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Wed, 28 May 2008
Yet another sign I may work with computers - 18:26
How many lcds is too many? (Full Size)
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I noticed this is likely a sure sign I work with computers or am a geek today,
in my office I had 5 lcds displaying something. Admittedly the two on the
right are showing the same thing on a dual head computer doing an install
without configuring the dual heads.
Sort of reminiscent of Jon's
experiment in the office a while back (though not as cool). On a side
note I am writing this post on the new laptop, the first time I have written a
post on it. I must say the keyboard is awfully nice to type on.
On the whole most things work really well, which is impressive, not much
configuring or mucking around and things just work, Linux really is improving
all the time toward a better desktop experience. I am trialling using a normal
default Gnome environment and so far it seems to be going well.
My biggest annoyance is probably the nvidia graphics card, that I can not yet
use xrandr 1.2 stuff to do funky things with x output from within X and a few
other problems (apart from the most basic problem of it being closed source
crap). Next I need to work out how to enable vga output to projectors to be
on all the time and a 1600x1050 output to a screen at home to watch dvds and
such on.
When I tried to set up a 32 bit chroot yesterday debootstrap failed so I need
to hunt down the reason for that if I want to be able to see flash (more
closed source crap) videos. Still I like this new toy, infact I will be
leaving my old laptop at work when I go home in a few minutes as this seems
capable of doing everything I need in a laptop configuration wise already.
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