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Geek poll: what do you have open?

May21

I love a good internet meme. So how could I resist playing along? I have only one instance of each of the following:

Evolution groupware suite

Liferea rss feed reader with over 100 feeds being updated regularly

Firefox, with five tabs

OpenOffice Writer

Conky, with custom settings that I like to play with

Tilda, a terminal that I have running on my desktop at all times, with transparant settings so it looks like part of my desktop wallpaper until I click on it and start typing.

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posted under Linux / Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet

8 Comments to

“Geek poll: what do you have open?”

On May 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 am Elsewhere in Dreams » What I Have Open Says:
[...] is what I get for reading Ubuntu Planet. Another meme to make the people happy. This one is, what do you have open on your desktop? I’m including things that are living in [...]
On May 22nd, 2008 at 2:19 am Jon Skanes Says:
Well, I’m a KDE geek, so:
desktop 1: konsole with about a dozen sessions open
desktop 2: firefox with 8 tabs
desktop 3: kontact with korganizer, kmail, akregator
desktop 4: ktorrent
desktop 5: 3 vmware server consoles
desktop 6: d3lpin and kaffeine
desktop 7: unusually empty
desktop 8: kopete
On May 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 am Gouki’s Weblog / What do you have open? Meme Says:
[...] is the first time I’m actually participating on one of these things. I’m amazed on how much stuff people have open. Firefox – 9 tabs Evolution [...]
On May 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 am Ciego Says:
I would like to see what that wallpaper looks like with your terminal embedded. I have been wanting to do this for a while but have not found a good wallpaper to make it work and look nice.
On May 22nd, 2008 at 7:02 am matthew Says:
Ciego: your wish is my command. Click for larger.

*removed until I get time to sit down and edit the pics to remove personal data*

I created my own background image with a specific spot for the terminal in this shot. My backgrounds and themes change often, so if you look at the link below you can see some more examples.

link removed…same reason
On May 23rd, 2008 at 11:06 pm nabil2199 Says:
I can see you MAC address matthew,haXXing possibilities are endless.
Oh and your public IP so now I can stalk you(even if IAM has dynamic IPs and I don’t have access to their logs)so now I can stalk you
On May 24th, 2008 at 10:43 pm matthew Says:
nabil: doh! I know better than that. I forgot to clean the screenshots.

Fortunately, IAM does use dynamic IPs, and this is the MAC address for my laptop, which is only online when I am actually using it and would/could detect any attempts. Still…I have removed the images until I get around to cleaning them and uploading new ones.

Thanks…I didn’t even think to look, and usually I’m very good about stuff like that.
On May 25th, 2008 at 5:55 pm matthew Says:
Okay, I cleaned up the images. Here is a repost of a safer version.

Like last time, there are more here.