FUCK YOU HP AND LG!!!!!!

Ok, people.  Lets talk about monitor resolution.

Hardware manufacturers.....you gotta do better than this.  Seriously, guys.  This just isn't working.  It's time to cut the crap, and get serious about manufacturing product that ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKS LIKE IT'S SUPPOSED TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And before you manufacturers of monitors and the devices the monitors plug into start pointing fingers at one another, I'd like to say, I REALLY DON'T FUCKING CARE, SORT IT OUT, AND GET SOMETHING TOGETHER THAT FUCKING WORKS, NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, over the years here, we've bought lots of different brands, models, and sizes of monitors.  We're at the point where all the monitors in the office are LCD, all the CRT monitors are in storage, out on the plant floor, or being used as boat anchors.  But, as we've replaced and ordered more monitors, we've ordered larger monitors as prices have dropped.  This has resulted in situations where people will sometimes notice.....that person has a bigger monitor than I do.

Well, I assure you, it's not the size of the monitor, it's how you use it.

But, still, we live in a world where people have these crazy monitor size envy complexes to deal with.  So, as the guys in the figurative upstairs find more ways to demand that we do more work with less people to make them more money while they take away our bonuses and give us jack shit, we've ended up with lots of empty desks with unused monitors on them.  And, I suppose someone's loss can become someone else's gain, when someone notices "hey, that monitor sitting there where Joe used to sit is bigger than mine"

So, I've been doing some monitor juggling.

So, the other day, a friendly fellow co-worker who has purchased donuts for me in the past comes over, and asks about a larger monitor that is sitting unused.  And points out that it would greatly help him to be able to see more of his spreadsheet by having a larger monitor.  So, I said, ok, we'll swap that later today, and we'll also make sure to adjust the resolution.  Oh....no....that won't be necessary, don't go out of your way, just swap the monitor and I'll be able to see more.  I explained, well, no, if we don't change the resolution, you'll still be seeing the same amount of spreadsheet, only bigger.

Well, turns out....Windows 7 is one step ahead of me.  So, the monitor that was on there was an LG, which was set to 1440x900 I believe, and I take it off, put the new one on, and windows 7 automatically detects the monitor, determines a higher resolution for it, and sets it for me.

Thank you, Microsoft.  You have avoided my wrath for this rant by actually doing your fucking job properly, and making a system that does what it is supposed to do.  Thank you.

Now, hp....sit down....we gotta talk.

Because, the next part of this was that, another guy who has an hp thin client, and a really old LCD monitor that is something like 15" and full screen sized, wanted the monitor I swapped out, since it was better than his.  Ok...no biggie, the next morning before he logs in, I'll swap out the old 15", throw in this widescreen LG, set a higher resolution, and we'll be all set.

So, I go into the display settings on this hp thin client, knowing I have to be careful.  Because, the display settings will let you fuck everything up big time.  It doesn't auto detect the best resolution, it doesn't determine what settings won't work and disable them, it lets you go in, and pick any numbers you want, and if you pick the wrong one, well, fuck you.

And I know this because there's been many a morning where I get a call from someone that has "no idea how it happened", and I find their monitor displaying an out of range error, forcing me to reimage the thin client back to default to set it up again.

And so, I say to the fine people at HP that decided to do fuck all to make display settings work as they should

FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!

YOU FUCKING MORONS!!!!!  WHAT IN THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?  FOR HOW LONG NOW HAS WINDOWS HAD SETTINGS THAT EASILY LET YOU ADJUST RESOLUTION SETTINGS WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO BREAK IT BY PICKING INVALID SETTINGS?  AND YOU STILL HAVE THESE ARCHAIC SETTINGS THAT ARE NOT USER FRIENDLY AND LET ONE EASILY MESS EVERYTHING UP?   FUCK YOU, MAN!  TIME TO GET WITH THE FUCKING TIMES!!!

Anyways, ok, so, since I'm smart enough to know that I want to be careful here, I notice....there's a test button.  So, it's set to 1024x768.  Ok....this monitor has the same height as the old one roughly, but is just a little wider, so if I want a setting that is going to keep things about the same size, but show a little more on the display, I want to pick a resolution that is something bigger than 1024 by something that is 768, or close to 768.  So, sure enough, I find a resolution that is something by 768.  I pick it, and click the test button.  The test screen comes up, and displays a message that lets me know this is a test screen at the resolution, and to click ok to keep, or cancel to not keep it.  And I verify that the test screen states it's on the new resolution I picked, and not the old one.

Ok, cool, this verifies that resolution works.  And I click ok.

Only, every time I exit the test screen, the display is all fucked up and I can barely read anything, forcing a restart.  Which, ok, no big deal, the thing needs to be restarted to apply the settings that I've selected.  But, this is clearly a bug, which displays a certain amount of laziness in whoever designed, developed, and programmed this system.

Once again, FUCK YOU, HP!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, after the restart to apply the display setting that supposedly displayed properly in the test, with the test stating that was the display setting it was testing, I get an out of range error on the monitor.


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Ok, WHAT IN THE FUCK!!!!

Clearly, the test isn't actually testing the right setting.  What is the point of a test that won't accurately determine if the setting I'm picking is going to break things?  Which means, I'm stuck with good old trial and error, with a whole lotta screaming FUCK, to get a resolution for this monitor.

FUCK YOU, HP!

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So, fortunately, the old HP 15" monitor does display the screen, allowing me to set it back to a working resolution without having to restore the thin client to the default.  Only, the HP monitor, while displaying the desktop perfectly fine, displays a white box in the middle of the screen that gives me an out of range error.

Hey, dipshit, if this is out of range, HOW COME IT'S FUCKING DISPLAYING PROPERLY?!!?!?!?!???!?!?!?!

FUCKING LAZY DESIGNING AND PROGRAMMING!

Seriously, guys, FUCK YOU!

Which, makes it rather difficult for me to navigate around this white block that is placed, not somewhere in a corner out of the way, and made small....but is a big ass white block that completely blocks the center of action.

Seriously, guys, when you design these things, is your goal to try and piss off the end user as much as possible?  FUCK YOU!

But, whatever, important thing is, I've got a way to revert back to a working settings.

So, I hook the widescreen LG monitor back up, and I once again try to pick a higher resolution.  I remembered, it was set to 1440x900 on the last computer it was connected to, so perhaps that would be a good resolution to pick this time around.  I pick it, click the test, which tests properly, goes back to a messed up screen that I can barely read anything, I restart, and.....


.....out of range error.


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So, I go back to the old HP monitor, which once again displays the desktop, with a white block in the middle blocking everything, and this time it recommends a setting to me.  So I set it to that, restart, and that works.  I switch back to the LG, now with the higher setting, and that works.

So, now I have to wait for the end user to come in, and hope I don't get a call asking why everything is so small, and if I can set everything to be bigger.

ARRRGGGHHH..


HP, seriously guys, you gotta do better than this.  This just doesn't cut it.  Fuck you!