[AT] Sideways pictures

[Cecil Bearden]

I have one of those new double monitors that tilts and rotates and is 
supposed to display dual screens, but I cannot get the left screen to work. 
Tech support is next to nil.  It is an EVGA monitor.
Cecil in ok
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sideways pictures


>    Charlie;
>    Yes I was referring to the combine pictures. Charlie V said they came
> through to him in vertical and to mine they were horizontal. I am sure 
> that
> you sent them in the proper orientation and my system oriented them for 
> best
> display on my monitor. I am still new to this monitor and will have to 
> check
> out the portrait versus landscape settings.
>
>    I do thank you for taking the effort to find this information. I have
> tried at times before to identify it and now we know what it was.
>
>    I always take anything on here very lighthearted and unless I am flamed
> personally I take no offense. Sometimes you have to read a message 1 or 2
> times to realize it was sent tongue-in-cheek. Sometimes have to agree to
> disagree good naturedly. Many times just let it go without a comment.
>
>                    Gene
>
>    P.S. I did try to stand my monitor on its side to try to read them, but
> couldn't control the mouse to align the articles.
>
>                G.D.
>
>
>> Charlie Hill
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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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