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[challenge entry] You need this software to view this post.

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(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:46, archived)
# Woo!
Makes my laptop a bit harder to use though...
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:48, archived)
# excuse me
I think you left some of your piss in my mind
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:50, archived)
# Sorry. I never did have good aim.
:(
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:58, archived)
# Haha
like it. Essential for B3ta viewing, including your entry.

Woo
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:48, archived)
# you should put together a little PDF book of your best work
and stick it on cafepress
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:48, archived)
# Little book?
It would be huge!

/fawning sycophancy
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:51, archived)
# No need to flip monitor on it side.
i have a flatscreen with tilting technology.

(however it doesn't work if you use it as your secondary screen, bugger)
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:48, archived)
# In the olden days one used
to be able to get Mac monitors that did exactly that...

/Coat
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 15:19, archived)
# makes typing on a laptop
pretty tricky
but I like your thinking
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:48, archived)
# Yay!
My flat screen and NVidia drivers actually do that though.

I had yet to find a use for it, I think I may just have done!
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:50, archived)
# my monitor actually does that
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:51, archived)
# er
You can actually buy that though. (The monitor's on a pivot at the back rather than you having to pick up the whole thing to turn it.) There's a mercury switch inside that senses which way up the monitor is and tells the driver to reconfigure the desktop dimensions.

Oh everybody else said this too.
Well I said it at greatest length so nyahhh.
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 11:52, archived)
# what do you do
if you want to look at something upside down on it?
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 12:00, archived)
# Turn your head round
Dur!
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 12:01, archived)
# Stand on my head
of course like any normal person.
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 12:01, archived)
# woooo!
thats great
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 12:13, archived)
# Mouse...
/delurk

Is reflected the wrong way - it's all nice when the screen is still the right way up (moving the mouse right instead goes to where "up" is"). But if you flip the screen then all the controls are exactly backwards...

/pedant

Okay, horribly pedantic (especially for a first post), but otherwise yay!
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 12:30, archived)
# thats ironic
becasue about 10 years ago i actualy saw a moniter that would rotate a full 90 and change the screen resolution for web-pages and stuff. the base was constructed in such a way as to allow this, and when you rotated the screen, it automaticaly changed its resolution, although it was quite extreme, and a strangly large rectangle
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 13:47, archived)
# that's not ironic
it's just poor timing
(, Tue 24 Feb 2004, 14:54, archived)
# hmmmm
us
(, Wed 25 Feb 2004, 14:58, archived)
# the new nVidia drivers have that built in....
you can rotate it 90, 180 or 270... it's great for confusing people....
(, Wed 25 Feb 2004, 16:21, archived)
# Can be done
I think it might be a win2k feature, not sure, but the computers at my college will do this if you press alt gr-left
(, Wed 25 Feb 2004, 22:07, archived)