Blackle
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Is there a way to uncheck the email sending when replied are sent without having to create a new post with the checkbox cleared?
I hope this works
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Green on Black works best for me.
Maybe it's throw-back to VT52 terminals in college, but from the earliest days of my first IBM PCJr, one of the things in the AUTOEXEC batch file was to set the screen colors. Either green text (on the dark background) or White Text on a BLUE background were my favorites. The white blinking cursor on the dark grey background never cut it with me.
With my switch to an iMAC early this year, one of the first things customized was the Terminal settings, to set the background Black with Green text. My 45 year old eyes also preferred a larger text size than the default. But even though I added a slight transparency to the window (to allow the screen behind the Terminal window to still be somewhat viewed), the Green Text on Black allows me to easily work in the foreground without tiring my eyes. Much better than dirty white on black in a MS-Windows Command line box.
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ATBCharles Kincaid
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Wow, I've never thought about the relationship between the web pages colors and energy saving
.I work with the SQL Editor embebed in SSMS the major part of my work day and I always use a light grey background and the default font colors.
A friend of mine uses a black background and the default font colors. I hate that configuration as much as he likes it
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If you use the white of the monitor AS your light source then you are actually saving energy with the white. If I were to change to black background then I would have to switch on the incandesants. Wacth the meter spin.
Real energy saving is to use whatever background you want but to work from home. No traffic, no gas (petrol), no pollution. You don't waste energy and water on that hot shower and you don't have to launder the clothes that you are not wearing. Oh, wait! Too much information.
ATBCharles Kincaid
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The energy savings only really occur on CRTs. If you've moved to LCDs, it's the same energy no matter what. And it's a good point that if you are using other ambient light in your office, then the dark background might not work as well. I know I have a light blue desktop and white background with dark text and that white often lights up my keyboard enough for me to type without other light.
Petrol?!?!? No wonder gasoline costs so much in Europe. BP's upsold you to "Petrol" as some fancy fuel source.
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I think it's more a matter of contrast than color. Remember WordPerfect for DOS? Users would type white text on a blue background, and then print black text on white paper. You would rarely see anybody change their screen colors to match the printed page.
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I made the coversion from black to white backgrounds when I moved to Word for DOS I think, and then Windows 2.something completed the deal. I had not looked back at black till your article.
I have had eye strain for some time and I guess I should look into the color options to see if that will help.
Thanks for the idea.
Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!
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Dark backgrounds are better. Everyone knew that in the 80s and then Apple decided that computer things on-screen should look like their real-word counterparts, and the on-screen piece of paper was born, increasing energy costs and making us all go blind. I set my backgrounds to black whenever I can, and if I could find it, I would install something that essentially reverses the colors my computer is displaying for almost everything. Almost everything is backwards from the way I like it, which saves energy and saves eyeballs.
I am in the middle of writing a blog on this very issue, so thanks for the link.
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I've always found a black background easier on the eyes, but there doesn't seem to be a good theme in the windows world where the black window background look good. I guess I pick style over comfort.
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I also have learned over the years that a dark background with colored text is a lot easier on my poor, old eyes. The text also appears sharper which I guess is due to the bleeding effect. I'm typing this now on a black background with light yellow text. However, the Bookmarks panel is standard white with black text. As I back away, this yellow text stays sharper at farther distances.
So what about the ambient light so I can see the keyboard (what is it about compu-nerds that we work best at night? Fodder for another thread?) There are all kinds of LED nite-light devices that provide more than enough light for keyboard illumination and use almost no energy. There are even some that are powered from a USB port.
I have to chuckle, though, to think that this could be touted as an energy saving issue. It's just part of the whole "I'm doing something about a problem so I can brag that I'm doing something about a problem even though what I'm doing may actually be making the problem worse" syndrome that seems to have become fashionable over the past generation or so. It is the distinguishing characteristic between Green/Ecology and Conservation.
I'm selfish. I want to save energy so I can pay a smaller utility bill each month -- so when I do something I want to actually accomplish something. That's why I bought my first flat-panel monitor four years ago (when the price came down to where energy savings became cost effective). The old eighty-pound CRT makes a dandy footrest (I can't even give the @$*& thing away!).
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Hey, what lets you do that (have a black background on a web page)? Right now I can only get the black background in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio. When I work all day with those two products, I'm fine, but if I spend a few hours working with Word or web sites, I can't see anymore and I have to wait 15-30 minutes before I can drive home. And yeah, it's about saving my eyes and saving my money... I don't care what anybody thinks... but I'm happy to tell them the reasons to use a black background if they ask. I used to have a big explanation on my web site of why I had the black background, but people hated it, so now I let them pick whatever colors they want to view the site.
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I've mostly only worked with light backgrounds; however, when I was a UNIX admin, I would use a red background with white lettering for my production boxes. This helped remind me that I was not on my test box where anything goes. I'm confident that this saved my rear more than once.
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Steve mentioned the amber CRT's on the Apple. I remember replacing a lot of green CRT's in TRS-80 Mod 4's with amber. Much better on the eyes than the green. I used to have copies of the research into this. We used to use that as a sales tool as we were selling these computers to dentists.
I hate having to switch out CRT's. Those bastards will actually pick up a charge even when not connected to anything. I watched a guy reach to try and one-hand a green by the neck that had been setting on the shelf for an hour. His pinky finger got close to the annode hole and POW!
Knocked him on his butt, but good.I've been nailed by TV CRT's, RADAR CRT's, scope CRT's, and computer CRT's. One bit of technology that I'm glad to see go by the wayside. Besides, as the insulation degrades the flyback systems produce ozone. You know, the stuff that's OK high up but not good down near the surface?
To this day when someone hands me anything metal my other hand goes into my pocket instinctivly. The local utility runs adverts that say, "Don't learn electrical safety by accident."
ATBCharles Kincaid
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A dark background with white or light letters is best for the visually impaired, because you see light, not dark.
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