Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!evax!finger From: finger@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Jay Finger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Monitor Adjestment Message-ID: <1991Feb14.070958.12057@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 14 Feb 91 07:09:58 GMT References: <3448@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1991Feb13.080815.19892@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 22 In article scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: >Presumably, you could remember the orientation wherever you're planning >to put the monitor, and make sure it's in the same orientation at the >"shop". After all, you're presumably taking it into someplace within >an hour or two of your place of work or home - hopefully the earth's >magnetic field isn't going to change _that_ much. Of course, various >fields in the "shop" (which might be a computer lab or something) are >also going to skew what you get when you take it home. Simply making the monitor face the same direction has not resulted in identical behavior from my monitor, but that's a good idea. But you'll probably have a hard time finding a technician who's willing to put up with your idiosyncrasies. He'll just tell you he kept it facing North, when it actually faced South the whole time. Maybe there's a geologist (or some such) in the crowd, who can tell me why just moving 20 miles or so can make such a difference in the monitor's behavior. Assuming, of course, that it really is the earth's magnetic field. -- Jay Finger #include finger@evax.uta.edu