| canthus13 | dzho: Probably, but $REALLY_OLD_BUT_FAMOUS_COMPUTER is infinitely more productive. | 00:48 |
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| canthus13 | and cable boxes are touchy enough without throwing something at them they don't expect. you'd prolly just brick it. | 00:49 |
| canthus13 | hell. Watching TV can brick a cable box. | 00:49 |
| dzho | it's not the cable box, it's just a DVR-sans-hard-drive | 00:50 |
| dzho | ostensibly a blue-ray player, but it has an ethernet jack and a USB port | 00:50 |
| dzho | blu-ray (tm) | 00:50 |
| canthus13 | ah. | 00:50 |
| dzho | was something like $40 or $50 on sale at Best Buy over the holidays and so I was sort of "meh, why not" | 00:51 |
| * canthus13 has seen a Pace box brick simply by turning it off and back on. | 00:51 | |
| dzho | yeah, that sounds like A Problem | 00:51 |
| canthus13 | It's not really Pace's fault.. It's TV Guide. their sofware sucks. | 00:51 |
| Cheri703 | \o/ I like xubuntu! | 00:52 |
| Cheri703 | super customizable panels = happy dual monitors! | 00:53 |
| Cheri703 | also 24" 16:10 monitors are HUGE | 00:53 |
| canthus13 | I have a 22" at work. it's quite large enough. | 00:54 |
| Cheri703 | :D I got two | 00:55 |
| Cheri703 | semi-impulsively, but...yes. migraine brought on by flickery screen = OMG MAKE IT STOP | 00:55 |
| Cheri703 | I'd been eyeing these for a while, just hadn't pulled the trigger | 00:56 |
| * canthus13 nods. | 00:56 | |
| skellat | Blah: http://erielookingproductions.info/2013/01/119-seeking-the-logline | 05:10 |
| dzho | Cheri703: you have two 24" monitors? | 14:09 |
| Cheri703 | yep :D | 15:36 |
| Cheri703 | as of yesterday evening | 15:36 |
| Cheri703 | I'll fully admit it's a bit of overkill for day to day personal computer use, BUT for work stuff it's pretty great | 15:37 |
| paultag | overkill? | 15:44 |
| paultag | is there such a thing? | 15:44 |
| Cheri703 | pretty sure the setup of one of the contractors for my company would qualify, he's got like 6 monitors of varying sizes up to (iirc) 30" all arrayed in front of him | 15:56 |
| jrgifford | Cheri703: that's not overkill | 16:39 |
| jrgifford | i met a guy who had like 10 20" monitors | 16:39 |
| jrgifford | one was a nagios dashboard | 16:40 |
| paultag | the most I had was 3 :) | 16:40 |
| jrgifford | he had his server error.log piped through some funky grep thing that returned serious stuff on one | 16:40 |
| paultag | Once I get my new place, I'm about to try 2x2, or 1x4, longways | 16:40 |
| Cheri703 | I'm at 3 if I'm also running the laptop on my lapdesk | 16:40 |
| jrgifford | and had ssh terminals to other machines on all the others. | 16:41 |
| jrgifford | the guy never saw his desktop. | 16:41 |
| paultag | ← never sees his desktop | 16:42 |
| skellat | This is part of why living in Ashtabula County can get aggravating at times: http://identi.ca/notice/99213560 | 18:29 |
| paultag | http://fuckyeahohio.com/ | 19:11 |
| paultag | btw, that exists | 19:11 |
| Cheri703 | http://www.imfromohio.com/post/40961158020/trying-to-convince-someone-that-there-are-fun-things-to | 19:16 |
| * dzho sighs | 19:17 | |
| paultag | ahhahahaha | 19:18 |
| paultag | hahahaha - http://www.imfromohio.com/post/41162663030/ohioans-when-touchdown-jesus-was-struck-by | 19:18 |
| paultag | so PERFECT | 19:18 |
| dzho | http://www.imfromohio.com/post/40815201738/omg <- paultag | 19:22 |
| paultag | :D | 19:22 |
| dzho | s/nyc/bos/ of course ;-) | 19:22 |
| dzho | http://www.imfromohio.com/post/40765885538/everyone-in-ohio-when-forbes-named-dayton-as-the haha, I missed this forbes thing | 19:23 |
| paultag | aaaahahaha | 19:23 |
| Cheri703 | yeah, someone linked me to that site a few days ago, saw the link from fyo and saw the mansfield one :) | 19:26 |
| Cheri703 | I know no one here is officially a xubuntu person, but anyone have thoughts on this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1921687 ? | 19:26 |
| Cheri703 | at least, afaik no one is | 19:26 |
| dzho | also, xubuntu+second monitor+ . . . well, ohio | 19:28 |
| dzho | ;-) | 19:28 |
| Cheri703 | hrm? | 19:28 |
| dzho | intersection of sets are smaller than the sets themselves, so . . . good luck with that. | 19:29 |
| Unit193 | Well, I don't use dual monitors, so don't know. | 19:29 |
| Cheri703 | ah, yeah | 19:29 |
| Cheri703 | it treats far edges as edges, even though you can make it so windows are draggable through the far edge | 19:30 |
| Unit193 | skellat uses last I knew, as do I. | 19:30 |
| dzho | I can't remember if we're running lubuntu or xubuntu on the thinkpad the kid uses at home. | 19:30 |
| Cheri703 | so you'd think *something* could be done to make the "seams" treated as edges | 19:30 |
| dzho | I'll try to pay attention next time I'm on it. | 19:30 |
| dzho | laptops + external monitor is a "two monitor" situation I often don't think about as such. | 19:30 |
| Cheri703 | yeah | 19:31 |
| dzho | mostly because I most commonly encounter that with a projector, which is horrible to use as side-by-side, so we usually punt and mirror. | 19:31 |
| yano | haha, that site is golden | 19:32 |
| Cheri703 | heh | 19:32 |
| Cheri703 | one: I posted to the forums about this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1921687 | 19:49 |
| Cheri703 | bah, wrong window | 19:49 |
| Cheri703 | sorry | 19:49 |
| Unit193 | Cheri703: I decided to try OMG!Ponies just for the heck of it, someone just pinged me and I literally said "Oohh!" and jerked back a bit. :D | 21:53 |
| Cheri703 | hehe, that was my reaction too! | 21:53 |
| Cheri703 | it makes sure you don't miss messages | 21:53 |
| Cheri703 | :D | 21:53 |
| Cheri703 | hehehe | 21:53 |
| Unit193 | (Switched back, of course) | 21:53 |
| Cheri703 | I'm leaving it! | 21:54 |
| Cheri703 | I have everything dark so normal notifications disappear | 21:54 |
| Cheri703 | and if my phone is on silent or in another room, I need the visual notification | 21:54 |
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