Dual monitors
I bit the bullet and grabbed a second monitor from a departed co-worker. I’ve been making do with VirtuaWin, a utility that provides multiple desktops on Windows and that I really like. But I felt that I needed that real sysadmin/Bloomberg vibe and wanted 2 flat panel monitors taking up precious desk space.
The primary monitor is a Dell 19-inch LCD, attached to the DVI port of the video card. The second is a Dell 17-inch attached to the analog port. The difference is noticeable, even though the 17-incher has the same resolution and thus is pixel-for-pixel crisper. But there is some colour bleeding around window bar fonts. Also, it’s really hard to get more or less the same brightness on both monitors.
But so far, I like it. I’ve pushed Miranda, a putty session, the Bloglines Firefox window, and an Outlook window showing the unread mail search folder onto the secondary monitor. This leaves me space to concentrate on the all-time- consuming support box and TOAD session I seem to live in these days.
Both monitors have USB hubs, so between them, the 4-5 ports on the box, and my 4-port USB hub, I have more USB ports than I can shake a stick at. I’m old enough to remember life without USB. USB rocks.
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