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We will present you a script created by Claudio Novais @ Ubuntued which displays a picture of the Earth, in real time, like the image above. The script needs a permanent internet connection and uses just ~400kb of memory so there's no worry about eating system resources. Also, please note the the script tries to update every hour but if it fails, it tries to get the image from 5 to 5 seconds, for 5 minutes and if it still fails, it tries again in an hour. That's especially useful for when running the script at system start-up, because it takes some time until the internet connection is set up, or for when the internet connection goes down, etc. How to use the real-time Earth wallpaper script for Linux according to Web8 1. Download the script from HERE. 2. Create a new folder in your home partition, let's call it "earthwallpaper" and put the script you just downloaded into this folder. 3. Open a terminal, navigate to the folder you created at step 2... http://www.crapattack.org/2009/09/worl...