ichase Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 As a person who spent over 21 years around Military Aviation, I always enjoyed the local airshows and speaking with the guys that used to work on those mighty war birds in their time and comparing notes so to say at the differences between the aircraft we worked on. Nice looking desktop Eric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 I added Sgt. Komansky's Silver Star medal, a small P-51, and an Me-109 to the wallpaper. Yeah, I'm kind of a 12 o'Clock High fan. Wait till you see my Combat! desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 A good friend of mine was a navigator on a B-29. Not as purty as the 17. Just finished a book about a pilots experience flying the 29's during ww2.... Combat? Can you say "Sgt. Saunders?" Great show!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 The 29 was a helluva plane, but it's just not the venerable old 17. Have you ever seen the Nova episode on PBS where they try to restore and fly a 29 off some glacier in Greenland? That was an AWESOME show! A MUST watch! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/b29-frozen.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Sure did, Eric. What a disappointment to have gone all that far just to have it burn....I believe it was due to the gas genset? Have you seen Zeno's Warbirds Video Drive-in on the internet?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 I wasn't familiar with Zeno's site, but I'm there right now watching the Memphis Belle vid. Thanks, Neil! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Is this his site: http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/ ? I can't watch them sadly but looks very interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 That's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaomega Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Take an old smpk4083 4gb mp3 player which only holds a 45min charge. Install PCLinuxOS LXDE 2012. Install Compiz. Attach it to an old Compaq CQ62 which only holds a 60min charge and has a damaged hard drive from being dropped. And you have: http://i43.tinypic.com/1o8w3m.png Edited May 5, 2012 by alphaomega Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 alphaomega that is pretty darn neat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Take an old smpk4083 4gb mp3 player which only holds a 45min charge. Install PCLinuxOS LXDE 2012. Install Compiz. Attach it to an old Compaq CQ62 which only holds a 60min charge and has a damaged hard drive from being dropped. And you have: Excellent job Alphamega!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Ah! The good old north wind. Yesterday we were in shorts and t-shirts and today we had to put the winter coat back on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 I'm still in shorts and t-shirts. Won't have to drag out the winter gear till about the end of November, maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 For the dark forums background I am using the Stylish pluginin Firefox with the Midnight Surfing - Global Dark Style. It make every page I visit in Firefox dark. Cheers Thanks! I do not use Firefox so I will have to search for an alternative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I found one that works on Chrome: http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/darkchrome/ It also allows you to turn on and off via a button or enable globally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaomega Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I found one that works on Chrome: http://www.chromeext...ing/darkchrome/ It also allows you to turn on and off via a button or enable globally. Nice. I'm really not a big fan of dark themes...but they are so much easier on the eyes in a dark room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Nice. I'm really not a big fan of dark themes...but they are so much easier on the eyes in a dark room. Well as you can see by a screenshot of one of my screens, I like my darkness: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Sure do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaomega Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 (edited) Well as you can see by a screenshot of one of my screens, I like my darkness: That is nice. A little more consistent in color than mine. I see that you are using "Gabriel". In which DE or WM are you in? I would really like to find a theme in dark gray. The one I'm currently using appears a little too brown to my bad eyes. Edited May 4, 2012 by alphaomega Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 That is nice. A little more consistent in color than mine. I see that you are using "Gabriel". In which DE or WM are you in? I would really like to find a theme in dark gray. The one I'm currently using appears a little too brown to my bad eyes. I am using that gtk theme on Xmonad but it should look the same on any environment you choose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 OK, as Eric suggested, the image discussion has been split off to Tips and Tricks: Image resizing in Posts - IPB Forum Style. There was some intermixed dark theme and image resizing in the same post that got moved in the process. If you want any of that text in your posts here, copy and add to a existing posting of yours in this topic. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. It was just hard to actually split them off and maintain some continuity in both threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 5, 2012 Author Share Posted May 5, 2012 If this were my personal board, I wouldn't care much. However, on a tech support type board like this one, it's really confusing to the readers to see shredded off-topic threads when they're searching for solutions to their issues. Granted, they wouldn't be searching too much on this thread for solutions, but... Oh, and never let it be said that I'm just being a jack-booted thug staffer... I am OFTEN guilty of steering threads into the ditch around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) As I posted in the Tips and Tricks topic: it was a great idea Eric! I was thinking of how to do it myself. It was just so intermixed. It really did need doing. Edited May 5, 2012 by LilBambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaomega Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) Would the people using a dark theme care to post screenshots and give some details on how they accomplished it? I am wanting to switch over to using a dark theme (as I'm usually in a dim lit room) and was just looking for some ideas. Here are some screenshots of what my system looks like now using a dark theme. KDE system colors are set to: Obsidian Coast KDE desktop theme is set to: Androbit Using Stylish plugin in Firefox with the Midnight Surfing - Global Dark Style Colors in Thunderbird message window are set in Thunderbirds' settings. Cheers TIA Edited May 5, 2012 by alphaomega Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) I like the way the Scot's website has a black background. I have black borders but could not figure out how to get the background black. Here is mine on my laptop. Open box with GTK themes Edited May 5, 2012 by ichase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Nice dark themes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 I like the way the Scot's website has a black background. I have black borders but could not figure out how to get the background black. That is a browser extension/plugin. I use the chrome extension DarkChrome which gives you a button to turn on/off darkmode: http://forums.scotsn...450#entry349450 Alphaomega uses a Stylist plugin on Firefox with the Midnight Surfing Global Dark Style: http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=19407&st=1450#entry349448 Excellent screenshots guys, they look very Geeky!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 That is a browser extension/plugin. I use the chrome extension DarkChrome which gives you a button to turn on/off darkmode: http://forums.scotsn...450#entry349450 Alphaomega uses a Stylist plugin on Firefox with the Midnight Surfing Global Dark Style: http://forums.scotsn...450#entry349448 Excellent screenshots guys, they look very Geeky!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! I now have darkess in the web too!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I got work to do on the desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! I now have darkess in the web too!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I got work to do on the desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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