On 07/21/2011 02:20 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/07/21 13:50 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
One LCD, rather old, built January 2003, but purchased by me off eBay only this year, that I use on a 24/7 machine has good EDID, which really wasn't that new even back then. Is yours even older?
It might well be older, who remembers? I know it was when I was using OS/2, but that doesn't mean anything.
You weren't supposed to remember. Most displays have a production date stamped somewhere on their backs near the model and serial numbers, and LCDs are small and light enough to easily turn to read same even if magnification is required to succeed. Ah, I did that before I wrote. I didn't see a date, wearing specs and holding the kind of reading glass I used to see old guys using. What I do remember is that I bought it very soon after I first saw such monitors around.
I too don't like TVs sold as puter displays. Less wide 16:10 models were still about last I looked, just less common than baby TVs.
Yours wasn't 4:3 either. 1280x1024 is 5:4, which still exists online, though uncommonly in retail stores: http://tinyurl.com/3lrubvu
Yes. What I meant was that the only ones I see anymore are the wide screen kind. The merchant tells me that this is a strategic decision necessitated by gamers; they are ALL gamers apparently.
I doubt it has much to do with gamers. Less need for variety means more profitability. Selling 16:9 TVs as computer screens means less manufacturing tooling overhead, and thus less cost to pass upstream to merchants, while fewer model types to stock means less inventory overhead for wholesalers and retailers. For online merchants, either inventory overhead seems to be less of an issue, or niche market provision is more viable, or both, which in any event are reasons normal aspect can still be had.
"...can be had" where you are.
4:3 still can be had in 1600x1200 http://tinyurl.com/43yxfgz while to replace what I'm using to write this with ATM would require http://www.provantage.com/lg-electronics-l2000ce~7LGEL04K.htm or equivalent, rather less common but not yet dead.
This, of course, is a much smaller market than the US, and one wouldn't expect importers to bring every possible sort of monitors, especially when the the market only wants wide screens.
Must everything in your country be purchased from local retailers? Is online purchasing from sources outside its borders not possible?
Additional example: I am supposed to take a buffered 325mg aspirin tablet every morning. There is only one (1), count 'em, one importer that brings aspirin, and the local Teva Pharmaceuticals (the worlds largest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals) doesn't make aspirin.
In the US, those using aspirin as phophylactic are usually recommended a much smaller dose, which is why stores here sell 81mg alongside 325mg, the latter for pain, the former for prophylaxis. I wonder if your case is rare, and/or your prescribing physician isn't up to speed
The importer decided, for his own convenience apparently, that he doesn't want to bother with large aspirin tablets. I now have to find a pharmacy or individual in Europe or the US to ship aspirin to me. Shameful, isn't it? Given that this is not an exotic substance.
I was recently prescribed Flomax, but found its US price prohibitive. I went online and found the made-in-Indonesia generic available delivered from a Canadian vendor for 1/5 the price. Waiting 2 weeks for delivery is inconvenient, but acceptable considering the alternative.
No Sandy Bridge support in anything so old. To get something other than 1024x768 or worse you'd need something released this year, preferably post-11.4.
POST 11.4? Is current Fedora new enough?
Should be. Ubuntu, about a month newer than 11.4, has been reported successfully supported with Sandy Bridge, and F15 is about a month newer still.
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