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Aaand... lights have come back on.
Let's hope they don't go out again as the weather is still rather crappy here.
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Once your KVM is hooked up, you should be able to do 1366x768 no problem.
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PS: I forgot to mention, but once you have the MiniDP to VGA converter you can use your CRT after all. The drawback is that a lot of Mac apps aren't optimized for extra height screens and are instead optimized for widescreen (ie my biggest complain regarding XCode).
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<sarcasm>Gee, I wonder what's next. Alyssa Satin Capucilli? Hans Wilhelm? Mick Inkpen?</sarcasm>
*sigh* If I need another reason to be depressed this season, this is it.
I will now play the funeral dirge of my people, the People of DavidReka.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ZWwsvohKE[/youtube]
Although from where I come from, this song is normally performed using bagpipes with organ backing.
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And now, just got word that Steam is now fully region-locked. Stupid, stupid, stupid Valve! Hope they suffer botched sales accordingly.
*sigh* I thought my day can't get any worse. How wrong I was...
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It's definitely not just Russia. I tested as soon as I heard the news and confirmed that Malaysia is not only also affected, but can only gift to other Southeast Asian countries now. This comes as I was planning go gift a friend in the US a game on Christmas morning, pouring wet water on my plans. But my bigger concern is this: console makers are moving away from region locking- even Nintendo, the biggest proponent of region locking, has announced that they're evaluating removing region-locking from their future consoles. But PCs, which are historically region-free devices, are starting to see the cancer that is region locking. And yet Sony repetitively earns venom and yet Valve gets away scot free. For that I am unhappy. Sure, Sony is no angel either, but they do deserve an applause for discouraging the use of region-locking on their systems and even pressuring Japanese game companies to release games in English for their consoles in Asia.
In fact, I'm particularly angry at Valve for two things now- first for removing PayPal as a payment option in Southeast Asia, and now the cancer that is region coding.
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Region coding affects me sometimes, mostly attempting to play certain R2 discs on my computers. Part of the reason why I backed off on making Lilly a media PC is that VLC is unable to play certain R2 discs that I have, especially those that have Macrovision copy protection. R1 Macrovision discs such as Disney titles strangely do play fine with VLC. Only way to get a truly region free drive is to modify the drive's firmware, but I am uncomfortable about doing that since there is risk you could brick the drive. I managed to get my no-name Chinese region-free DVD player from a home improvement store on Black Friday in 2011, and despite some quirks, it plays my PAL/R2 discs well.
In other news, I decided that later this evening, I am going to go back to my old HP S2031 widescreen monitor. Max works, but his image is not as clear and sharp as it should be since his actual LCD dimension is slightly smaller than it should be. Text is slightly blurry, even at 1366x768 which is the maximum resolution he supports. The HP monitor has VGA as well as DVI, and I would like to switch back to DVI. But I seen DVI KVMs on eBay, and you're right... they aren't cheap. May as well stick with VGA and continue to acquire the remainder of my setup next month.
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