{"id":68,"date":"2002-11-19T01:23:29","date_gmt":"2002-11-19T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2002-11-19T01:23:29","modified_gmt":"2002-11-19T01:23:29","slug":"turning-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Turning 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yessiree in less than a month I will turn 19 (hint to those who know my birthday via ICQ), and some other things turned 19 recently, like my monitor! (No, it&#8217;s not that old. :P) I got myself a <b>Princeton EO950 19&#8243;<\/b> conventional CRT (<i>Cathode Ray Tube<\/i>) monitor (that&#8217;s what they call non-flat monitors&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>It is ultimately, SWEEETTT!!! 1600&#215;1200 at 85 Hertz is astonishing. Everything is so small! (In a good way.) I even tire myself moving my cursor from corner to corner!<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s not to say that the monitor is perfect. Being a not-so-branded brand (or at least not well-known) there were some issues. For one, I forgot to check the box and the monitor quality. They sold me a display unit! A crappy one, at that &#8211; shadows, occasional diagonal stripes, trace lines to the left and right of icons, patterns and ripples, bright edges, etc&#8230; not good. I returned it for a new unit, and this one&#8217;s better, but it still had little trace lines and ripples. Though I think the ripples look nice, plus they only come up at anything higher than 1024&#215;768!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another new gadget in my small world &#8211; an <b>MSI Geforce 4 Titanium 4200<\/b> with 128 Megabytes of DDR RAM!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/gf4ti4200128.jpg\" alt=\"MSI Geforce 4 TI 4200 with 128 MB box (gf4ti4200128.jpg, 10784 bytes)\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"-1\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yessiree in less than a month I will turn 19 (hint to those who know my birthday via ICQ), and some other things turned 19 recently, like my monitor! (No, it&#8217;s not that old. :P) I got myself a Princeton EO950 19&#8243; conventional CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor (that&#8217;s what they call non-flat monitors&#8230;) It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}