What is it with this craze towards web-based interfaces? I understand there's less of a client-side install, and in theory OS independence (although normally they only work well on one or two browsers), but web interfaces are slow, clunky, and offer little in way of hot keys in comparison to good old client-server technology.
Sorry -- we've been forced off onto Zimbra for email (fails miserably in Safari and Opera) and are moving to Bugzilla/Subversion/Trac (the latter being some freakish wiki that links the first two). Free, open source, no need for IT involvement.. but much more painful to use than our current interfaces.
At least there will be a use for wide screen monitors, I guess. When work bought one for me a month ago I looked at my desk (three monitors side by side) and it simply would not fit.
Usable resolutions are indeed dependent on the graphics card. It used to be dependent on the amount of video RAM they had, but now I believe it is simply how quickly it can push data out to the monitor.
This may not be what causes it for you, but...astroprisonerMarch 25 2008, 20:18:01 UTC
One problem: I noticed some pretty significant color distortion in the top quarter of the screen.
I've noticed something similar with my own flat-screen monitors, my wide-screen TV, and (this is the one that sounds weird) even the giant video scoreboard at Fenway Park. And, as you noticed, it varies with head tilt.
It's apparently my glasses, because I've also noticed that it goes away if I take them off. Sadly, I am so nearsighted that without my glasses I can't even read a computer monitor at normal distance.
Re: This may not be what causes it for you, but...cellioMarch 26 2008, 01:36:23 UTC
Near as I can tell, my glasses make a slight difference there but don't account for most of it. That said, the sans-glasses world is very blurry, so it's a bit hard to tell. :-)
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Sorry -- we've been forced off onto Zimbra for email (fails miserably in Safari and Opera) and are moving to Bugzilla/Subversion/Trac (the latter being some freakish wiki that links the first two). Free, open source, no need for IT involvement.. but much more painful to use than our current interfaces.
At least there will be a use for wide screen monitors, I guess. When work bought one for me a month ago I looked at my desk (three monitors side by side) and it simply would not fit.
Usable resolutions are indeed dependent on the graphics card. It used to be dependent on the amount of video RAM they had, but now I believe it is simply how quickly it can push data out to the monitor.
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I've noticed something similar with my own flat-screen monitors, my wide-screen TV, and (this is the one that sounds weird) even the giant video scoreboard at Fenway Park. And, as you noticed, it varies with head tilt.
It's apparently my glasses, because I've also noticed that it goes away if I take them off. Sadly, I am so nearsighted that without my glasses I can't even read a computer monitor at normal distance.
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