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Mar. 21st, 2009 05:46 amThis Saturday shall be ADVENTURE DAY. On ADVENTURE DAY, it is unknown where I'll end up.
Public service announcement for those of you using LCD monitors: Screensavers alone do not prolong the life of them, letting the computer put it into power-save mode does, because it lets the backlight take a break. If you can see the screensaver, the backlight is on. At work, I'm seeing these creatures starting to fail, and I'm predicting a wave, because keeping them on non-stop is a recipe for an early death. While it's not impossible to fix them (power supply board most of the time, or $5 worth of parts and a bit of soldering if you know what you're doing and lucky that's all that fried), it's the whole bother of having it go down. This goes for TVs, laptop screens and those digital picture frames too. One of my coworkers left his picture frame on for a whole year and it burned out the backlight lamp entirely. Apparently the lamp(s) are also replaceable but that's a level of brain surgery I'm not looking forward to.
Also, I've discovered why my computer will sometimes lose contact with the mouse: Having my cellphone too close to the mouse cord. It has less to do with the make of the cellphone and more to do with AT&T's network. The phone does its contact with the tower, causes interference with the mouse, and the computer thinks it got unplugged. Yes, it also comes through the speakers.
Naptime now.
Public service announcement for those of you using LCD monitors: Screensavers alone do not prolong the life of them, letting the computer put it into power-save mode does, because it lets the backlight take a break. If you can see the screensaver, the backlight is on. At work, I'm seeing these creatures starting to fail, and I'm predicting a wave, because keeping them on non-stop is a recipe for an early death. While it's not impossible to fix them (power supply board most of the time, or $5 worth of parts and a bit of soldering if you know what you're doing and lucky that's all that fried), it's the whole bother of having it go down. This goes for TVs, laptop screens and those digital picture frames too. One of my coworkers left his picture frame on for a whole year and it burned out the backlight lamp entirely. Apparently the lamp(s) are also replaceable but that's a level of brain surgery I'm not looking forward to.
Also, I've discovered why my computer will sometimes lose contact with the mouse: Having my cellphone too close to the mouse cord. It has less to do with the make of the cellphone and more to do with AT&T's network. The phone does its contact with the tower, causes interference with the mouse, and the computer thinks it got unplugged. Yes, it also comes through the speakers.
Naptime now.
