True story: My wife has my big ol' 21" Sony CRT that I bought for well over $2,000 in the mid-90s. It's a gorgeous monitor, a workhouse, worth every penny I paid for it, and I've gotten way more than my money's worth out of it. Now in 2007, it's still working flawlessly.
But it's as big as a house, and she seems to think that a flat panel will give her more room on her desk. (she uses an 8' door on top of two files cabinets as a desk, and has so much garbage on it that the last time she saw the surface of the desk, the year didn't have a 7 in it. Or a 6. But nag away enough and, OK, she'll get a flat screen. I go looking for one and lo-and-behold.... you pretty much just can't find them anymore. And then I get to thinking... how about if she gets one of 19" flat screens and I upgrade to a big ol' sucker that I'll have to reinforce the walls before I can hang it on them. Hey, how about it? So a pair of 22" widescreens show up yesterday at 6:03 pm. I'm gonna rip out the pair of 19" 4:3s, running 12x10, and put these in their place. How hard could it be? Well, the combo of FC6, ATI Rad/Mob and this VS 22" widescreen isn't getting along too well. I've found a driver on the ATI Linux site (ahem, hear that, nVidia?), but haven't gotten around to messing with it. It appears to be broke for FC6 but the 7 version looks promising. And then I go to the Windows box... only to find out that.... the T30 that I'm running VFP9 on was a 'bargain' in more ways than one. Top res on the ATI card in that box is 12x10, and no amount of screaming and hollering is going to get anything close to a decent looking display out of it with a widescreen. So that box now becomes my new test box, and I've got a new TP T61 with a bazillion bytes of RAM and a hard disk that's even bigger on the way. Supposedly the res on this new box is 17,200 x 15,580, or something like that. It should last a couple of years. So this plan of getting the wife one of these dirt cheap $200 flat screens for her desk has now run me.... two 22" widescreens............$ 690 new Thinkpad...................$ 2,400 dinner [1] ....................$ 87 plate glass window [2].........$ 318 new gym shoes for #2 son [3]...$ 26 shopping spree at Talbots [4]..$ 500 lost business [5]..............$ 37,200 initial estimate...............$ 209 difference.....................$ 41,002 [1] placate wife after she finds out she's getting another hand-me down and I'm getting two new monitors AND a new computer [2] tripped on gym shoe of #2 son at 1 in the morning and sent it through the plate glass window in the hall [3] can't find the gym shoe that went through the window [4] dinner wasn't enough [5] estimated cost of losing client after telling her how silly her request to have flashing command buttons was Eventually having a cooler setup than Derek or Ed: priceless. Whil P.S. the original post got shit-canned for obvious reasons.... _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
