I bought a KVM to open up some more room on my primary desk. Now I have my 1 Dell E207WFP (awesome wide screen - I'll never go back. I can't! I won't!) and 1 keyboard and mouse. Pushing the little Belkin Flip button swaps from my laptop to my server. Nice, however, when I boot up my Vista laptop, it detects the monitor as Unknown Monitor with a max resolution of 1,440 x 900 instead of the 1,680 x 1,050 that the E207WFP provides. Solution: I swap out the monitor cable back to the laptop, boot, then ......
We all have had classes on how to program. Language courses, algorithm courses, data base, web, etc. Along the way we pick up things. Note to younger devs: here is one that has been invaluable to me, and it comes with a red-faced story. On one project I sat in the same area as the network engineers. I lost connectivity to a DB server. In the past, as devs, we would announce this kind of thing out loud to let the others know "if you are trying to test now, forget it." So, I spoke up, "The network ......