...because my monitor stopped working this morning. "Oh good," thinks I, "at last something with which to justify a nice new big monitor."
However, having just crawled around under the desk it turns out it was just the power cable that had come loose and it's actually OK.
Ken
there was me getting all excited...
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
Was this what you had in mind?
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
Boy, that's a real "window" on the world...
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
You could just give it a quite surge of power by connecting it directly to your homes lightning rod when the next storm rolls in!stuck wrote:...because my monitor stopped working this morning. "Oh good," thinks I, "at last something with which to justify a nice new big monitor."
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
Come on now Ken, you deserve a new monitor. Kick that cable again! I promise not to tell your missus!stuck wrote:...having just crawled around under the desk it turns out it was just the power cable that had come loose and it's actually OK.
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PaulB wrote:Was this what you had in mind?
That makes my 55" look puny.
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Umm, it wouldn't fit on the desk! I'd settle for one of these:PaulB wrote:Was this what you had in mind?
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
Unless it turns out that the ..umm.. monitor power cable socket, has become ...oooh... intermittently depolarised and could fail, no wait, fail catastrophically!!, at any moment.stuck wrote:...because my monitor stopped working this morning. "Oh good," thinks I, "at last something with which to justify a nice new big monitor."
However, having just crawled around under the desk it turns out it was just the power cable that had come loose and it's actually OK.
Ken
(This star trek science reason for buying a new monitor is copyright JW, but can be used for non-profit use by anyone who reads it, really)
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
Gord Campbell, one-time editor of Computing Canada (it was a newspaper that came out on, well, paper. newsprint we called it back then ...) once postulated :-stuck wrote:... it was just the power cable that had come loose ...
Campbell's Law: Eighty-three percent of the time, it's the cable.
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
It was probably a long walk to get to the power socket, hencestuck wrote:...because my monitor stopped working this morning. "Oh good," thinks I, "at last something with which to justify a nice new big monitor."
However, having just crawled around under the desk it turns out it was just the power cable that had come loose and it's actually OK.
Ken
Too loose, le trek !
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Bravo! Well DONE, John!
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
(note the short legs ...)
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
reminds me of the lyrics to Yorkshire's National AnthemChrisGreaves wrote:Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you.
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Re: there was me getting all excited...
stuck wrote:reminds me of the lyrics to Yorkshire's National AnthemChrisGreaves wrote:Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you.
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