I have a large widescreen primary lcd and a normal-aspect smaller lcd off to the right. I work from home mostly doing remote software development and it helps tremendously productivity-wise for that. Since they both have multiple inputs I am able to have dual-monitor setups on both my work dev system and my personal gaming system without using a kvm. It's very nice to watch video fullscreen on the secondary one while surfing on the other. And there's really no way I would even consider multiple monitor setup with CRTs.

Also, my steam id is ray2k, if any of you get friend invites 8-) Looking for an invite to the tf group. 

thanks for releasing some maps guys, just what I need to avoid going to work :)

anyone interested in pics of stuff like macchu picchu or other inca sites for reference/inspiration purposes? I could work re :uploading if anyone's keen. 

Don't mistake unjustified arrogance for elitism... 

Should have invited you.

Dual monitors rock, definetely increase my productivity while at work. Some apps like Maya are just a pain to keep on one monitor what with all the secondary windows. 

yeah, upload the pics if it's not too much trouble! :) 

they're good, I just wish windows handled it better (things like switching a maximized app from one monitor to another is kind of annoying, also dialog boxes sometimes pop up on the wrong screen and stuff like that.) 

i have dual monitor setup at work for 2 years probably. and i'm not sure how i'm gonna work with single monitor now. very comfy for level editing, to have large 3d view on primary display and the rest of the windows (and irc ;) on the second monitor. 

QED, I can't even use HTML tags let alone h4x0r the board!! 

It's very nice to watch video fullscreen on the secondary one while surfing on the other.

Notice how Ray is much more productive with two monitors.

Also, Steamid is Vigil. 

add me! add me!

http://steamcommunity.com/id/than 

 

I've not posted here in a while. Glad to see this place is still going.

I'd just like to say, I dreamed of knave textures the other night. 

It seems that gtkr 1.5 development has slowed to a halt. Meanwhile, a branch of 1.4 has started development for the Quake Zero project.

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/pipermail/gtkradiant/2007-September/010747.html

More on Quake Zero:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48290

This is maybe good, maybe bad news depending on your attitude. There was actually a fair amount of work on 1.5 to add things like native quake support, and support for many other games. Some cool features are in there.

On the other hand, 1.4 is generally the preferred version for people who feel that 1.5 totally fubared the interface. 

I really hope they try to make Quake Zero custom map (and other content) friendly, would probably get me to make another Q3 map.

I have no real prob with 1.5 other than it seems to crash all the friggin time. 

yep, will upload soonish after I get things sorted. 

id co-founder and programming lead [Carmack] noted his preference for "straightforward and elegant" games such as Quake 3 Arena

Hmm... does he mean, a bare skeleton of content and watered down gameplay wrapped around a pretty engine? I guess that is "straightforward," but q3 was pretty bad until mod makers (esp (cpm) got to it.

Concerning radiant things - Does radiant 1.4 or 1.5 load wad2 texture files? where am I supposed to put these? 

i can't rememeber for sure, but I think you put them in the root mod directory. For example, id1. Or, quoth. Or, rubicon2. 

I've noticed that more and more people are doing that Steam community. Is this in preparation for TF2 or just a general thing? 

we're playing tf2 already ;)
and steamcommunity is the tool for us to keep an eye for each other 

TF2 is awesome!!! And its easy to play with other TF'ers as steam lets you join the server they are playing on with a single click :)

Did I mention tf2 rocks???! :D 

I noticed a bug I'd never seen in photoshop before recently. I'd go to file>open, the open dialog would appear for a billionth of a second, and photoshop would disappear. Bip. Deft and timely application of PRNTSCRN allowed me to see what folder the open dialog was open to in that split second - some temporary folder full of garbage hash filenames. VYG7NTC9\, specifically.

Starting photoshop with ctrl-alt-shift held down to reset all settings fixed it (of course I had to rebuild my workspace and preferences, but whatever, I can open stuff again.)

It began happening a second time, and I correlated it to using the import drivers for my canon powershot s50. Same folder name, too.

This time I searched the registry for it, and found the full file path: C:\Documents and Settings\Lunaran\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\VYG7NTC9\. I open it up in explorer ... and explorer mysteriously disappears.

In fact, nearly any application I use to try to look in that folder is immediately killed by Windows XP. WS_FTP can browse to it, and I can look in it with Word, and nothing else survives the exposure to whatever awesome temporary bullshit contents that folder has which XP deems so important.

Anyone have any idea why? 

malware? 

Try if you can start the IE, then use "delete temporary files" or something in the options.
And use a proper browser in the future. 

Do I need any additional software to get the dual monitor setup to work? For example laptop and CRT monitor configuration. 

If you are using Windows, then the basic graphics drivers (where you can set desktop resolution and bit depth) take care of multi-monitor setups. Same with OSX. Other OSes have such and such method for doing it that you will have to search to discover.

Make sure you also have an unused port to connect the monitor to :D