win pc
i have a macbook pro laptop. i run boot camp on it cause i shuffle it back and forth to work which is a fairly pc-centric place. except all of a sudden we're figuring out that much of our work really needs to be done in unix. anywho. that's a completely different rant. today's rant is about monitors. i plug my laptop into the same screen every time i go to work. yet windows acts like it's never seen this thing before. it's actually worse. cause i want it to remember the screen and automatically switch when it finds it. but it doesn't. then when i unplug the monitor i want it to go back to the no monitor setting. i don't want it to "remember" that i set it to use a huge desktop. it emulates one by scrolling pixels on and off the screen as needed. damn stupid thing. course that's clearly too much to ask. damn spoiled mac users. want their pc to do everything their mac does. actually os x goes one better. it remembers that at work the laptop screen is the second monitor to the right of the big screen. and at home it's to the left.