Experiments are fun. Especially ones that involve the net, so I took part in this one and joined the massive bandwagon of bloggers. I’m not expecting much other than a few random stray free hits, but hey, it’s a fun experiment so why not, right?
Go on. You know you want to. Thank Ross for spreading the word :D
Okay, since the past three posts or so, some readers have notified me that they have been unable to post comments. Whenever they tried, they get redirected to a weird URL which returns a 404. I spent a few nights trying to figure out what the hell went wrong, but at one point I just gave up and decided to create a new blog, and import the old posts there.
Unfortunately, there were some setbacks. I’ve been blogging on Wordpress 2.0, and never bothered to upgrade. So what happened was, after creating the new blog using Wordpress 2.5 [thank god BlogAsian had installed the latest Fantastico], I tried to import the database from the old blog. However, things didn’t go as easily as I had thought.
I know it’s not much yet. But if I keep using it, it’ll get more twisted and eventually the wire will break at some point. You guys have any idea how to fix this? These are quite new, I just got them only a couple of months back, and paid quite a bit for them, too :(
Help?
Starcraft II would look SO good on this baby.
…because I can’t possibly keep you from hating me and my preciousss.
*cough*
I got a Samsung 2232BW 22″ widescreen TFT LCD monitor [market price approx. RM1150] for myself. It’s big, it’s black, and it’s very sexy. Optimum resolution is at 1680×1050 pixels, with 170/170 degrees of viewing angle and it has a nice response time of 2ms. However, this particular model, it seems, has a strange quirk.
LCD displays have two input channels, a digital and an analog [analog is the one with the blue plug, which CRTs use]. The 2232BW displays digital signals as well. Nice, crispy, almost perfect… if not for a very distracting bright magenta/pink vertical line at the left edge of the screen. It almost looks like an entire column of dead pixels.
It is for this reason that I sent it back for an exchange, and faced the same problem again with the new one. However, when I changed it to analog, the pink line mysteriously disappears. Unfortunately, being an analog signal, it gets a bit too contrasty and a little bit glaring. Nothing some minor tweaks won’t fix.
UPDATE:
The pink line of ‘dead pixels’ is actually an error from my VGA’s digital output. I managed to solve this problem by removing the previous nVIDIA Forceware installation [for my 7600GT] and replacing it with the latest version of the driver.
At any rate, I’ve been delaying my LCD purchase for years because I was waiting for the technology to mature and the price to drop. I’ve been burning my eyes staring at 17″ CRTs for the past half decade so I decided that it’s about time that I move on.
Looks like my dSLR purchase is going to get delayed a little while longer…
