Switching between virtual desktops

[David Gerard]

2009/6/2 Luca Bezerra <lucabezerra at gmail.com>:

>> Don't forget also: if you pay for your own electricity, then buying a
>> cheap LCD is cheaper than using a free CRT for three to six months.

> A: True. Not only the electricity economy, but also because CRT monitors are
> really big (students knees would be constantly hitting the bottom of it, and
> they wouldnt be able to sit correctly at the table) and heavy (attaching 6
> CRT monitors screen-up position to a simple wooden table would be both hard
> and unsafe, since their weight plus some eventual student supporting himself
> on the table could make it crash or something).


I gave away a 21" Sun CRT a few years ago. On Freecycle, none of my
friends wanted it. I tried giving another one away a few months ago
and couldn't even Freecycle it.


- d.