{"id":803,"date":"2006-10-13T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=803"},"modified":"2009-06-11T18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:36:59","slug":"speaking-of-desktops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/10\/13\/speaking-of-desktops\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Desktops…"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’m on the subject of desktops (the visual kind, anyway), I suppose it bears mentioning that I finally upgraded my display. You see, a while back my old 17 inch cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor began to get a little… fuzzy. Granted, it was <\/em>a few years old (okay, like 6 years old) and I was <\/em>running my desktop at the ungodly resolution of 1280×1024, so it was no surprise that it was having trouble keeping up. And since I had recently gotten a new 19 inch LCD screen at work, I figured it was time to upgrade my home one as well. I borrowed a 17 inch LCD screen for a while, just to get by (LCD screens were still too expensive for me at the time) – and that was pretty good. I mean, 17 inches of LCD is great <\/em>compared to 17 inches of CRT. However, eventually I had to give it back – and so I was stuck with my CRT again for a few days. YIKES! What a shock! The edges of the screen seemed to be receding into infinity, compared to the flat perfection of LCD. Needless to say, I went out hunting for a good deal on a new LCD right away<\/em>. And it just so happened that last week there was a sale, and I managed to get my hands on a 19 inch LCD screen for just $169.<\/p>\n

Yep, 19 inches of LCD glory – and let me tell you, I’ll never go back.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, 19 inches is all I can fit in my desk at the moment – a bigger screen literally won’t fit. The 19 inch LCD has just 1\/2 of an inch clearance on the left and right sides, so this is as big as I can get for now – until I upgrade my desk in a few months (hopefully at the same time I move out of Fitchburg – but that’s a story for another post).<\/p>\n

So all I need now is a new TV tuner card<\/a> for my computer – one that is compatible with Windows XP Media Center Edition (my old one from 2000 is obviously not fully compatible) – and I’ll be golden. Watching TV in bed never looked so good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’m on the subject of desktops (the visual kind, anyway), I suppose it bears mentioning that I finally upgraded my display. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rants","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-cX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":672,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/11\/05\/perks\/","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":0},"title":"Perks","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 5, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm writing this post while staring at an enormous Sylvania 19 inch LCD monitor. 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