Lemming's Cliff

My edge of the world

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

update

I suppose I should give you all an update...

I've been reading a lot lately.

As of this afternoon, I just finished reading the Miles Vorkosigan series by Bujold.
I rather enjoyed the series.
That's pretty much been taking up my time the last week and a half or two. That, and I was sick over the weekend, so I'm recovering from that still.

I got my first exposure to Windows Vista this afternoon. My first impression was that it was rather spiffy, then I went and did my second check, which has to do with how the computer handles switching back and forth between mirrored/paralleled displays and dual monitor. This has been a problem that has given me grief with our XP machines at work, which I actually figured out how to solve a couple of weeks ago. Now I suppose that on some level, I had known how to fix it all along with XP, but it never really registered to me that the system would be that inane in its requirement to fix it. To put it simply, the OS and the graphics card don't speak to each other very well most of the time, so though you'd think you'd be able to fix it with the XP's interface for solving the problem, it doesn't actually work. You have to find the interface for the graphics card to actually fix it.
With Vista, I've found the problem even worse so far. (BTW, I'm using Enterprise edition if anyone cares) Not only is the OS interface identical to what XP has, and responds the same way, I have yet to be able to find the equivalent interface for the graphics card in Vista. Now, a couple of things that were initially in Vista's favor. It automatically notices when you connect the Laptop to a Projector or external monitor. When you first do this it asks you how you want to set up your displays. This was actually rather nice. The problem occurred when I told the system later to switch from mirrored to dual and then back to mirrored. If I find the solution I'll probably post it later.

I probably have several other things I could talk about, but I'll save them for later.