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Old 11-05-2004, 09:34 PM
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im at school and for some reason theyve decided to have them run at 800*600 resoulution which i kinda hate so i try to change it to 1024*768 but it says im unable to change, is there any way around this?
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Old 11-05-2004, 11:39 PM
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the settings are probly locked, like at my school... its not worth it to to unlock it juts deal with it.

i dont understand why schools have to do such a thing it is so stupid i mean really is changing the resolution that big of a deal...I DONT THINK SO!!!

God schools are gay about that stuff
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Old 11-06-2004, 12:46 AM
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dude in my high school library (back when I was in hs... last year...)if you even open the display properties they start taking a shit and sounding the "someone's fucking up the comp" alarm and admins come screw you in the ass..... and they ghost back to the gay slow bogged down 98 image they use every day... IT"S SICKENING!
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Old 11-06-2004, 03:13 AM
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I got yelled at the most from the librarains.. I go to a flash web site and they are "OMG WTF DO YOU THING YOU ARE DOING!"
I go to a web site that has a picture of a video game and they go:"now you know the rules.. no playing games, you do it again and you are off the computer"
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Old 11-06-2004, 07:23 AM
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yes theres somebody who watches my hs lib like that, she kicked half of the ppl in the lib off the comps cuz we werent usin them for academic purposes and 20 mins later nobody was usin em so its not like we were keepin them from somebody
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Old 11-06-2004, 02:19 PM
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i think there is a good reason for it

some noobs that might only know a bit about computers, including changing resolution may not know that a cheapie 17" CRT does not support 1600x1200 or something like 100Hz

since most of the public computers dont have drivers for monitor setup and most installs of OS recognizes the monitors as Plug and Play and techies just leave it at that, there is a good chance a noob can change to an unsupported resolution or frequency and have the whole monitor go blank and accidently clicked on the yes dialog box without seeing it

then the whole thing goes black
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Old 11-06-2004, 02:57 PM
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that's a pretty rare thing.. and even so, you know that you can just restart in vga mode....
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Old 11-06-2004, 04:49 PM
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actually its not rare at all that public computers dont install monitor drivers

and they dont want you to always call a techie when the screen goes all black
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Old 11-06-2004, 04:52 PM
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i'm not talking about monitor drivers.. that doesn't matter... in fact usually it can figure itself out as far as refresh rate and res max's are concerned... then they need to teach the librarians how to do something other than sit on their ass and read all day :P
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Old 11-06-2004, 06:00 PM
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well i know they do support it cuz theres an intel extreme graphics controller installed on comps outside of library just the nvidia controls in lib are restricted, but half of the teachers librarians etc barely know what a computer is
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