[AT] Sideways pictures

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sun Nov 7 15:19:41 PST 2010


Same here Charlie V.  I sent some pictures off list that showed the combine 
his dad had.  I wasn't sure which pics he was talking about either
It doesn't matter as long as he found out what he wanted to know.

Charlie Hill

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From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 4:20 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Sideways pictures

> After sending that reply, Gene, I was wondering if you were referring
> to the forum pictures or some the other Charlie may have sent to you.
> Other thoughts that passed through my mind were:
>
> Being a Saturday night, you may be lying down when looking at the monitor.
>
> The monitor may be mounted in the portrait position rather than landscape.
>
> Until now, I kept those thoughts to myself because I was not sure if
> they would be taken in the humorous light that they were given. Going
> one step further, the solution would be to mount the monitor on a
> vertical arm and fixed with a ball to allow an easy rotation to match
> each situation.
>
> Seriously, I suspect settings but do not really know.  Once in a great
> while I receive rotated pictures and wonder why anyone would send them
> that way.  Now, maybe I know that they didn't.  Also, I bought and
> used an E Machine for about four years.  I was well pleased with it.
>
> Charlie V.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Gene Dotson <gdotsly at watchtv.net> wrote:
>>    Charlie V;
>>
>>    I am running a fairly new e-machines 21 inch monitor. I wonder if it
>> automatically presents the pictures to match the dimensions of the 
>> monitor?
>> When I click on the links at the top, they still come out the same only
>> smaller. Normal pictures at 640x480 or less than 100 bytes always come 
>> out
>> normally. I don't believe if my old 17 inch monitor did that. Maybe a
>> setting somewhere?
>>
>>    I opened the links at the top and by scrolling the mouse ball, I was
>> able to expand them to view a full paragraph with the pictures. A little
>> practice, I was able to read horizontally alright. Guess the practice
>> reading upside down to read Ellen's papers, who sat behind me in school, 
>> has
>> finally paid off. Actually the reason I read her answers was to give her 
>> the
>> right ones.
>>
>>                    Gene
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 6:38 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Thoughts on small combines, other harvest machinery and
>> where it takes us (continued)
>> Interesting that you mention sideways, Gene.  On my monitor the
>> pictures come in horizontal as they should be.  I even went back to
>> the Fotki sight where they link to and they are all O.K..  I am far
>> too particular to post pictures that way.  Good to know they can flip
>> flop in cyberspace.
>>
>> Charlie V.
>>
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