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The real p1sser is that they take way your super 19 inch TFT VGA socket monitor and replace it with a 17 inch monitor with a different plug.
We keep hearing mention of this 'different' connector for the monitor... could someone describe it please? It must be carrying the same signal, such that a pin swapping device could be pretty easily knocked-up to sort it back to VGA (XGA if you want to be fussy)?
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We keep hearing mention of this 'different' connector for the monitor... could someone describe it please? It must be carrying the same signal, such that a pin swapping device could be pretty easily knocked-up to sort it back to VGA (XGA if you want to be fussy)?
Personally, I would write into the contract of the contracts officer that they will be held financially responsible for any contract traps they lead the MoD into, where it would have been reasonable to expect them to have avoided them. That would concentrate the mind.
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I haven't looked recently but the male, VDU, connector has blades not pins. It might be a new industry standard, but when has Government IT been at the leading edge of technology?
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Could be but I would need to check the plug/socket.
So DVI is new standard? After we have had VGA for, ooh, 20 years or more. Clearly time to force peopel to change their long life monitors.
Could be but I would need to check the plug/socket.
So DVI is new standard? After we have had VGA for, ooh, 20 years or more. Clearly time to force peopel to change their long life monitors.
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So DVI is new standard? After we have had VGA for, ooh, 20 years or more. Clearly time to force peopel to change their long life monitors.
I'll try to get a peep at the 'new' connector layout through the week and report back.
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The graphics cards in the Optiplexes are Dell specials designed for CAD work IIRC - Quadro FXs - they have dual outputs from a single socket.
This cable then has two outputs from it (for the dual display) and then both these are DVI style connectors.
edit: Almost forgot, here's a top tip for the DII computers. Don't have the left hand shift key pressed down on switch on
This cable then has two outputs from it (for the dual display) and then both these are DVI style connectors.
edit: Almost forgot, here's a top tip for the DII computers. Don't have the left hand shift key pressed down on switch on
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"DVI is the new standard."
Not quite true. DVI may be a newer standard than VGA, but the new standard is actually DisplayPort.
I suppose pretty typical of the MoD though, to be upgrading to an already superceded standard.
Not quite true. DVI may be a newer standard than VGA, but the new standard is actually DisplayPort.
I suppose pretty typical of the MoD though, to be upgrading to an already superceded standard.
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The system is truely wonderful. It throws up obscure warning messages telling you to do something but omits to tell you how. Installing a piece of new software was a revelation, not just to me but to the help desk too.
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This is making me weep, DVI is not a new standard. It has been about for nearly 10 years now. I know there is a lot wrong with DII but having a monck on about the video connectors is a moan to far.
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Odium, no it isn't. Atlas are removing perfectly good 19 inch and larger VGA VDU and replacing them with 17 inch DVI VDU. Then, if you want a 19 inch you have to make a business case to buy a new 19 inch display.
You can bet your bottom dollar that there will be no refund for the 17 inch DVI that they remove.
As for DVI being around for 10 years, is it not odd that every computer provided in the last 8 years has been VGA? That commercial computers have VGA and rarely DVI?
I know one is digital and the other is analogue but what is the technical advantage of change as there appears to be no economical advantage?
You can bet your bottom dollar that there will be no refund for the 17 inch DVI that they remove.
As for DVI being around for 10 years, is it not odd that every computer provided in the last 8 years has been VGA? That commercial computers have VGA and rarely DVI?
I know one is digital and the other is analogue but what is the technical advantage of change as there appears to be no economical advantage?
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Your being "standardised" - then at a later date a certain company can then make more money by up-grading you to where you started off from!
I beleive that the 'Discovery' survey was supposed to identify larger screen users, the question was then asked if it was a requirement for you to have them, if nothing was forthcomming or it was deemed that you were not an essential user you were "standardised".
Watch out for a large number of 19" flat screens appearing on eBay!
I beleive that the 'Discovery' survey was supposed to identify larger screen users, the question was then asked if it was a requirement for you to have them, if nothing was forthcomming or it was deemed that you were not an essential user you were "standardised".
Watch out for a large number of 19" flat screens appearing on eBay!
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The graphics cards in the Optiplexes are Dell specials designed for CAD work IIRC - Quadro FXs - they have dual outputs from a single socket
Why does DII need video cards and graphics cards and quadro FX's....? All it needs to provide is an function that will allow you to send Emails and some sort of Spreadsheet / Word programme....
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Spheroid, we actually Dii/f is intended to 'deliver network enabled capabilty' in the words of those in Starship Enterprise and now selling ground heat pumps or double glazing.
I think the secret of all this goobledegook is that the stars don't understand what they are told. Rather than ask or try and re-write in plain English, thus proving they don't know, they simply reiterate what they have been told.
Emperor's clothes and all that.
As someone said earlier, the mistake is to equate seniority with the ability to understand detail. Remember Tony Blair and George Bush couldn't use computers.
I think the secret of all this goobledegook is that the stars don't understand what they are told. Rather than ask or try and re-write in plain English, thus proving they don't know, they simply reiterate what they have been told.
Emperor's clothes and all that.
As someone said earlier, the mistake is to equate seniority with the ability to understand detail. Remember Tony Blair and George Bush couldn't use computers.