| Subject: Re: Hardware/OS |
| From: "Nick M V Salmon" <spam_dump@btinternet.com> |
| Date: 25/09/2003, 10:08 |
"Martin" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote
I'm still fond of CRTs for their higher pixel resolutions. I'm one for
having multiple documents open, or for large listings/diagrams, and get
very out of patience if I'm forced to look at a 'small part of the
picture' and forever scrolling around. I've been using the second
monitor with my backup machine as a dumb terminal recently for a bit of
extra viewing space...
Really big LCDs that use 1600x1200 natively are still silly prices but
1280x1024 17~19" monitors are becoming quite reasonable.
Must investigate multiple monitors... Could well go for one or more of
the LCDs/TFTs as their price continues to drop or if the resolutions
increase. They are rather nice for being less bulky and less waste heat
generating than the CRTs. The dead pixels bit with them though is a
bummer.
Mine is a 'guaranteed no dead pixels' model with a full three year onsite
warranty included in the price. Nice clear display, which it damn well
oughta be for the money. ;-) It's a pity 17" is a little small for
1280x1024 but that was a mistake on my part - 19" would be good for
1280x1024, it's what I use on all my 19" monitors.
One foible with mine is you can see the response time is much lower than a
CRT because you can see the different colours 'lagging' very slightly when
you drag a bright window across the screen - not a problem, just
interesting - it does display DVD movies quite well, it's just a little
small for me. My 17" 1760NX has a versatile stand, dual inputs (VGA & DVI)
16ms combined response time ie. it can run at 75Hz vertical refresh. The
whole of the screen's 'real estate' is usable which, seems a little strange
after using a standard monitor but at 17" it is still a little small for me
when running 1280x1024. If/when 21" LCDs ever get down to something
reasonable ie. under �500, then I might be strongly tempted by another
LCD...
Yep - as you've seen I now have six machines on CPDN and only one still
SETIing - I'd probably have switched that one too but it's running
WinServer03 and the CPDN client has issues with that O/S as yet.
It's a shame the UK group haven't ported the CPDN client over to Linux.
I may try it on Wine next week when I have time to play. Could be
interesting...
En-route but not there as yet. Checkout the Linux message board off the
main page for Linux/Wine info' - it's not a simple installation but it
can
be done using a Windows box for the down/upload of data and there's a
looooong gap between the two with CPDN..!
Now that is interesting... I'll have a nosey later.
WinServ03 is pretty high on their list of 'ports' too - fussy networking
is
stopping it running at the moment.
Isn't the easy fix just to move it over to your favourite flavour of
Linux?... (;-))
It would be if CPDN ran under Linux but it doesn't without manual
intervention as yet - I'm going to shift that last box to CPDN under WinME
because I'm currently No.1 in the user stat's overall and would like to at
least _try_ to stay there for a while. :-)
Ciao...
[UK]_Nick...