Windows 10 Upgrade to be Free as in Beer (if you don't have an MS account, come in here and @blakeyrat will give you $50)
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I have grouped icons only, on the top of the screen! Time to invoke @CodingHorrorBot ?
absolutely not! top of the screen is doing it right!
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You two have narrow monitors ...
I don't need to see the windows, just the icons, so it works well.
Seeing the windows is a barrier to skiving.
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portrait. see earlier comment about billing software
I think you whooshed?
EDIT: Or I did.
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I think you whooshed?
EDIT: Or I did.
No, I don't think anyone did. I was making a comment about the relative width of the images posted (mine vs. theirs). You then turned it into a joke.
I don't see no whooshers.
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EDIT: Or I did.
given that i was replying to abarker, this one i think. but no worries i'm not ing you
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relative width of the images posted (mine vs. theirs)
Mine's the same* width as yours?
That's why I assumed you weren't getting at that.*give or take 3 pixels
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given that i was replying to abarker, this one i think. but no worries i'm not ing you
The better option - noone did.
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Can you not turn that off here?
Hmm...let's see...yep, that appears to do it. Thank you!
wot? you insulting my task bar?
No, I'm insulting you!
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No, I'm insulting you!
WHY, I NEVER!
/me grabs and removes a gauntlet from a suit of armour and slaps (gently) @boomzilla across the face with it
I will see you on the field of honour upon the dawning of the very day after this one. I will give you this night to make your peace with your gods.
filed under: are we getting a little too duel happy?
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I will see you on the field of honour upon the dawning of the very day after this one. I will give you this night to make your peace with your gods.
If you're going to duel, I offer my services as your second ;)
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Oh boy. Aunt Velma is gonna get pissed now! Shit's gonna get medieval, lo!
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my thanks young hedgehog of remarkable speed and perspicacity. I accept your offer.
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That's kinda reasonable, but I think I'd still do the same there; portrait monitors have (IMO) more than enough vertical space to spend some of it on a double-height task bar.
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I'm my own grandma
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hmm... yes time travel is a possiblility.
i was thinking more along the lines of a test tube baby though.
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And fucking IE, it makes separate things for each goddamned tab. Ugh...I hate that shit.
You can just turn it off. I kind of like it and wish Chrome had that option. (Maybe not on by default, but it existing would be nice.)
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Mine's the same* width as yours?
Doesn't look like it:
Maybe it's just because I use the smaller icons.
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You can just turn it off.
Yes, now that I know where to do so, I did it. It's amazing how differently we all like to work.
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(gently)
What kind of challenge is that‽ Put some umph behind that slap!
Also, since you issued tha challenge, doesn't @boomzilla get to pick the weapons?
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Maybe it's just because I use the smaller icons.
I think so - both images are ~1920px wide.
It's a 1080p display.
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i make it a point never to cause GBH to someone who could ban me.
at least not before we are on the field of honour.
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at home two 1080p IPS 24" montiors.
at work two 1080p TN 24" monitors and one 1080p TN 22" (in portrait mode)
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at home two 1080p IPS
2421" montiors.at work two 1080p
TNIPS 24" monitorsand one 1080p 22" (in portrait mode)FTFM
My home monitors are smaller due to a space restriction. I just don't have room for anything bigger right now (I so need a bigger house).
As for my work setup, I'm more likely to get a new computer before I get a third monitor, since my box has been here longer than I have.
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at least you got IPS.
i wouldn't mind it if my 22" wasn't IPS as i'm technically not supposed to have it (service tag says it's in the spares cabinet along with about 50 other monitors, and the helpdesk people know i have and i know that if they ask for it i don't get a choice about it) but the 24"s should be IPS at least. it's not like IPS is that much more expensive.
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Just to recap, Windows 10 will:
- be a free upgrade,
- become rolling release,
- get improved command prompt (terminal),
- have an integrated package manager.
It makes me wonder if the kernel is still NT or will it be Linux.
Integrated package manager? I hope to god it's not the Windows store where 200% are just malware apps.
Edit: So it isn't the window store but I hope to god they don't add windows store as a fucking default source
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On a stunning 24" monitor!!!
Mine's on a 22".
I've got 3 of those monitors at work, connected to 2 desktops (2 on 1, 1 on the other) but using software KVM to move between them. I'd have 4 but running out of space, and out of plugs.
Home is a single 19" monitor as I don't need more than that here.
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I've got 24"+22" at work, connected to one laptop (docking station).
At home I've got 2*24", connected to my desktop and a docking station so I can use my work laptop at home if I can't get to work for some reason (EG expecting a package). Switching using the source toggle on the monitor.
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I have two 24" at work, but I don't think they're IPS. (Though now that I think about it, if they're TN they're pretty good TN because I haven't been annoyed by them being crappy, so maybe they are IPS.)
At home I have a 22" and a 23", both IPS. The 23" is 1920x1080 and when I bought it I thought about getting a 24" mumblex1200 one instead, but was still a grad student at the time so the extra $150 or whatever was decidable noticeable. But I regretted that decision soon after. (Though not enough to buy a new one, apparently.)
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You guys. IPS. Is that really the least of your screen worries?
My left screen is connected via VGA. And the right one via DVI.
Same applies to the rest of the software team.
Yes, the place I work at has no HDMI/DisplayPort-to-DVI-adaptors.
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Yes, the place I work at has no HDMI/DisplayPort-to-DVI-adaptors.
Ew, I think I paid like €5 each for two HDMI-to-DVI adaptors for the docking station?
Out of my own pocket cause I don't have a work-at-home agreement and I don't want to go through the hassle of expensing it.
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You should see the screens.
The right one is an old ca.2007 BENQ LCD screen (22", I think @ 1680*1050), the other one is a "newer" Fujitsu Siemens LCD screen with similar specs (Fujitsu Siemens got renamed to Fujitsu years ago).
Well, there's a huge difference: The BENQ's backlight is really dark, while the Fujitsu's burns off your retinas even at 50% brightness.
It took me a while to adjust them to workableness. But the blurriness caused by VGA gets annoying at times.Still better than how things were when I had that awful piece of shit before the BENQ, though.
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Each of my 1080p 22" screens is connected by VGA. They only have VGA ports.
2 directly (1 on each machine) and 1 via a Displayport to VGA adapter.That's how they're ordered, not in my control.
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Man, talk about pinching pennies. Devs aren't cheap, and there are still businesses that have people working with crap like this? Myself and the tech companies I have worked with all allow their new hires to pick out their own peripherals, within reason. New peripherals if nothing suitable is in stock, but no one gives them a hard time about ordering stuff if they want it. Just look at what a dev costs you on an hourly basis. $750 for three new monitors, keyboard and mouse is chump change in comparison
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It's not even our department. Desktop support buy that stuff, we just go "give us big monitors" and they arrive.
Makes no difference really, business/enterprise desktops all still come with VGA ports and the cost of adapters for the extra ports is trivial.
EDIT: We could demand DVI/DisplayPort whatever but there'd be extra hoops and the lead time would be longer. For no real benefit.
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Meh, VGA is no big deal. People using single monitors, or old antiquated monitors, etc., that is where it seems silly.
For practical purposes, for an office worker, VGA vs the newer alternatives makes no difference.
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Gotcha.
Oddly there's only 2 of us with these monitors (the other colleague has 2 rather than 3) in my team. Everyone else is happy with a single, much smaller (like 15 or 17") display and the laptop's built-in panel.
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I always find the laptop display to be too low for long-term work. Also, as I am 35 now, I would find those small displays to be annoying. I would be squinting a lot. ;)
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I always find the laptop display to be too low for long-term work
Yeah, me too.
Also, as I am 35 now, I would find those small displays to be annoying. I would be squinting a lot.
I'm 29, but some of the other team are a bit older. Not only is it harder to read the smaller displays sometimes, you also can't fit anywhere near as much on the screen.
We're always doing different things in parallel, and this is far easier when you can keep most things up on the screen.Whenever I'm away from the office (more often than not) and I have to use a colleague's desk with my laptop screen too low, and the tiny not-even-widescreen monitor, it's annoying. I'm contemplating carrying a proper monitor around with me but that seems excessive.
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I always find the laptop display to be too low for long-term work
Before I got my second monitor, I used my laptop screen as secondary. Initially on the desk (so lower), later on an old monitor support putting it level. But I only ever used it to keep my email client open, so I could easily see what kind of mail came in. That's still the main use now that I've got 2 screens, but I no longer move the email to the main screen if I need to actually read it.
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i have 3 screens on the desktop at work. i also have a craptop that work issued for WFH situations (devs get several generations back laptops to make the pencilpushers less upset at the awesome desktops we get)
since i use teamviewer for WFH the laptop sits to me left with outlook open and software KVM so i can do email things easily.
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i also have a craptop that work issued
My work laptop hasn't even been turned on for months.
Away from the office I use my personal laptop, as that's much better spec, and RDP back into my desktops. WFH I have a VM with the corpoate VPN client installed and then RDP back into the desktops.
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I use work laptop both at work and from home, mainly so that I've got access to all the email I moved to it back when they threatened to decrease our inbox quota. As well as all the customer issue files.
Pretty decent, dell 6420. Mainly runs firefox, chrome, and a terminal emulator accessing my personal server resources (3 virtual servers combining to 6 cores, 40 or so gigs of RAM, and several hundred gigs of disk. Gotta run all those oracle instances on something...)
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I'm contemplating carrying a proper monitor around with me but that seems excessive.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236381&cm_re=portable_lcd_monitor--24-236-381--Product
Not terribly large at 15.6", but it is a portable USB powered widescreen monitor. I used to carry one all the time until one of my guys pilfered it for his own usage and I never replaced it.
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EDIT: Yes, these autostretch to fill the whole center area. EDIT²: I know, my time format is TRWTF.
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That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen.
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EDIT²: I know, my time format is TRWTF.
It's OK, at least it uses short month name instead of numbers, so it's unambiguous.
I use the one true format of course.