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Old Yesterday, 05:45 AM   #2041
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wrapped the entire computer in plastic wrap to keep the cat hair out
Customer: "There are smoke and flames coming from my computer."
Tech Support: "Uh, hang up, unplug the computer from the wall, and call the local fire department."
Customer: "That's not the problem. I need to know how to do a backup. Fastest possible method."
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Customer: "There are smoke and flames coming from my computer."
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Customer: "That's not the problem. I need to know how to do a backup. Fastest possible method."
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My first monitor was a 14", 640 x 480 B&W because I couldn't tolerate the poor convergence (alignment of the color guns) on the color monitors of that time.

Five years later I upgraded to the Sony GDM-17SE1. That was 17", 1280 x 1024. It also weighed 50 pounds and was 18" deep. You needed a pretty wide desk to accomodate it.

I was glad when LCDs came in.
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Best monitor I've owned was an Eizo 21" 2048 x 1536 colour CRT, I also had an ex-GDR embassy steel desk to put it on, IIRC the CRT weighed close to 40Kg. Got rid of both when I downsized my living quarters.
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Tech rant: I want to be able to use container queries in epub. Can't even use grid yet; only flex is loosely supported. So many advantages for container queries! None of the dedicated commercial readers are capable, though. Only computer-based epub software (and only some) would be able to use cqw , cqh , cqi , cqb , cqmin , and cqmax. The ability to effectively read the same epub on tiny phones, mid size, or giant size screens while keeping captions and images and text sizes in good-looking layout is difficult without this new tech.
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Tech rant: I want to be able to use container queries in epub. Can't even use grid yet; only flex is loosely supported. So many advantages for container queries! None of the dedicated commercial readers are capable, though. Only computer-based epub software (and only some) would be able to use cqw , cqh , cqi , cqb , cqmin , and cqmax. The ability to effectively read the same epub on tiny phones, mid size, or giant size screens while keeping captions and images and text sizes in good-looking layout is difficult without this new tech.
My rant is about ebooks that are trying to be apps. Mark up the text sensibly, and let the reading software worry about how to display it.
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