It works!!!!!!! I haven't been this relieved since the hogs ate my brother. Just connected the Acer 23" to the DC7600. Screen resolution is 1152 X 864. Whole screen is filled. Got the old 1999 Belkin power pad or switcher or whatever it's called on top of the DC7600 and the acer on top of that. Like looking up at the screen at the old drive in movies. My eyes are 28 inches from the screen. I can even see it fairly clearly without my # 150 Dr. Dean Edell specials. Probly a bad angle but I can jack my chair up. Teeters around too much. Right now its on W/xp Pro. Clicking the screen > properties > settings I moved the screen resolution button so it indicates the 1920 X 1080. So I leter rip and it apparently works just fine there too. Am using the VGA cable. There is a cd comes with the monitor and that has a file Setup.exe which I haven't used yet and at this point probly won't. Anyway as of right now looks like it will work out but there is work to be done, settings to mess with etc. linux to install.

There is a LOT of disinformation on these forums about on-demand tankless units, ESPECIALLY the electric units. First, energy cost savings is NOT a reason in itself to make the switch. No reason alone is sufficient. It is the total package, in light of your particular lifestyle, that will dictate the pro-con outcome of the decision making process. First, tankless units save space -- a lot of it, especially electric units that do not need to be vented. In Texas we have no basements, so that can be an important issue. Second, an electric unit is unlikely to blow up, unlike anything using natural gas. Third, there is an endless supply of hot water, which in a successive-morning-shower household like mine, is a really important issue. And finally, yes there is some documented comp fuel savings (electric tankless over electric tanks, or gas over gas), that is really offset by the added initial cost of the unit plus upgraded electrical service or gas supply line sizing. Moreover, there ARE full-house electric units out there that provide plenty of water, unless you plan on taking two showers simultaneously while also doing your laundry and running the dishwasher! And if that's your bag, you can run 2 or more electicals together. Or get a really big gas unit. Bottom line, nearly every nay-sayer of tankless units ignore the pros and focus on a single con - cost, cost, cost. Well, we all don't drive a Ford Focus for a reason. Some of us enjoy our Buicks, Porsches or Camrys even though another car would get us from point A to point B cheaper while using less fuel etc etc etc. Full disclosure: I have a Steibel Eltron Tempra 36 whole-house electric unit. Love it. My electric bill went up nary at all.

Lol, kitty had just been shooed off the dr table. I brought home a sample of porcelain tile tonight. It's looks very nice and goes perfectly with the dark bath cabs & is ok looking with the counter. CordovaMom, this tile makes me dizzy too! I've always hated it, but dh wanted the floors to be the last thing we tackled, so here we sit. Tile in the LR is perfectly acceptable here (and common), but so is carpet. Wood floors and laminate wood really aren't very popular, except with people like me who prefer them when doing an update- and the rare custom builds have also used them, but for the most part it's tile. If the layout has the LR or a FR separated, then that's more likely to get a carpet. I'll see what the real estate agent thinks - he should know what people want or will think when they see our floors. I'll carpet if he thinks we should, but otherwise I think we'll leave it as is...if we had the time to install new flooring (even laminate wood) ourselves it might be worth our while cost wise, but since we'd have to high the labor I don't think it'd be worth it. I'd rather offer a flooring allowance if it comes down to that. After all, we still bought the home like this and it's a much stronger sellers market now than it was 4 years ago. It's rare that any of the older homes here have had any updating at all, so I think we'll be in the lead somewhat...if someone wants to look for themselves just shoot me an email and I'll send you the real estate link. I'll take a pic of the kitchen tomorrow after dh has cleaned up his mess from working on it today.

Mary, I agree that we have been sold a bill of goods in thinking that we have an investment when we buy a home. It never really should be seen that way. The problem is, for the vast majority of us, it is the largest investment we have. I think it has been only in recent years that the home was seen as a way to make money, though. The run-up in prices in the last 20 years has led us to think it should always be that way. I know when I bought my first house, in 1985 in New Jersey, it was a fast-paced market. I know that home prices were accelerating at a few percentage points a month. We felt we had to get into the market as quickly as possible because of the fast rise in prices. We bought the house for $96,600. Then DH got transferred and we sold it for $124,000 nine months later! You know my story - remodeled the kitchen to meet my every need, including huge pantry space for my vegetarian husband and a dog paw-washing station at the back door. We never expected to sell. Then I got a better-paying job and Dad moved in with us, and my knee went kaplooie! The steps in the home were a problem for Dad and me, and we were just too tightly packed in. We went to an open house and ended up putting a contract on a house within three weeks. Then we needed to get the old house ready to sell. We tried FSBO, for six months, then got a realtor. We are now selling it with a two-year rent-to-own contract with a closing in August 2009. Our pricing probably had a lot to do with the long time to sell (17 months). We started at the price a comparable house sold for two months earlier. The market had not started going down, yet. We had an appraisal done because the comps were really not that comparable - brick 1300 sq ft plus a finished basement with a 2 car garage on a smaller lot with no updates to the house vs a frame house with decorative brick on the front with 1450 sq ft and a 1.5 car garage, completely updated, custom kitchen with over 20 cabs and a pantry, unfinished basement, larger lot. So we paid for a professional appraisal and then upped the price to $165k when that was what it said. We didn't know it then, but that was a mistake, because the market was starting to go down. Pre-appraisal, we had no MLS, no advertising, so it was only known to the open house attendees from the month of March that we had upped the price, so it was not too obvious. We lowered the price in June, and again in August, when we listed it with a realtor at $159k. We got our only other offer besides the rent-to-own last Christmas time. It was for $119k, and we had to pay $6000 toward her closing costs! It turned out that she could only qualify for a house up to $140k, so she chose her offer price where $140k would be halfway between our asking and her offer. We lowered the price to $149k this spring and it seemed to generate a lot of interest, but no offers! I found the buyer at work - she is a nurse at one of the nursing homes I visit. She knew she could not buy right away, so we spent about a month going back and forth about how long she could rent before buying. Once I did the math and found that our cost basis exceeded $145k before adding the costs to sell the home, we told her to make an offer. We have now spent a month getting the price agreed on. Now we are going to get a lease application from her, and if that is acceptable, then she will move in in a few weeks. Our mistake through all of this was FOLLOWING the market's prices down, I think. That and a single bathroom, which we could not change. We were on the top two or three of several buyers' lists, but never made #1. Our misconception of what our house was worth was also buoyed by the neighbor's house across the street. It sold for $160k last September and had only 1000 sq ft. But the huge, high mechanic's garage is what sold that house, and the against-code urinal and furnace in the garage helped. This sale led us to keep our price higher too long. That is the trouble with comps. Our house is identical to that 1000 sq ft house except for our $30k kitchen, our extra room off the kitchen, and our extra 12 x 23 room above the garage. He didn't have these things, but he had that garage. Why shouldn't we get a price similar to his? We has 445 more sq ft - almost a third larger home. The moral of our story is that comps can lead you astray in a declining market. You follow the prices as they plummet, and you lose. We have put $145 into a house that is selling for $139 - two years from now! Did we lose money on the deal? Sure we did. We also rescued a house that was on the verge of having structural dry rot problems and turned it into one of the nicest in the neighborhood. There is some spiritual value in that. We added value and lifespan into that home. The buyer is coming off a bad time in her life, and the nice home she will live in will give her some comfort as she rebuilds. There is certainly value in that. I guess you could say we lost monetarily in this home, but gained a lot in knowledge and karma. We learned not to do that again with our money, and to never say "never" (as in, "we are never going to move from this house.") when it come to plans for the future.