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  • S SlowFatRunner

    What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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    hairy_hats
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    Natural light as much as possible, and even lighting all over the room from overheads.

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    • S SlowFatRunner

      What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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      I'll reply with a song: "Let the sunshine in..." :-) [EDIT]What I really, really hate though, is a broken TL light... X| [/EDIT]

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      • S SlowFatRunner

        What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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        Harvey Saayman
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        As a geek, i try to block out as much natural sunlight as possible. Fluorescent overheads are much better than the sun's natural UV ;P

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        • S SlowFatRunner

          What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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          Simon Capewell
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          Indirect natural light. Direct sunlight makes the screen difficult to see and masses of overhead fluorescent lighting gives me a headache. I've taken the starters out of all but one of the cluster of 4 tubes in the light above my desk.

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          • S SlowFatRunner

            What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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            John M Drescher
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            I like it on the dark side. In my previous office there was only 1 switch and the lights were way too bright with it on so I obtained a ladder and removed 1/2 of the bulbs and the problem went away. Now at the new office there are 2 switches on the lights so I can make them 1/2 as bright by just turning on 1 switch. There is one problem however there is a 2' x 2' light outside my office door and it drives me nuts because it adds a some illumination to my to my office so I close my door most of the time. {EDIT]Oh by the way I intentionally selected an office without windows to prevent the problem of sunlight blocking me from seeing my screens.[/EDIT]

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            • S SlowFatRunner

              What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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              Smithers Jones
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              Two of my four office walls are windows from ground to ceiling which is quite nice (there are only meadows and forest around the building), but a real pain for any work on the computer, since I am sitting with my back to the window. So I have to close the blinds during the day. There is still enough light though, so I don't need the overhead.

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                Indirect natural light. Direct sunlight makes the screen difficult to see and masses of overhead fluorescent lighting gives me a headache. I've taken the starters out of all but one of the cluster of 4 tubes in the light above my desk.

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                PIEBALDconsult
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                Simon Capewell wrote:

                taken the starters out

                :wtf: I simply remove a tube.

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                • P PIEBALDconsult

                  Simon Capewell wrote:

                  taken the starters out

                  :wtf: I simply remove a tube.

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                  Simon Capewell
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                  What do you do with the unwanted tubes :confused: Taking the starters out is much easier and they can live in your top drawer until they're needed again.

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                  • S Simon Capewell

                    What do you do with the unwanted tubes :confused: Taking the starters out is much easier and they can live in your top drawer until they're needed again.

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                    Simon P Stevens
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                    Simon Capewell wrote:

                    What do you do with the unwanted tubes

                    Hook them up to a power supply and act out famous scenes from star wars.

                    Simon

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                    • S SlowFatRunner

                      What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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                      Lost User
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                      Dark, it's easier to sneak up on people :cool:

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                      • S SlowFatRunner

                        What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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                        PIEBALDconsult
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                        Dim and natural... just like my women. :cool:

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                        • S Simon P Stevens

                          Simon Capewell wrote:

                          What do you do with the unwanted tubes

                          Hook them up to a power supply and act out famous scenes from star wars.

                          Simon

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                          Simon Capewell
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                          Oh, so that's what the Van de Graaff generator in the junk cupboard is for.

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                          • S Simon Capewell

                            Indirect natural light. Direct sunlight makes the screen difficult to see and masses of overhead fluorescent lighting gives me a headache. I've taken the starters out of all but one of the cluster of 4 tubes in the light above my desk.

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                            Gary Wheeler
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                            Simon Capewell wrote:

                            fluorescent lighting gives me a headache

                            Tell me about it. I get migraine headaches. Damn 60Hz flicker from office fluourescents is like a railroad spike to the temples.

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                            • S SlowFatRunner

                              What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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                              Paul Conrad
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                              I prefer lighting to be dim. Bright enough to read, but dimmed down enough to be easy on the eyes.

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                              • S Simon Capewell

                                What do you do with the unwanted tubes :confused: Taking the starters out is much easier and they can live in your top drawer until they're needed again.

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                                PIEBALDconsult
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                                Put 'em in the supply closet with the spares.

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                                • S SlowFatRunner

                                  What is your office lighting preference? Do you like it dark, do you use a small lamp, do you default to the overheads, do you use some other configuration?

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                                  Stuart Dootson
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                                  The glow from my 3 20" monitors is quite adequate, thank you very much :-)

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                                  • P PIEBALDconsult

                                    Put 'em in the supply closet with the spares.

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                                    Simon Capewell
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                                    The storeroom is through two fire doors and down two flights of stairs. The drawers are under my desk. I'm sticking with the starters ;)

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                                      The storeroom is through two fire doors and down two flights of stairs. The drawers are under my desk. I'm sticking with the starters ;)

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                                      Dan Neely
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                                      SOP where I work is to just loosen them enough from the sockets that they don't light up while still being in enough to stay in place. :rolleyes:

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                                      • S Smithers Jones

                                        Two of my four office walls are windows from ground to ceiling which is quite nice (there are only meadows and forest around the building), but a real pain for any work on the computer, since I am sitting with my back to the window. So I have to close the blinds during the day. There is still enough light though, so I don't need the overhead.

                                        "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)

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                                        SlowFatRunner
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                                        Smithers-Jones wrote:

                                        Two of my four office walls are windows from ground to ceiling which is quite nice (there are only meadows and forest around the building),

                                        ... that sounds like a very very cool office. I'm in the middle of the building so there is no natural light. We do have "open spaces" with lots of windows.

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