Re: Mystery of High Dimensions [NOT OT]

On 1/4/25 3:31 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 20:21:12 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

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Yes, makes sense. There'll be more corners and therefore a smaller
volume for the hypersphere. Interesting. But for some reason I feel I've
got other, much more down to earth, facts of life entangled with me.
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 The space in which we exist is 4-D.
 But for some idiotic reason, the educational system still instructs
students that we exist in 3-D space.  Only those choose to become
scientific specialists later in life actually learn the truth.
 

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For instance, when I boot and out of blue, nothing comes up on the
screen, but computer lights indicate normal activities, is it the fault of:
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 Monitors don't need input to be diagnosed.  Monitors have
buttons or switches located somewhere to allow configuration.
If the monitor is functional, those buttons should produce
a display on the screen.
 Maybe it is just that the wrong input has been selected,
e.g. VGA instead of HDMI.
 Get a copy of the monitor manual and find out how to enter
the configuration.
 

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Things of this nature. Hehe :)
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Doesn't go well with n-dimensional hyperstuff.
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 There is more to life and living than laboring for
immediate practical ends -- or at least there should
be.  Otherwise we are no more than slaves.
 Recreational mathematics is a fantastic pastime, and
GNU/Linux provides the tools for glorious exploration.
    

Monitor's buttons themselves?.. Hehhehh :-) You sure live in fairyland.
Let's see. I have five tomcats. Each urinates on it about five times a day, really each time they see me spending my time in front of it they must join in the effort. It's a social matter for them. That makes it 25 layers of urine per _one_ day, that all slide down and gather where the "buttons" of the monitor are, and get semi dried slowly turning into a sticky paste.
My monitors last 3, max 4 weeks before screen goes bad viaother routs that urine takes, but the buttons underneath it will much earlier than that become glued with 300 or 400 solidified layers of urine, and even hammering the buttons won't make them move. The buttons will get crushed by hammer, but crushed _in_place_ without moving!
That's my monitor's buttons, dude :)
This is still my older monitor I'm using, cause the new one I got on 31st Dec, when I proceeded to install it I found that it required a power adapter .. Hehe :) I guess that's why it was $5 less than other ones. It didn't come with its power adapter. The other ones which I didn't buy (and will perhaps, tomorrow) used a simple computer power cable. I have a box full of various power adapters in the attic and one might work with this new monitor. But that's another project.
But last night after having a nice hot tea, no sugar, I went and fetched the $12 9020 thing back out of the taped boxes (it's not just tomcats that urinate on them, it is the baby roaches also that go inside them - hence taping them). Looked at its back, it does have displayport receptacles. I connected it to monitor and powered it up (uses same power adapter that 7050 does) and screen does not come up. But 9020 also has a VGA port. So this time I went to the attic with a flash light (its own light is turned off - there's a short somewhere) and after plowing through a half ton of dust I got the box that I had VGA cables in it. The monitor also, of course, is old enough to have a VGA receptacle on its back.
And what do you know, the monitor works. So, loosely speaking, I've so far reduced the problem to either the monitor cable, or to my 7050 GPU. The latter doesn't have a VGA receptacle, only displayport and HDMI. The monitor does not have an HDMI receptacle.
But I can't still order a cable like Relf would. Cause the problem might be just the DVI port of the monitor and not the cable. So this matter is still open.
I'm writing this, right now, using the $12 thingy, but with the 7050's SSD instead of the HD that it came with, and after messing with "set up" when booting. For some reason 9020 changes the set up to "legacy" while this SSD does not want that. So each time I boot, I have to also manually remove the legacy support for it to boot up.
So what would you suggest? I'm sure it is too soon to order a new monitor cable.
But the point is, as I said, with such messes to deal with, who needs n-dimensional figures to think about :)