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Jon B. - Oct 08, 2007 11:16:01 am PDT #2990 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Dana - Oct 08, 2007 12:59:38 pm PDT #2991 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Tom Scola - Oct 08, 2007 3:28:21 pm PDT #2992 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Just in time for Halloween: I got a rock.
meara - Oct 08, 2007 4:45:04 pm PDT #2993 of 25497
Dude, that Tshirt is pretty cool.
OK, anyone got old school CRT monitor help? New job today, and sitting at the old clunky monitor was starting to give me a migraine, because of the way it was flashing/refreshing/whatever. It was like it was pulsating or flickering. What can I do about this?? Anything? (Besides ask for a new monitor) Buttons to push, settings to control, screen thing to buy to put over it? I swear, if I have to look at this thing every day like this, I may not last long in this job. (which I'll tell them if I have to, but...)
dcp - Oct 08, 2007 5:11:30 pm PDT #2994 of 25497
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Try bumping up the refresh rate to 75Hz or more. Start->Settings->Control Panel->Display, then go to the Settings tab, click the Advanced button, and go to the Monitor tab.
Or something like that.
meara - Oct 08, 2007 5:20:04 pm PDT #2995 of 25497
Awesome, I shall try that tomorrow. If it doesn't work, I may have to be the whiny complainer who's all "I need a new monitor!" on her second day. Gah.
Of course, considering the admin was complaining all day because her monitor was not working AT ALL and was getting no traction with the help desk guy....well....we'll see.
I'd also love to have a normal keyboard. You can TELL me that I"ll love the split keyboard, but when I type 100 wpm, it just throws me off, man.
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2007 5:25:27 pm PDT #2996 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
With some CRT monitors, the higher the resolution, the lower the refresh rate. So you might have to reduce the resolution to get the refresh rate up to where you want it.
Certain people (myself included) are more sensitive to lower refresh rates. Also, LCD is so much better.
NoiseDesign - Oct 08, 2007 7:10:25 pm PDT #2997 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
If anyone here is interested, I'm going to have a 1.33 GHz Powerbook G4 up for sale shortly. I've just got to get the hard drive backed up, and then reformat it and install a clean copy of the OS. I believe it has 512MB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. I've not even started thinking about price yet, so if anyone wants to make an offer, feel free.
DCJensen - Oct 08, 2007 7:34:17 pm PDT #2998 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.
Andi and I are interested again. Do you have any repeat customer rates?
NoiseDesign - Oct 08, 2007 7:44:34 pm PDT #2999 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
I'm sure we can work something out. Let me check what the going rate on machines of that vintage are.