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[Neil's World - Not the world you expected] Okay, after this I'll hopefully shut up about the screen, because it arrived this morning (yay for ParcelForce delivering before 10am). It works fine, although I found that you really do have to follow the instructions by turning the computer off first, then turning the monitor on and then the computer on to get it to work - you can't just plug it in and expect it to work. RTFM, as they say. Having a 1280x1024 resolution is so much better than 1024x768 - the machines at the university use it, as does my parents machine at home - but I've had to put up with the latter as my laptop screen doesn't support it (but then it is only 14"). The screen arrived with no dead pixels, which is good. Oh, and it works with my PDA, as well :) . Update: Since I got a rather large birthday money cheque this morning, I've also treated myself to a Belkin wireless keyboard and optical mouse, thus meaning I finally have the luxury of a full-size keyboard. It's USB and both PC and Mac...

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[The Nee and the Naw] The Only Loony Left In Town: I think your comment is closer to being a personal attack than my review was, which is a shame because everyone else who commented has been constructive and informative. I never set out to "be a journalist", a point that I have made at least ten times now, and I have absolutely no idea how giving your opinions on a gig you went to see constitutes "attention seeking" and I'm not even a geek. Now who's the one with the blinkered opinions, eh?

[BostonGeek] Dell 2005FPW 20.1-inch Widescreen LCD: The screen is capable of a decent 1680×1050 resolution, boasts a 12 millisecond response time, and has a contrast ratio of 600:1, which makes it pretty decent for gaming and video. It has VGA, DVI, S-Video, and Composite Video inputs (nice for just plugging a DVD player or XBOX into without turning on your PC). It also has 4 usb ports and functions as a USB hub, which is a nice touch for those of us tired of reaching behind our full-tower cases to blindly connect our MP3 players and the like.

[Blogs.msdn.com] dangriff's WebLog :: The great thing about the commentary was the stories relating the Sun Tzu text to other historical figures (e.g. ancient Chinese generals; Douglas MacArthur; Winston Churchill; etc.) and how their efforts succeeded or failed.  It's entertaining to read about some military leader who seemed to have disregarded the lessons of Sun Tzu and as a result got annihilated.  And likewise those who were successful.

[Myipodblog.blogspot.com] my iPod blog: Weekend with the 1GB iPod Shuffle: It is simply too big of an investment and I would be too worried it would be damaged. In comparison—and this is where the iPod Shuffle really shines for me—the iPod Shuffle is constructed in such a small wear-around-the-neck sort of way that it is perfect for this sort of thing. No worries and less chance of damaging it, and even if something bad were to happen, it's priced low enough where it could be replaced with relatively little pain. It's the disposable iPod (not really).

[Babilim.co.uk] The Daily ACK: The Tokyo subway system is perhaps the most complex and extensive system in the entire world, however it is claimed that it remains one of the most user friendly. However despite these claims, we were glad that the actual process of "getting around" is pretty much the same as it was in Kyoto and that we'd therefore had a relatively gentle introduction to the Japanese subway system. This made getting from Tokyo station to our hotel much simpler than we, or at least I'd, been expected...

[Acid42.bluechronicles.net] Acid42 is the Soft Asian Enemy: So we arrived at Marikina Shoe Expo in Cubao at about 4 pm, and took a look at Lala’s paintings in the 2 galleries where she was exhibiting: at the Vintage Pop shop and at The Chunky Far Flung Gallery. Lovely places both of them, devoted mostly to curios and pop art merchandise, plus space for art exhibitions. It was interesting to see firsthand how a couple of art spaces and funky furniture / home accessory shops are turning the old Marikina Shoe Expo into a hangut for the new bohemians.

[Obsess.com] obsess.com: Of course you've guessed by now that that's not what happens. When you're using the EyeTV software with the EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0, all of the timeshifting controls are greyed out; you can "pause" live TV, but that just gives you a freeze-frame, and when you "unpause" you're straight back to live, having missed whatever happened in the meantime. You can hit record, and the quality drops right down as your CPU starts crunching the stream down into MPEG-1 (it further transpires that Video CD is as good as it gets on a single-CPU G4) and saving it to your hard drive, at which point the timeshifting controls do work — it's possible to rewind, pause and fast-forward a recording while it's still happening, which is nice — but there's no way to leave it in this mode all the time, recording into a bounded cyclic buffer instead of into an ever-growing file, which means that you can't do timeshifting on demand unless you're already recording what you're watching.

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Posted at June 02, 2005 12:50 PM