Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])
On Monday 27 December 2004 14:36, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:21 +0000, Dave Ewart wrote:
> > On Monday, 27.12.2004 at 14:09 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > > > Daniel B. wrote:
> > >
> > > --snip--
> > >
> > > > > You young whippersnappers are using modeline _generators_? Back
> > > > > in the good old days I calculated modeline values by hand.
> > > >
> > > > You had hands?! Luxury! We had to do it in our heads. And we enjoyed
> > > > it!
> > >
> > > And I suppose you had a house to live in while you were doing it then,
> > > did you?
> > >
> > > You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic
> > > tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper
> > > bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen
> > > hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got
> > > home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
> > >
> > > And we were thankful!
> >
> > ... and you tell that to kids these days, and THEY WON'T BELIEVE YOU!
>
> In 4 foot deep snow, uphill both ways. Pushing the cheese cart our Dad
> made us pedal cheese with.
While running the abacus because electricity had not yet been invented for
calculating the modeline values.
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