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I know tomato (firmware) does this - used it yesterday. Not all wireless chips in computers support scanning modes. Someone else said to check the "DHCP Clients Table" - that will only show DHCP clients, not static IPs configured outside the DHCP program. 80% of my network is static IPs that the DHCP server knows nothing about. `arp` can also help find network devices on a LAN. Basically, there's a lot of different ways to accomplish the same thing, as usual. How to Automatically Mute Ads on Spotify.
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Hearing the problem verbally over reading it as written may also have an impact. Sadly we're all reading it and already know how it's structured, thus none of us [that have read the article] could really have any feedback to account for that. 1000+1000+1000+1000+(40+30+20+10=100->misinterpreted as 1000) = 5000. Some people never pick up the habits and tricks that make it easier to do arithmetic. For example, when you're buying a bunch of things that generically have $x.99 or $x.95 prices, adding up the total is much easier if you round up everything to the nearest dollar, and add whole dollar amounts while keeping a second running total of the cents you need to subtract at the end, which reduces the number of fractional-dollar 'carry' steps to the final subtraction.
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Actually, in an ideal situation they should have the same calibration, but the specific settings to achieve the desired calibration would vary from device to device due to not only age but tolerances in manufacturing. Calibration is also only the first part of making custom profiles, and with dual monitors, each monitor would need its own profile. I don't get the feeling that Peter has made custom profiles, in which case I would still say don't mirror the settings but rather adjust them individually by eye as best he can. However, I think the problem might be that Lion is resetting everything to the defaults for a second screen, which would be a big issue that Apple would need to fix, especially for those using custom profiles. I do use custom profiles. I have identical monitors, but I am very aware that they're not identical in terms of performance. The All-In Desktop.
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