Uses for spare monitor?
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My new monitor will be arriving tomorrow, so i am wondering what can i do to my current one. I was think if it is possible to use it to watch tv on the same machine? What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
Weiye Chen A self proclaimed hermit living in a cave, with his PC connected to the world.
Is it a CRT or a TFT? If it's a CRT, I would take it to the dump (or Communal Waste Disposal Facility) and throw it in with the rest of the trash - with the intent of bursting the tube of course. My dad tried this a few times, with little success. Of course, slugging a monitor 20 feet forward past the existing piles isn't that easy.
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My new monitor will be arriving tomorrow, so i am wondering what can i do to my current one. I was think if it is possible to use it to watch tv on the same machine? What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
Weiye Chen A self proclaimed hermit living in a cave, with his PC connected to the world.
You could try to port Linux to it. I heard they recently ported linux to a cinder-block.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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How is this working BTW, several video cards ?
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Depends on which computer you're talking about? My old one which is now relegated as a printer server had an extra video card in addition to the on-board video (it's now running with one monitor through a KVM since it's just switched on and then switched off mostly). My new one has a nVidia 8800GTS 320MB graphics card which supports two DVI monitors, so one drives a 17" CRT running at 1280x1024 and the other drives a 22" TFT running at 1680x1050. Although I have the CRT turned off at the moment because the PC jitters a little when I play San Andreas at 1680x1050 with graphics turned up to high and all effects on. If I disable the second monitor while playing it runs flawlessly.
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My new monitor will be arriving tomorrow, so i am wondering what can i do to my current one. I was think if it is possible to use it to watch tv on the same machine? What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
Weiye Chen A self proclaimed hermit living in a cave, with his PC connected to the world.
Weiye Chen wrote:
What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
I took it to a recycling center.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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My new monitor will be arriving tomorrow, so i am wondering what can i do to my current one. I was think if it is possible to use it to watch tv on the same machine? What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
Weiye Chen A self proclaimed hermit living in a cave, with his PC connected to the world.
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My new monitor will be arriving tomorrow, so i am wondering what can i do to my current one. I was think if it is possible to use it to watch tv on the same machine? What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
Weiye Chen A self proclaimed hermit living in a cave, with his PC connected to the world.
If it's really old and without much value, I suggest you throw it off your window, film it and post it on youtube.
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Weiye Chen wrote:
What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
I took it to a recycling center.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
or give it away to a community center or a school.
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You could try to port Linux to it. I heard they recently ported linux to a cinder-block.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Nonsense! It was wet cement.
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You could try to port Linux to it. I heard they recently ported linux to a cinder-block.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001You ought to see the field nearby, where they're running it on a massively parallel machine. Of course, they've only got the kernel running thus far. :rim-shot: Sorry for the corny humor, but I'm in Ohio. :rim-shot2:
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Multiple monitors, I sure could not live with just one!
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Rocky Moore wrote:
Multiple monitors, I sure could not live with just one!
Amen to that! I'd be lost if I had just a single monitor
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My new monitor will be arriving tomorrow, so i am wondering what can i do to my current one. I was think if it is possible to use it to watch tv on the same machine? What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
Weiye Chen A self proclaimed hermit living in a cave, with his PC connected to the world.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
Multiple monitors, I sure could not live with just one!
Amen to that! I'd be lost if I had just a single monitor
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." Bill Gates
Since a user at work has rejected his 19in CRT monitor for an LCD I may just add a third (to go with my other 2 19inchers) to my machine considering I have a SLI motherboard and two PCI-E slots.
John
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My new monitor will be arriving tomorrow, so i am wondering what can i do to my current one. I was think if it is possible to use it to watch tv on the same machine? What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
Weiye Chen A self proclaimed hermit living in a cave, with his PC connected to the world.
Weiye Chen wrote:
What do you usually do to your old monitor when a new one comes along?
I have donated all my old equipment, preferably to family or friends (preferably to friends if there is a choice there). If no one wants it, which is rare, but has happened, then it gets donated to charity at some date later when I am sure no one else can use it. In one case I packed up and entire box of spare parts, lacking only a floppy drive to make a complete working computer and shipped it, at my expense, to a college student back east to make a computer for another student. If he did so or not, I cannot verify, but I got rid of it, and I hope it went to good use. Who knows, maybe she (the other student) fell in love with him and I was a match-maker. ;) (of course the other side of that coin is he could then be miserable and blame me -- oh well, no one predicts the future).
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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You ought to see the field nearby, where they're running it on a massively parallel machine. Of course, they've only got the kernel running thus far. :rim-shot: Sorry for the corny humor, but I'm in Ohio. :rim-shot2:
Software Zen:
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Sorry for the corny humor, but I'm in Ohio.
I enjoy a good corny pun. :) But then I come from the desert, what else are we going to do but party and laugh at things?
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Depends on which computer you're talking about? My old one which is now relegated as a printer server had an extra video card in addition to the on-board video (it's now running with one monitor through a KVM since it's just switched on and then switched off mostly). My new one has a nVidia 8800GTS 320MB graphics card which supports two DVI monitors, so one drives a 17" CRT running at 1280x1024 and the other drives a 22" TFT running at 1680x1050. Although I have the CRT turned off at the moment because the PC jitters a little when I play San Andreas at 1680x1050 with graphics turned up to high and all effects on. If I disable the second monitor while playing it runs flawlessly.
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The question was : Running 5 monitors, how does this work ?
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Ah, I see... Well if you have enough slots you can have three 8800GTS thereby giving you 6 monitors. Otherwise you can use the program from I think it's StarDock to use them over the network, but then you have more computers. Alternatively you can use one for supporting the others :rolleyes:, stack em all on top of each other and you don't need a desk.
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
Sorry for the corny humor, but I'm in Ohio.
I enjoy a good corny pun. :) But then I come from the desert, what else are we going to do but party and laugh at things?
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ed.Poore wrote:
Shoot things? But I suppose you get bored of that in your day job.
it just doesn't have the "bang" it used to have now. ;P Though I do get more enjoyment out of emulating a big-bang. :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ed.Poore wrote:
Shoot things? But I suppose you get bored of that in your day job.
it just doesn't have the "bang" it used to have now. ;P Though I do get more enjoyment out of emulating a big-bang. :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Hey, are you related to John Surtees, the Grand Prix racecar driver from the 50's/60's?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
