Embarrassing problem :/

[Deadnala]

Finaly a reason to get rid of that poststamp size screen imo...

 

[Tom]

Well the effect I'm trying to describe is proximity effect. Kind of like a set of headphones. Turn them up to max volume, and they sound pretty quiet. Put them on your head, and they're deafening. Take an omnidirectional mic. Shout into it at 10 paces, very quiet. Step up to it and shout, and you get oodles of signal (not all microphones behave in this manner).

Isn't it the same with magnetic recording systems? A very strong localised magnetic field?

 

[granny]

granny, try working late one night.... find someone who has left their uber magnet out.

Swap your monitor with that one, and place uber magnet near the knackered monitor... and turn it on..... when they come in the next day, they'll think they left it there.... and broke the monitor themselves.

you have working monitor.... someone else gets the rap.... problem solved? (if it works)

Great idea however the only other person in the building with the same monitor as mine is Debbie, the girl with the drawer full of now-blank floppies and she'd kinda notice if all of a sudden her monitor had the *exact* same swirly pattern on it mine had just 1 day previously

Most firms have audit data which registers the serial numbers of each item against the machine, which is in turn registered to the user, that way when something is lost or stolen, or for that matter found, they know who to thwap.

You've never worked for a University have ya Xav? Think "amateur". Think "completely and utterly unprofessional, disorganised and useless". Now multiply that by a large number. Bingo!

Well the effect I'm trying to describe is proximity effect. Kind of like a set of headphones. Turn them up to max volume, and they sound pretty quiet. Put them on your head, and they're deafening. Take an omnidirectional mic. Shout into it at 10 paces, very quiet. Step up to it and shout, and you get oodles of signal (not all microphones behave in this manner).

Isn't it the same with magnetic recording systems? A very strong localised magnetic field?

That'd be the inverse square law - the magnitude of a radiative effect is proportional to the square of your distance from it... I think

 

[Xavier]

That'd be the inverse square law - the magnitude of a radiative effect is proportional to the square of your distance from it... I think

That's the one, I was sitting here just thinking that, hit refresh and voila! granny beat me to it