Is there a way to get MS virtual PC 2007 to support multiple displays? Or is there another virtual machine product available that will allow me to work with multiple displays? At the company I work for we do all of our development in virtual machines. We currently use MS Virtual PC 2007 for this. I would love to be able to spread my mac...
Jeff Atwood is often expounding the benefits of triple monitor setups for developers, and I have to say I agree with him. However, we are about to take on a good number of new developers and are hoping to kit them out with a nice development environment. I was wondering, if given the opportunity, what you people would think of as the p...
Ultramon is a great program for dual monitors (stretching screen across monitors), but I was wondering if there is any way do to something in Visual Studio like have one tab of code open on one monitor and a second tab of code open on the second monitor with only one instance of Visual Studio running? Or are there any other suggestions ...
What's the best way to convince management that buying nice big monitors for developer workstations is worthwhile? (Whether big monitors actually are worthwhile is totally irrelevant, I'd like to convince my boss anyway.) ...
By looking at our DB's error log, we found that there was a constant stream of almost successful SQL injection attacks. Some quick coding avoided that, but how could I have setup a monitor for both the DB and Web server (including POST requests) to check for this? By this I mean if there are off the shelf tools for script-kiddies, are t...
I see a lot of posts from people talking about how they cannot possibly live without two, three or 13 1/2 monitors but does anybody have an actual metrics or statistics which I could use as ammunition? Same question for comfortable chairs. The company for which I work right now is looking at buying chairs but will buy bargain basement ...
We are currently working on a new version of our main application. one thing that I really wish to work on is providing support for multiple monitors. Increasingly, our target users are adding second screens to their desktops and I think our product could leverage this extra space to improve user performance. Our application is a fina...
Conventional ergonomics guides suggest aligning the top of the monitor to where the operator looks at straight on. It seems doubtful that that still applies to today's 24" and 30" and larger displays. What was the reasoning behind that rule? What's the correct way to position a huge display? Addendum: Would anyone have a link to rese...
My LCD rotates. The software that comes with my ATI card to rotate the desktop just crashes (I've uninstalled, reinstalled and rolled them back, still crashes). Is there any other way to rotate a Windows XP Desktop by 90 degree increments? I am looking for either software or code (any language is fine.) I know I have seen 3rd party s...
Looking for some good options for monitor mounts, preferably, rotatable between vertical and horizontal view. Any recommendations? ...
I just got a new monitor to replace one of the ones I have at work. I went from this*: 1: 1600x1280 2: 1400x768 to this**: 1: 1768x1340 2: 1600x1280 (was formerly 1) This was a pretty big jump up for me, although in my office I seem to be a bit unusual in that I seem to be the only one who still has two CRT monitors on my desk (two...
What is the easiest way I can have a practical setup of three monitors? ...
I still use a 19" CRT monitor for my development (both at home and work), but now I'm looking for a wide-screen LCD monitor as my next purchase. As much as I look into it, I can't really find one that pleases me. The problem is that the LCD grid (the black lines in-between individual pixels) confuses me. CRT monitor don't have that prob...
Each Java object (and its class) has an associated monitor. In pthread terms a Java monitor is equivalent to the combination of a reentrant mutex and a condition variable. For locking, the Win32 API provides Mutex objects (which are reentrant but heavyweight) and Critical Sections (which are non-reentrant but lightweight). It also provi...
I've written a DLL that monitors our netowork printer. The printer is connected to the server via USB cable. When I print something directly from the server, it displays information about pages sent/printed properly, but when I print something from one of the client computers it only displays its IP, sent/printed is always 0. I suppose ...
I'm trying to find the best way to use 'top' as semi-permanent instrumentation in the development of a box running embedded Linux. (The instrumentation will be removed from the final-test and production releases.)My first pass is to simply add this to init.d:top -b -d 15 >/tmp/toploop.out &This runs top in "batch" mode every 15 seconds. ...
Someone at work just asked for the reasoning behind having to wrap a wait inside a synchronized. Honestly I can't see the reasoning. I understand what the javadocs say--that the thread needs to be the owner of the object's monitor, but why? What problems does it prevent? (And if it's actually necessary, why can't the wait method get ...
Hello, I'm trying to write a small app that monitors how much power is left in a notebook battery and I'd like to know which Win32 function I could use to accomplish that. ...
Anyone know how to detect if a television is currently connected to a PC in c#? Cheers ...
In your experience, what is the optimal monitor specs for your primary programming monitor? Of course this is subjective, but in my search for the ideal programming monitor, it helps to know what peoples' experience is. Aside from a specific monitor, what lessons have you learned about monitor specs?: Size/Resolution: Which size and r...