East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Two days ago a new 17″ monitor that I had ordered arrived, to replace the 14 or 15″ monitor that was starting to age a bit. This was the monitor that was used by the PC running Win98, so no long-term damage was being done but it was time to replace that one (which could only do 800×600 barely and was most comfortable with 640×480) with the new one. The new monitor now does a comfortable 1280×768 with 32 bit colour at a smooth 85Hz refresh rate. Bliss! The old monitor hasn’t been thrown away, though. Yesterday evening I hooked it up to a KVM switch in the server-room where, combined with an old keyboard, it can rest peacefully and if the past is any indication, be used once or twice per year, during hardware upgrades for the firewall PC or the fileserver PC. That will also make my back happier, not having to lug it up and down the stairs when something goes wrong and I’m already irritated and rushed anyway!