Do computer techs here know what they're doing?!

[Zenmervolt]

There is a reason that labs have one image. Do you have any idea how much of a pain it is to support several different images? There are bugs that crop up with every build, they don't need to deal with several builds. At my school we have 30,000 students and 4 main techs. The rest of us just sit in the labs and make sure no-one tries to walk out with a computer stuffed under his shirt.

That said, all the new computers in our labs do have LCD monitors set at their optimal resolution instead of the 1024x768 that is used for CRTs.

ZV

 

[DeckardBlade]

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

Originally posted by: Joker81<br.

Haha. Our lab is a little lax on changing the resolution so anybody can. I always log in with power user or greater though so I never have to experience restrictions.

Thus you lack the knowledge of what's really going on outside of your own access privilege. You just admitted your ignorance.

I work systems support for an insruance company. We've two main physical locations in my city and between the two buildings there are around 1,200 employees with workstations. We're slowly transitioning to LCD screens at the moment, but most of our workstations are configured with dual CRT monitors. One 19" and one 17"; in my experience there are very few people that use 1024x768, because they have difficulty reading text. Most of these people are using 640x480 or 800x600 to be able to comfortably read. Your library may be setup with that in mind, for you it may make more sense to run at a higher resolution, but if the resolution is lower than what you'd prefer you can still read text on the screen. There may be a larger percentage of people whom cannot comfortably read at the resolution you prefer vs the people that prefer to view their screens at a higher resolution.

I've never worked in a public library or university environment so maybe things are dramatically different. From my experiences though, people in general don't use very high resolution settings. I would expect a public place like a library to be aimed with being functional to the masses in mind rather than the select few.

Are other people complaining? If not, that is probably the reason why they have stuck with that resolution.

Other than asking one of the people whom made the decision to use that resolution I don't see how anyone could come up with an accurate reason - it could very well be a little more complicated than blanketing them with ignorance though.

For what it's worth, we run our LCDs at 1280x1024. And I'm perfectly comfortable at home at 2046x1536, I could understand if someone else wasn't though

-DB

 

[Kev]

I don't think any of the monitors in my school are set right. The LCD's are all set to the wrong resolution and look like sh*t, and the CRT's are all set to refresh at 60hz and i can't look at them for more than 10 seconds without getting a headache.

 

[Ogg]

Originally posted by: Joker81

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

Originally posted by: Joker81
Maybe because they all were imaged at the 1024x768 and they didn't want to have to redo a whole image for a screen resolution. I do a lot of re-imaging of machines and Im not going to run around to 100 computers and change the resolution so someone else can see it easier.

Just every time you go into the library sit at one of the comuters iwht the wrong resolution and change it.

You're one of those incompetent tech with poor work ethics.

I see that you lack experience too. If you worked on any public library or university library computers, you would have learned by now that users aren't granted access to settings.

I don't know how by not changing the resolution on a screen makes me incompetent.

I think it does. Cheers NeoPTLD:beer:

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Joker81


Haha. Our lab is a little lax on changing the resolution so anybody can.

just wait until you have that one idiot user who feels it's his right to change the desktop resolution to 1600x1600, even tho the machines are only rated to 1280x1024, without using TEST... which turns the screen black, forcing you to reboot in safe/vga mode to undo his settings.... and you'll change your policy. When the idiot user sits at one machine it may be no big deal, but when he decides to go to all 50 machines, and then complain that everything is broken.... you'll feel different

 

[dquan97]

I do...I created the Internet

 

[Joker81]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: Joker81


Haha. Our lab is a little lax on changing the resolution so anybody can.

just wait until you have that one idiot user who feels it's his right to change the desktop resolution to 1600x1600, even tho the machines are only rated to 1280x1024, without using TEST... which turns the screen black, forcing you to reboot in safe/vga mode to undo his settings.... and you'll change your policy. When the idiot user sits at one machine it may be no big deal, but when he decides to go to all 50 machines, and then complain that everything is broken.... you'll feel different

Only problem with that is windows installs the driver for the monitor(since they are plug&pray monitors) and it won't allow the user to go past the point of maximum for the monitor. At least thats how the image on our machines are setup.

I doubt even that the resolution on the onboard video on the older dells could even get that high.

 

[CaseTragedy]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD
We've got a bunch of Dell Optiplex computers with 14"(probably 1402FP) and 17" (Dell 1702FP) LCDs in the library.

Things look blocky whenever I use the 17" and I was playing with the control buttons on the LCD and I just realized both 17 and 14" are driven at 1024x768@60Hz. On the 17", when I recall this, it displays "1280x1024" as optimum.

Not only they're wasting the higher resolution pontential, it makes things look shoddy.

it is a library right?

mb some people can't read very well at the 1280x1024.

Bingo! The public stations over here have been on 800x600 for the longest time. It was only recently changed to 1024x768. The reason? The older librarians can't read it too well at a higher resolution. We will never see 1280x over here.


-Case