I use 800x600. Unfortunately, Strip Creator comics are just large enough that they don't fit inside that. If I fiddle with the scroll bars I can usually get the whole comic inside the window, but by the time I finish I've already read the whole strip anyway.

I used to use 640x480, because it was the default and I didn't really have any problem with it. I changed because all the screens at work were 800x600, and I got to like it.

I probably should go up at least one more notch, but I'm reluctant to because I also assume that 800x600 is the most commonly-used resolution, and since I spend a lot of time writing web pages, I want to be able to see them the way most of my audience sees them. I see a lot of pages whose designers obviously don't ever consider the reality that different people use different resolutions, and it ticks me off. So I try to avoid that.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

I use 1024x 768 res. It's legible, unobtrusive, I've never seen a page that didn't fit into it. And I hate all of those angry fruit salad HTML designs jumping out at me at 800x600 that are on the commercial pages I have to use for business.

bunner

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I'm at 1280x1024 and if I could get it any bigger I would. The more apps I can fit on the screen, the better.

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Yeah, the web page design thing is a pain. What I did was this... Went into a graphics program and made a big black rectangular jpeg. Then I opened it in both Netscape and IE with the screens maximized and the normal set of toolbars. Then I started resizing the rectangle slowly until it just fit into both the windows with a little bit of the background color showing through.

Now when I'm designing I don't need to switch resolutions to check. I just have a browser window that isn't maximized, and just shows the majority of my rectangle. And I design for that.

Hence on my system there's an assload of white space on my pages. But it looks fine at 800 x 600.

I agree with Johnny, though. The more crap I can fit onscreen the better. Doesn't W98 have support for mulitple monitors? Just get another graphics card and set them up next to each other and double your screen space.

That'd be sweet.

G

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I agree with Johnny, though. The more crap I can fit onscreen the better. Doesn't W98 have support for mulitple monitors? Just get another graphics card and set them up next to each other and double your screen space.

That'd be sweet.

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I found an NEC 21" viewable monitor used for $350.00 that I'm picking up in a couple of weeks. I always use NEC monitors because the res and the daylight gamma correction is accurate, and they're cheaper than Trinitron. No more Mr. Squinty Bunny for me. :o)

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Okay, assuming that I'm much older and more brain dead than the lot of you, I felt I was being outwitted with my paltry 800x600 res so I changed it to 1024x768.

I was quite amazed at my grasp for learning Braille in such a short time, and even more amazed that my seeing eye dog Vizzini can type almost faster than I can dictate. I knew my mom's "if all your friends changed their screen resolutions, would you?" curse would eventually catch up with me.

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

I run my 17" monitor at 1280 x 1024 (24 bit colour). The sad thing is the real reason I do this - my monitor is buggered, and at 1024 x 768 it goes all wonky.

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Hey, Jael, all your friends are sending me naked pictures of themselves. You don't want to be the outcast, do you?

[[[Mental Note- Take "Tom Arnold's Tricks to getting Women" back to the Library. You could write your own book. Stud.]]]

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I was quite amazed at my grasp for learning Braille in such a short time, and even more amazed that my seeing eye dog Vizzini can type almost faster than I can dictate.

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Hey, ObiJo, all your friends are participating in to-the-death cage matches with the Red Robot. You don't want to be the outcast, do you?

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No whining billings. I saw her first.

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It's time for "Random comic idea spawned by the forums!"

Victory, sweet victory. by BigEvilDan 3-21-01

Hey Red Robot! You just won deathmatches with all of ObiJo's friends. What are you going to do now? I'm going to Disneyworld! After a quick stop to murder ObiJo of course.

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"Oh, look, a joke! How original! Thank you, but if I wanted my emotions stimulated pleasurably, I'd get a whore." - Donald B. Jones III

Part of ObiJo's eulogy (ObiJo believes refering to ObiJo in third person is exciting):

...and, as luck would have it, ObiJo happened to be vacationing in Disneyworld at the time.

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Gabe! I'm astounded!! Surely you know who Vizzini is???
INCONCEIVABLE!!!

"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia; and only slightly less well known is this: Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on line!"

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

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Hey, Jael, all your friends are sending me naked pictures of themselves. You don't want to be the outcast, do you?

[[[Mental Note- Take "Tom Arnold's Tricks to getting Women" back to the Library. You could write your own book. Stud.]]]

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Yikes. Must have had a brain fart. I don't think I've ever seen it written out... Alas.

Inconceivable! by gabe_billings 3-22-01

Clango, are there rocks ahead? If there are, we'll all be dead. Stop that rhyming! I mean it! Anybody want a peanut? Keep this shit up and we won't be having sex anymore. I'll just have to rent a whore.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Yikes. Must have had a brain fart. I don't think I've ever seen it written out... Alas.

Inconceivable! by gabe_billings 3-22-01

Clango, are there rocks ahead? If there are, we'll all be dead. Stop that rhyming! I mean it! Anybody want a peanut? Keep this shit up and we won't be having sex anymore. I'll just have to rent a whore.

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Sorry. The server spazzed out and I got some SQL messages so I backed up and hit save again. Oops.

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Anyone having any interest in throwing together a picture page of regular users? I'd love to see what everyone looks like. I'd be willing to slap it together if people want to shoot some photos my way. Or would you all rather live in blissful anonymity?

If anyone's interested my email is gbilling@telocity.com. I promise not to do anything bad with them.

Except ObiJo's. His I'm sending to a plethora of male prison inmates along with a 'mail-order bitch' order form.

G

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Sorry. The server spazzed out and I got some SQL messages so I backed up and hit save again. Oops.

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Anyone having any interest in throwing together a picture page of regular users? I'd love to see what everyone looks like. I'd be willing to slap it together if people want to shoot some photos my way. Or would you all rather live in blissful anonymity?

If anyone's interested my email is gbilling@telocity.com. I promise not to do anything bad with them.

Except ObiJo's. His I'm sending to a plethora of male prison inmates along with a 'mail-order bitch' order form.

G

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Damn. Oh well, worth a try.

Hmmm. I wonder where I can find a picture of gabe to send to the prisoners, in a preemptive attack? Preferably bald, so the inmates can put on the Jane Fonda wig with as little effort as possible. Anyone seen one floating around? Mwa ha ha.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

You come here for the chicks? Wow, I was coming here for the complimentary peanuts and oral sex.

Without the oral sex, of course.

And the peanuts...

And actually, it's more like a slap in the face than complimentary...

And Gabe? I've traced your IP, tracked down your address, home phone, and all that stuff. When Bubba and Jake stop by, tell them I said hello.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

I hope you didn't spend too much time tracing the IP and all that. I'm in the book.

As for Bubba and Jake, they're already here. We're playing Scrabble and watching episodes of 'Absolutely Fabulous'. We had a little tiff when Bubba tried to play the word 'niggaz' on a triple word score, but the ol' Scrabble dictionary straightened him out but good.

You should stop by. We're making peanut brittle later.

Gabe

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