/me adds NEC to my list of companies to implode

[RyanM]

Son of a mother-bitch.

I'm sitting now typing this at 1024x768 on my 14" MAG monitor that was built sometime between the Cretacious and Jurassic periods.

My 19" NEC, model FP-912SB, went kaput on me this morning, causing me to lose an unknown number of documents because I couldn't SEE them so that I could click "Yes" on the "Save changes" dialogs. ARG!

I called up NEC and ordered an RMA.

I swear, if this turns out like my KDS debacle, I WILL DESTROY ALL GRAVITY MYSELF! If I have to grab a tree and hang on while NEC and everything on the planet is being sucked into the vacuum of space because I have BLOWN GRAVITY TO HELL, SO BE IT.

Ahem.

I'm a little flustered.

Anyways, since I can't have half a dozen IE windows, 25 chat boxes, Photoshop, WinAMP, and Trillian open and VISIBLE at the same time anymore, my presence here will be scarce for the next week.

Which for all of your sake, is probably a good thing.

Oh, and remember: Love gravity while it exists.

 

[BooGiMaN]

ummm yeah...im really shaking here about the whole you destrying gravity...but hey good luck with ur rma

 

[yoda291]

Wait a minute...who put you in charge of gravity?

 

[Ameesh]

this is the stupiest thread today

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
this is the stupiest thread today

win!

 

[brtspears2]

Why didnt you just find another monitor, hook it up?

 

[T3C]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Why didnt you just find another monitor, hook it up?

 

[emu10k2]

You have caused me to pull out all my hair.

-- Anandteh Moderator

 

[huey1124]

will i be needing a gravity suit?

 

[LeeTJ]

next time, CHANGE monitors BEFORE shutting down.

that way you won't lose any documents.

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: emu10k2
You have caused me to pull out all my hair.

-- Anandteh Moderator

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: emu10k2
You have caused me to pull out all my hair.

-- Anandteh Moderator

what the hell is Anandteh Moderator and who made you one?

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
next time, CHANGE monitors BEFORE shutting down.

that way you won't lose any documents.

I'm pretty sure the old monitor that he hooked up didn't support the resolution or refresh rate of the one he was using. Assuming that is the case, he wouldn't be able to see anything.

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Why didnt you just find another monitor, hook it up?

Did you READ?

14" MAG. Hooked up. It WAS my secondary display, now it's my ONLY. Which means my screen real estate has been slashed from 3551232 pixels to 786432 pixels. That's TWENTY-TWO PERCENT the amount of available real estate before.

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
next time, CHANGE monitors BEFORE shutting down.

that way you won't lose any documents.

Explain to me how you can change monitors when the Primary was running 1920x1440 and the secondary is incapable of that resolution.

The display properties dialog appears on the PRIMARY monitor, so even if I right clicked on the desktop and opened it up, I wouldn't be able to SEE it.

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: huey1124
will i be needing a gravity suit?

Not even that will save you. Bwahaahahahhaha

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
this is the stupiest thread today

yup. we have a winner.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The joy of a multiple monitor setup: Redundancy

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: emu10k2
You have caused me to pull out all my hair.

-- Anandteh Moderator

OMG, it's teh Anandteh TEH Mod!

If you're going to fake a mod quote, at least get it right. You need to work on your scowl, and that two-by-four just isn't menacing enough.

Frankie "The Bat" Moderator



That's how you do it.

- M4H

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: emu10k2
You have caused me to pull out all my hair.

-- Anandteh Moderator

what the hell is Anandteh Moderator and who made you one?

hahah anandteh !

 

[yukichigai]

I dunno, back in the day NEC made some nice VCRs.

 

[emu10k2]

I once applied for a job at a local NEC distributor.

All I got was a bag of donuts from the supervisor for my time.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: emu10k2
I once applied for a job at a local NEC distributor.

All I got was a bag of donuts from the supervisor for my time.

WTF? They gave you a bag of donuts even though you didn't get the job? Talk about kicking you while you're down...

 

[WannaFly]

being dependant on the mouse must suck. The mouse is my enemy.
Serves you right for not knowing to hit Alt-F4 <ENTER> a buncha times.

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: WannaFly
being dependant on the mouse must suck. The mouse is my enemy.
Serves you right for not knowing to hit Alt-F4 <ENTER> a buncha times.

That wouldn't have worked. The documents didn't have filenames.

So I would have had to do Alt-F4, Y, entered a random filename, hit enter, and then moved on to the next one.

Even then, how would I know if I was saving a document or queing up a track in Winamp? I have dozens of sh!t open at any given time.

Nice try though.