The Harmonious Programmer

I recently got a Samsung SyncMaster TA350 for my office. I was really excited about have a nice 23" monitor for laptop and have a nice dual-head display.

The Samsung have VGA and two HDMI ports. My laptop has DVI and HDMI so I opted to use the HDMI connection. I was extremely disappointed to the quality of the image. Text was blurry / fuzzy and I got it slightly better by changing the subpixel settings in my OS and messing with the options in the OSD on the Samsung. I confirmed that the output was 1920 x 1080 however things just didn't look the best.

There are two tricks to getting great output to your Samsung.

I did some research and opted to buy a DVI to HDMI cable. DVI is just subset of the features of HDMI so cables are less thatn $10. Using this cable improved things a lot.
You need to tell the Samsung that you have a computer connected to it. It is not intuitative at all but it's simple. (Just be sure that your cable is connected to HDMI port 1).

Press the "Source" button on the remote.
Scroll to HDMI/DVI 1
Press the "Tools" button on the remote
Select "Edit Name"
Scroll and select "DVI PC" from the list of inputs in the menu and confirm

Voila! You should have crisp text / fonts on your Samsung. I wish that Samsung had this in their manual.

Where did you get those URLs? The fuseboxframework.com domains are going
away soon (because no one in the Fusebox community was interested in
taking them on - and they expire in two weeks).

via groups.google.com (a comment by Sean Corfield)

This is in reference the domain being used by the what appears to be the "defunct" FuseNG project that forked from the Fusebox project. While these aren't the main fusebox.org domains, this prompted me to look at the status of the main Fusebox project.

I was surprised to learn that the last stable release for Fusebox was in March 2008 (version 5.5.1). Has it really been that long? It will be 2.5 years ago in just about a month or so without a release is stunning. Time flies. Also, I quickly checked the Fusebox Trac site. Only one new ticket other than spam tickets has been filed or commented on in the past 6 months and that one ticket is just a question on syntax (it should have been sent to a list). What is the state of Fusebox these days? Is TeraTech really "driving Fusebox forward and you can expect to see major improvements to the web site and the documentation in due course"? I don't see evidence of it on the site.

What really saddens me is the state of the CFML community. Have people not learned to pitch in and help their open source projects? Clearly not because there is still the glut of new one-man projects that never leave the ground or barely hover. CFML community members need to band to together instead of re-inventing the wheel. They need to learn to contribute (which I'd say that 99.9% of them do not) and realize that there is only a handful of people contributing to their open source project of choice. You don't have to pay for software with money; you can pay with your time, talent and expertise. Contributing does not always mean code but help on lists, documentation, sample applications, etc. There are so many things to do on open source project other than the next generation of code.

This is a call to arms! If you use open source, donate some time back to it or you might sadly find yourself with a defunct project and no maintainer there to help you. The great news is you can save yourself by contributing your time now. I urge all CFMLers to donate just 30 minutes a week to ONE project of your choice (if you don't know what to do, contact the maintainers -- I'm sure they have a laundry list of things to do). Just 2 hours a month would change the state of affairs in the CFML community and propel our language forward.

Samsung SyncMaster TA350 - Fix Fuzzy or Blurry Text and Fonts

FuseboxFramework.com Domains Are Going Away Soon...

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