Your CRT monitor needs a degauss
#1
BEGIN DEGAUSS

*click*

BZzzzz

WOWwowWOW

ping!

*click*

END DEGAUSS
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#2
*push button*

BZZZZZROWOWOWWWWoo

shake shake shake shake shake shake

*click*

Done. There you have it, my degauss.<!--fontc-->
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#3
Menu -> Option

Degauss -> On +

+

Click

whizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
[topsy-turvy-bendy spectum]

...

...

...

Click

Option <- Menu <-- back to work
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#4
Search, search, where can that button be?

Oh, wait! LCD! No degauss for me:)

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#5
Quote:Oh, wait! LCD! No degauss for me:)

That would be true for me too if I were at home instead of at work :ph34r:
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Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and at the rate I'm going, I'm going to be invincible.

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#6
Don't have a degauss button. But there's a little plate and hole on the side that reads "Shoot Here to Destroy". :mellow:
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#7
*PLICK*

Whumm
Whumm
Whumm
Whumm
Whumm
Whumm
Whumm

-click-
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#8
*click*

WowWo..

BOOM

Fizzle

[Image: broken_monitor.jpg]*

:(


* No monitors were actually harmed in the making of this degauss.
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#9
BEGIN DEGAUSS

cla-chunk

whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

*ominous pause*

whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

clunk clunk clunk

END DEGAUSS




(wait, that was the floppy drive on my Amiga 500)
The error occurred on line -1.
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#10
Quote:BEGIN DEGAUSS

*click*

BZzzzz

WOWwowWOW

ping!

*click*

END DEGAUSS

Took about 2-seconds once I found it in the monitor menu. What does a degauss do anyhow? I never really gave it much thought.
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#11
Degauss? It is to laugh.

I have a flatscreen LCD now! :P

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#12
Hi,

Quote:Took about 2-seconds once I found it in the monitor menu. What does a degauss do anyhow? I never really gave it much thought.
Oh, no! You interjected 'serious' in a fun thread. Ah, well, the damage has been done.

Basically, the electron beams that paint the pictures on the CRT screen are guided by electromagnetic coils. It can happen that parts of the monitor will pick up a (semi)permanent magnetic charge. If that happens, then the beam steering will be off, leading to fuzzy pictures and even distortion in extreme situations (like at a particle accelerator where there are *big* magnets). To remove these magnetic charges, an oscillating current is passed through one or more electric coils, causing an oscillating magnetic field which 'scrambles' the magnetic charges. The same principle is used for bulk erasing of magnetic tapes.

Modern CRTs are shielded much better and are made of much better materials so that they seldom if ever need degaussing. But if you want to see some of the effects of stray electromagnetic fields on your monitor, just put a desktop fan with a plastic case next to it. If you're lucky, your monitor will look like it's on an acid trip;)

--Pete


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#13
Quote:Hi,
Oh, no! You interjected 'serious' in a fun thread. Ah, well, the damage has been done.

Basically, the electron beams that paint the pictures on the CRT screen are guided by electromagnetic coils. It can happen that parts of the monitor will pick up a (semi)permanent magnetic charge. If that happens, then the beam steering will be off, leading to fuzzy pictures and even distortion in extreme situations (like at a particle accelerator where there are *big* magnets). To remove these magnetic charges, an oscillating current is passed through one or more electric coils, causing an oscillating magnetic field which 'scrambles' the magnetic charges. The same principle is used for bulk erasing of magnetic tapes.

Modern CRTs are shielded much better and are made of much better materials so that they seldom if ever need degaussing. But if you want to see some of the effects of stray electromagnetic fields on your monitor, just put a desktop fan with a plastic case next to it. If you're lucky, your monitor will look like it's on an acid trip;)

--Pete

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