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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:19:33PM -0700, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:� �Call me a bad hacker or not hacker at all -- I hate black
\> The \*only\* thing I find "ugly" about it is that it doesn't have a
\> white-on-black color scheme. �Look at any hacker console and you won't find
\> a white screen.
backgrounds. My windows are always black-on-lightgrey, sometimes on dark
grey, never black. I have been spending 16 hours a day at the screen for
last 25 years -- and never understood black background.
Lol, funny. �It takes energy to display a phosphor, but none for black. �So I don't know how it could be harder for the eyes. �Plus, it's "hacker nostalgia" for me, going back to assembler and BASIC on an Apple II. �But I think this thread discussion happened decades ago.
Mark