Rambles » family http://rambles.bearcircle.net Programming, Poker, and Politics. Just Another voice in the electronic wilderness Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Monitor Envy http://rambles.bearcircle.net/2009/09/19/monitor-envy/ http://rambles.bearcircle.net/2009/09/19/monitor-envy/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:53:47 +0000 Lance http://rambles.bearcircle.net/2009/09/19/monitor-envy/ I’ve been using dual-monitor setups for something 6 or 7 years now.  I got my first set at NIEHS when I worked there.  I thought it would suck since I was moving from a single 21″ CRT to dual 19″ LCDs, but I quickly got used to it and really liked the additional real estate.  One of the first things I did when I moved to Duke was get permission to buy a dual monitor setup for my office.  I even bought a cheap used 12080×1024 17″ LCD to attach to my laptop at home.

I never expected to find myself feeling monitor envy at my dad, of all people.  I’m the computer geek in the family, dangit!  He’s training to do stock trading and decided he needed more screen to get all the information he wants at his fingertips.  About a month ago, he went out and bought the equipment he needed and this is the result:

He’s using a Matrox TripleHead2Go device to drive the three extra monitors and built the stand holding the monitors himself.  I think he used 1″ square steel tubing.

I now officially have monitor envy for my dad!

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