I realize this is a much-belated blog (I haven't written any since I left for the summer), but I haven't felt particularly obligated to the GM world since I got back. (Although I suppose I contradict myself.)
Well, I have finally sprung for an LCD monitor. Those of you who recall my 1024x786 screenshots and backgrounds will never again (I hope) have to face such agony. The model I selected was an Acer X193W+BD via Newegg.com.Desk now sans huge CRT: (yes, I know it's cluttered)
I bought it on a Labor Day sale impulse, and shortly afterwards feared I had made a terrible mistake, since it advertises "Active Contrast Management". Much to my relief, I find that the contrast ratio is just fine after you turn off the ACM in the embedded OS. It has a resolution of 1680x1050, which is better than the average 19", although the response rate (5ms) is lackluster.At last, I can truly appreciate KDE4 in all it's beauty. I was getting a weary of half my screen browser used up by the UI. The flip side to all these benefits is that I've lost graphics performance, since I didn't (and can't on AGP 4x) upgrade my poky GeForce 6600.I don't really have anything interesting to write about, but I wanted to blog anyway, if for no other reason than to prove that I still exit. I'm way, way behind on everything around here. I didn't even know about the GMC virus until after it was all cleaned up. Will I ever get back into the GM news "industry" (it can hardly be called that around here)? I don't really know, but I do know that Precalculus and Physics aren't waiting around for me to decide, so I shall return to my studies.————————————————On a second note, I just read that Google's news bot picked up a dateless news story from some news website about United Airlines on the verge of bankruptcy (2002). All the other moronic people/bots trotted after the googlbot and ran the story. Eventually it got onto the Bloomberg (electronic stocks trading system) news ticker via some drone at Income Securities Advisors Inc. , and United's stock went from $12 to $3 in a few hours. It's back up around $10 now, but over a billions dollars were lost in the process.
@FB - CRT's don't count
LCDs do, however.
Open Box + Clearance = great deal.You are canadian. Thus you couldn't have ordered from Newegg.
No but I could very well have bought the last one from work, since Best Buy is no longer carrying them.
What's with the ancient keyboard?
24" would be nice. Don't think I have enough room on my desk, though ^_^
But yeah. New keyboard.I had to ditch my secondary, 15" monitor to fit in my 24"
I paid good money for this awesome keyboard. It's hard to comprehend how awesome tactile feedback is until you've used it. The only thing that could replace the Model M is the Das Ultimate.
Although I could stand a new printer.5ms is a very good response time. Anything below 8ms is fine really.