Tricksy wall. Glad you got the TV hung, anyway. When I had walls like that I just gave up.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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-t - Sep 15, 2014 10:13:52 am PDT #24104 of 25505
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gris - Sep 15, 2014 10:44:34 am PDT #24105 of 25505
Hey. New board.
Ha! Sorry, Sean. Maybe there were some finishing naiks or something? Plaster is bad.
Ginger - Sep 15, 2014 10:48:45 am PDT #24106 of 25505
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The facilities people at the last place I worked were seriously incompetent picture hangers. Every picture on the wall had four or five holes behind it.
Maria - Sep 15, 2014 10:55:13 am PDT #24107 of 25505
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
You don't want to see my walls. There's lots of spackle and sanding in my future.
Someone please tell me I don't need a Macbook Air. I have two laptops and an iPad Air. But it's really pretty and shiny, and an open box deal.
NoiseDesign - Sep 15, 2014 12:01:33 pm PDT #24108 of 25505
Our wings are not tired
I love my MacBook Air, so I'll be an enabler and say go get it!
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 12:04:58 pm PDT #24109 of 25505
brillig
I confess I haven't looked at the various jacks on my TV, but would a standard network cable be sufficient to plug my laptop into the TV to watch things from the laptop? Would that be different if I was trying to run the Internet to the TV?
Gris - Sep 15, 2014 12:30:44 pm PDT #24110 of 25505
Hey. New board.
Network cables generally don't carry audio and video. You would need a cord specifically designed to carry video. If it's a fairly modern laptop it probably has an HDMI or Mini Display port output; running from that to your TV simply requires the right cord. What's the make and model of your laptop and TV?
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 12:41:40 pm PDT #24111 of 25505
brillig
TV's a Visio, a few years old, laptop's a Dell. I'll see if I have an HDMI cable anywhere about. It's been hooked up to the TV before, I just have to remember how.
Gris - Sep 15, 2014 1:48:13 pm PDT #24112 of 25505
Hey. New board.
If your laptop can't do HDMI it is possible that your laptop and TV both use have VGA ports: my older TV has one. That's the same port yiu would use to hook up to an older projector or monitor.
Sue - Sep 16, 2014 9:43:46 am PDT #24113 of 25505
hip deep in pie
The open box deal is how they got me, Maria. I don't regret it.