Mini-Rant: Tag-team Teabagged by Dell and Cox!
It’s 2 AM Wednesday morning. Where, you may ask, is that weirdo DKM Marlink’s Tuesday evening post?
Well, it was eaten by a Grue. Two Grues, in fact. Named Dell and Cox, respectively.
Cox’s cable service has taken to dropping out at regular intervals. This is annoying and prevents me from doing the necessary research for my Spwug articles, but is more of a delay than a wall across the road. It’s Dell who’s the crueler of the two monsters.
The monitor I’m using right now, the 2408WFP A02, just arrived from Dell earlier today (well, yesterday now). It was sent to replace a replacement monitor (!!) but is faultier than the (replacement!!) monitor it’s supposed to be, you know, replacing. I can’t actually see part of what I’m typing right now, due to a huge pink horizontal band that divides the screen and causes the bottom of my desktop to be hidden from view. After spending about five hours of quality time with Dell on the phone and its (totally unhelpful) website to replace the first monitor, it looks like Dell’s now demanding cuddle time from us, after the red-hot passions that led to the birthing of this second monitor. Not looking forward to that grating hold music yet again….
Thank all the Powers What Is for unlimited five-year warranties.
If things come to a happy conclusion, expect me to be back on track by Tuesday. If they don’t end happily…well, look for another Dell rant next week!
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September 24th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Don’t forget that the taskbar is movable. Right-click and unlock it, then just drag it to the top, or one of the sides. (The magnifier (run: magnify) can be helpful for seeing the hidden part of the screen.)
I don’t know what territory you covered with the phone drones. But i’d play around with different resolutions, and up/downgrading your video driver, in an effort to find a way to make the card and monitor get along a little better. (Not that that excuses obviously f’d up equipment, nor relieves them of getting a non-f’d up one into your hands; but it would make your life a bit easier in the meantime.)
September 24th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Hey, man! I dropped you a comment on my private blog re: how we compensated for the monitor’s visual glitch. Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully it won’t be an issue much longer, or I may yet come back to your comment for further suggestions….