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A week ago I had to replace my desktop's second monitor. The new Scepter monitor has a feature that I do not care for: When you turn off the computer, the monitor goes into power save mode for an hour or so, then it turns itself totally off. Once in that state, the power must be turned on manually. When you turn on the computer the monitor stays off until you press the power button.
This morning I started the computer and tried to use the Edge browser, but it refused to run. But Task Manager showed it was running.  I thought I may have picked up a virus or something, so I reverted the system drive to a Macrium image I took a few days earlier.
When the computer restarted I glanced at the second monitor and it was off. Turned it on and there was my browser, trying to run on a dead monitor! 
I will now retire to a corner where I will kick myself until I'm dead!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Windows should have detected that monitor wasn't available. This makes me think it's not really off.
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I did the unspeakable: I read the monitor manual! There is a system setting where you can disable the monitor tranferring from sleep mode to power off mode! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: I did the unspeakable: I read the monitor manual!
Your hat, coat, and self have been deposited in the street, and your engineer-card has been revoked!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Since Windows has started supporting multiple monitors, I never really got the impression that any version of Windows detects (or cares about) a monitor being powered off. A monitor being physically disconnected however is another story.
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Astronaut Howard Wolowitz: Welcome to team putz!
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You had us at the posts title. No further details were needed…
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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You are too kind!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I once had that.
So every morning I came into the office, turned on my monitor and then my laptop.
One day, I didn't press the on button well enough and the monitor stayed off.
And I was like crap my monitor broke!
Even called in my boss for a replacement monitor and then he just turned it on...
Not my proudest moment 
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Herself just sealed some pasta sauce to reheat in the sous vide for supper, and she was holding the lid down in case it opened on it's own.
So I just ran the numbers: the lid is about 10" wide by 15" long, so that's 10 * 15 * 14.7 pounds of air holding the lid shut since there is as-near-as-damnit no air on the inside (-0.1MPa on the gauge). That's about 1000Kg
That's the weight of four motorcycles sitting on the lid ... no wonder it's seriously thick perspex!
No, darling - you don't need to hold the lid shut, you couldn't open it if you tried!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Quote: No, darling - you don't need to hold the lid shut, you couldn't open it if you tried!
Good luck with that. I wouldn't try it myself. 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So I just ran the numbers: the lid is about 10" wide by 15" long, so that's 10 * 15 * 14.7 pounds of air holding the lid shut since there is as-near-as-damnit no air on the inside (-0.1MPa on the gauge). That's about 1000Kg
Going from heathen to metric.
Impressive.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Inches and miles are a "natural measurement" for me - I can estimate cm up to 10 or so, but above that I revert to inches. I know how long it would take me to walk or drive 3.5 miles, but 5.5Km is not something I have a "feel for". But I measure wood in mm, ingredients in g, droplets in picolitres, and "medium distances" in m.
Go figure.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: But I measure ...
politicians in 'idiocies'?
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David O'Neil wrote: politicians in 'idiocies' corruptions?
FTFY 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My mind is metric. I would never cross beams!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Inches and miles are a "natural measurement" for me
I've always assumed I'm built wrong. My foot isn't a foot long, and my thumb isn't an inch wide, so for any measurement that needs any sort of accuracy, there's nothing "natural" to me about the imperial system. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Inches and miles are a "natural measurement" for me
Bill Bryson:
'Of course they make sense,' the British person will sniff. 'Half a firkin is a jug, half a jug is a tot, half a tot is a titter, half a titter is a c**k-droplet. What's not logical about that?'
(Side remark: I have seek acres (i.e. fields) far bigger than an acre. I have lifted stones far heavier than a stone. I have seen furs significant longer than a furlong. Recommendation for baroque affectionados: Twas within a furlong[^] - I guess the furlong referenced is somewhat longer than the standard measure. l'Arpeggiata at its best!)
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Do any of you have a file server in your home LAN?
If so, is it worth it?
Opinions, recommendations, etc would be appreciated.
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I have a NAS configured to RAID 5 (well, two NASes) which is accessible to all devices - so my desktop, Surface, Phone, Herself's Tablets, the Surface in the kitchen, and Chromecast can all access the same files.
Is that worth it? For me, yes. It's not a "cheap solution" but RAID5 means I can survive a HDD failure without any data loss (which I have done) and being able to access important / useful documents from anywhere in the house is very handy. Just for the "kitchen surface" alone: I can add recipes on my desktop with a proper keyboard and update the NAS, then the Surface can pick them up and display them while I'm cooking. And so on.
For me, a NAS is a better solution than a file server: smaller, quieter, lower power consumption, and more reliable as well as easier to maintain.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Much appreciated.
Brand and capacity, please?
This is all new to me.
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Seagate Blackarmor 4 bay, 16TB giving a storage space of 11.9TB in RAID 5 (you always lose some space with raid as it stores additional info for recovery when a HDD goes dead).
I've had this one for 7 or 8 years and it's been no trouble at all (the HDD failure was on the previous 4TB NAS which was too full and too slow). Read speeds average around 85MByte/sec; Write is understandably slower at around 35MByte/sec. Sorry, I can't remember how much I paid!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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