back in the day I had it set up so that I had a command-prompt as my desktop background. Well, really just a proxy for the real command-prompt, but still.
build a logon-screen in HTML/flash. Hide the taskbar + Icons. Build your flash like this: someone tries to login. Let the Screen Flash red and the text: nuclear bomb engaged or so (mine was: clearing backup drive) Made that once. My boss nearly killed me.
When I used it back in the days, I created an html-page with all the critical phone numbers and mailto addresses to this and that (worked in a call center referring or connecting people to just about everywhere). Was actually very useful!
During a specific problem we had with two traffic load balancers, I set up a web page that queried the relevant parameters via SNMP and printed them in miniscule type on the same background colour as my desktop – green if they were OK and red if they were not – refreshing every 10 minutes. Then I put that page as a 10 x 50 active desktop element right above the system clock. After about two weeks we got a software fix, so I removed the page and never used active desktop again. 🙂
back in the day I had it set up so that I had a command-prompt as my desktop background. Well, really just a proxy for the real command-prompt, but still.
JPEG wallpapers on XP rely on Active Desktop. =
Not anymore, they did on ’98.
build a logon-screen in HTML/flash. Hide the taskbar + Icons. Build your flash like this: someone tries to login. Let the Screen Flash red and the text: nuclear bomb engaged or so (mine was: clearing backup drive) Made that once. My boss nearly killed me.
When I was in school I used it so that I didn’t have to open a browser to play Runescape, I just did it from the desktop… I was 13, what’d you expect?
I did the same thing. That game was like a drug, I swear.
When I used it back in the days, I created an html-page with all the critical phone numbers and mailto addresses to this and that (worked in a call center referring or connecting people to just about everywhere). Was actually very useful!
During a specific problem we had with two traffic load balancers, I set up a web page that queried the relevant parameters via SNMP and printed them in miniscule type on the same background colour as my desktop – green if they were OK and red if they were not – refreshing every 10 minutes. Then I put that page as a 10 x 50 active desktop element right above the system clock. After about two weeks we got a software fix, so I removed the page and never used active desktop again. 🙂