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Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Play a Winamp visualisation on it constantly in full screen and trip all your pets out!

Pu-239 wrote:Well I'm currently using it to hold IM windows, and an SSH session. The lines that drift across the screen due to poor shielding is annoying though... also all that radiation probably isn't good for my health.

Also, I'm running my main monitor @60Hz at 1280x1024. I would think having a low resolution would be more annoying than low refresh rate.

There's lot's of things that don't require a high resolution, but for me there's a minimum comfort level.

Did I mention the 2nd monitor is from an IBM PS/1 and is probably over a decade old and the colors are "a bit" off?

Darth Wong wrote: There is no measurable ionizing radiation from a computer monitor. The Ontario Hydro health and safety department put sensitive environmental ionizing radiation sensors all over a computer monitor more than 10 years ago and didn't read a blip. I know; I was part of that department at the time. The correlation of health problems to long-term "exposure" to computer monitors probably has more to do with sitting on your ass in front of a computer all day than any kind of mystical unmeasurable radiation.

http://www.emr.bc.ca/health.html wrote:All electrical equipment, from house wiring to cellular phones and computers,
emits electromagnetic radiation (EMR). There is growing public concern about
the health effects of EMR exposure and a wide range of diseases. This list
includes headaches, depression, neurological damage, Alzheimer's and Cancer.
Every day we are unknowingly exposed, in the workplace and at home, to harmful
levels of EMR which studies show increase the risk of Cancer. In spite of this, Health
Canada has not created regulations against citizens being exposed to dangerous levels
of EMR. To understand why we are not protected against this form of radiation, one
must comprehend the relative omnipotence of the global Electrical Industry and it's
supporting ideology of corporatism.

Crayz9000 wrote:At the rate I'm filling my case up, I'm going to have to get a second IDE card... either that, or use the Promise RAID IDE controller on my A7V8X board as a regular IDE (if that's possible).

Darth Wong wrote:Did I mention that the title of this thread is perhaps the geekiest thing I've ever seen?

sketerpot wrote:That's comforting, since I walk around a lot but also spend a good amount of time in front of a computer monitor. It's also refreshing, considering the type of rhetoric I normally see:

http://www.emr.bc.ca/health.html wrote:All electrical equipment, from house wiring to cellular phones and computers,
emits electromagnetic radiation (EMR). There is growing public concern about
the health effects of EMR exposure and a wide range of diseases. This list
includes headaches, depression, neurological damage, Alzheimer's and Cancer.
Every day we are unknowingly exposed, in the workplace and at home, to harmful
levels of EMR which studies show increase the risk of Cancer. In spite of this, Health
Canada has not created regulations against citizens being exposed to dangerous levels
of EMR. To understand why we are not protected against this form of radiation, one
must comprehend the relative omnipotence of the global Electrical Industry and it's
supporting ideology of corporatism.

Then again, I should probably consider the possibility that you're just a pawn of the near-omnipotent Electrical Industry and the ideology of corporatism.

AdmiralKanos wrote:Those people are idiots. Do you notice how they don't bother differentiating between ionizing and non-ionizing EMR? Computer monitors do not emit measurable ionizing radiation, but they do emit EMR. However, the same can be said of a flashlight, a candle, or even objects such as desks and pencils, not to mention your own body, in the infrared spectrum. Ionizing radiation is known to cause cancer, but only an imbecile would assume that ionizing and non-ionizing EMR can be equated.