Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
Displays

Journal Captain Splendid's Journal: Hallelujah 42

Journal by Captain Splendid
My 6 year old P.O.S. NEC Accusync monitor has finally died, meaning I no longer have to suffer the worst, most embarrassing hardware purchase I ever made in my life.

Rot in hell, you miserable failure! 23" LCD, here I come!

TACO SUX COX

TACO SUX COX
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Hallelujah More

Hallelujah

Comments Filter:
  • One job I held a long time ago I had a ViewSonic 20 inch CRT on my desk. Seemed enormous at the time, of course. My favorite thing about it though was that it said "low radiation" on the bezel, though it still gave me headaches.

    Although at the time I was a LAN admin, with a collection of hamfisted idiots with extraordinarily inflated senses of self-worth passing down orders to me. Hence I guess I can't really be sure the headache was coming only from the monitor. One way or the other the headaches w
    • It's funny, because up until that NEC purchase, I had been a ViewSonic fan from way back, but it had seemed to me their quality was slipping, hence the need to move in a different direction.
      • I haven't seen a place sell a new CRT for any amount of money for some time now. It seems that the lion's share of the LCDs all have the same panels underneath someone else's bezel; so I'm not sure that there is much difference from one display to another.

        And I say this as someone who is in front of a lot of different LCDs in the course of a day. My workstation at work has a Samsung and a Dell; I use a different system with the same two manufacturers but different sizes than my workstation. My laptop i

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by rk ( 6314 )

      Headaches probably had less to do with radiation and more to do with refresh flicker. I was always sensitive to the refresh rates of CRTs in monitors and televisions, especially in the corner of my eye. It got better for me once monitors could do 120Hz and then LCDs made it much better.

      • That could well be. I spent so much time in front of it that radiation was a handy scapegoat. On top of that, when I was in the server room itself I was surrounded by CRTs hitting me from every angle; although whether or not that honestly made it worse, I can't tell you as I wasn't interested in experimenting on myself with regards to the specific causes of the problems. I had other fires to put out, and OTC tylenol was cheap enough at the time.

      • Headaches probably had less to do with radiation and more to do with refresh flicker. I was always sensitive to the refresh rates of CRTs in monitors and televisions, especially in the corner of my eye. It got better for me once monitors could do 120Hz and then LCDs made it much better.

        I was going to suggest this as well. "Radiation?" Yes, _all_monitors put out radiation, it's called visible light. However, the odds that that radiation is going to do anything "harmful" is close to nil. Some people do have serious headaches from eyestrain which can be caused by refresh rates messing with them. I've personally never had a problem, but then I've never noticed the flicker of screens that some of my friends have complained about being able to see (especially from the corner of their eyes as yo

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by mcgrew ( 92797 ) *

          Yes, _all_monitors put out radiation, it's called visible light.

          That's why my work monitor gives me fits, I can actually see the damned thing! Harmful? Hell yes! Sometimes I want to kill people, that's how bad its radiation is! Well, not the radiation itself, just what it portrays.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by mcgrew ( 92797 ) *

      Your co-workers probably has a lot to do with it, flicker or ultrasonic noise maybe, but I seriously doubt radiation would give you headaches.

      My car is giving me leg cramps. Damned thing threw a serpentine belt and I can't afford to get it fixed until Friday. Too much walking. At least I'm getting a little exercise. I mean, besides jumping to conclusions.

  • Do you mean those bookends I keep on my desk have some other use?

    • Doesn't sound like you'd have any room left for books... unless your desk is a conference table.

      Hey Cap, if you find a high enough roof, preferably to reach terminal velocity, make sure to get videos, with audio. Extra points for super slo-mo...

      • I meant at home - it's a butcher table, next to a London style desk with an LED and quad core Win7 machine, and a bookcase.

        That's what I use em for - but there is one at the end of my large wooden desk at work, in case I need raw terminal access to the MySQL database server under it.

  • The best printer I have ever owned was an NEC SuperScript laser printer. The thing was indestructible. Only reason I replaced it was because it became impossible to find toner cartridges for it...

    As far as monitors go - Samsung monitors look really nice. Let us know what you end up with.
    • Been using Acer for my last few LCD purchases, and I'm a happy customer so far.

Slashdot Top Deals

Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker

Close