So, it almost pains me to say it, but I’m actually getting used to them, now that I’ve made some space on my desk to shift their position a bit. So long as one monitor is directly in front of me instead of the gap between the two screens, I can cope, and am growing to appreciate the extra space. However, I still miss the extra height, and would have much preferred two 24″ monitors to avoid going below 1200px vertical resolution.
In any case, it’s certainly not the end of the world, and it’s pretty nifty to fire up a full-screen Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox on the second monitor, to work with a real OS for any serious development.
Ah, the simple wisdom of Dragon Warrior. Who among us can’t find at least one instance a day at which the phrase “A slime draws near! Command?” would be useful?
So, my employer recently gave me a new laptop, which is great. They talked about getting us “a couple of monitors” to hook up, as well. At the time, I mentioned that I would much prefer one large widescreen to two monitors. A couple weeks went by, no new monitors, I was happily working away in my 20″, 1600×1200 world. Until today. Below, see my new setup. Now I have two 1680×1050 desktops instead. I feel like some poor lab rat in an experiment where they’re trying to induce a split personality or something. The multiple desktop thing always has annoyed me. I never grew fond of virtual desktops in *nix, either. I just don’t work that way. I’ve promised myself to give it a few days to see if I can adjust, but so far, it’s not looking good. As you can see in the photo, I’m still gravitating toward one display.
And yes, before anyone says anything, I know that’s insane.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
So I’m in the process of installing software on the new notebook my employer just provided me, and as I’m installing Ruby, I’m browsing the bug tracker for the one-click installer for Windows. I’m glad I did, because I came across this gem of a bug report, captured here for posterity.
