Yeah is it really bothering him that much? Yes someone had to play this card, but.... is she ugly? Does he have a lover? otherwise tell him to go for it. How many Slashdot readers out there never get laid. Here he could do two justices to himself. Get some and get work. I wholey honor job security. So tell your friend if he can stand doing it, then quit griping and diddle the boss. I would.
I agree, I work on Arcade machines and I hate working on monitors because of the danger involved. One must always remember a few things.
1) DISCHARGE THE MONITOR FIRST!
2) It's 1000v per inch diagonal. Thus, 19" Monitor = 19000v.
3) Local Static electricity in the air can recharge the tube, especialy when it has been sitting for a while. Never think that because a monitor hasn't been turned on in a few months that it is safe.
4) If you don't know what you are doing, then don't as it might kill you.
I have a set up were I like to watch movies on one machine, have my mp3 database on another, and e-mail on another. Yes i do like to here my mail application make a faint beep so I know i have new mail. So i used a 5 channel mixer, obviously for your purposes an 8 channel would be a better solution. One of these can be easily found at a pawn shop for less than 100$.
But to be elegent one day I plan to convert my KVM to having 1/8" heaphone jacks for each machine and wire them altogether to one master. That would include only drilling holes in the back and srewing in the jacks. the soldering to connect them all is very light duty soldering. This system would of course not switch the sound from machine to machine but pass it thru from all machines. But it is on the super cheap and relativly easy. Provided you have room in your KVM.
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Yeah is it really bothering him that much? Yes someone had to play this card, but.... is she ugly? Does he have a lover? otherwise tell him to go for it. How many Slashdot readers out there never get laid. Here he could do two justices to himself. Get some and get work. I wholey honor job security. So tell your friend if he can stand doing it, then quit griping and diddle the boss. I would.
I agree, I work on Arcade machines and I hate working on monitors because of the danger involved. One must always remember a few things. 1) DISCHARGE THE MONITOR FIRST! 2) It's 1000v per inch diagonal. Thus, 19" Monitor = 19000v. 3) Local Static electricity in the air can recharge the tube, especialy when it has been sitting for a while. Never think that because a monitor hasn't been turned on in a few months that it is safe. 4) If you don't know what you are doing, then don't as it might kill you.
I have a set up were I like to watch movies on one machine, have my mp3 database on another, and e-mail on another. Yes i do like to here my mail application make a faint beep so I know i have new mail. So i used a 5 channel mixer, obviously for your purposes an 8 channel would be a better solution. One of these can be easily found at a pawn shop for less than 100$. But to be elegent one day I plan to convert my KVM to having 1/8" heaphone jacks for each machine and wire them altogether to one master. That would include only drilling holes in the back and srewing in the jacks. the soldering to connect them all is very light duty soldering. This system would of course not switch the sound from machine to machine but pass it thru from all machines. But it is on the super cheap and relativly easy. Provided you have room in your KVM.