Recent content by starmonkey

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    Help me choose a monitor!

    Slightly OT, but, 1280x960 is a better resolution than 1280x1024 for any 4:3 CRT (which is almost all of them). 1280x1024 messes up the aspect ratio, making pixels undersquare (i.e. letters look vertically squashed). For some reason, a lot of video card driver / monitor combos don't list...
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    In the Market for a New Keyboard

    I actually use one of these for work. The keys feel kinda cheap and have very little resistance. I don't mean that in a bad way--I personally like it a lot, I can code like the wind on it! And pretty nice looking too, at least in black.
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    In the Market for a New Keyboard

    Sorry, I'm wrong, the Coolermaster is <$20.
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    In the Market for a New Keyboard

    I wouldn't bother with the Coolermaster if I were you. Notice that the keyboard layout is not a full desktop layout... there's no inverted-T arrows or sixpack of navigation keys. The Logitech UltraX has laptop style keys too, in a full 104(?)-key layout, and looks similar (although the...