Jonathan Oxer
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>> Arjen: you da MAN!
Sat, Oct 15th 6:36pm 2005 >> Conferences
How cool is this? I'd really wanted to go to the AUUG conference in Sydney (after all, Linux *is* the mainstream Unix now :-P) but with all my other commitments I just couldn't afford it. But now thanks to Arjen I've got a full conference pass, so all I have to cover is my airfares and accommodation! Woohoo! Sydney, here I come! Which means that if anyone in Sydney wants to catch up for a chat or a keysigning or a glass of cordial, just let me know. Except my stupid laptop chose this week to die, so I'll be up there with no computer and probably won't have much chance to get email :-( If you want to catch up with me you can try plan B: 0438 516 600. Thanks Arjen!
How cool is this? I'd really wanted to go to the AUUG conference in Sydney (after all, Linux *is* the mainstream Unix now :-P) but with all my other commitments I just couldn't afford it. But now thanks to Arjen I've got a full conference pass, so all I have to cover is my airfares and accommodation! Woohoo! Sydney, here I come! Which means that if anyone in Sydney wants to catch up for a chat or a keysigning or a glass of cordial, just let me know. Except my stupid laptop chose this week to die, so I'll be up there with no computer and probably won't have much chance to get email :-( If you want to catch up with me you can try plan B: 0438 516 600. Thanks Arjen!
>> This one's for Mike :-)
Tue, Oct 4th 8:12pm 2005 >> Tech Toys
It's survival of the fittest at IVT: there's a running joke that if you leave your computer unattended you'll probably come back to find it's been stripped for parts! So last week with people away the sight of spare LCDs just sitting there became too much, and combined with having a couple of spare ports on my second video card I knew it just had to be done.
So, pentuple-head it was.
The setup uses a dual-head Nvidia AGP card running the binary drivers so I can use the native TwinHead feature for the center and inner-right monitors, and a triple-head Radeon 7000 PCI card for the left, inner-left and right monitors.
Unfortunately the Radeon drivers don't support triple-head under Linux (works fine under Windows - bah) so the third output ends up just mirroring the second. That means the two outermost monitors are actually showing the same image, which sucks.
But it still looked pretty cool, and I even gave the extra monitors back afterwards so I've reverted to "just" a triple-head system now.
It's survival of the fittest at IVT: there's a running joke that if you leave your computer unattended you'll probably come back to find it's been stripped for parts! So last week with people away the sight of spare LCDs just sitting there became too much, and combined with having a couple of spare ports on my second video card I knew it just had to be done.
So, pentuple-head it was.
The setup uses a dual-head Nvidia AGP card running the binary drivers so I can use the native TwinHead feature for the center and inner-right monitors, and a triple-head Radeon 7000 PCI card for the left, inner-left and right monitors.
Unfortunately the Radeon drivers don't support triple-head under Linux (works fine under Windows - bah) so the third output ends up just mirroring the second. That means the two outermost monitors are actually showing the same image, which sucks.
But it still looked pretty cool, and I even gave the extra monitors back afterwards so I've reverted to "just" a triple-head system now.
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