mmm... wider is better...

Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 02:18PM

By Eric Richardson

Today I bought a used 17" monitor to bring home and set up a dual-screen setup. I'm now running at 2560x1024, which makes my life quite a bit better. First thing I had to do was find some new wallpaper. This guy has a page with some good ones, mostly space related, but that's fine since I do work for NASA and all. Now the interesting part is figuring out how to position my stuff on a double-wide layout. I think I pretty much know how it'll work, but it'll take some time to get a feel for whether it'll really involve changing how I use my desktops. Fitting my propensity for old things, the monitor is from 1994, and cost a pretty $950 new. The manual includes information on how to hook the monitor up to an Apple Mac II, and also says that it is compatible with the "newly proposed VESA ergonomic standards." Exceptional.