[AT] Sideways pictures

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Mon Nov 8 08:05:36 PST 2010 

Cecil, somewhere in Windows there is a way to set your system up for dual 
monitors.  I found it a few weeks ago to hook up an extra one for some work 
I was doing.  Unfortunately I can't tell you how to get to it now.  If I 
figure it out, I'll let you know.

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From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 10:20 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Sideways pictures

> 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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