Arghh, my eyes are burning! [modified]

[Dan Neely]

Dell with a dock here. Sadly the 2nd port is digital only, or I'd've been able to swap my lcd with a second high res CRT a few years ago. :((

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[Dan Neely]

pathetically cheap monitors run in giant blocky pixels even though they're huge. It's cheaper and it caters to the old farts who're half blind. I'd swag barely half of the 24" 1920x1200 monitors where I work are run at native resolution since a prereq for one is a management lobotomy.

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[Mark_Wallace]

Are you sure they aren't trying to palm you off with a cheap, flat-screen TV?

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Henry Minute]

ToddHileHoffer wrote:

Is this 1998? Did you go back 10 11 years in time

There, fixed that for you. :)

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[leppie]

Looks like it. I am starting to get worried. - crap screen - out of production hard drive - el cheapo CPU - probably slow ram I did notice builds were slow...

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[ToddHileHoffer]

Crazy. My work gave me a crappy 19 inch square monitor. I went out and purchased a 22 inch 1680X1050 monitor. My boss got the company to reimburse me. I can't work without dual monitors. I need one for Visual Studio and Another for Query Analyzer! The SQL monitor as I refer to it can be square but the VS monitor has to be wide screen.

I didn't get any requirements for the signature

[bulg]

I've never seen a DVI-D connector on a monitor port, always DVI-I, which supports analog & digital. What's the model# ?

[Dan Neely]

standard D series dock (no internal expansion slot). It has 1 analog vga port and one 1 DVI-D. I believe it is this model: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Docking_Station/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=gen&sku=310-7704&~lt=popup&~ck=XYRelated[^] and I was shocked to discover it was a DVI-D port myself.

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[Dan Neely]

defacto yes. I've noticed that the 1366x768 lcd seems to be replacing the 1280x800/1024 as the bottom of the barrel screen; presumably because it is the same part as in cheapo tvs. the good is that it's higher res than the standard crap laptop lcd. The bad it's worse than the standard crap desktop lcd, and widescreen sucks for reading text fullscreen because of the lower number of lines shown. (unless high enough res to do two pages side by side).

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[Stuart Dootson]

They couldn't even get you a couple of 20" LCDs? I've got three of them on my desk (two PCs), running @ 1600x1200 - and they cost maybe $200 each from HP, never mind shopping around.

Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

[Stuart Dootson]

It's ridiculous when you cost a decent spec PC in terms of your cost/hour to the company. Our last upgrade got us 2.4GHz Core 2 Duos, 4GB RAM, 2x20" monitors, all for approximately 1 man-week (i.e. well under £2k) per developer.

Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

[Dan Neely]

I'm not certain but since the current new minion level employee is given a 22" 1680x1050 LCD (and was previously given a 20" at the same res), the fact that I was offered a 19" 1280x1024 panel meant that they were trying to cycle used flatpanels they'd collected from employees who ether left or were promoted and given a 24" as a reward to take same of the CRTs still in use out of action. Had they been adamant about retiring all the CRTs now I'd've kicked up a storm and insisted on one of the 20" panels (*VA type, vs the TN of the 22's). As it is, a healthy CRT looks better to me than anything less than an IPS lcds. The color issues of lesser panels bother me far more than any difference in sharpness/other crt distortions, unfortunately IPS panels aren't cheap. :(( I've got 2 NEC 2090uxi's (20", IPS, 1600x1200) at home, but only because I was able to get factory refurbs for $270 each vs $800 new.

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[Dan Neely]

agree, unfortunately bean counters have taken over my company. ~15 years ago, only WTF!!!!'s from administrative staff stopped a plan to put $bigbucks SGI boxes on *everyones* desktop. Now they've moved to a 4 year laptop life cycle and are only buying midrange specs to begin with, and cheap crap for monitors.

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[Anthony Mushrow]

You could just get a USB graphics card

My current favourite word is: Delicious!

-SK Genius

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[Dan Neely]

the pitiable bandwidth makes them suck for anything other than static text, it makes PCI cards look good. X| Assuming that USB3.0 lives up to it's hype it might become a viable option in a few years, but at present isn't viable.

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[Anthony Mushrow]

I heard they where alight, although only for general computing tasks. No games or anything.

My current favourite word is: Delicious!

-SK Genius

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[Dan Neely]

I'd been told they lagged noticeably on such highly gpu intensive actions as scrolling a page.

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[leppie]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

Didn't xacc.ide used bitstream

I think I might have included it as a backup font IIRC, jeez it's been so many years... I hardly spend time on it since VS2008 finally caught up (and decided to give away their IDE for free).

xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 2 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))

[leppie]

Henry Minute wrote:

Did you go back 11 years in time

Great if I could be 23 again! (my GF would still be younger than me ;P )

xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 2 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))

[Brady Kelly]

leppie wrote:

Update: my font size is already 9pt Consolas.

That's a great combo on my laptop with 1280x800.