Orgasmic View

Day 27

The things that you learn seem to become pretty much boundless when you deviate from the usual learning procedure. Personally, I hated school. But I love to learn. I am the type of person who would risk getting electrocuted or terminated from work (The latter seems more scary!) for the sake of discovering new things.

It’s a good thing that I was finally able to get into a job that I would really love to do. For the past 2 years of being an outsourced contact center employee, I have done almost all types of customer support stuff from explaining how callers got billed for the excess celphone minutes that they unconsciously used, to setting up they’re FTP client and disabling firewall so they would be able to upload files to the internet. It was just recently that I got into a job that I really really like. And that is fiddling with the computer.

Setting aside all the uninteresting things about me, I’d like to share a cool “class project” that our trainer, my colleagues and I were able to come up with. Though this is not really part of the modules that we are taking up, our curiosity has led us into discovering something that only very few has done before — setting up 2 bad-assed 24 inch LCD monitors to work as a single desktop screen.

Here’s how we made it happen:

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256 gig GeForce series 6 (6800) video card has 2 ports — VGA and DVI, we used an adapter for the DVI for it to become the second VGA cord). 
 
The ends of the two VGA cords are plugged into the back of the two LCD displays. 
 
Tweaked display and video card settings made it possible to make the two monitors work as one.
 
The endgame, a stretched out screen / desktop.

OMG have you seen an Internet Explorer window as wide as kingdom come?!
 

This is just one of the things that we were able to do while playing around in the computer lab. If I had these babies at home I’m gonna do the exact same setup. You have to admit, having two 24-inch LCD monitors situated like this is way better than having sex with two drop-dead gorgeous girlfriends at the same time!