Trent’s Blog

I’ve spent a little extra time lately playing with Opera.  Turns out its a very underrated browser,.. its got some very nice features.  Developer tools are pretty good(better than IE I must say, although not quite to par with FireBug).  Installing is a piece of cake  by just dragging an icon onto your toolbar from the website!  Some of the other features I’ve found useful is Opera’s built in BitTorent, the mini view(Shift F11) for testing on small screens like phones, “speed dial” on new tabs, IRC, and even the real-time page search to name a few of my favorites(theres a Lot more).   I’ll definitely spend a lot more time  developing in Opera from now on!

I finally figured out the screen resolution problem with Ubuntu and the SyncMaster 940bw thanks to a post on the Ubuntu Forums. Before my login screen text was too small to read. Turns out the fix was quite simple all along.. in the xorg.conf file I used the following

Section "Monitor"
Identifier	      "SyncMaster"
HorizSync 	30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 	50.0 - 85.0
Option		"DPMS"
Modeline 	"1440x900_70.00" 126.98 1440 1536 1688 1936 900 901 904 937 -HSync +Vsync
Modeline 	"1440x900_60.00" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync
DisplaySize 	381 238
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier	      "Default Screen"
Device	      "your device detection"
Monitor		"SyncMaster"
DefaultDepth	24
SubSection            "Display"
Depth		24
Modes		"1440x900_70.00" "1440x900_60.00"
EndSubSection
EndSection

The problem before was my display size set to 1400 900. Turns out there is a small calculation to figure the display size.. (pixels/96*25.4 ). So, 1400/96*25.4=381 , and 900/96*25.4=238

This works like a champ! So from my Vista vs. Ubuntu scoring in my previous post Ubuntu takes the lead with no more problems!.. cant say the same for Vista

I’ve spent a little time off the development path and found a little time todo some reading lately. My good friends over at IsThatWhatYouThink.com They are doing a podcasts on topics such as ColdFusion and video gaming(I of course am loving the ColdFusion chat). As far as other interest reading and debating on various topics I suggest Indirect Jargon. The debates I have found to be rather furious so if you can’t handle that part I would suggest not visiting ;). As for Vista I still have not grown any more fond of it. Ubuntu is slowly winning me over(if they could only improve the resolution prediction I would be completely sold). Which Fiesty is still doing better than Vista.. The score so far(larger score is bad)
Vista: 1 Blue Screen

Ubuntu: .25 screen resolution problems