A Wicket Diary

I’m used to working on a Windows XP box, and one of the first things I do is either install the powertoys, and especially the Open Command prompt here plugin for the explorer. This plugin basically does the following.

It allows you to navigate to a folder using explorer, and when you click using the right button on the folder, you are given the possiblity to open a command prompt box (dos box) with the prompt waiting in that directory. This is quite a time saver since you don’t have to navigate yourself to that directory using those dreaded ‘cd’ commands.

This was one feature that I missed after I started using OSX on my power mac. But just a couple of minutes ago, I Googled for “osx finder terminal here” and got to an article that specifically targetted my problem.

And yes: it works great! No more ‘cd’ typing, just open terminal here.

My powermac with ATI 9650 video card has a strange problem. If you look at this blog style, you should see a grayish background on top of a white background.

When I look at my blog I see just a white background. The light grayish background has disappeared in white.

I tried looking with other browsers (Camino, Firefox and Safari) but they give the same results: white background. I tried calibrating my display card, but that also gave the same results. My 23″ cinema display and my 17″ Ilyama display both give the same result: white background.

I also captured a screenshot from my laptop computer that doesn’t show this problem and looked at it on my mac: white background. So it isn’t some HTML rendering problem.

So I guess it is a problem with my 9650 card that I find hard to solve. Has anyone had this experience also?

UPDATE

I just disconnected my secondary monitor and now I have the gray background back! It seems that this is a power problem of the card.

And now that I have switched the connectors, I can use both displays at once without having gray problems. This really was bugging me for a while, so I’m glad I figured this one out. Lesson learned, back to work.