Monthly Archives: January 2008

On the other hand, maybe I *can* have too much screen real estate

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

Well, after working with the two screen setup for a couple of days, I’ve started to get a terribly sore neck. A bit of self-evaluation shows that when I’m looking at the laptop screen, I’m craning forward and down, which … Continue reading →

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Better, better…

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

I discovered a new monitor mode for the 24″ CRT that gives me even more screen real-estate. That’s nice. I also managed to borrow a KVM from the lab downstairs so I can occasionally look in on my Linux box … Continue reading →

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Oops

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

I’ve mentioned before that in order to help defray the costs of putting my stuff on a colo box, I partitioned the box in 3 Xen virtual machines, and rent two of them out. Well, yesterday one of the renters, … Continue reading →

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You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much screen real-estate

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

Below the cut is a highly illegal picture of my 17″ Powerbook G4 (1440×900 screen resolution) at work, connected up to my 24″ SGI/Sony GDM-90W11 CRT monitor (1600×1200 screen resolution), with the big screen being used for Eclipse, and the … Continue reading →

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WTF?

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

I’m busy re-writing vast swaths of my low-level code in order to support a new database schema. One of the classes that I wrote that got used all over the place is called “Playlist”, and its various subclasses. Playlist has … Continue reading →

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