07.25.06

Not Enough Boring

Posted in Development, General at 11:26 am by Soabirw

Been a while since I posted anything, to the relief of many I’m sure. Life went insane with all this moving stuff. Helped my folks do some moving the week after we moved into our new pad. Still a few rooms to finish putting together, but we had a productive three day weekend and got a good chunk knocked out. We even got all of our black-out drapes up. So worth the $300. Projector looks great now, even at high noon. Our computer room had French doors (or whatever), so they let in a ton of light and got that place pretty toasty. Not to mention the glare. So we have black-out drapes on that too. Doors are still usable, which is good because we have some BBQ potential in the backyard.

Other then that, the weekend was full of fun server and Rails stuff. Finally finishing off this last SoaTech client, so we can really focus on converting the entire biz to Rails. After our discoveries over the weekend, we are very excited about that.

07.26.06

Widescreen *bwaaaa*

Posted in Toys at 9:16 am by Soabirw

I finally got my dual monitor setup going at work and am not very happy with it. It’s a bit of a hack since the MacBook doesn’t natively support such a thing. Basically I crank the resolution up to 2048×768 and then this little box cuts that in half and sends each half to the monitors. So I’m stuck at 1024×768, which really sucks. And everything gets thrown in the middle of the screen, as you would normally want, but they just get cut in half. Even my dock. Which at such a low resolution I don’t really have room for. This trick would be OK if you have a machine that supports 2560×1024, but basic built in Intel graphics wont.

So I picked up a good widescreen LCD. UPS overnight wasn’t much more then the usual Fedex saver, so I went with that. Hopefully it really gets here tomorrow. That would make me a very happy person. Price tag is nice too, especially compared to the Apple version. Same size and less then half the cost, even with overnight shipping. If I like it enough, I might even nab one for home. I’m not unhappy with my L90D+ though. That’s is a gorgeous monitor.

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