Tech encore
Apr. 16th, 2010 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceOy.
You guys were quite right, of course: the monitor has a switch. It was kinda staring me in the face, actually. Mind, I will insist yet that the symbol on it does not immediately say "this switch will shift between analogue and digital input" - but that's what it does, yay. So, I can run two computers at once, and I am.
At the moment, I amuse myself by reserving this one for internetty contacts and e-mail, all the onlinery, while t'other is for writing on. There are obviously good reasons for doing this, part security-based and part about focus: if I have no internet on my writey computer, then I will not be constantly ducking out to check e-mail and play on LJ, will I? It'll be like being in the Lit & Phil, all concentration and output...
Yeah, right. In fact, I suspect the opposite: that I will lose more time through having to duck from one computer to the other. Especially the way I have them set just now, sharing a monitor but nothing else, so that I have to change keyboard and mouse each time.
Not sure this is going to last. For the moment, though, here we are. (And for some reason, on this machine, I am much more aware of Dreamwidth's spellcheck working as I type: and I note that it doesn't know the word 'internet', nor yet the word 'spellcheck'...)
You guys were quite right, of course: the monitor has a switch. It was kinda staring me in the face, actually. Mind, I will insist yet that the symbol on it does not immediately say "this switch will shift between analogue and digital input" - but that's what it does, yay. So, I can run two computers at once, and I am.
At the moment, I amuse myself by reserving this one for internetty contacts and e-mail, all the onlinery, while t'other is for writing on. There are obviously good reasons for doing this, part security-based and part about focus: if I have no internet on my writey computer, then I will not be constantly ducking out to check e-mail and play on LJ, will I? It'll be like being in the Lit & Phil, all concentration and output...
Yeah, right. In fact, I suspect the opposite: that I will lose more time through having to duck from one computer to the other. Especially the way I have them set just now, sharing a monitor but nothing else, so that I have to change keyboard and mouse each time.
Not sure this is going to last. For the moment, though, here we are. (And for some reason, on this machine, I am much more aware of Dreamwidth's spellcheck working as I type: and I note that it doesn't know the word 'internet', nor yet the word 'spellcheck'...)