On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:56:39 -0000, Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2007-03-07 08:21 -0000, John Robson wrote:
I don't like xinerama therefore:
... I am not going to waste my breath supporting it.
in itself a fair excuse for not supporting it, but not a good reason to
tell anyone with more than one monitor that they're stupid.
--8<--
So, there,
you techno-toy fetists chasing after the latest cool gizmo
and upgrading your hardware every few months
--8<--
Actually I have had my current pair of monitors for 5 years - the pair I
had before that are now in use at church office (pastor and secretary),
having now had a useful life of around 10 years and counting*. My graphics
card is about 7 years old, the rest of the machine ~4 I think (with no
immediate plans to upgrade)
I don't think I count as a "techno-toy fetishist", just someone who can
see more than the <1 steradian occupied by a single screen at a sensible
distance in front of me**.
John
* Actually as I had one of them for a couple of years before the other
that's proably an aggregate of 11 years - I used my old 14"CRT with the
shiny 17" CRT for a good while - the 14" screen still finds itself stuck
in my loft for occasional use.
** Have you read the "anti-mac" interface article
(http://acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm) - basically decrying WIMP
interfaces as a regression in terms of limiting us to pointing and
grunting at things we can see. I feel the same about having to wear
blinkers when I'm working, why did I bother with eyes that can see a
decent space in front of me?
