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Old May 27th 20, 08:45 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,free.spam
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We're obviously not talking about HUBS.
The communication between a monitor and a PC is not even a handshake,
let alone talking.

This Apple reject troll is clueless...

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In article , John Doe
wrote:


The only monitors that "talk" are touchscreen monitors (and anything
similar), not conventional monitors. Monitors are just output devices
like printers.


false. displays can 'talk' to the host, not just for resolution and
timing, but also rotation, clut and other data, and any peripherals
plugged into the display must be able to talk to the host.



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  #32  
Old May 27th 20, 09:00 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
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On Wed, 27 May 2020 11:59:40 -0700, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Wed, 27 May 2020 08:46:14 -0500, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

On 2020-05-27 5:49 a.m., Stan Brown wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2020 06:37:26 -0000 (UTC), John Doe wrote:
If you use Chrome, you can customize almost anything on any webpage by
using the add-on "Stylebot". Don't leave home without it. Helps to use
the Chrome "Inspect" tool in combination with Stylebot. Changing the
style, color, and size of fonts is easy.

For both Chrome and Firefox, Ctrl+plus and Ctrl+minus are worth
trying first. They won't change fonts or colors, just font size, but
if that's enough for readability then that's one less add-in needed.


Thanks Stan, that is a great , simple and very welcome fix.


Periodically I see articles on various sites giving keyboard
shortcuts for browsers, and the ones I use stick in my head. Frex, if
you close a browser tab by mistake, Ctrl+Shift+W will bring it back.


Did you mean Ctrl-Shift-T? That reopens a tab that was just closed.
Ctrl-Shift-W looks like it will close all tabs in the selected window.

Or have I changed my defaults?

  #33  
Old May 27th 20, 10:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,free.spam
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In article , John Doe
wrote:

We're obviously not talking about HUBS.


nobody said anything about hubs.

The communication between a monitor and a PC is not even a handshake,
let alone talking.


false.
  #34  
Old May 28th 20, 01:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
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On 27/05/2020 20.41, John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
John Doe wrote:


The monitor doesn't "talk" it just listens.

Is that entirely true?


In context, Yes. I don't consider walking up to somebody and saying
"Hi" to be "talking".

it tells you the supported formats as well as clock rates


That isn't necessary. Those of us who are old enough to know, know
that we didn't even depend on monitor communication for set up, until
more recently.


That was then, this is now.

Now the operating system finds out without configuration what modes the
monitor supports and chooses the correct one automatically, by talking
to the monitor.

Today connect a monitor that doesn't talk to a modern computer, and you
are in trouble.

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  #35  
Old May 28th 20, 01:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop,alt.windows7.general,free.spam
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On 27/05/2020 20.23, John Doe wrote:
The only monitor that talks is a touch screen.
The context is general use, not set up.
This is nonsense...


Your opinion is noted and ignored. :-)

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  #36  
Old May 28th 20, 02:01 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
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On 05/27/2020 11:41 AM, John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
John Doe wrote:


The monitor doesn't "talk" it just listens.

Is that entirely true?


No, but moving the goalpost fixes Doe's problem.

In context, Yes. I don't consider walking up to somebody and saying
"Hi" to be "talking".

it tells you the supported formats as well as clock rates


That isn't necessary. Those of us who are old enough to know, know
that we didn't even depend on monitor communication for set up,
until more recently.

The poster wrote...

I do care, deeply, about good colour response, and those three
ports, as the monitor must talk to three machines.


That's referring to use, not setup. The poster doesn't require
"three ports" just so the monitors can set themselves up.


The reason "the poster" wants 3 ports is irrelevant.

The only monitors that "talk" are touchscreen monitors (and anything
similar), not conventional monitors. Monitors are just output
devices like printers.


Printers must also talk, when they report ink levels remaining. Your new
3-D printer probably talks behind your back. Where was it made?
  #37  
Old May 28th 20, 05:17 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
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Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 27/05/2020 20.41, John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
John Doe wrote:


The monitor doesn't "talk" it just listens.

Is that entirely true?


In context, Yes. I don't consider walking up to somebody and saying
"Hi" to be "talking".

it tells you the supported formats as well as clock rates


That isn't necessary. Those of us who are old enough to know, know
that we didn't even depend on monitor communication for set up, until
more recently.


That was then, this is now.

Now the operating system finds out without configuration what modes the
monitor supports and chooses the correct one automatically, by talking
to the monitor.

Today connect a monitor that doesn't talk to a modern computer, and you
are in trouble.


I wouldn't couch the topic in quite that way.

The hardwares have a certain degree of tolerance.
Both the video card, and the monitor.

*******

Perhaps we could start with an "objective".

We want the computer and monitor to "always work". We
want the monitor to display the desired image, without
triggering an OSD "out of range" message.

We *don't* want to intimidate "grandma" by having the
screen turn black (which happens all too frequently on
the Test Machine by the way!).

The video card can output any horizontal resolution
which is a multiple of 8 pixels. It can do any vertical
resolution which is a multiple of 2 pixels.

The multisync on the computer monitor, can handle a front
porch 30% wide, all the way downto almost 0%. The 0% case
is CRTRB (reduced blanking), since an LCD monitor does not
have a flyback, a vacuum tube, or a beam to steer.

The monitor can also be fed a great range of resolutions.

For example, right now, if I wanted, I could set it to
278 x 78 pixels, and it would light up, it would look like
****, but... it would work. It would not be useful, but
it would pass the bar bet we set for it. The monitor eats
that request, like a packet of sweets. Yum!

If you had a copy of the Entechtaiwan programming utility,
you could test these if you wanted. The monitor will strive
to make a working image, out of the worst possible materials.

The EDID on the other hand, has a table of "nice" values.
In particular, we know the "native" value works "extra nice",
and gives the sharpest possible picture, with the least
resampling artifacts.

Some monitors actually support resolutions larger
than native. They will accept 1920x1080 and display
it on a 1366x768 native panel. They support resizing
to make that happen. Those two choices, should have
the same aspect ratio.

You would expect video to look decent when doing that,
but the resampling might make text or lines look a bit
off.

While both pieces of hardware support a large amount
of choice (before something wobbles, you get
"Out of Range" and the screen goes dark), the EDID
helps guide some good choices.

*******

One of the big improvements in Windows, was the fifteen
second automatic recovery option in the Display settings
panel. As long as you don't hit "OK", your mis-chosen
resolution or mode line will back out, and you will be
returned to the previous (working) choice.

But what that doesn't cover, is certain cases of Registry
trouble, where say, the refresh changed from 60FPS to 135FPS,
and the monitor is going "out of range", and because at
that particular point in time, the user is not using that
15 second long dialog, the setup is now scuppered. It's
very hard for the user to figure out what offline Registry
value needs to be reprogrammed, to make the screen work again.
Every time the user boots up the computer, the screen stays
black, making usage of the Display control panel impossible.

*******

Summary: While the PNP system guides relatively logical behavior
with relatively good looking screen images, there are
still a few cases where it's "grandma versus the black
screen". For example, on the Test Machine, in Linux, the
Nouveau driver doesn't get along with my NVidia card,
they seem to lose the ability to communicate (according
to what I can see in "dmesg"), and as a grandma, I'm left
with an annoying black screen to fix. Despite having a
PNP subsystem, not all the worlds problems have been
solved quite yet.

Paul
  #38  
Old May 28th 20, 08:38 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,free.spam
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On 05/27/2020 11:41 AM, John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
John Doe wrote:


The monitor doesn't "talk" it just listens.

Is that entirely true?


No, but moving the goalpost fixes Doe's problem.

In context, Yes. I don't consider walking up to somebody and saying
"Hi" to be "talking".

it tells you the supported formats as well as clock rates


That isn't necessary. Those of us who are old enough to know, know
that we didn't even depend on monitor communication for set up,
until more recently.

The poster wrote...

I do care, deeply, about good colour response, and those three
ports, as the monitor must talk to three machines.


That's referring to use, not setup. The poster doesn't require
"three ports" just so the monitors can set themselves up.


The reason "the poster" wants 3 ports is irrelevant.

The only monitors that "talk" are touchscreen monitors (and anything
similar), not conventional monitors. Monitors are just output
devices like printers.


Printers must also talk, when they report ink levels remaining. Your new
3-D printer probably talks behind your back. Where was it made?



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Old May 28th 20, 08:46 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,free.spam
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An ordinary monitor does not talk to a computer.
Reading a configuration file is not even a handshake.
As anyone giving advice in this group should know...
An ordinary monitor is an OUTPUT device.

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On 27/05/2020 20.41, John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
John Doe wrote:


The monitor doesn't "talk" it just listens.

Is that entirely true?


In context, Yes. I don't consider walking up to somebody and saying
"Hi" to be "talking".

it tells you the supported formats as well as clock rates


That isn't necessary. Those of us who are old enough to know, know
that we didn't even depend on monitor communication for set up, until
more recently.


That was then, this is now.

Now the operating system finds out without configuration what modes the
monitor supports and chooses the correct one automatically, by talking
to the monitor.

Today connect a monitor that doesn't talk to a modern computer, and you
are in trouble.

--
Cheers, Carlos.


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Old May 28th 20, 08:51 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,free.spam
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Cows Are Nice
Cows are nice
Cows are Nice
dogs
Great Pumpkin
Jose Curvo
Local Favorite
Sea
Standard Poodle
and others.

I didn't "move the goalpost". I had to point out the context.
The explanation "there is a difference between talking and reading
a configuration file" is too subtle for this nym-shifting Linux lunatic
troll...

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On 05/27/2020 11:41 AM, John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
John Doe wrote:


The monitor doesn't "talk" it just listens.

Is that entirely true?


No, but moving the goalpost fixes Doe's problem.

In context, Yes. I don't consider walking up to somebody and saying
"Hi" to be "talking".

it tells you the supported formats as well as clock rates


That isn't necessary. Those of us who are old enough to know, know
that we didn't even depend on monitor communication for set up,
until more recently.

The poster wrote...

I do care, deeply, about good colour response, and those three
ports, as the monitor must talk to three machines.


That's referring to use, not setup. The poster doesn't require
"three ports" just so the monitors can set themselves up.


The reason "the poster" wants 3 ports is irrelevant.

The only monitors that "talk" are touchscreen monitors (and anything
similar), not conventional monitors. Monitors are just output
devices like printers.


Printers must also talk, when they report ink levels remaining. Your new
3-D printer probably talks behind your back. Where was it made?


  #41  
Old May 28th 20, 12:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_7_]
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On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 00:17:54, Paul wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 27/05/2020 20.41, John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
John Doe wrote:

The monitor doesn't "talk" it just listens.

Is that entirely true?

In context, Yes. I don't consider walking up to somebody and saying
"Hi" to be "talking".

it tells you the supported formats as well as clock rates

That isn't necessary. Those of us who are old enough to know, know
that we didn't even depend on monitor communication for set up, until
more recently.

That was then, this is now.


(Don't bother trying to convince him/it; it has decided that what it
says _is_ the situation, and isn't interested in hearing otherwise.)

Now the operating system finds out without configuration what modes
the monitor supports and chooses the correct one automatically, by
talking to the monitor.
Today connect a monitor that doesn't talk to a modern computer, and
you are in trouble.

Totally, or just lowest common denominator? Will some graphics cards
actually shut off any video signal if no communication is received, or
just put out a default?

I wouldn't couch the topic in quite that way.

The hardwares have a certain degree of tolerance.
Both the video card, and the monitor.

*******

Perhaps we could start with an "objective".

We want the computer and monitor to "always work". We
want the monitor to display the desired image, without
triggering an OSD "out of range" message.


Or, with some very old monitors (well back in the CRT era), even suffer
harm! (I think that's ones before any form of OSD.)

We *don't* want to intimidate "grandma" by having the
screen turn black (which happens all too frequently on
the Test Machine by the way!).


The Standard Grandma is an interesting set of specifications (-:!
[Don't forget the tea frequency.]

The video card can output any horizontal resolution
which is a multiple of 8 pixels. It can do any vertical
resolution which is a multiple of 2 pixels.


I'm not even sure those limitations apply. I once met someone involved
with vintage TV, where most people who wanted to keep old sets going
built (or bought) hardware to generate the relevant signals, had managed
- with a Linux machine and a particular graphics card - to generate
full-spec. "405-line" TV signals ("System A", as used in UK and Eire
until I think 198x [alongside 625 from 196x of course!]). I saw it
working, and it was fine.

The multisync on the computer monitor, can handle a front
porch 30% wide, all the way downto almost 0%. The 0% case
is CRTRB (reduced blanking), since an LCD monitor does not
have a flyback, a vacuum tube, or a beam to steer.


I think you mean flyback or "sync" pulse rather than "front porch".

The monitor can also be fed a great range of resolutions.

For example, right now, if I wanted, I could set it to
278 x 78 pixels, and it would light up, it would look like
****, but... it would work. It would not be useful, but
it would pass the bar bet we set for it. The monitor eats
that request, like a packet of sweets. Yum!

If you had a copy of the Entechtaiwan programming utility,
you could test these if you wanted. The monitor will strive
to make a working image, out of the worst possible materials.


I think _some_ monitors (or monitor/graphic-card combinations,
especially laptop built-in) sometimes display a pixel-matched image, i.
e. if you give them a lower-resolution signal, you get a smaller image
in the middle of the screen.

The EDID on the other hand, has a table of "nice" values.
In particular, we know the "native" value works "extra nice",
and gives the sharpest possible picture, with the least
resampling artifacts.


Or integral sub-multiples, of course.

Some monitors actually support resolutions larger
than native. They will accept 1920x1080 and display
it on a 1366x768 native panel. They support resizing
to make that happen. Those two choices, should have
the same aspect ratio.


(Yes, I find wrong-aspect displays annoying. Especially on TVs.)

You would expect video to look decent when doing that,
but the resampling might make text or lines look a bit
off.

While both pieces of hardware support a large amount
of choice (before something wobbles, you get
"Out of Range" and the screen goes dark), the EDID
helps guide some good choices.

*******

One of the big improvements in Windows, was the fifteen
second automatic recovery option in the Display settings


Definitely! When did that come in - XP? (XP definitely had it; I can't
remember whether '98SE, '98, or '95 did. 3.1 certainly didn't [I think
that was the era when you could damage the monitor, too].)

panel. As long as you don't hit "OK", your mis-chosen
resolution or mode line will back out, and you will be
returned to the previous (working) choice.

But what that doesn't cover, is certain cases of Registry
trouble, where say, the refresh changed from 60FPS to 135FPS,
and the monitor is going "out of range", and because at
that particular point in time, the user is not using that
15 second long dialog, the setup is now scuppered. It's
very hard for the user to figure out what offline Registry
value needs to be reprogrammed, to make the screen work again.
Every time the user boots up the computer, the screen stays
black, making usage of the Display control panel impossible.


One of the things Safe Mode was invented for! It still (in 7, anyway -
not sure about 10, or even if 10 _has_ a Safe Mode) uses a low_er_
resolution (and I assume frame rate, if you had a high one), though I
think still at least SVGA (I know that went up from VGA with one of the
versions of Windows).

*******

Summary: While the PNP system guides relatively logical behavior
with relatively good looking screen images, there are
still a few cases where it's "grandma versus the black
screen". For example, on the Test Machine, in Linux, the
Nouveau driver doesn't get along with my NVidia card,
they seem to lose the ability to communicate (according
to what I can see in "dmesg"), and as a grandma, I'm left
with an annoying black screen to fix. Despite having a
PNP subsystem, not all the worlds problems have been
solved quite yet.

Paul

I'd always assumed you were more a grandpa than grandma, from the name
.... (-:
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  #42  
Old May 28th 20, 12:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
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On 28/05/2020 13.15, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 00:17:54, Paul wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 27/05/2020 20.41, John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
John Doe wrote:

The monitor doesn't "talk" it just listens.

Is that entirely true?

In context, Yes. I don't consider walking up to somebody and saying
"Hi" to be "talking".

it tells you the supported formats as well as clock rates

That isn't necessary. Those of us who are old enough to know, know
that we didn't even depend on monitor communication for set up, until
more recently.
Â*That was then, this is now.


(Don't bother trying to convince him/it; it has decided that what it
says _is_ the situation, and isn't interested in hearing otherwise.)


There is that.


Â*Now the operating system finds out without configuration what modes
theÂ* monitor supports and chooses the correct one automatically, by
talkingÂ* to the monitor.
Â*Today connect a monitor that doesn't talk to a modern computer, and
youÂ* are in trouble.

Totally, or just lowest common denominator? Will some graphics cards
actually shut off any video signal if no communication is received, or
just put out a default?


I don't know if there is a standard. They could use VESA modes. Or just
use plain VGA mode.



I wouldn't couch the topic in quite that way.

The hardwares have a certain degree of tolerance.
Both the video card, and the monitor.

*******

Perhaps we could start with an "objective".

We want the computer and monitor to "always work". We
want the monitor to display the desired image, without
triggering an OSD "out of range" message.


Or, with some very old monitors (well back in the CRT era), even suffer
harm! (I think that's ones before any form of OSD.)


I remember. Never saw a case, but it was documented.



We *don't* want to intimidate "grandma" by having the
screen turn black (which happens all too frequently on
the Test Machine by the way!).


The Standard Grandma is an interesting set of specifications (-:!
[Don't forget the tea frequency.]


:-)

....

For example, right now, if I wanted, I could set it to
278 x 78 pixels, and it would light up, it would look like
****, but... it would work. It would not be useful, but
it would pass the bar bet we set for it. The monitor eats
that request, like a packet of sweets. Yum!

If you had a copy of the Entechtaiwan programming utility,
you could test these if you wanted. The monitor will strive
to make a working image, out of the worst possible materials.


I think _some_ monitors (or monitor/graphic-card combinations,
especially laptop built-in) sometimes display a pixel-matched image, i.
e. if you give them a lower-resolution signal, you get a smaller image
in the middle of the screen.


I've seen that, not only on laptops.


The EDID on the other hand, has a table of "nice" values.
In particular, we know the "native" value works "extra nice",
and gives the sharpest possible picture, with the least
resampling artifacts.


Or integral sub-multiples, of course.

Some monitors actually support resolutions larger
than native. They will accept 1920x1080 and display
it on a 1366x768 native panel. They support resizing
to make that happen. Those two choices, should have
the same aspect ratio.


(Yes, I find wrong-aspect displays annoying. Especially on TVs.)


Indeed.

Years ago, when there was the form factor switch on TV (from 3/4 to...
whatever, I have forgotten), people, specially coffee bars would set the
TV sets to occupy the entire screen, resulting in distorted faces.
Specially bad when the camera was moving, rotating.

(talking of here, where "here" is Spain)

Similar issue with places with old TV sets, 3/4, tuned to new stations
airing in the new format.


....


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Old May 28th 20, 03:21 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
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On Wed, 27 May 2020 15:00:40 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

On Wed, 27 May 2020 11:59:40 -0700, Stan Brown
wrote:


Periodically I see articles on various sites giving keyboard
shortcuts for browsers, and the ones I use stick in my head. Frex, if
you close a browser tab by mistake, Ctrl+Shift+W will bring it back.


Did you mean Ctrl-Shift-T? That reopens a tab that was just closed.
Ctrl-Shift-W looks like it will close all tabs in the selected window.

Or have I changed my defaults?


Good catch, Char! That was a particularly unfortunate typo on my
part. Ctrl+Shift+T is correct. Thanks for pointing it out.

Ctrl+W, close current tab
Ctrl+Shift+T, reopen closed tab (can be used multiple times to reopen
a sequence of tabs closed with Ctrl+W)
Ctrl+Shift+W, close all tabs
Ctrl+T, open new tab


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Old May 28th 20, 03:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
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On Thu, 28 May 2020 07:21:22 -0700, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Wed, 27 May 2020 15:00:40 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

On Wed, 27 May 2020 11:59:40 -0700, Stan Brown
wrote:


Periodically I see articles on various sites giving keyboard
shortcuts for browsers, and the ones I use stick in my head. Frex, if
you close a browser tab by mistake, Ctrl+Shift+W will bring it back.


Did you mean Ctrl-Shift-T? That reopens a tab that was just closed.
Ctrl-Shift-W looks like it will close all tabs in the selected window.

Or have I changed my defaults?


Good catch, Char! That was a particularly unfortunate typo on my
part. Ctrl+Shift+T is correct. Thanks for pointing it out.

Ctrl+W, close current tab
Ctrl+Shift+T, reopen closed tab (can be used multiple times to reopen
a sequence of tabs closed with Ctrl+W)
Ctrl+Shift+W, close all tabs
Ctrl+T, open new tab


Cool, thanks. We're in sync and I haven't done anything weird to my
defaults.

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Old May 28th 20, 08:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
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On Wed, 27 May 2020 19:45:24 -0000 (UTC), John Doe wrote:

We're obviously not talking about HUBS.
The communication between a monitor and a PC is not even a handshake,
let alone talking.

This Apple reject troll is clueless...


And yet you top-posted, and put a signature delimiter before what you
quoted, and added a fake group name to the newsgroups line.

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