Screenshots

This is just a place to keep track of my screenshots. I love screenshots. I always look at people’s screenshots if they have them posted. I don’t know if anyone ever looks at mine, but I figure someday, somebody will get the same enjoyment I do out of them. Who knows? Plus, I even enjoy looking at them and remembering where I was at and what I was doing with each setup.

Windows

GNU/Linux

BeOS

Misc

This is a shot of a Gateway dual PIII 866 I had for a stint at work. I had it ordered with two 17″ monitors and a Matrox G400 dual-head card. Linux had some trouble going on it, so I got my boss to spring for a copy of Solaris x86. (Boy was that like pulling teeth. And for a measly $80 or so, too…) Once I got it all working, and discovered the “extras” disk, I just had to enable Xinerama. I had to recompile X to do it, and it was short-lived (everything you want to run already does so under Linux), but I took a shot because I knew I wouldn’t be back.

This is a shot of my home computer in the middle of trying to fix a problem at work when I was taking a day off. I’m running VMware Workstation 3.2 under RedHat 7.3 to run Windows 2000 so that I can run my company’s VPN client software (which has a Linux client that doesn’t do group passwords). After invoking the VPN connection, I used Terminal Services client to get a desktop on my secondary work computer which was running Windows 2000 Server with administrative mode terminal services. After connecting to that, I fired up PCAnywhere, which I used to connect to the “server” that was giving people a problem. After I got all this connected, I called into work to the person that had complained to me on voice mail, and he informed me that it was no big deal and I could just fix it the next day. Which was still a relief because by that time the screen messages were coming a little too slowly for my tastes.

Another shot about working from home. Here, I am using my home computer running RedHat 7.3 to run VMware Workstation 3.2 to run Windows 2000 to run my company’s VPN client, just like last time. However, this time, I connected to my primary work computer using PuTTY and started a VNC server. Then I used a VNC client connection to run VMWare on my workcomputer, so that I could see something that was going on with the Windows world at work. I forget what it was, exactly, that I was doing. I just thought another shot would be cool. I suppose that this is significant for a rather odd reason. As you can see, it’s the first time I’ve changed my desktop background in something like 5 years…

I finally found a use for WINE!

Gaming

Just before I upgraded my main computer from a dual Athlon with something like a GeForce 4-series card (I forget), I took a screenshot of BioShock, which I was playing at the time. As you can see, I was running at the 800×600 with all settings at the lowest level of effects and detail, and still only getting 26 FPS, according to FRAPS.

Then I put together my new computer, installed all the software, and got the game going again. This time, I was running at something like 1280×1024, all detail settings at full-blast, and I was staying at the frame cap most of the time. I was… pleased with the upgrade.

That would be Half-Life 2 on my work laptop during training