GWiz office/dorm for the next 5 months...

[Grey Ghost]

Originally Posted by snide

Can't believe those assholes at Apple didn't put a printer port on the iPad.

Assholes.

What type of beer does she keep in her fridge? Hopefully not the same piss water you drink...

Centronics. What an upgrade from serial!

Our mainframe/COBOL programmers back in the '80s/'90s wanted color monitors to the IBM mainframe. Talk about crazy expensive! I think several thousands of $ back then. Along that time is when the 286 CPU came out. We could buy a 286 PC with an emulator card for far less. The graphic card was EGA/EGA monitor. There was a hot-key to hop between the mainframe and the PC side of things. Alt-Esc. With a mainframe you were only sending screen shots basically anyway. I know some people that dealt with propagating inventory to eCommerce sites found two or more monitors helpful.

[snide]

Originally Posted by Grey Ghost

Centronics. What an upgrade from serial!

Our mainframe/COBOL programmers back in the '80s/'90s wanted color monitors to the IBM mainframe. Talk about crazy expensive! I think several thousands of $ back then. Along that time is when the 286 CPU came out. We could buy a 286 PC with an emulator card for far less. The graphic card was EGA/EGA monitor. There was a hot-key to hop between the mainframe and the PC side of things. Alt-Esc. With a mainframe you were only sending screen shots basically anyway. I know some people that dealt with propagating inventory to eCommerce sites found two or more monitors helpful.

Back in the day, we were a VAR for DataPoint. Hardware was crazy expensive. When PCs hit the ground, we were able to compile our code on that platform and run. As PC hardware prices came down, I had two PCs on my desk, on an ARC network. I would write code on one PC and test on the other. Because network.

When monitors became cheap, and PCs could support two monitors, I went that route.

Now, in my home office, I have a 27" monitor attached to my MacBookPro. I have several apps/windows open, mostly overlapped, so I can access them quickly. My workstation doesn't support more than 2 external monitors, so I don't believe I need a second one.

[Grey Ghost]

Originally Posted by snide

Back in the day, we were a VAR for DataPoint. Hardware was crazy expensive. When PCs hit the ground, we were able to compile our code on that platform and run. As PC hardware prices came down, I had two PCs on my desk, on an ARC network. I would write code on one PC and test on the other. Because network.

When monitors became cheap, and PCs could support two monitors, I went that route.

Now, in my home office, I have a 27" monitor attached to my MacBookPro. I have several apps/windows open, mostly overlapped, so I can access them quickly. My workstation doesn't support more than 2 external monitors, so I don't believe I need a second one.

Why MAC? Although my first was a Apple 2 GS.

[snide]

Originally Posted by Grey Ghost

Why MAC? Although my first was a Apple 2 GS.

A few years ago, I was at a client site, along with my trusty Windows laptop. The consulting firm I was working with changed some settings on their database which made it impossible for me to log in and get my work done. That consulting firm would not provide any support or assistance, as I was a contractor, so I wasn't able to my work. Since I don't get paid to screw around, at lunch I went to the Apple store, which was a mile away. Walked up to one of their MacBookPros, typed in the URL for the database and was able to log in. Bought it right then and there, took it back to the client site, and was able to get back to work. Been using Macs ever since.

One of my colleagues on that project, another contractor, went to the Apple store the next day and bought a MacBook and started to use that for work too.

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by snide

What type of beer does she keep in her fridge? Hopefully not the same piss water you drink...

Wish somebody would have gave me cat piss for a first drink.. I wouldn't drink either.

[GentleBen]

Originally Posted by datawiz

As I am old.

Hell, you won't even be 52 until tomorrow!

[Nox]

Originally Posted by datawiz

As I am old, and need reading glasses, and have 18 monitors....the purpose of this setup is to spread things out. I run a virtual machine on my computer that takes up the 6 monitors front and center. That VM has SQL Server, Postman, Delphi programming language, Excel, Windows folders, and text editors running at all times. Those alone get spread between those six monitors.

Additionally, I have a remote control session to my notebook on 1 monitor, and I have email (3 clients spread across 2 monitors), I have family chat on Kakao on others....I can go on and on, but at the end of the day, the point of doing this is you never have to hunt for the active window. With this setup, you just turn your head. You place everything where you know it is and it's there. Ping from a child? Just look up. Email from a client...just look left.

I NEVER have to hunt. It's ALWAYS there. Multiply those actions times 100 or more and you'll understand why I do what I do. I use all 18 monitors all day, every day. The time savings alone pay for the setup. GWiz subscribes to this lifestyle.

The sweet spot for me is just two screens. My main screen is an ultra-wide screen. I can open multiple windows on my main screen which usually consists of the main document I am working on and a comparative document beside it. The second screen is for Netflix, Youtube or whatever entertainment I am watching while I get my work done. If I had as many screens as you, I’d actually lose productivity from the distractions. The third undocumented screen is my cellphone where I prefer to get my texts and even my emails.

[Iron Chef]

Can you launch anything with that shit?

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by Iron Chef

Can you launch anything with that shit?

Well for a moment, we couldn't even log in. Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom did an update last night rendering the mouse and keyboard useless. After much trial and error, we were able to force the computer into a system restore and now it works again. Thanks MSFT...not!

I think the bigger issue is the fact that the computer has been in storage since March. Previous restore point available was March 10th, but seriously Microsoft? You render a computer useless with an update? What would the average Joe do? Go buy another computer (with another OS that you get paid for)?

OK...now back to the previous launch.

[Iron Chef]

Originally Posted by datawiz

OK...now back to the previous launch.

Y'all aren't right.

[snide]

Originally Posted by datawiz

Well for a moment, we couldn't even log in. Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom did an update last night rendering the mouse and keyboard useless. After much trial and error, we were able to force the computer into a system restore and now it works again. Thanks MSFT...not!

I think the bigger issue is the fact that the computer has been in storage since March. Previous restore point available was March 10th, but seriously Microsoft? You render a computer useless with an update? What would the average Joe do? Go buy another computer (with another OS that you get paid for)?

OK...now back to the previous launch.

You still use Windows? How cute.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by snide

You still use Windows? How cute.

At least it's steady work.