It's called NegativeScreen and it's at http://arcanesanctum.net/negativescreen

It uses the graphics card to transform the colour space and has a number of different effects. Simple inversion works well even with Cleartype text and it sits in the notification area. Video works with it and it works across hibernate/sleep.

I love you, mod parent up please. How come I can never find programs like these?

The world seems to be fixated on computer screens looking like paper and some of us really do get on better with light text and dark backgrounds. It's a bit like being left-handed only with headaches.

I have in the past used a hacked VNC viewer that flips the bits in each pixel and it works wonderfully but requires a Linux box just to do that and it won't handle video.

ISTR an nVidia graphics card that would let you fiddle with the colour adjustment tables of the RGB outputs (3 of 256*8 bits) to get the same effect but modern ones don't let you.

I would love someone to build a cheap FPGA board that could handle DVI in and out then I could take it anywhere.

That's nothing. I bought a piano and the sheet music, went to piano lessons for five years and now every weekend I dress up in lederhosen and play while she sings.

But a lot of fun for those who enjoyed it. And anyway it was with hunting horns and hounds. Not my cup of tea but I would rather our elected leaders spend their time on more important things.

Well if you look for the IP address of tpb.pirateparty.org.uk and paste that into your browser it may work. I wouldn't know.

and you won't be in this car.

When I read that I heard it in a shrieking Scottish accent. Well done.

I did www.corky.ltd.uk since www.corky.co.uk was taken. Let it lapse as LinkedIn is better for what I want. I can always get it back whenever I want since I own "Corky and Co ltd" in the UK. .ltd.uk was a very good idea, guaranteed to be free from squatters or name clashes as it is basically a copy of the companies house register which every company goes through before it can start trading. Bit since there's no money to be made from squatting and trading there is no money to promote it and .co.uk gets the attention.

> expecting a new colleague: a female one. It is guaranteed that there will be remarks, double entendres and innuendos with huge potential of getting worse.

Don't worry, most women will not subject you to any remarks, double entendres and innuendos, they will probably behave just like all the other geeks around you. Give women a chance!

While we're on the subject of copying and law can the US please post a notice stating that their legal system was a copy of the UK's but they have been busy changing it for 200 years and it no longer infringes. Right under the HOLLYWOOD sign would be a good place.

I've always though the third law to be daft. No-one is going to buy a robot that might destroy itself.

And anyway how do you punish a robot that has not protected its own existence?

It's called slashdot.org

If you're finding it difficult you are doing it wrong. Try asking for help from someone more experienced.