We’re reorganising things around the house this week. The main change is that B is moving his computer and the big printer into the office upstairs, while I’m moving down to the table in the hall.
It makes sense – B needs space for his printing, while I do nearly all of my work on the computer. But it’s annoying not to have a desk, with drawers where I can stash everything – anything that can’t fit on the table has to go on the shelves in the utility room. A further annoyance is that my old monitor has finally died; I’m using B’s monitor at the mo while I’m waiting to get one from Freecycle. But It’s huge – a stonking 21″ CRT monster that takes up all the space. We’re both aiming to get TFT monitors, but that takes money we haven’t yet got.
I did have the bright idea of using this laptop screen to feed the desktop video through, but there are snags. Direct cabling won’t work, as the lappie doesn’t have a video input. I thought that this software would be the answer – it enables remote desktop – but although I got the desktop screen on the laptop, attempting to open anything crashed the laptop. It just doesn’t have the memory to cope; heck, it’s liable to freeze just doing stuff in Windows.
But on the positive side, we’re having a good clearout of all our rubbish and unused junk.