[DarwinX]

Just a simple question to get an idea on what others are doing:

For those who attend a university/high school or those working at them, do the labs at your school have custom desktop images? You know, something stating the name of the school or building that you're in or other useful information?

Just curious as to what everyone else is seeing/thinks. Thanks.

[rickey939]

My college had a custom Desktop image put in place.

[sknapp351]

The university I attend asd work at has a message in a white box that gives contact info for the help desk, as well as online resouce url's for tech info documentation.
SAm

[iXavier]

Most that I've seen have either what sknapp351 describes or just the logo of the college/university on a general colored background, like blue.

x.

[CharlesS]

When I was working in my university's tech lab last year, we put general information about usage of the computer in the Desktop picture - i.e. put your saved files in one of these locations or they will be deleted automatically, use Safari or Firefox to get to the Internet, etc.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by sknapp351

The university I attend asd work at has a message in a white box that gives contact info for the help desk, as well as online resouce url's for tech info documentation.
SAm

This is the standard for the ones at my university as well, though you can change it, it's not locked.

On the Windows machines, you have your own account, and you can tweak it quite a lot, really: you can change between Classic and XP mode, set background images, change system fonts, change screen resolutions, install and run your own programs [such as a proper browser and a download manager, for instance], etc. You can even install new fonts from floppies, CDs, or USB sticks, though you can't delete pre-installed fonts.

On the (very few) Macs, you don't log on as your own account, all students just use one public account, on which you can change background pictures and a few other system settings, as well as install and run new programs, as long as they're not haxies (something like ShapeShifter is a no-go, of course). You can't install fonts either. You can go ask one of the librarians, though, they have the admin password, and if it's just to install a font you need for a paper you need to print or something, they'll usually let you.

(This is all at our small institute; on the big main humanities supra-institute, the computers are quite a bit more stringently controlled, and you can't change anything there, though the changes are kept if you've changed them on our 'local' computers beforehand.)

[Demonhood]

we used to just have the logo in the background of the macs in our lab.
around the holidays i would whip up some festive graphic and push it out to all the machines.
this was in-between setting machines to talk at random times and freak out all the students.

[OpenStep]

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[Tesseract]

On topic: The wallpaper in my school's main Windows lab is locked to a custom image which has information about computer usage (printing instructions, lab hours, where to get help) plus two or three promotions for student groups (these are rotated every week or two).

OpenStep: I've only had this new, hi-res screen for 24 hours, didn't expect it would get filled up that fast.

[bad_quote]

Ask questions like yoda, you do.

[rickey939]

OpenStep...please stop.

Love,
The 'NN Faithful

[OpenStep]

Originally Posted by rickey939

OpenStep...please stop.

Love,
The 'NN Faithful

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[DarwinX]

Originally Posted by rickey939

OpenStep...please stop.

Love,
The 'NN Faithful

Agreed without passing any judgement.

(Rickey...am I losing it or does your sig rotate? Please tell me it rotates)

Originally Posted by bad_quote

Ask questions like yoda, you do.

Not intentionally I might add. I'm not even that big of a Star Wars geek.

Rob: hope all is well with the picture debacle.

On Topic:

I work at a university as a tech specialist and was just curious what the rest of the world was doing. We just have generic background color right now but I'd like to add something to it. Trying to keep up with the Jones's(sp?).

[production_coordinator]

At my University, we were lucky to have color TVs connected to our commodore 64s... and it was in the late 90s.

[goMac]

Our school uses the default Panther background for all the PC's.

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by goMac

Our school uses the default Panther background for all the PC's.

[MacMan4000]

My high school has the default windows shade of blue for the background. Setting desktop
pictures (or setting anything in the control panel for that matter) is blocked. But if you turn on
active desktop you can put images on it and move/resize them all you want. This only affects your
personal username, so the teacher doesn't mind unless its profanity or nudity.

One day the guy in the class before me left his computer loged in... bad idea.
I put an image on his background (found via google images) of a solid black square with the
words "sh!t happens" in white... the i streched it too full screen... chose "hide desktop icons" and
"lock desktop items"

Even the teacher couldn't figure out how to fix it... they ended up giving him a new username.

[stevesnj]

We use the school logo so the kids are reminded that this is school property. We also have all students get permission slips to use computers.

[Cubeoid]

Originally Posted by DarwinX

(Rickey...am I losing it or does your sig rotate? Please tell me it rotates)

Allow me to field this one..

rickey939 rotates the color co-ordination of his signature to strategically match topical calendar events.