By pressing those, it would cycle through the different ways that an external monitor could be used: On my older Dells, it was a blue “Fn” key used with a key that had a little blue diagram of a monitor on it. I can’t even tell you what it would be because it varies from one manufacturer to another. Normally, on older computers, there was a magical key sequence, usually involving a function key or a manufacturer specific “Fn” key and one of the other keys on the keyboard. You actually have to take extra steps to turn it on. In general, that external monitor port is usually not turned on. There are a couple of additional steps that might be necessary, beyond just plugging in the monitor. The problem is that the external monitor doesn’t show anything. One of the very common approaches to try and work around that until it gets fixed or replaced is to connect to an external monitor. In other words, you can’t see what’s on your computer. The scenario is this: you have something like a laptop whose screen has failed. I get a number of questions like this from time to time. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to is actually an example question.
If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. The IRS repeatedly puts the word out that it will never initiate contact with taxpayers by e-mail to request personal or financial information.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
"Phishing." This is a method of identity theft in which an unsolicited e-mail or a fake website lures people to provide personal and financial information. In some cases, tax officials are reminding Americans not to try to cheat the US Treasury out of money that is owed, such as by making "frivolous" (and illegal) arguments when filing your return.īut the IRS is also reminding taxpayers to watch out for scammers poaching for victims, especially during tax-filing season.ġ. The computer problem is making news headlines, coincidentally, just as the IRS has released an annual list of computer scams – from outside the IRS – that taxpayers should be wary of. "The IRS apologizes for any inconvenience and will provide updated information as soon as possible."
My optiquest monitor glitch update#
"The IRS is taking steps to update information so that Where's My Refund has current information," the agency said in its online message.
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