Office lighting preference
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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?
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
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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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?
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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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?
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]
John
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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?
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.
Simon Capewell wrote:
taken the starters out
:wtf: I simply remove a tube.
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Simon Capewell wrote:
taken the starters out
:wtf: I simply remove a tube.
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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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.
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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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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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?
Dim and natural... just like my women. :cool:
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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
Oh, so that's what the Van de Graaff generator in the junk cupboard is for.
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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.
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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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?
I prefer lighting to be dim. Bright enough to read, but dimmed down enough to be easy on the eyes.
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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.
Put 'em in the supply closet with the spares.
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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?
The glow from my 3 20" monitors is quite adequate, thank you very much :-)
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Put 'em in the supply closet with the spares.
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 ;)
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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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)
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.