On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:04:09 AM Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 8/16/2011 9:25 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > But AO about an hour ago, I am no longer using the vesa driver. It > > turns out the radeon driver has been markedly improved since my last > > test under 8.04. > > Gene: > > Great to hear of the bump-up in performance. > > As an aside, I tip my hat to the way you first drew out my considerable > cynicism before telling us things aren't as bad as I obviously think > they are. Like a trout old enough to know better, I still couldn't > resist rising to the fly! > Something I wish they would do here in WV! But I don't think these few trout we might have here were ever fed anything but dough balls & have no clue just how tasty & nutritious a mayfly or grasshopper might be. The last time I exercised my fly rod, I had a small popper on it & caught a 10" catfish. I think he was as surprised as I was. At 10", I unhooked him & sent him on his way. And went empty for the rest of the day with a rapala running lazily 75 feet back as I laid what should have been tasty looking offerings under the shade trees as I slowly putted by. Frustrating. I wonder if that is his punishment for not doing enough fishing?
> I hope you enjoy your new visual landscape. So far, I've resisted > leaving the world of 4:3 graphics but soon enough I'll face the same > dilemma you did. My current (LCD) monitor is a decade old. > And the CCFL lamp, or its power supply, are of an exceptionally elderly age already at a decade, so that is a lot of borrowed time. Typical is 3 years. I believe, unless the BBLB syndrome has already attacked them, that the monitors boasting LED's for the backlight, should, despite slightly poorer color reproduction, last a lot longer than that. And should be easier serviced by the better techs should there be a problem. No really high voltage power supply needed for the LED models, and likely half the power draw. I am looking at a Samsung BW205 in front of me, and the pair of big electrolytic caps in the CCFL supply has already been replaced at about 2.5 years, but it is otherwise as bright as it was new and is now 4 years old. > Regards, > Kent > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, > user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take > the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the > tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
