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I have unscrewed lights above me in the past as like you I find it easier to work without too much fluorescent lighting.
On a similar note one of the most useful apps I have come across is Flux which automatically adjusts screen brightness based on your waking hours.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I've thought about it, but it might raise eyebrows if I bring my 8 foot ladder into the office.
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Actually borrowed the maintenance ladder one evening. Cost me a six pack, but I disconnected the stupid intercom over my cubicle. Had to promise I would not fall  . Seriously, i have a phone. Email. Chat. You don't need to page me.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I have some fluorescent lights above my desk that really annoy me. If I could find the switch I would turn them off. I have to resort to wearing a hat to keep the glare out of my eyes. The worst part is they were off until I returned from a vacation and then they were on and I can't find the switch.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The environment belongs to those who work there. Managers don't choose development tools, developers do. Developers want lower light, they should get it. It's not unreasonable. I live in a mushroom cave now. No windows, hell, we could be hit by a tornado and we'd not know until we left the area. That said, long ago I worked in a place that had cubicles spread out across the prairie. Think acres of office space... I made the mistake of asking our VP if we could tone down the overhead lighting. Sh*t, you'd think Monty Python came to town. It got so silly, I took him aside an begged him to pretend he never heard me ask for it....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I like an early start, so I'm often the first in, and I never turn lights on unless I actually need them -- and I've got one of those new-fangled electric calculator/typing thingies to work on, which has a backlit screen, so I don't need lights on in my office, at all.
I also hiss at crucifixes, and hate garlic.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If the contrast between the screen and the environment is too large, my eyes are strained. I definitely prefer working in a lit, not dimmed environment.
In the dark season, the energy spent contributes to the (required, in this part of the world) heating. While you certainly can get more heat per watt using a heat pump, the energy certainly isn't completely wasted. With today's LED or high output fluorescent tubes, you can lit your entire cubicle for the same amount of power as the incandescent bulb in your old desk lamp. (And if you just replaced it with a LED model: The manufacture of the new lamp probably cost more energy than it will consume in its entire lifetime. Maybe even more than the energy it will save!)
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So I got the CP mailing where I can take a survey for Evans Data Development Network and thought I'd take it (maybe CP gets a few bucks or something).
First data entry page want an email, fname, lname, my position. So I fill them in.
Bzzzzzt! It rejected the email address because it was a .info . This disease of stupidity in input parsing seems to be becoming an epidemic. I notified them, via their website, that they ought have their surveys (&etc.) remade, and this time, to not use amateurs.
I hope CP at least got some coin for my click-through.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It rejected the email address because it was a .info
I automatically reject any .info email - only spammers use these goofy domains, in my experience. I've never seen a legitimate email from one, nor anything honest from several others.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I automatically reject any .info email
Roger Wright wrote: I've never seen a legitimate email from one,
And clearly never will.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Roger Wright wrote: only spammers use these goofy domains
Roger Wright wrote: nor anything honest
You hear that, W∴ Balboos? Get your act together...
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From His Lips to Mark Zuckerberg's ears.
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Ditto. And I add each new top level domain to the blocked list as I encounter them. I really don't need to have my gutters cleaned, for instance.
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I have blocked ad sites so could not even navigate to it, sorry CP.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Where is config.sys?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Where is config.sys?
Hey! You'a say'a da tings about'a da config'a my systa, an you pay'a da price!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Fixed typos:
Where's config, sis?
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Yes, I'm justified and ancient 
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Dos days are gone now.
No I do not need to be ancient as it existed until Vista from what I recall.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: Dos days are gone now.
The command line is expanding; look at powershell
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Check out the Q&A from the last week or so. There is someone in there doing development in MS-DOS and can't seem to be able to find various pieces of software that will work with it. Apparently he found a functional floppy disk drive though.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: Apparently he found a functional floppy disk drive though.
My last 2 or 3 motherboards lacked a floppy drive connector, so I couldn't install a non-USB drive if I wanted to. First time it happened I was disappointed -- I had a floppy drive that included a 8-in-1 card reader (drive had USB cable as well as EIDE), and I wanted to install it for the card reader. But stick-type SD-card readers are so common these days -- I have 5 or 6 sitting on my desk at home.
I have an unopened box of 3.5" floppy disks on my desk -- found it in the back of a supply cabinet. It's a novelty.
It's bizarre to think of 1.44 MB of storage compared to the the idea that 16 to 64 GB flash drives are so inexpensive.
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Very true. I have lots and lots of files that one fit on a floppy. They are virtually useless today.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Also, an autorun.inf file on a CD.
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