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(Apologies if this is OT, but since it’s about computers, there are a zillion newsgroups I could have chosen – I just happen to know this one well).
At the college where I work, I often have to work in a room that has 100+ computers in it.
When they’re not being used, they display a dialog box telling you how long a session is available.
This box is programmed so that it slowly moves around the screen in little jumps. With over a hundred screens doing this – and not in phase, either – it’s really annoying. No matter where I sit, I can see them out of the corner of my eye.
I’m thinking of going to the IT department to ask them if they could get these boxes to just stay where they are, but before doing this, I want to be sure there isn’t a good reason why they’re like this.
In the old days, anything in one place on a screen would eventually burn in an image, which is why screensavers were invented. But I’ve heard that burn-in doesn’t happen anymore. Is this true? And if not, would there be any other good reason for these boxes to have to move about?
The screens here are very flat ones, about a year old, BTW.
Thanks in advance.
At the college where I work, I often have to work in a room that has 100+ computers in it.
When they’re not being used, they display a dialog box telling you how long a session is available.
This box is programmed so that it slowly moves around the screen in little jumps. With over a hundred screens doing this – and not in phase, either – it’s really annoying. No matter where I sit, I can see them out of the corner of my eye.
I’m thinking of going to the IT department to ask them if they could get these boxes to just stay where they are, but before doing this, I want to be sure there isn’t a good reason why they’re like this.
In the old days, anything in one place on a screen would eventually burn in an image, which is why screensavers were invented. But I’ve heard that burn-in doesn’t happen anymore. Is this true? And if not, would there be any other good reason for these boxes to have to move about?
The screens here are very flat ones, about a year old, BTW.
Thanks in advance.
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