Re: Justify 2nd Display

I'm the only of my group that uses, 2 screens. I didn't even try to
justify the cost. As the rest of my group got new LCD screens, about the
same size as my CRT, I just acquired one of the older CRT's that was
going to storage anyway. If you don't need them to spend much money it's
easy to justify. I also bought my own cheap video card to handle the 2
displays, I'm not playing games so it was a really cheap video card. Your
business may frown on updating your company PC that way so don't spend too
much, and make sure it fits, I had to find a half height card for my
system.

I have been using various combinations of 2 screens at home for a while
and I agree that personal preferences do come into play. If your not used
to it, you won't see much reason to allow it, But if it is what you
normally work on, you really want to have it.



From:
Luke Gerhardt <lgerhardt@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:
01/14/2009 10:22 AM
Subject:
Re: [WDSCI-L] Justify 2nd Display
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I use two 17" monitors (pilfered from users who left our company). I
also run UltraMon, which allows me to easily size a program to the whole
span of the monitor, so I run programs like OpenOffice Calc, WDSCi, etc
stretched the whole way across both monitors. I keep my code in the
left screen (directly in front of me), and move all of the tabbed
dialogs (iSeries messages/table view/command log/QuantumDB SQL
command/etc full-size on the screen to the right. If I need to open a
different pgm, such as a green screen, I can plop it on the right-hand
side and still see my code.

I suppose I *could* be productive with just one monitor...but it's not
as much fun! ^_^;