From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 14 17:16:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2319337B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:16:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1059"@[136.142.21.139]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K5XMK9XXIQ006N9Z@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:16:10 EST Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:18:20 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: Neat aerospace desktop background images? To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Message-id: <3B510B7C.F7A77923@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,es-CO References: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I used some NASA (www.nasa.gov) pics for my FreeBSD Splash screen. they have a site with very nice pics and they are free. I forgot the exact URL though. Pedro. Brad Knowles wrote: > > Folks, > > I found some good stuff on mandolux.com, and I've managed to find > a few more images on the Boeing and Lockheed-Martin web pages that > I've turned into some more desktop images, but I'm wondering if > anyone here knows of any other sources -- I'm specifically looking > for things like the XB-70, the F-22 Raptor, X-32, X-35, YF-22, A-12, > SR-71, and other recent (and classic) high-tech/high-speed military > and/or experimental aircraft, as well as cool civilian aircraft such > as the Concorde, Airbus A-3XX, Boeing "Boxwing" concepts, Boeing > HSCT, etc.... > > I've talked to Mando, and he says that he gets most of his images > from stock photo agencies, but they typically want like $129 for a > single hi-res image, or $200-300 for a CD of about 100 images, and I > have neither the money nor the inclination to spend that kind of > money on a stupid desktop background image. > > So, does anyone here have any other ideas? > > -- > Brad Knowles, > > /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ > /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ > /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ > /* */ > /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ > /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ > > dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message