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[SPEC]Who's computer is that? Clue?

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Insomniac · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 234 Location: 01

Maybe it's supposed to be the desktop of a MetaCortex employee, or all employees at the office?

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 9:44 pm

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yeahyeah · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 282

well, isnt that the background for the contact Regenhardt, David about your account popup? The problem (well the difference between this and the other popups) is that the proper address is http://www.metacortechs.com/images/bg.jpg not http://www.metacortechs.com/bg.JPG (Linux is case sensitive..)

So either
a) the background is a clue.. and purposely hidden
or
b) the html file author 'oopsed'

I asked about this in the last few days on irc, and someone (can't remember who) said that it used to show up.. So I don't know if the file was moved, or they misunderstood my question..

My two cents..

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:02 pm

niobexrev

While it could be a mistaken link to the popup, a jpg pic of someone's computer screen seems a little odd to me. The time on the taskbar looks to be 1:12 AM. I'm not entirely sure if that's a "My Computer" icon in the upper left. It could be. I don't know how to clear pics up, this looks a little blury. Someone else wanna take a crack at it?

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:15 pm

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joebrent

Here's a sharpened version. WHen you sharpen the picture up, you can clearly see the writing next to the "My Computer" icon.

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:56 pm

Styles · Boot Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 32

Clearly? I can't see a thing.

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:58 pm

Semioclast · Boot Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 68

Obvious

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 12:00 am

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colin

If it's the same backgoround as metacortechs offers on there website then you could just take that shrink it and use 'difference' in photoshop to isolate the text. I'd do it myself but can't right now. Only thing that might stop it is quality loss from compression

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 12:02 am

joebrent

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 12:04 am

bakntime

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 12:06 am

niobexrev

My question is, is that in fact a "My computer" icon? Or an icon for some other program? I doubt that anything was changed in the background, but I could be wrong. And I'm also assuming that in the lower left corner it just says "start" with a windows icon next to it. But I could also be wrong there. I don't have a sharpening tool on my crappy onld computer.

[EDIT] Thanks bakntime and Anthrax, that's what I thought. It's just the wallpaper everyone gets. The stuff I'm interested in is the icon and "start" button. Really just the icon. i think the start button is just... the windows start button.

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AnthraX101 · Entrenched Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 797

FYI: This was the backround to the original popup that came when you first visited www.metacortechs.com before the game went live, Oct. 1.

AnthraX101

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 12:15 am

Giskard

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:33 am

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:40 am

ArchGod

You all may be talking about the icon and 21st century, but what about the time. It clearly says 1:12 AM.

Just a thought.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 3:20 pm

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