So congratulate me on getting a second monitor -- identical to the one I've got (Apple Studio Display 17") -- so now I'm working using two 17" CRT displays. Love it so far -- the left monitor is occupied with iChat, Proteus, Terminal and Console while right one (main one, too) is available for work. Kinda useful.
To do this, I had to buy a DVI->ADC adapter and a new video card (ATI Radeon 9000 Pro in exchange for my nVidia GeForce 4MX). Still, I think it is worth the money, as my screen is now double in size (34", heh).
Now to save up some money and replace dual 17" to dual 23".... Mmm... Maybe in my next life. ;)
PS For some reason, my Mac refused to boot when I plugged in another monitor. After a series of single user boots and verbose mode boots it turned out to be a Logitech kext confusing the second monitor USB hub with a Logitech mouse, or something like that (at least the boot freezed up at the IO matching on that kext). After I've moved the kext out of the way in single user, everything started to work just fine. Update: apologies to good folks at Logitech. It happened that my primary hard drive failed, leaving 55 overlapping files, one of which happened to be inside of abovementioned kext. After the repairs, everything is great and I can finally enjoy my new setup.
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Swwweeet. That's my setup at work, but I've yet to convince myself that spending the money on the same at home is something I should be doing right now. *sigh* eventually.
ps - you'd need 4 - 17" monitors to have the same desktop as a 34" since the measurement is of the diagonal right?
Posted by: dAn on May 19, 2003 10:33 AMSounds good, now just get your virtual desktops going, and you'll REALLY be productive. I use them at work with my dual 19"s and have 8 monitors in one.
Posted by: Jon Maddox on May 19, 2003 1:46 PMNot releated to this, but...
Would it be possible to make a haxie that will show the "real" URLs in Safari? For instance VersionTracker and MacMinute use URL "masking" ie. instead of the status bar showing "http://www.apple.com/itunes/" it would read "http://www.somesite.com/redirect.php?itunes" - I hate that. Such a haxie would soooo rock my world :)
Please pretty? ;)
Posted by: Andreas Tellefsen on May 19, 2003 1:54 PMAndreas -- it's actually the other way around. The URLs you see in Safari are all real; what you get in the other browsers is 'masked' status line set with JavaScript. Sites like VT and others use it to mask out their click counting scripts. Not much we can do about it, unless Safari team decides to allow status bar setting via JS. ;)
Posted by: slava on May 19, 2003 2:35 PMOh well, was worth a try :)
The latest nightly builds of Camino will also "mask" urls, which the current 0.7 release does not. There has to be a way...
Posted by: Andreas Tellefsen on May 19, 2003 3:35 PMyes, twin screens is where its at.
12"pb and 22"crt.
brilliant, super portable when i'm out and enormous desktop space when i'm home.
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