From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OtR33-0004yx-Kk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:15:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABE29E0919; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8BFE0919 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D061B4154 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:14:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.119 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.119 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.480, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Xauj0yBorY44 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C253B1B4006 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtR2J-0002Q2-0J for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:14:27 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:14:26 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:14:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:14:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201009081740.17896.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1283964828.2665.47.camel@tux.homenetwork> <201009082206.01244.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: b8482b93-cda1-4846-bbde-dcdce4cf6711 X-Archives-Hash: 23fc27c29377cfe0d8d92f62a2148633 On 2010-09-08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I need to shut up now. My hatred of pixelated display devices is > showing. I accept an LCD for my notebook as CRTs just don't fit, but > nothing beats a real CRT imho for image quality. I presume you mean a nice monochrome display not one of those fuzzy color things with the individual phosphor dots/bars on the screen. It was a sad day I was finally forced to give up my big, razor-sharp Sun grayscale monitor for one of those small, fuzzy-looking, color things. > Pity about the desk real estate a CRT takes up... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I hope something GOOD at came in the mail today so gmail.com I have a REASON to live!!