[Topgun]

desktops can tell about a person. like what games they play and what work they do.
what can you guess from mine?

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[Mustang19]

That... you have an Nvidia card, aren't at work, keep your pr0n hidden, and you actually liked Naboo Starfighter enough to keep it. Also, you don't cover your desktop with icons, either because you don't have much on your computer or you really like seeing that desert background.

Here's what I spend most of my internet time with.

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[Topgun]

That... you have an Nvidia card,
you really like seeing that desert background.

that's true. the rest isn't.
That's battle for naboo, not starfighter.
I don't have any p0rn

what I can guess from yours: you go to school.

[CP5670]

You can't really tell anything from mine. It's about as barebones as they come.



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[Herra Tohtori]

CP5670 has ATi graphics card as far as I can tell. His timezone is apparently GMT -5, which means most likely EST -> physical location most likely in eastern US. He probably studies or works with something that requires understanding of university level mathematics, because there's no real need for Mathematica otherwise (unless he's using it for fun). From that it could be possible to assume that he's studying in some of the eastern US university towns. He does like to keep the desktop clean.


Well, here's mine at the moment...

[Wobble73]

That's battle for naboo, not starfighter.

Yeah I have that and it's sequel/prequel "Battle for Endor"

*EDIT* Oh and I'd post mine but this is a works computer and I might get in trouble for it!  When I fix my interweb connection at home I might post a screenie, if this thread is still active that is!

[perihelion]

Hmm, so Herra is using a text-only terminal?   How ascetic of you!   

Heh, well, shouldn't be too hard to guess where I am...

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[CP5670]

CP5670 has ATi graphics card as far as I can tell. His timezone is apparently GMT -5, which means most likely EST -> physical location most likely in eastern US. He probably studies or works with something that requires understanding of university level mathematics, because there's no real need for Mathematica otherwise (unless he's using it for fun). From that it could be possible to assume that he's studying in some of the eastern US university towns. He does like to keep the desktop clean.

Pretty good deductions, although I think all that is already known from my previous posts around here. I keep nothing on the desktop since I practically never have it visible. I find it more convenient to launch all my exes directly from Turbo Navigator, an explorer-like program, than worry about setting up and organizing the icons.

I use Mathematica mainly as a place to doodle notes and stuff, as it's much faster and cleaner than writing on paper (or using some TeX variant, for that matter). I'm reviewing some material for a PhD qualifying exam at the moment.

[Herra Tohtori]

Hmm, so Herra is using a text-only terminal?

Putty works fastest when I only need a text terminal... And I do have WinAxe when I want to use X11 tunneling to use programs with graphic interface, which doesn't happen very often. Besides, most of the school's Unix computers are used mainly from a terminal even at the school...

Although, when I really need to do more stuff using the school's computers from home, I boot to Linux first for obvious reasons...

I suppose that desktop is of a school computer or something like that?

->CP - I tried to keep to the information derived from the desktop only, but obviously some assumptions may inevitably be coloured by what little I already knew - although I didn't really know that much either.


EDIT: Just for fun, I might as well post this as well...

[Jeff Vader]

From Herra Tohtori's desktop it can be deduced that he is one of those who rely on Comodo Firewall. Also, that icon of the 2.4 Comodo Firewall politely suggests that he is running XP with some Vista-looking effects/themes. Or at least I've understood that only 3.0 works in Vista.

We,, here's mine. Deduce what you want.

[Topgun]

you watch tv on your computer.
and what is orion?

[Bob-san]

That's mine. Note I'm at school, and this is such a small school that I don't want to post its name yet.

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[Jeff Vader]

TV? Oh, that Season 5 thingie... um, I can assure you it's completely legitimate. *cough* Stage6 *cough*. And Orion is an IRC client.

[Herra Tohtori]

From Herra Tohtori's desktop it can be deduced that he is one of those who rely on Comodo Firewall. Also, that icon of the 2.4 Comodo Firewall politely suggests that he is running XP with some Vista-looking effects/themes. Or at least I've understood that only 3.0 works in Vista.

Good catch there.

You're likely using a laptop or alternatively you have a 1280x800 widescreen TV as a monitor.

You use Paint.NET as image editing software (at least for saving print screens), VLC as a media player and your Windows installation is Finnish (like mine). You're apparently also subscriber to Campusbaana Internet connection.

[Jeff Vader]

You use Paint.NET as image editing software (at least for saving print screens)

How the hell did you manage to deduce that? It's absolutely correct. As are the rest. A laptop yes, VLC for videos, and, well, the Finnish part is natutally true. Campusbaana is the name of the Internet connection that I can get from my local ISP, who happen to have a deal with my landlord. That's a free 5/3MB connection right there.

[Herra Tohtori]

I cheated.

[Mika]

You're apparently also subscriber to Campusbaana Internet connection.

What the hell? There is another FS2 freak around here?

Mika

[Jeff Vader]

I cheated.

Dang, you win this time. I just found that feature myself.

What the hell? There is another FS2 freak around here?

What the...? Where are you?

[Mika]

I'm located in the capital of the Northern Middle Finland, and during my studying times I used the same internet connection.

I could also post my desktop here, but there is too much po... yes, pollution of icons on my desktop, so I wont until I have cleaned it up.

Mika

[jr2]