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Most monitors come default which INSANE levels of brightness, the FIRST thing to do is lower the displays brightness. If you don't know how, then look up your monitor on the Internet and figure out what all the buttons do. Your monitor should NOT be brighter than the things around you if you are in a well lit room. If it IS brighter than the light coming through your window on a bright day, then DEFINITELY reduce the brightness until it's the same brightness as things around you.

Did your room is lit by a ceiling fan light, but it's not very bright, this is NO REASON to have a brighter monitor. Your eyes will adjust to almost any level of brightness and ideally you'll want your monitor to match the dimmer lighting of your room.

I'd say its okay to use a monitor in the dark, it's not good, but just make sure the brightness is on the LOWEST SETTING, do NOT alter the contrast if colors are not washed out. If your colors do seem a bit faded, try reducing The contrast to 75.

The next thing is f.lux -- what? What's that?

f.lux is a,aging and sadly, very sadly, only 9 million people use it, and I think it should be mandatory on all computers!

f.lux tones down your monitors COLOR -- not brightness, which is why I suggest you find out how to reduce brightness FIRST, then install this program. www.justgetflux.com I recommend the beta. Please check out the beta, it's got really cool features, it will list them before you download so don't worry.

It makes your screen match your indoor lights at night. I mean if you look at a textbook then look back at your monitor, it won't be this totally different blue glow staring you in the face. It wil be the same level of "white" as the pages in the book --- this also depends on your monitors color settings (theater, cinema, and sRGB are the most accurate modes).

On the f.lux page again it's justgetflux.com at the far top right is a FAQ page, labeled "Support" if you haven't used the program before I think you should read it so that you know how to configure it properly, trust me it's not complicated.

You will need to adjust the sliders in e program so that they match your room, it may take time to figure this out but no more than 5 minutes,

Once you get it all setup, make sure the transition speed it set to slow 1-hour, instead of the default 20 seconds. If you have a bright mouse cursor, you can enable short mouse trails, or if you have Windows 7, enable the full screen magnifier set to 100% no zoom. What I have listed here - except the thing about magnifier (sadly only on Windows 7 and maybe mac, sorry I haven't had a chance to try it on a Mac yet) is listed on the support page so please please read it!

I really love f.lux and it definitely helps to relieve eye strain and get rid of the aweful eerie blue glow at night, and YES IT IS EERIE!

I have seen people texting.at night, and all you can see is this BLUE glow all over thier face, it's just completely un natural. If you have a jailbroken iphone ( LEGAL SINCE 2010 by DMCA look it up ) you can install f.lux on your phone or ipad so that you have a much better looking screen at night there as well.

I hope this helps a lot of people and maybe this will get stickied or something but some people think it's spam and get it reported which I still have failed to understand why, so... I guess they haven't used f.lux yet! Then they'd know!

I have tried lowering the brightness but... It just looks weird like it's not the right color

Idk if it's right but ... I think it looks like too blue or something... Can anyone help me?

If you use a computer late at night, go ahead and install f.lux http://stereopsis.com/flux/

If you are not comfortable with going to that website, how about looking at the following link to a picture file?

http://dl.herf.org/flux-ab.jpg

Try f.lux and PLEASE read the support page here http://stereopsis.com/flux/faq.html

If you have questions or comments please add them below :)

Ok so i have a spare laptop that i don't really use and i just got done reading

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuvNN...

That and it got me thinking

I don't have any knowledge regarding servers so i was hoping someone could lead me in the right direction to make a server maybe linux if you can

I just really don't know what i can do to get experience with severs so any help would be appreciated and i'm really interested in Linux

Thanks

if you are a Windows gamer and you really like Steam

well try out the Big PICTURE mode it is amazing oh but only the Ubuntu version has it

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/reddit-users-by...

yep just follow these directions in Ubuntu and you can use Steam on Linux

Valve is most likely going to port more games as well

also if you have no idea what Ubuntu is you can try it out here

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you?r...

and that link above will download Wubi . exe

the instructions are below

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-ubuntu...

Have fun

i'd just like to get a rough estimate of people who use Ubuntu on Yahoo answers

really if you use any Linux you can answer too that's fine

Yes it has been asked before but i want A LOT of answers not just 3 or 4 i want atleast 10 answers please

Well it seems Linux has some serious issues. yes it has a lot of different things going against it that make it less worthy to rival os X and Windows and i would just like to know what those things are so that the Linux community can work together and fix those issues to make Linux better for future users

so please if you have tried Linux is the past and given up on it, please state why you did and what you think can be done to rectify the issue

is qwerty an efficient layout it seems a tad bit odd because there is a semicolon on the home row just wondering if this is the BEST place for a ; < do you use the ; alot when you are typing i don't but other people MUST because its sold on all the keyboard so it must be the best layout available ... right?

also why are there not many vowels on the home row --- i use vowels all the time don't you

i am at the moment FORCED by Google Chrome to use QWERTY which is an AWEFUL keyboard layout ***NEVER*** was made to be efficient only to type """ type writer """ with the TOP ROW only to demo it's "ease of use " << there IS no ease of use on QWERTY and it also causes RSI and carpal tunnel syndrome and i just want people to be aware that there is another keyboard layout called Dvorak that is much easier to use

and my computer is slow and may have a virus