wanted an icon with this text, so I transcribed it, and now I actually have to make the icon.
phonenumbers.txt: Because I keep being too lazy to go get my address book when I take down a phone number or get one in e-mail. This is meant to motivate me to at least make a collection of them all together ... so far, not working, as it only contains one phone number (which would be linley's).

Misc text files: As the name specifies, a bunch of .txt files I had littering my desktop.
Paris_Paintings: For Christmas, I gave my parents the journal entries I'd written in Paris over the summer. On lj, I'd linked as many paintings and works of art as I possibly could, when writing about museum visits, to images of the work I was talking about. I put all of these onto a CD for my parents to accompany the journal. This is the folder with the images in it.
Rarely Used Shortcuts: I had a bunch of shortcuts on my desktop that I rarely, if ever, used, but that I still wanted to have all in one place so that I'd know where they were (for when I couldn't remember the name). Things like TkTurf, Dia, modem dialups.... basically, things that are (or could be) quite handy, but that I really don't need obscuring whatever lovely picture I may be using as my wallpaper.

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[darcydodo]

Hello, welcome. :)