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Personal pet peeves

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Lifer
You know what I hate?

People using VGA on their LCDs when it clearly has DVI. Why? Everytime people ask me why I have so many VGA cables around my house and if they can borrow. Well it just so happens our 4 LCDs in the house are all hooked up via DVI. We have dual DVI on our computers, and my MBP has dvi also. The only VGA we use is on our LCD TV.

And I always have to carry a DVI-VGA connector on the go. Oh and people love borrowing or stealing the few DVI-VGA connectors I have. Seriously? Today my friend is asking me for one because his LCD he bought a few months back doesn't have DVI. A big WTF, but maybe that's what the cheap monitors are still coming with. Forgive me for shelling out big bucks to buy a Dell 2405 or 2707.

Also I hate people who stock on up cheap Fry's electronics HDs that are all IDE based. I suppose they sell all SATA now but a few years back my friend loved buying those cheap $59 AR HDs. 320gb or whatever but IDE. Funny because he stacked his tower full with 4 HDs.

Now with his new i7 build he's looking at the motherboard and going huh??? Then I tell him "Told ya so." Back when we bought 320gb HDs he laughed at me for spending extra and getting 320gb Seagate 7200.10s for $85 or whatever on Slickdeals. But at least they were SATA. I can carry them over to the next system. Instead he gets to spend his whole weekend trying to consolidate 4 HDs onto some new SATA drives. That and everything he spent in the past few years gets thrown out. Or I suppose he can still use it on his clunker system.
 
Oldsmoboat new law makes a lot of sense here:

"If you post a rant, you'll end up looking like a douche"


Seriously, you hate IDE HD and the VGA standard?

LOL
 
Why do you care if someone else uses VGA or DVI? Not everyone has your level of technical expertise, and most people probably can't see the difference anyway.

Aren't there more important things to get worked up about? 😛
 
but if your friend saved 4x $25 on hard drives, he could buy a 1tb sata drive at this point and still have the old 320s.... Ahh not such a bad deal anymore...
 
Most monitors come with a VGA cable, with the DVI being sold separately. Those who don't care about image quality (read: most people) just stick with the free option.
 
Reads more like you're boasting about how savvy you are with regard to where technology is going. :thumbsdown:
 
Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
Reads more like you're boasting about how savvy you are with regard to where technology is going. :thumbsdown:
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most rants end up reading like "everyone else is backwards with technology... and i'm superior, so eveyone needs to be like me"

 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
You know what I hate?

People using VGA on their LCDs when it clearly has DVI. Why? Everytime people ask me why I have so many VGA cables around my house and if they can borrow. Well it just so happens our 4 LCDs in the house are all hooked up via DVI. We have dual DVI on our computers, and my MBP has dvi also. The only VGA we use is on our LCD TV.

And I always have to carry a DVI-VGA connector on the go. Oh and people love borrowing or stealing the few DVI-VGA connectors I have. Seriously? Today my friend is asking me for one because his LCD he bought a few months back doesn't have DVI. A big WTF, but maybe that's what the cheap monitors are still coming with. Forgive me for shelling out big bucks to buy a Dell 2405 or 2707.

Also I hate people who stock on up cheap Fry's electronics HDs that are all IDE based. I suppose they sell all SATA now but a few years back my friend loved buying those cheap $59 AR HDs. 320gb or whatever but IDE. Funny because he stacked his tower full with 4 HDs.

Now with his new i7 build he's looking at the motherboard and going huh??? Then I tell him "Told ya so." Back when we bought 320gb HDs he laughed at me for spending extra and getting 320gb Seagate 7200.10s for $85 or whatever on Slickdeals. But at least they were SATA. I can carry them over to the next system. Instead he gets to spend his whole weekend trying to consolidate 4 HDs onto some new SATA drives. That and everything he spent in the past few years gets thrown out. Or I suppose he can still use it on his clunker system.
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I am going to enjoy correcting this "Nerd-who-thinks-he's-so-smart".

IDE means integrated drive electronics.
ALL hard drives are IDE. If you knew better you would rant about them keeping PATA drives in stock.

Also, at its extreme, current analog VGA cables actually support a higher resolution than DVI. And I've been using VGA on my 1920x1200 LCD for years. Hooked up both and didnt notice any different in image quality. No interferance either. And I have assload of gadgets & hardware in my tiny computer room. Oodles of EMI floating around. None of it fucks up my VGA cable.


Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it, nerd failure.
 
My campus did that with the LCDs - they bought new computers for a lot of labs, but the LCDs all use analog connectors.

 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Originally posted by: DLeRium
You know what I hate?

People using VGA on their LCDs when it clearly has DVI. Why? Everytime people ask me why I have so many VGA cables around my house and if they can borrow. Well it just so happens our 4 LCDs in the house are all hooked up via DVI. We have dual DVI on our computers, and my MBP has dvi also. The only VGA we use is on our LCD TV.

And I always have to carry a DVI-VGA connector on the go. Oh and people love borrowing or stealing the few DVI-VGA connectors I have. Seriously? Today my friend is asking me for one because his LCD he bought a few months back doesn't have DVI. A big WTF, but maybe that's what the cheap monitors are still coming with. Forgive me for shelling out big bucks to buy a Dell 2405 or 2707.

Also I hate people who stock on up cheap Fry's electronics HDs that are all IDE based. I suppose they sell all SATA now but a few years back my friend loved buying those cheap $59 AR HDs. 320gb or whatever but IDE. Funny because he stacked his tower full with 4 HDs.

Now with his new i7 build he's looking at the motherboard and going huh??? Then I tell him "Told ya so." Back when we bought 320gb HDs he laughed at me for spending extra and getting 320gb Seagate 7200.10s for $85 or whatever on Slickdeals. But at least they were SATA. I can carry them over to the next system. Instead he gets to spend his whole weekend trying to consolidate 4 HDs onto some new SATA drives. That and everything he spent in the past few years gets thrown out. Or I suppose he can still use it on his clunker system.
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I am going to enjoy correcting this "Nerd-who-thinks-he's-so-smart".

IDE means integrated drive electronics.
ALL hard drives are IDE. If you knew better you would rant about them keeping PATA drives in stock.

Also, at its extreme, current analog VGA cables actually support a higher resolution than DVI. And I've been using VGA on my 1920x1200 LCD for years. Hooked up both and didnt notice any different in image quality. No interferance either. And I have assload of gadgets & hardware in my tiny computer room. Oodles of EMI floating around. None of it fucks up my VGA cable.


Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it, nerd failure.
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EMI isn't what makes VGA look like shit. It is the crap DA -> AD -> DA conversion that makes it look like shit. You likely have expensive component so that isn't a problem.
 
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