Some time ago it was a photo I had taken of a great blue heron in flight I had taking from my kayak. I lost track of it a couple of laptops ago, but I'm sure I can find it again if I dig a bit. Thanks for reminding me to look.
Rick C.
With a desktop like that, here's something to NEVER try: :)
Resize your screen resolution, then set it back.
Most computah users and hardware manufacturers favor horizontal (landscape) style monitors. However, there are users that prefer vertical (portrait). I set this one up for a law office where the legal assistant sometimes had 30 or more documents open: HP 2335 24" monitor 1920x1200. They're quite happy with this arrangement. I'm thinking of trying it myself since I'm dealing mostly with documents these daze instead or drawings. It will also allow me to add a third monitor on my desk without buying a larger desk. Unfortunately, some of my monitors don't have provisions for portrait mode mounting and I don't feel like turning this into a construction project. Still, it's tempting.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
still some Xerox Alto fans out there I see I hear that's what Jimmy Carter used to play virtual pinball on in the Oval Office in 1979.
I often arrange my desktop icons, usually by "Type". I can usually find what I need alphabetically. If not, I just type the first letter of the icon label, and the cursor follows to the appropriate icon. If that fails, I just use Everything to find it:
Drivel: I still vaguely remember using Gopher, Archie, Veronica, and other pre-Google internet search tools. On my own Windows machine, there was Magellan. More recently, I'm using Agent Ransack. As long as I have a way to find my junk, it doesn't matter how I disorganize it.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Recent research suggests that working in a sloppy setting may actually help inspire creative thinking
Many years ago, some consultant advised management that it would be a good idea to get away from the company offices for a few days and hold a creative brain storming session in some hotel or retreat. The idea was to get away from the distractions of the office. The entire engineering staff (about 6 of us) and a few managers arrived at a seaside hotel and sat down to contrive creative ideas for a new product and for solving some old problems. I don't know about the others, but my mind was a total blank. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't contrive anything clever, creative, innovative, or useful. This went on for three days. As soon as we returned to the company offices, my usual overflow of ideas returned. So, what happened?
In order for me to think creatively, I needed a catalyst. I had to look at something related to the problem to kick start my train of thought. Imagining something was not good enough. I had to actually see or touch it. Without my usual mess, there was nothing to see or touch.
It's still like that for me today. I solved an interesting automotive problem today by simply looking around the junk in my shop for something that could used. It was initially a dumb idea, but got me thinking along the line that eventually provided a workable solution. I can't do that in a clean shop or office.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Pretty cool.
I set my boss up with dual 4k 28" a few years ago so he could split his Cadence schematics on one side and pcb layout on the other, and he loves them. It ended up being email and skype on one and the EDA stuff on the other. :-) of course. He has already flown over 150k miles this year.
I only use one 4k so far. But my new Lenovo P71 mobile workstation is going to become my main CAD machine. It has a Xeon and a Quadro under the hood and beats any desktop I ever owned (it better for what I paid for it). It will drive three displays at 4k thru the thunderbolt 3 ports maybe even 8k. I just got the docking station so a few expensive displays later and I can do presentations on one and the CAD layout on another and who knows what on the third.
These things are more powerful than the first CRAY supercomputers were.
Check these out. We are going to be designing with these...
Sorry about the screwed up link.
Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Try one of these:
Dangit!
you do working and a bench that is sitting idle isn't earning its keep"
Maybe not that bad but they gave up on me cleaning the bench and I didn't allow them to do it. It cost too much for me to do it. If they did it every other sentence I uttered for the next week started with "Where the f*ck is my...?".
Ha !
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Land.
-- Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
I have four monitors and three computers on my desk, and my main workstation has 10 virtual workspaces. I have never in my life changed the wallpaper on any computer - because you only see it if you are not using the computer. I might briefly catch glimpses of the wallpaper around the edges of windows, but that's all.
Wallpaper, nice pictures, big analogue clocks - these hang on the wall, not on the monitor.
David Brown wrote in news:pnq81f$p4s$1@dont- email.me:
It is a celebratory homage to computers.
If you like.
The computers I use every day are tools. The computers - or bits of them - that I have for nostalgia or for "celebratory homage" are on my shelves, along with an 8" disk, a microcontroller emulator from the late
80's, and an oscilloscope with a 2" wide screen.
Yeah, but you don't have to dust your screen wallpaper. ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com
Spoken like a true practitioner, cf theoretician.
"How easy is it to keep clean" is a great test of many kitchen gadgets too - many take longer to clean than use.
Yup, if you can really clean them at all. The insides of stick blenders, for instance, get really really gross. The genius of Cuisinarts is the avoidance of that problem--food doesn't get near the bearing, and even if you have an accident, the gross decayed stuff can't get back into the food.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com
Assuming you're referring to MS windows desktop behaviour, the fix for that problem is a little sanity saving utility called "Desktop Restore".
-- Johnny B Good
My excrement does not have any holes.
Ah, my favorite topic... me.
Yes. I have 5 working microscopes and 3 more in various stages of repair: However, none are used for reading my LCD screen. I wear dollar store low quality +2.00 diopter glasses to properly see the screen. A microscope is not currently required.
The trick to easy screen reading is to display text using more dots per character. I've been playing with a double resolution, twice
1920x1080 => 3840x2160 11 inch IPS display. Even though the characters are about half the size of those on my desktop display, they are perfectly readable.My two desktop screens at home, and one in the office are all 24". However, I do use a borrowed projection display for talks and presentations. I'm not sure of the size, but my guess is that the projection screen is larger than 75".
Actually, yes. I'm trying to learn how to abuse Google voice search in the Chrome browser on my desktops, Chromebook, and various Android devices. I don't use it much, but it's become the main form of computer interaction for some of my elderly customers and a friend who helps seniors by replacing Windoze with Linux on their machines. One person with Parkinsons is quite elated to have voice control, although he mostly uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
That would be the CMD or MSDOS box. Yes, but not very often. I prefer to use the command line for housekeeping, but trying to remember synatax and arguements is becoming difficult as I become older. However, I do enjoy using the Mac terminal program and command line to impress and confuse the Mac snobs.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
That would be hole-y shit.
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