OT: Monitor size

For the last month I've had my tower downstairs on the dining room table. I
had to add a USB hub PCI card, plus we went broadband wireless. I was using
our old 17" monitor that we got with our first computer. (My regular monitor
is a 19".)

Well, we're giving the old computer to a friend so I needed the table to do
some work on it. I finally took my system upstairs. (I had promised Keith
I'd do it last Sunday but that just didn't happen.) This is the first I've
seen the net on my bigger screen. I forgot how **BIG** it is.

Sigh - life is good!

Yeah, JoAnn, that old adage about stereo systems (buy the best speakers you can afford because that's where you interface with the system) applies just as much to computers:

Buy the best monitor, keyboard, and mouse you can afford, because that is what you see, hear, and touch all day long.

I don't use my PC much (mostly moving over to Macs now), but the old monitor was way too bulky. So I bought a cheapie (and I do mean cheapie) 17" LCD monitor for the PC. It looks OK by itself, but when placed next to my PowerBook laptop, it has this horrid green cast that no amount of adjusting can get rid of. Ick. Maybe I should point it out my window on Halloween. Give the kids a good scare.

LOL !!!!!!!!!

Green like that ? http://www.pbase.com/image/16502791

(that's me, distorted with a camera held from too close, nightvision mode engaged on my camcorder..)

Ray

Ray, my parents always told me little green men came from Mars.
Did you?

Leen

I don't think so. You see, I was very young when I was born, I don't fully remember the event. Let
me grab of couple of Duracell sandwiches and I'll get back to you, for now my eyes aren't glowing
enough and I can't read my screen anymore...

LOL !

Ray

Ray, living close to a nuclear plant makes you glow in the dark, Duracell sandwiches don't.

LOL too!

Leen

Heh heh, you know, I actually like that effect. ;-)

Darn, I wish that PBase was visible in Opera!

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Ray

Oh no it doesn't! I live about half way between two nuclear power plants.
One of them is the now famous Three Mile Island. I do NOT glow in the dark.
(We don't talk about the mutant veggies though.)

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3 14th March 12:01 ray External User Posts: 1	OT: Monitor size LOL !!!!!!!!! Green like that ? http://www.pbase.com/image/16502791 (that's me, distorted with a camera held from too close, nightvision mode engaged on my camcorder..) Ray

4 14th March 12:01 leen_koper External User Posts: 1	OT: Monitor size Ray, my parents always told me little green men came from Mars. Did you? Leen

5 14th March 12:01 ray External User Posts: 1	OT: Monitor size I don't think so. You see, I was very young when I was born, I don't fully remember the event. Let me grab of couple of Duracell sandwiches and I'll get back to you, for now my eyes aren't glowing enough and I can't read my screen anymore... LOL ! Ray

6 14th March 14:36 leen_koper External User Posts: 1	OT: Monitor size Ray, living close to a nuclear plant makes you glow in the dark, Duracell sandwiches don't. LOL too! Leen

7 14th March 14:36 vicky bilaniuk External User Posts: 1	OT: Monitor size Heh heh, you know, I actually like that effect. ;-)

8 14th March 17:16 dick_smith External User Posts: 1	OT: Monitor size Darn, I wish that PBase was visible in Opera! **** -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

9 14th March 19:51 ray External User Posts: 1	OT: Monitor size ****, send me an e-mail, I'll send you the pic.. (beware, though..!) carbone_2000@hotmail.com Ray

10 14th March 19:52 joann_amerson External User Posts: 1	OT: Monitor size Oh no it doesn't! I live about half way between two nuclear power plants. One of them is the now famous Three Mile Island. I do NOT glow in the dark. (We don't talk about the mutant veggies though.)