{"id":1789,"date":"2003-09-30T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/trying-to-get-caught-up\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:30:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:30:25","slug":"trying-to-get-caught-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/trying-to-get-caught-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to get caught up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13222,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/displays\\\/acd20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040628075559\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com:80\\\/displays\\\/acd20\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:56:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 19:12:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 19:12:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve found two (and only two) downsides to the new computer.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, I need to get used to having a single monitor again. I&#8217;ve been using a dual-monitor setup for the past few years with my old Mac, using two 17\\&#8221; CRT monitors. Once was an old Apple monitor that used the old proprietary Apple monitor connector, and the other was a standard VGA monitor attacheched to a VGA port on a second video card.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t do this on the new machine, though. While its video card has two ports, and will drive two monitors quite comfortably, one port is the new ADC port for Apple&#8217;s LCD screens, and the other is a DVI port for non-Apple LCD screens. The machine came with a DVI to VGA adaptor, so I can run one of my 17\\&#8221; monitors, but that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;ll get used to it, it&#8217;s just feeling a bit cramped right now, and I keep losing windows.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what just rocketed to the top of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/displays\/acd20\/\" title=\"Apple - Displays - 20 inch Apple Cinema Display\">wish list<\/a>? ;)<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, after spending the weekend getting things set up and configured on the new machine &#8212; and doing a fair amount of playing and marvelling at the new goodies &#8212; I&#8217;m <em>way<\/em> behind in reading all of my usual websites. Uff-da.<\/p>\n<p>So, things have been a little slow for the past few days, but I&#8217;m working on getting back up to speed. Small prices to pay, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I&#8217;ve found two (and only two) downsides to the new computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2043],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-personal","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}