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on from the great-titles-from-non-native-english-speakers dept.
An anonymous reader writes "On the german Thinknerd-website i found some funny pictures from rooms where geeks and nerds are at home (hardware, hardware, hardware). Check out the pictures and tell us how your room looks like. :-)"
Yay slashdot, i guess i'll just look around my apartment for a while
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Agreed. Crap... we'll I guess I'll look around: beer cans, laptop, Seinfeld on the TV, unassemble stepper motor assembly, beer cans, random power supplies, clothes, candles, stereo, dishwasher, cat, cat, cat, cat toy, fishing rod, window, couch, chair, desk, desk, desk, VCR parts, motors, power supply, wires, soldering iron, solder, canned air...
Ack...
I need to clean.
I don't like to look around. I am now going back into introvert mode. Ahhh, yeah.... only the laptop screen exists... ahh... much better.
Re:Second post and...
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Anonymous Coward
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cat in geekroom is really a bad idea. Their fur builds statics pretty well and it reseted my server once when one of them jump on it on low-humid day. I'm not kidding.:)
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Anonymous Coward
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wow, slashdotted already? Geez.
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Anonymous Coward
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They also tend to crawl up inside of open server cases.;)
Not only that- but it seems that my cats favorite place to sleep is on my computer chair. And when I move her from her slumber, she quickly finds her second favorite spot- the keyboard.
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killthiskid
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Or on top of a warm laptop.
Side note, and definately OT... we currently have 3 cats in the house. Two are a few years old, but this year we adopted a kitten... and my girlfriend taught the damn cat how to fetch. I'm doing this as I type... with pipe-cleaners. Toss the pipe cleaner (I wrap it into a helix around my finger so I can get more distance) and the cat runs, graps it, and immediately comes back. A fetching cat. I'd be curious to see if anyone else has a cat that will fetch?
Yep, my parents have a little siamese cat who will fetch. He's not quite as...well, determined, as a dog...sometimes he doesn't bring it all the way back, but rather brings it part of the way and expects you to put in some effort too;)
How sad is this?
1. The site can't withstand a minimal/.ing.
2. We're here on a Friday night bitching about it.
And I've been pretty good about cramming my available hardware into the cases they'll fit....
Yep - I have one - he discovered this scourer thingy, and liked to throw that up in the air an chase it, and I discovered that I could throw it to him, he would run, jump, catch, throw, jump, catch, run, drop at my feet. And then whinge if I didn't repeat.
Back almost not off-topic, recently he discovered a toy koala that grips onto pencils, in my electronics room, and picked it up and played with it. I took it off him and put it back on the pencil, because I don't want it covered in cat slobber, so he went back to the pencil to pick it up again. Then I hid it in a jar, and he put his paws down the jar, and picked it out. Very skilled. So I hid it elsewhere, etc, etc, etc. Darn cat. Steals all my wire too. I lost some batteries, pens, and most annoyingly, a peice of plastic off a monitor I was fixing, then discovered him pawing under the fridge, so I looked under the fridge and found his stash. All, except for one button-battery! Probably ate the darn thing - he did stop eating for a week at one stage.....
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``I'd be curious to see if anyone else has a cat that will fetch?''
Heck, up until a few years ago, I had two cats (`Eric the Cat' and `Kitty:Carlyle') that would fetch. Originally it was the little furry mouse toys but eventually their preferred fetch toy was the little ring that you pull off when opening the plastic milk carton. (Nice choice guys. Much cheaper than the furry mice but hell to step on in your bare feet in the middle of the night.)
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Anonymous Coward
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i'm a mac user, we don't need no stinkin cases! i just keep it all in stacks, stack o hard drives, floppy, cd-r, dsl modem. the stacks are a more efficient solution because they are easy to search yet hard to crash . . . . . lol. . . and i don't go out on fridays, Saturday's my night
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yep, had one of them fetching cats here too. It used to chase those little balls with holes in them and little bells inside. we had (at my old place, where the cat stayed, and i didn't) a tile floor from the front door all the way to the back of this loooong house. we'd toss the ball all the way from the back (kitchen) to the front door and the bugger would chase it down, swerve all over the floor as it caught the ball (knocking itself into the door occasionally) and come running back with the ball in his mouth, ready for more. strange cat. she also did this crazy thing when we shone a light at the cieling - imagine a cat spastically meowing at something, but with the mute button on. didn't make a peep, but it sure looked strange. silly cat.
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Anonymous Coward
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Be careful.
"Each year veterinarians see thousands of cats that have eaten miscellaneous items found around the house, surgery to remove these and save the cat can run into thousands of dollars. Please make sure that pills and other medications, rubber bands, thumbtacks, needles and thread, jacks, toys, paper clips, coins, earrings, and any other small items are not available for your cat to ingest."
I have 3 cats (Chubba, RedNuts and Booga) and Chubba was me and my wife's first...he fetches...he'll even drop stuff on my lap letting me know he's in the mood now. It got a little too carried away one day..he usually wakes me up by clawing on my chest at 7 AM promptly. One day, he went out that morning, and he came in and dropped a dead bird on our bed..I woke up to a dead bird carcass on my chest....I was mortified, but I didn't get mad..I know that's his way of showing me love..it was a gift;)
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What are you doing in there that makes you block the door?
Re:Second post and...
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Anonymous Coward
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Selling dogs?
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Anonymous Coward
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Oooh, pictures! Wait until I pull out all of my most obscure crap and position it just right. Then I'll photograph it and send it in so everyone will know what an incredibly technical guy I am....
I'm just so wild, I have THREE monitors!
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Yeah, I've known a fetching cat. The poor animal was raised with only dogs as companions, which explains a lot.
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Neither my cats nor my dog fetch. Pathetic really... He is a flat coated retriever but is obviously not living up to that name.
The cats are new though. Give them time and I'll see what I can do...
The Turkish Van is well known as a dog like cat, including its love of playing 'fetch'.
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SatanicPuppy
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Heh. Yea, my cat fetches socks, preferably pre-worn, and stinky. Of course, about 1 time in 20 he runs off and dumps them in his water dish, which may suggest something either about his intelligence, or the flavor of our tap water.
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Yes definately OT.
Got myself a kitten, now nine weeks old. Taught her how to fetch beer caps. Seems disinterested in fetching other things, and her attention wavers much quicker then my parents dog.
From the look of responses I guess my little kitty's trick isn't as special as I orignally thought!
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I realized that my cat likes "fetch" by accident. I tossed his ugly orange mousie off of the couch mostly to get it away from me, as it is covered in hairs and slobber and particles of toxic matter. He persisted in bringing it back every time I tried to get rid of it. Now I _have_ to throw his toy for him whether I want to or not.
Sometimes, just to be a jerk, he dips it in the toilet before bringing it to me. Surprise! Soggy eau de toilet mouse! $#@@&!$
I'd be curious to see if anyone else has a cat that will fetch?
No fetcher, but my wife has hung a small bell from the knob on the front door and trained our cat to ring it when he wants out.
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>Anyone? Hello? Fetching cats?
Sure! Mine does... sometimes. Cats do what they want. If you throw something he sometimes takes it back to you... but usually, he becomes bored and start playing only himself with the thing you threw.
Yep. I have had several cats in my years and the only one I have left used to fetch when she was a kitten. Her prey was usually balled-up aluminum foil, but she would fetch anything similar if she could pick it up in her mouth.
Now she is about 12 years old and I think she has forgotten how to do it. When I throw something for her now she runs over to it, looks perplexed, and then comes back... without it - just like any other normal cat:)
My sister had a cat (who is now long gone as he died at a ripe old age of 15) who would fetch tinsel-balls and rubber-bands..He would bring them back in his front paw and hobble on three-legs to give you the item thrown.
My landlord has an Abysinian cat who will retrieve, come when called, and go in a kennel, ride in the car, and eat dog treats.. A friend of mine also has a fetching cat:)
BTW, one of my dogs that lives at my parent's house (a small Yorkie) loves to sleep on mouse-pads on the desk by the computer..
As for my geek room.. It is a total chaotic mess! I use a shack outside my landlord's garage that has my PC, telephone, and scanner, and misc crap of my landlord's which includes a TV, Printer, ancient Win95 laptop (that he tried to sell me!), phone books, lots of floppy disks, hard liquor, and tons of office supplies (and lots of cardboard boxes!!) junked about.
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My younger brother's cat fetches. Beads, mostly. I've got it on videotape, because I couldn't believe it at first. He also likes to sleep in the refrigerator (obviously they don't let that go on for more than 10 minutes).
A fetching cat? I must say, that is amazing! I had a cat for years who loved to catch wadded-up cigarette packs. I'd keep a couple of large grocery bags full of them in the den, and throw them high over her head. She could almost always catch them, but obviously bringing them back was beneith her dignity. So she trained ME to fetch... after the bags were empty, she'd sit and stare and, sometimes, verbally interrogate me, until I got up and refilled the bags. I was, after all, HER human; keeping those bags full was MY responsibility. I always wondered if she had a Union contract stashed somewhere that I didn't know about.
Hmm... well, actually, I drink coffee (no soda), I live with my girlfriend (thus no need for nudie-mags, I have real life), and no ISA cards. I threw them all away. I do have an open 90 pentium sitting on the floor right now, but not an ISA card in sight.
Sorry. =)
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I can't believe that all you people keep pets around. I've found that they just get in the way, and are a drain on resources. They like to stick their heads into your computers, and some of the cats I've seen drool worse than dogs. I like being able to stay at my girlfriend's house for a weekend, and not have to worry about the dog being dead when I get home, or my cat clawing up all my fibre drops.
wow
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Anonymous Coward
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holy SHIT.. first post AND slashdotted????
Holy slashdot effect Batman!
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bizitch
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mirrors anyone?
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Re:Holy slashdot effect Batman!
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Mark+(ph'x)
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slashdot effect?
more like a "SlashDOS"...
-- those who control the past, control the future. those who control the present, control the past.
Re:Holy slashdot effect Batman!
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antifuchs
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mirrors anyone?
No, my geek room doesn't contain any mirrors. Hell, I want it to be comfortable, not scary!
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403 would apply if the server wasn't too busy to reply. But,/.ing doesn't cause 403s, it causes a DDoS or 503.:-)
If you still have any of those thinkpads, drop me an email. I'm not too concerned about price, I just need a 233 or something. I'm in buffalo, and can probably give you a decent deal on it. If you have anything faster, tell me.
Not too bad. BTW, I noticed in your one shot (the big ass Dell box full of laptops on the shelf) that you seem to have a 1xx-series PowerBook. If it boots, you'll probably be able to get a few bucks for that on eBay as a collector's item.
I haven't had the privilege of seeing the target of the link in the main article, but if your link is for real, I can't imagine a whole lot beating that into the dirt.
Why isn't HE on the front page???
Re:Amatures
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You've done it. Now, once I get all the non-computer stuff ready for moving, I'm going to have to get all my computer crap arranged, and photographed. I will be the first to admit that I am in awe of your quantity - that is a metric fuckton of computers. However, it seems to be pretty homgeneous. Where are the macs, and the suns, and the SGIs? I've got to get a pic of it, but here is my current line of crap -
Sun - Ultra 2, SS4, SS10, IPC (2), IPX, Classic, LX, SS 1+ (3), ELC, SLC, 3/80, 3/60
SGI - Indy (3)
Dec - Vaxstation 3100 (2)
Apple - Duo 280, Duodock, Powermac 7200, Quadra 840, LC III, IICX
PowerComputing Powerbase 180
HP - Apollo 715/75, Visualize B132L, Envisex (xterm)
IBM - 7006, 7011
NeXT - Nextstation
3 PCs, generic - 1 Duron, 1 K6-2, 1 Pentium
Plus a shitload of old laser printers, monitors, keyboards, mice, drives, etc.
Before anyone asks:
Yes, I have imagined a beowulf cluster of those - I just can't do it because the wiring in my current apartment is 70 years old
I do get action - my boyfriend is a real sweetie, thankyouverymuch. Long distance relationships are hell, though.
and finally, the most important answer, why not?
Actually, a year ago I could have competed. Today it is still an impressively large collection of junk that I have yet to finish cataloguing. Most of mine came from public school & university cast-offs. I was able to sell a lot of it to buy other toys. Still can't walk in the basement, though. But when I can, I'll likely go to another auction and fill it again for $50 or so.
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If you let that stuff rot in your basement, yer a friggin moron. Its going to cost you as much to dispose of it as it did to buy it.
You've managed to make your basement a toxic waste dump.
When my office started looking like that (the excess was due to layoffs, upgrades) I donated all the equipment to a church who gave them out to students at an indian reservation in upstate New York.
I can't wait till the day you throw half that shit out. I will be with my buddies dumpster diving!
Re:Amatures
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How many chicks do you know named Bob?
And now I suddenly remember that blowjob I got on Hollywood Blvd. from what I realize was a suspiciously muscular "lady"... d'oh! Maybe Bob was her real name!
Re:Amatures
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Got any laptops left? I'm looking for a cheap portable word processor.
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Are you single? I want to introduce you to my sister. I NEED a brother in law like you.
Dude ! Serious storage issues !
I have some old gear, too, and I am going to donate it to the local school - poor student/PC ratio and a lot of the kids come from homes where the parents dont even have a job, much less a PC.
May I humbly suggest that you consider this option for some of the stuff which is hard to sell ?
Cheers.
Wow. You certainly get the prize for quantity. But when it comes to quality, well.... My dad used to know this guy (when I was about 6 or so) who had a house full of obscure and fascinating equipment. Old arcade games, bizarre ham radio equipment, non-descript components of every size, shape, and function, UNIX workstations, you name it. He was a *serious* hardware hacker and there was enough PCB in that house to build a city. That was back in the early to mid 80s.
I don't know what he's doing now but seeing all that cool equipment was one of the things that got me into computers. I remember being inspired to go out and subscribe to Popular Electronics and start building projects because of that guy.
Ever consider donating some of that hardware to someone who might actually _use_ it ? Some examples would be : - Schools - Charity organizations - Developing nations organizations / schools
I mean, rather than stockpiling it all, wouldn't it make you feel good if you knew you could help someone worse off than you ?
I will not be posting any new pictures of my geek pad, as it is currently ablaze in a three alarm fire after my website was slashdotted the AMD without heatsink that I was running spontaneously combusted.
They should really release those things with a Slashdot warning. -_^
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LOL if you are funning a AMD with out a heatsynk I dont think there is anyting spontaneous about its combustion:)
Well, what can I say... I guess I am the steriotypical nerd. The side of computer case is perpetually unscrewed and leaning against the tower. I have a really big bookcase for all my DVDs, sci-fi books and CDs. Got a log box 'o parts for when I need to make a connection or repair somewhere. I have papers for various projects and ideas spewn about everywhere. That's about it. I would have more, but this is just the stuff I took with me to college. The rest is filling another room at home.:)
Or, you can have the teenager's garage (carport). The place where stressed parent's put their kids and their computers.
Thats my idea of a computer room, all fast;)
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Free means no restrictions, ironic the FSF's GPL forces restrictions, isn't it? What's your definition of free?
Just a friendly word or two. Now imagine for a moment that room, cleaned up, only a desktop or two, and a single monitor. No networking hardware, no rackmount shit, no cables strewn all over the floor. And imagine that you bring your domicile up to the relevant fire codes, and repaint the burned walls, and put in some carpeting, or at least an area rug. Now imagine that you shower and shave (I know, it's tough going, but just bear with me here), and maybe even go to the gym a few times a week.
Now imagine a gorgeous woman having sex with you every night in your new, socially acceptable domicile. See what I'm talking about? That could be you. Just something to think about.
I know living in a geek-o-rama pigsty is cool and everything when you wanna have a Counter-Strike LAN party on your bare concrete floor, but you can be a geek and still have hygiene and a relatively normal residence, and those girlfriends will start banging down on your door. Then you won't need the 11 monitors and surround-sound pr0n.
Mine don't like me having sleep overs in the basement either.
Re:my room?
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So? Replace them with a small shell script. (One that doles out money to you when you need it and lets you borrow their car, of course.)
Re:my room?
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B f'ing S. You make girls sound logical, like they go after guys that have this or that, like a clean room or good hygiene. This is a fairy tale guys believe until they've gotten to know enough real women to realize they are at their core illogical beasts that spend their days playing with mens' minds because they know they can. Changing yourself to please women is the last thing any self-respecting guy should do. Geeks, be yourself. Don't change for any bitch, they're not worth it. If you need a woman, just be assertive and act like you deserve them, because you do.
I guess I'm not the stereotypical nerd. Lets see whats in my den....
Computer w/ Monitor & Printer (just one. Not five, not fifty, one) Stack of cd blanks Peanut butter Chocolate bar wrappers Fruit cup wrappers Approximately 6 black socks Weight bench Squat rack Stationary bike Freeweights Stack of video game boxes Two sheets over the window (the yellow face, it burns usss) Box of pudding Paper shredder Rollerblades CD Binder Computer books Various diplomas on the wall (mine + gf) Slippers that look like stuffed wolf toys Plastic storage tubs in the closet (some w/ pc or electronics gear)
That's just my den. I have a bunch of home entertainment shit in the living room, but most people do, not worth talking about. I also keep a few backup pc's in a storage closet.
In any case, I'm more of the stereotypical athletic nerd. I'm hungry now... mmm, pudding.
-- Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Carpet: check. One desktop, one laptop: check. Single monitor: check. No cables on floor: check. Carpeting: check. Fire codes: check. Shower: check. Gym: check. Imagining gorgeous woman: check.
Girlfriends banging down the door...where did I go wrong...
Now imagine a gorgeous woman having sex with you every night in your new, socially acceptable domicile. See what I'm talking about? That could be you. Just something to think about.
Well, maybe he doesn't like gorgeous woman. Perhaps he likes pounding the ass of some other gay geek? Or vice-versa? Or both?
Fuck that. The room is the perfect litmus test; keep it just the way it is. When you bring a chick in and she says "awesome" and starts identifying the different hardware in the room, bust out the ring and propose. Hot chicks are fun for a week or two, but they get annoying really fucking fast. Geek chicks are forever.
Own (pretty good) apartment, brand-new cool car, very cool and decently-paid job, inherent geekiness suppressed in social situations, good hygiene, ideal weight for height, aforementioned apartment not dominated by hardware. (Well, not *completely*. There's only two computers and three consoles in the living room. Okay, four if you count the GBA...)
Gorgeous women are still not queueing up to have sex with me, though. I don't think the state of the apartment makes a difference as they never see it. Damn, there's still that annoying 'personality' thing to sort out. Can I pick one up cheap on eBay?
a log book? and a geek? you must be way too organized for stuff;)
Re:My room?
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I could swear that said a 'big box o' parts' when I typed it yesterday... Odd. It's hard to misspell big as log.
Having noone to blame but myself, I blame/. The server must be screwing up and changing letters! yeah, that's it! (This also explains most of the new headlines)
and we have a new record...
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Zero comments, already slashdotted.
Come on people! *puts on Ballmer hat* MIRRORS! MIRRORS! MIRRORS! MIRRORS!
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That is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put!
Re:Mine Grammers Slightly Impared
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Give se guy a break, vill ya? He's from Germany, and as the old Bavarian saying goes: "Wenn ist das Nunstrück git und Slotermeyer? Ja!.. Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!" ("I may be from Germany, but unlike many Americans I know the difference between `your` and `you're`!").
-- "There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
It is as correct as 'what say you'. It keeps the verbs from being the last words in the sentence (but how useful is that?)
Re:Mine Grammers Slightly Impared
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"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
As already mentioned, this is a perfectly valid sentence. Re-take that 8th grade English class (the one in which you learned how to diagram sentences) or just read some fucking Shakespeare. Once you can speak a foreign language, then you can criticize people who don't speak "colloquial" English.
Just a few weeks ago I just moved all of my non-desktop/notebook PC equipment out of my room and into the hallway. Before the move, my room was well, very loud -- about equal to a small car engine actually, and very hot -- 15 degrees hotter then the rest of the house.
Since the move, I can hear myself think, and the whole level of the house is comfortably heated thanks to my server "farm" in the hall.
I consider it a interior decorating success story of the geeky kind!
Re:Actually...
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I live in Whistler, BC, Canada (Home of the namesakes Whistler/Blackcomb/Longhorn) and it gets DAMN cold, but my heater in my room is constantly off and my equipment heats it to above room temperature throughout the year. In the summer I even have to keep my window cranked open (2 1/2' x 3') I think I'm turning deaf because of the noise, but I only seem to use my hearing for answering phones, and I don't even like doing that.
p133 - Slackware 8.0 - adsl router/dhcpd/irc server (irc. l uddite s. ca) pII 450 - Win2kserver - mp3 server celery 1.2 Slack 8.1 - Desktop #1 celery 1.2 Win2kpro - Desktop #2 (yes, I have two of these, no dual-boot) p74 - slack 8.1 - ISDN gateway & print server pIII 750 - slack8.0 (& bleeding kernel) - Laptop (& wlan finder)
I can't hear a damn thing. My room's right next to the kitchen and I have 5 non-geek roomates. They're allways walking past my room and hearing a "hhhHHHHUUUUUUUUUMMMMMmmmm" coming from inside the door, but to tell you the truth, I don't really notice it any more./rant
this is an act(s) (orgy?) of geek masturbation.. as there is nothing they like more then stroking their own egos.. especially in a collective such as this one =)
dislcaimer: the preceding is the expression of opinion based on observations as a life long member.
Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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danamania
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Supposedly I'm partway there - but after putting a pic online - I'm told my room is just too tidy, and I have to redo Geek101: Coke cans and sticky notes.
damn.
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Jacer
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Don't feel too bad. I was mocked for drinking diet soda. I kept getting the maxim quote, "Diet Pepsi doesn't make you gay, it just makes you look gay!" at least as a girl you can drink diet soda, it's ok if you've got tits, but if you're diabetic, you still look like a fag!
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Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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You're disqualified, they're not real computers, they're macs.
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Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Anonymous Coward
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Let me guess you live with a chick? There's no other possible excuse for this kind of depravity.
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Anonymous Coward
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You're stupid, you little piece of fucktardin shit. Go bury yourself in the ground, you homophobic gay-bashing motard.
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Can I get a w00t for the Quadra 610? w00t! w00t!
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Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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I'm told my room is just too tidy, and I have to redo Geek101: Coke cans and sticky notes.
You also need to get a real computer. Sorry, but the tangerine iMac doesn't cut it unless you're a gay hairdresser.
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Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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sweet! and i thought that i was a hardcore mac collector! here is part of my collection: http://iici.no-ip.org/old_macs/index. html
long live the 68k macs!!
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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tangerine is orange. just in case it comes up in future when its important.
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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ok.. only on the 8/160.. but still../me tries to remember to actually read the links he posts
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Student_Tech
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"Diet Jolt - Double the Caffine and Double the aspartame" Quote from either Macs or HTML for dummies, I can't remember which.
But I do agree with you on the diabetic bit, although I have never noticed it, maybe I just don't hang around people who think that way. I would love to be able to get something larger than 20oz containers of Diet mountain dew, but there just isn't the demand.
Oh and my geek room right now is my dorm room, 10Mbit/sec ethernet connection (best out to internet ~4Mbit/sec), TV/VCR, DVD player, Dreamcast, playstation 1, and my computer which I hope to upgrade around christmas, all in about a 10x11 foot room.
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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C0LDFusion
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Well, they may not have been G4's, but the things came with easy expansion for a PPC or a DOS Compat. Card. Not only that, but after a bunch of software and hardware tweaks, plus a memory upgrade, it actually outperformed first-generation PPC's, even if they were running of PPC Native.
Not only that, but the pizza-box style was quite easy to put in groups. That's why the case was re-used on the first PPC Workgroup Server.
(I know... "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!")
-- Only in slashdot are posts of solidarity modded at -1 Redundant, while posts of antagonism are modded as -1 Flamebait.
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Tablizer
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"Diet Pepsi doesn't make you gay, it just makes you look gay!"
One is facing the annoying tradeoff of looking slim and gay, or fat and strait.
Too close call.
(Note, I am not saying being gay is bad, it is just not popular, thats all. It is like hating OOP. It is not evil to hate OOP, but people want to beat you up or fire you for some reason if you hate OOP. Go figure.)
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Jacer
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ok, i live in an apartment, a few blocks from ISU, got a yagi wireless antenna to get on their network (students are allowed access, so i figure, i'm allowed to get on, from my apartment too, right?) a 1/1meg dsl connection, my athlon xp 2200, ati raedon 8500 (128 meg) main computer, a dual 500mhz p3 server, a multimedia computer that connects to the tv for divx, and the reciever for mp3s, my two roomates have a computer each, i have a wireless ap with ssh for my laptop, and a 42" widescreen HDTV (LCD, non projection) when my room mates and i all chipped in for the tv, it was only $700 a piece! then a nice set of surround sound to go along with it. i don't use the isu connection for the internet, as i usually get 128k to the internet
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Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Anonymous Coward
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Real geeks use RISC machines.
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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Anonymous Coward
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This should be a popular article considering that geeks are generally socially retarded shut-ins. How about posting a how-to on how to go out, do stuff, and maybe get laid every once in a while. At least this would help the (pathetic) state of affairs.
"How about posting a how-to on how to go out, do stuff, and maybe get laid every once in a while. At least this would help the (pathetic) state of affairs."
You don't need to go out to get laid, as long as you have a phone line and the Yellow Pages.
-- God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Re:Typical
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Anonymous Coward
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One of life's sad truths.
Re:Typical
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Anonymous Coward
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Hmmm...
Maybe you'd like to look at a picture of my house?
Bet you would love it in there, all warm and cozy huh cool guy? You know that is where you dream of spending your days and nights.
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What my room looks like...
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cultobill
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Well, it's a dorm, so there's not much space. Computer, bigass monitor, bigger speakers, and books. 3 shelves of books. 2 bunked beds, and some stuff of the roommate's.
Ah, but to have more than 11'x10' of space...
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dust is essential
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h2odragon
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Re:dust is essential
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Anonymous Coward
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nice confederate flag you fucking racist.
Re:dust is essential
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frozenray
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Nnnnnnice cabling! You are truly a master of the art, props to you.
BTW, good thing your dog seems to rather largish: small pets and 10" AC case fans don't mix well. Actually they do mix, but in a rather unexpected and unpleasant (for the pet) way.:-(
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Re:dust is essential
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Anonymous Coward
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Contrary to popular belief, the Civil War was not fought solely to free the slaves. Get the facts straight. Anyway, Lincoln mainly freed the slaves as a political move. Reading some of his speeches that are routinely "forgotten," you can see this clearly.
BTW, Robert E. Lee thought slavery was reprehensible. He fought for the Confederates because of family ties and his strong beliefs about state rights.
Some people like to say that the Confederate flag solely represents slavery. Not exactly. It's all about states' rights. At that time, that included the right for the states to make their own decision on slavery.
Go to a Civil War reenactment one of these days. You will learn quite a bit.
Yeah, the Civil War basically ended slavery. Don't think, however, that it wouldn't have happened if the Confederats had won or tied the war. Just might have taken a bit longer....
Peace out.
Re:dust is essential
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Anonymous Coward
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and if you believe that...so why fly the rebel flag? what is the point?
Amoung some people today, the Confederate flag symbolizes their belief in the 10th amendment, which is largely ignored today. I don't fly the Confederate flag, but I know many people who do.
A good example would be federal marjuana laws. Does the federal government have the power to pass such a law under article 1, section 8 of the constitution? Some people say yes under the commerce clause.
The federal government way back when reconized that it didn't have juristiction over such matters unless it was granted a new power. Say hello to the 18th amendment (Prohibition), which was obviously repealed.
Unless Congress has reserved that power through a constitutional amendment, the states have that power under the 10th amendment.
The modern use of the Confederate flag is usually a symbol of this opinion.
What we need are pictures of non-geek rooms so we can get some inspiration on how to decorate our place in the hopes that the next time a female comes over, they don't run in terror from the sheer volume of Star Wars memorabilia.
Re:non-geek rooms
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Corvaith
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*raises hand*
There are females out there whose rooms look nearly so bad. Until recently, my bedroom was done in bright red with Mario border--the relic of my younger brother's childhood, I swear to god--and LotR posters. And usually a lot of soda cans, the assorted wires that go with my laptop, etc. Plus I have another room with my currently nonfunctional desktop.
It's all in disarray because I'm remodeling, but... geek rooms are completely okay, in my book!
Re:non-geek rooms
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah, instead they can cringe at your velvet Elvis pictures.
Take it from a chick - some of us find the Star Wars motif very sexy, and are hiding a room full of 'puters behind that closed door. Stick to being your own geek self, and you'll find a chick who will actually make you happy. Even if you try to disguise yourself with an interior decorating makeover, eventually the non-geek-girls will figure you out and drop ya like a rock:-)
You should display your geekdom so you don't end up scaring the girl away after she finds out your obsession with little plastic Star Wars dolls and your habit of talking to them when you're alone. The girl that likes you despite your geekiness is a true catch, don't you think?;)
Re:non-geek rooms
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Anonymous Coward
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My room walls are covered by network protocols and linux security posters, shelves full of Sci-Fi movies, Unix, electronics and programming books, two tables covered by computers, electronic equipment, boards and components. The home network spans from the main door to the other end of the house. I've a girlfriend too. Not a geeky one, but a smart sweet pretty babe who's proud of my geekyness and never asked me to remove anything of the above from my house. If I had dressed and behaved like the typical college football champ, pumping my muscles and social skills while doing nothing to increase my culture, maybe I could have 20x times the girlfriends I had in my life, but I'd never find the right one to live with.
Don't change your geekyness. If a girl doesn't like you for that reason it's -her- fault, not yours. Get a whore somewhere to feed your sexual instincts, and wait for the right woman to come, but never change what you are for any reason.
Re:non-geek rooms
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Anonymous Coward
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...that the next time a female comes over, they don't run in terror...
yeah right, like you ever had a female in your room. You're reading slashdot on a friday night stud...
All pictures of rooms look the same..
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johnty
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... when the sites hosting them are/.ed
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Just what do the /. editors do?
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fmaxwell
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tell us how your room looks like
How about if we tell you what our rooms look like? If Slashdot editors did any less work, the Slashdot offices could be mistaken for a hospital coma ward.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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Anonymous Coward
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It's also amazing how people can't differentiate between a submissions' text and a slashdot editor's text. Submissions are generally not edited for content, grammar or spelling and I think that is good policy. Somehow I doubt they received another submission for the same site so they went with this one. Also, the submitter may well be German or from another place where English is not their native language and the submitter may have thought "how" was the appropriate word. Today I've seen way too many replies picking apart submissions for spelling, syntax, grammar, or other mistakes. If you're so smart then why aren't you doing something better with your time?
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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danhoover
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Come on... the submitter is obviously German... do we expect the editors to pick on non-native speakers of English while sifting through submissions? Lighten up, eh?
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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fmaxwell
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do we expect the editors to pick on non-native speakers of English while sifting through submissions?
No, we expect them to quietly fix any errors so that the submitter is not presented in a bad light. Do you think that the letters to the editor of Road & Track, The New York Times or any other respected, mainstream publication are published unedited? Of course not.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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sharkey
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the Slashdot offices could be mistaken for a hospital coma ward.
Except for the smell. I bet a coma ward smells MUCH better.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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fmaxwell
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It's also amazing how people can't differentiate between a submissions' text and a slashdot editor's text.
It's even more amazing that there are people who do not understand the difference between an the job functions of a writer and an editor. One aspect of an editor's job is to assure that his/her publication does not have errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling -- even for reader-submitted text. And I was fully aware of the fact that the writing in question was submitted by a Slashdot reader.
Submissions are generally not edited for content, grammar or spelling and I think that is good policy.
I do not. Any reputable newspaper or periodical corrects such errors in reader-submitted materials, for the benefit of both the readers and the writers. Do you really believe that the letters to the editor of all major newspapers are received error-free as they appear in print? It is only when the publication is trying to make a point of the submitter's stupidity/ignorance that they leave errors in place, complete with the usual "[sic]" next to each one. If an editor corrects the work of professional writers, why should that benefit be denied a reader who submits something for print?
If you're so smart then why aren't you doing something better with your time?
Were I not opposed to ad-hominem attacks, I could ask the same of you. But to answer your question, I believe that promoting high standards for the printed word is a valuable way to use one's spare time.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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derF024
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No, we expect them to quietly fix any errors so that the submitter is not presented in a bad light. Do you think that the letters to the editor of Road & Track, The New York Times or any other respected, mainstream publication are published unedited? Of course not.
i should hope that they don't edit letters to the editor. if they do, they have to send them back to the writer and get their approval before publishing those letters. what if they mis-interpret what the original writer was trying to say? that would be libel, and they'd get sued left and right.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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Minna+Kirai
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promoting high standards for the printed word
I strongly hope that you don't send Slashdot stories to your printer! Please at least pretend to care about the environment.
If an editor corrects the work of professional writers, why should that benefit be denied a reader who submits something for print?
Because professional writers have an interactive relationship with their editors. There's a level of back and forth and of questioning. The writer almost always has a chance to veto changes before publication (and if not, then at least they'll continue working together, so he can guard against it happening next time).
But slashdot's submitters and "editors" don't have a collaborative relationship. Its a one way, one time process. If any "editing" to be done to the post (aside from inserting parenthetical comments and deciding where to break it off), then the submitter's words have been misrepresented.
In the case of this story title, the grammar-incorrectness may be intentional. It denotes to us:
That the targeted site is non-English, and we should expect similar minor translation errors ahead.
"How looks" is an archaic, poetic idiom. To "cultured" readers, it evokes romantic odes to the beauty of a comely woman.
This is an offbeat, funny story. The lack of professional editing attention tells us not to take the content too seriously. (In fact, the same goes for the entirety of Slashdot)
Regardless of the accuracy of those interpretations, they're between the writer and readers. Editors shouldn't interfere. (Unless they're paying the writers, then they've bought the right to have more control)
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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fmaxwell
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i should hope that they don't edit letters to the editor.
They do.
if they do, they have to send them back to the writer and get their approval before publishing those letters.
Untrue. The publishing industry would grind to a halt if the editor had to send back everything for the approval of the writer. In fact, most publications even edit paid authors without the author being able to review the changes. An editor of a periodical cannot afford the time to edit an article/letter for print and then send it back to the author for approval. Neither can they allow an author to hold the article hostage until/unless the editor agrees to relinquish editorial control to the author.
what if they mis- interpret what the original writer was trying to say? that would be libel, and they'd get sued left and right.
That's why they hire professional editors. They don't make that kind of mistake and, hence, are not "sued left and right."
I'm not making any of this up. I've been published in periodicals and know what I am talking about.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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Anonymous Coward
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Although I think fmaxwell is wrong (and intentionally antagonistic, a.k.a. trolling) about this whole issue of editing he is correct that papers and magazines often edit letters to the editor for content or grammar. My local paper specifically states its policy on editing letters to the editor and I would suspect most other publications do as well. However, the point is moot when concerned with Slashdot because both in its handling of submissions and posts it is essentially a moderated community forum, not a publication. fmaxwell would be better off going with news.com or some other service that perhaps may not have the same coverage or the community involvement but instead has a pretense of being a professional, literate publication.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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fmaxwell
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I strongly hope that you don't send Slashdot stories to your printer!
"The printed word" refers to any published, written communication, whether on a website, a book, a flyer, or a newspaper.
But Slashdot's submitters and "editors" don't have a collaborative relationship. It's a one-way, one-time process. If any "editing" has been done to the post (aside from inserting parenthetical comments and deciding where to break it off), then the submitter's words have been misrepresented.
Untrue. It is not a misrepresentation to correct obvious errors. For example, I corrected each item shown above in boldface. None of the changes misrepresented your words.
That the targeted site is non-English, and we should expect similar minor translation errors ahead.
How can we infer anything about the site based on the submitter's command of English? The submitter is a reader of Slashdot. Should we assume that Slashdot is a "non-English" site?
"How looks" is an archaic, poetic idiom. To "cultured" readers, it evokes romantic odes to the beauty of a comely woman.
So you feel it proper to evoke "romantic odes to the beauty of a comely woman" when describing your computer room? You clearly need to get out more.
Regardless of the accuracy of those interpretations, they're between the writer and readers. Editors shouldn't interfere.
Then I recommend that you stop reading almost all major, mainstream periodicals because the editors regularly edit readers' letters for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and length prior to printing them.
P.S. to moderators: Comments related directly to the presentation of the story are not "offtopic", "troll", or "flamebait."
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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fmaxwell
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Although I think fmaxwell is wrong (and intentionally antagonistic, a.k.a. trolling) about this whole issue of editing he is correct that papers and magazines often edit letters to the editor for content or grammar.
I'm not intentionally antagonistic or "trolling". I'm just an abrasive, opinionated person that does not give a rat's ass whether someone likes what I say. But I do appreciate you giving me credit where you felt it due. Thanks.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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derF024
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what if they mis- interpret what the original writer was trying to say? that would be libel, and they'd get sued left and right.
That's why they hire professional editors. They don't make that kind of mistake and, hence, are not "sued left and right."
I find it hard to believe that simply because these people are "professional editors" it means that they can't ever make mistakes in editing. Technical terms, jargon or slang may be mis-interpreted fairly easily and "corrected" to a word or phrase that means something completely different than what the original author meant. additionally the bias of the editor may enter into their "corrections", changing the whole meaning of the article entirely.
I'm not making any of this up. I've been published in periodicals and know what I am talking about.
i don't question your knowledge in this matter as much as i would question any publication that would go around purposely changing articles and misquoting writers without notifying the reader of those changes.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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fmaxwell
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I find it hard to believe that simply because these people are "professional editors" it means that they can't ever make mistakes in editing. Technical terms, jargon or slang may be mis- interpreted fairly easily and "corrected" to a word or phrase that means something completely different than what the original author meant. additionally the bias of the editor may enter into their "corrections", changing the whole meaning of the article entirely.
There is no doubt that such errors occasionally happen. Just as doctors mis-diagnose patients -- and sometimes get sued. Both editors and doctors must exercise due diligence in their work.
i don't question your knowledge in this matter as much as i would question any publication that would go around purposely changing articles and misquoting writers without notifying the reader of those changes.
Most publications do serve notice that they reserve the right to edit and abridge reader submissions. The majority of papers quietly fix errors of punctuation (e.g., "its" vs. "it's"), spelling, and grammar (e.g., "they has" vs. "they have"). If a reputable paper is shown that their editing resulted in a change of meaning, then they will print a correction.
Having seen what passes for writing by most people, trust me when I tell you that you would not want to read unedited letters to the editors.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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Anonymous Coward
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from the great-titles-from-non-native-english-speakers dept.
Did anyone care to look at what dept this came from? Give the/. editors some credit... not too much though:P
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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pgilman
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Just for the record, if anyone cares, "How Looks Your Geekroom?" is a literal translation of the German "Wie sieht dein Geekroom* aus?" It's apparent that the author did the best he could; he translated the WORDS, which is relatively simple, but not the GRAMMAR, which is a considerably more complicated undertaking. As a native English speaker who is currently learning German, I feel his pain.;-)
*"Geekroom" has no German equivalent, and is a "loan word," as etymologists call them. English has them too; "gesundheit" and "kindergarten" come to mind. I reckon you know what I mean ("reckon" comes from the German "rechnen," "to count"). 8-)
-- if i'm a grammar nazi, you're an illiteracy nazi.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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fmaxwell
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The phrase to which I alluded was not the title of the article, but was in the summary that followed:
how your room looks like.
Just FYI.
Re:Just what do the /. editors do?
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pgilman
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"The phrase to which I alluded was not the title of the article, but was in the summary that followed:
'how your room looks like.'"
understood. the purpose of my post was only informational, and not intended to refute your points. as it happens, i agree with everything you said in that thread, and as you see, added you to my short list of "friends."
even though the popular opinion of such things is low, i sometimes can't resist ranting about poor language myself - but i do it anonymously, to protect my meager karma. 8-)
cheers!
-- if i'm a grammar nazi, you're an illiteracy nazi.
I think the webserver is inebriated at the moment. I'll just have to look around my lab here.
I used to have a geek room...
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RobertB-DC
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... then I got married. It was an efficiency apartment, and all available horizontal areas were covered either with clothes (the floor and dresser), dishes (the kitchen), or breadboards, chips, and discrete components. My last project was a little quickie 555 circuit. I hooked it up to a counter and some LED's to make a simple bounce back-and-forth effect.
My new wife wanted me to make something blinky that would go around a license plate frame. I started getting nervous... that would be a Real World design! Then, we needed the table for dinner (what was wrong with sitting on the bed, I wondered?). And within a couple of weeks, I realized that having more than one room is a Good Thing... when we moved to a one-bedroom apartment, the Geek Room was no more.
But there's hope for the next generation... my 12-year-old daughter just wrote her first Visual Basic program today. You click the button and a MsgBox pops up that says "THIS IS BORING".
-- Stressed? Me?
Of course not.
Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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Luke-Jr
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Of course. VB is supposed to be boring. Try C or C&....
-- Luke-Jr
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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Anonymous Coward
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Your daughter is becoming corrupted. Teach her Python before it's too late.
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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ActiveSX
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C Ampersand? You obviously don't do marketing.
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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Zakabog
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I was just wondering but why "THIS IS BORING"? Did you ask her to write the program in Visual Basic, or did she actually want to? If you ask her to make stuff in Visual Basic because you'd like a daughter that is a programmer, then she's not going to get very good, she's just going to get very bored with it and give up. I really hope she decided to try programming on her own (although Visual Basic isn't a good thing to start with.)
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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Anonymous Coward
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I really hope she decided to try programming on her own (although Visual Basic isn't a good thing to start with.)
I disagree, I started with VB and I think it gave me a good very basic general idea of what you could do with computers. Then I learned some real languages and never programmed in it ever again (because of the principal of it) and I've lived happily ever after.
I don't think VB is the best thing to learn first, but it's not bad. It's really waste of time to learn anything remotely complex with it though.
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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honkycat
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I figured it was "this is boring" as in "this is a boring hello world program"... you know, a friendly little self-deprecating program
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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isorox
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But there's hope for the next generation... my 12-year-old daughter just wrote her first Visual Basic program today. You click the button and a MsgBox pops up that says "THIS IS BORING".
True, VB is boring, and harmful. Took me 6 months to get weaned of VB and on to a language with semi-commas.
Start her on something like java
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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Anonymous Coward
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"Took me 6 months to get weaned of VB and on to a language with semi-commas."
And what exactly are semi-commas?? I don't seem to have those on my keyboard, oh but I did find a "semi-colon";)
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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xtremex
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I have a 4 bedroom house..me , my wife, the 3 cats and my "lab". I STILL have my geek room, where I have all my servers running 24-7. One monitor for all of them....I have a kvm for when I need to see boot up screens, but it's SSH all the way! (Or citrix for that one lone Win2k server)
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Re:I used to have a geek room...
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Anonymous Coward
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It was a typo. He clearly meant &C, which is a C++ reference to C. Sort of like a homage.
Re:I used to have a geek room...
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zerOnIne
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i can totally relate here... for two years i lived with 3 other CS majors in a big old apartment here in downtown boston (well, "big" is relative to the other apartments you can find in downtown boston for under $3k/month)... anyway, this place was completely wired... we turned one of the closets into a literal server closet... we had Sun3 motherboards as wall decorations... the cases to those Sun3's were made into the most sturdy coffeetable I have ever seen in my life... our entertainment center was made from a pair of old Mac towers and a massive PS/2 server chassis... catV drops in nearly every room (mostly my doing, as i was the only one with a laptop) running over a 10/100 switched ethernet... 768k SDSL with 10 static IPs... a keyboard and an old laptop screen grafted into the living froom telephone "just because"... A/V cables running from the computer room to the living room... even our christmas tree had a string of 30-pin ram for garland, CDs, hard drive platters, and a NIC (plugged in, of course) as decoration... you get the idea...
and then, a few months ago, i got married:)... my wife and i couldn't afford much in the way apartment space, so we've got a studio... now, my wife is a geek, but not of computers... so as she does understand my desires for masses of computer equipment, she helps keep me in check... instead of using the rainbow of blue, red, yellow, grey, and black CatV cable that i had for the new place, i went and bought a spool of white at her request... this way, it runs around the edges of the apartment and "blends in" more with the white wall paint... the firewall/gateway is now tucked into a nice shelf on her desk, with the switch and dsl bridge up there as well... we've got (white) cable drops to my desk, the nightstand, and her desk... she even insists on keeping our xbox and gamecube controllers in a little wicker basket when not in use:)... we even bought a wooden rack for the videos/dvds/videogames, instead of the traditional "pile next to the TV" approach that had worked so well at my last place...
someday, when we can afford a bigger place, though... im' going to have my own workshop "geekroom"... and she'll get her mineral collection / craft room (dude, geologists are weird...)... but right now, it's a pretty good deal, and i'm slowly turning her into more of a CS geek;)...
MS Bookshelf 2.0 is a nice upgrade but it only holds Visual Basic manuals and pictures of Billy-boy
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Re:Picture from my home
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Anonymous Coward
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Your monitor is just asking to be knocked over and destroyed. At least it would in my house.
For God's sake Slashdot...
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Anonymous Coward
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I mean really, why the hell do you even POST articles like this? You KNOW damn well that you'll end up taking down their web server--and you did, once again.
So now, not only can no one see the pictures, the owners of that web site have to repair the damage.
Nice going.
Mine sounds a lot worse than it looks...
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Blimey85
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It doesn't look too bad... but the two main computers make it sound like a freakin airport in here. I wish I had a digital camera to take a pic. I'll try to summarize though.
Two desks. The main one has my tower sitting next to it with a 19" monitor on top. On top of the monitor is my Ximian monkey.. next to the monitor on either side are speakers. A sub sits under the desk. Phone, printer and a pair of lamps also take up space on the desk.. oh, keyboard, optical mouse and calculator as well as too many papers and other shit are on the desk. Next to this desk is another desk with pretty much the same setup. That tower is black, mine is blue. Next to that desk (that's my lady's desk) is a third desk that has been converted into a bookshelf. Bunch of programming/tech books sit on that. Then the rest of the room is occupied by various parts that I haven't found a use for yet. Several zip drives, cd-rom drives, a couple of dvd drives, sound cards, modems, God knows what else... yea maybe I should clean up this dump.
This is depressing... I think I show go get some food and quit thinking about what a freakin pig pen my office is.
-- How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
Re:Mine sounds a lot worse than it looks...
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I 'hear' that, man. When I started doing research to build this Athlon box, I was a little overwhelmed by the heat issues everyone was talking about. No problem for me - I bought a case with 4 120mm fans and the best HSF I could find, a Swiftech something.
But hey, at least the Enermax Whisper PSU is as advertised - I sure can't hear it.
Geekroom?
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Anonymous Coward
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Get out the Gimp.
Re:Why the Space Shuttle is better than the 767
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Anonymous Coward
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a midi keybaord, some psychedelic posters, my computer, lots of papers, a 32 inch televison on the other side of the room, a couch and a few chairs... nothing special really. I often swivel the chair to watch tv while I am doing things on the computer.
-- GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
It's hard to imagine the scale....
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NullStream
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It is stuff like this that makes we wonder if the estimate of us needing 3 earths to sustain our current level of consumption is accurate.
It's really sickening how much stuff we aquire only just to end up as pollution.
I've a friend or two with some hazardous looking basements full of old hardware and despite the fact they do not need that kind of excess they just won't quit.
It is just sad.
-- "Survival of the fittest Max, and we've got the fucking gun!" - Pi
Re:It's hard to imagine the scale....
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Anonymous Coward
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your brainwaves must be pretty fucking null huh? Fucking wanker. Buggar off dipshit.
Re:It's hard to imagine the scale....
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NiceGeek
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You know...that if it's in their basement and not in a landfill, it's not really pollution.
Re:It's hard to imagine the scale....
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NullStream
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Oh, they will be in time.
-- "Survival of the fittest Max, and we've got the fucking gun!" - Pi
Re:It's hard to imagine the scale....
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NiceGeek
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Then don't blame your friends (that's what it sounded like) They are at least delaying the landfill trip.
Re:It's hard to imagine the scale....
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NullStream
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Agreed.
-- "Survival of the fittest Max, and we've got the fucking gun!" - Pi
You have to speak up to be heard over the blower noise.
there are burn marks on the walls from electrical fires.
When people ask about heating in the winter, I just laugh.
six printers
two cisco switches
four routers
six servers
two racks
11 monitors
three workstations
two kvm switches
toeknring
and all the cables to with them
30 amps and not one mA available
carpet? I have a carpet?
girlfriend? no such luck:P
But here's what it looked like, with labels identifying the equipment: http://www.shre.ws/shrews/scitech/myroom.html
Re: First post moron, This is MY room...
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saskboy
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You sir "extrarice" [if that is your real name] are a complete moron. All you had to do to be ontopic was to say how many computers you sleep with, and whether or not they have Linux and Mozilla on them.
I sleep with 2 computers in my room, and one of them's a Dell. I only keep it because it makes my homebuilt computer look like a GOD next to it. If I had any more desk space, I would fill it too with computers, perhaps even a Commodore 64 to go with my colour Commodore monitor/TV that I have hooked to my VCR. I used to keep an 8086 Epson laptop around for emergency use with my UPS, but I ran out of floor space in my dorm room, so it is sitting at home with the parent's computer museum collection. [An unimpressive website currently, sorry.]
Alright, so maybe theres problems with caching the sites.
But has anyone thought of maybe a slashproxy? The proxy would grab the story links from the main page and store them, and just push all other data through (without storing it).
Dunno just how workable it'd be - but I'd subscribe for it.
sorry?
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Anonymous Coward
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We are not interested in how long your member is...or isn't.
WARNING!! PARENT IS GOATSE LINK!!
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Anonymous Coward
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Subject line says it all.
Make that: "0 concurrent users" now
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RobertB-DC
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I think the server tried to defend itself, but it was a losing battle.
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in/usr/local/apache/htdocs/thinknerd/html/pnadodb/dr ivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 108
mysql://thinknerd:@localhost/thinknerd failed to connectCan't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)
Poor thinknerd.de, we hardly knew ye.
-- Stressed? Me?
Of course not.
Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Geeks grow up...
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A room full of computers and related stuff is a lot of fun... for a while. I got tired of the clutter, the boxes of CDs, the old disk drives, tape drives, power supplies, all the crap lying around all the time. All the junk just got in the way. But above and beyond all that, I got tired of my room looking like a geek's room - I wanted something a little bit more... tasteful.
(When did I get a sense of "taste"? I don't know it just happened to me - I didn't mean for it to... honest.)
So last year, when we bought a new house, I claimed the large upstairs bedroom and turned it into my study/library/computer room. I put up shelves to neatly store all my books - not just the computer manuals, but also the sci-fi novels, the old textbooks, the old albums, the artsy-fartsy books, the Edward Gorey books, and all the other books in my "collection".
I put a black leather couch by the windows, with a nice wood-and-glass coffee table set in front. I bought a bunch of Ikea bookshelf modules with internal lighting, some glass doors, some opaque doors, and built a wall of cubbies to hold the stuff I need near me. I set out a bunch of knick-knacks, plants, vases, even a couple of antique radios. I painted the walls a warm brown color. I bought and set out a couple of nice lamps. I even bought an on-stage stand for my Ibanez six-string.
Best of all: the room has a big walk-in closet. In there I put the nasty old bookshelves that used to sit out in the room. On them are all the computer manuals, the archive CDs, the stuff I don't need on a daily basis. On the other shelves are all the office supplies: printer paper, spare ink cartridges, backup tapes, and all that kind of stuff. In there I keep the crappy old stuff I don't use any more, but can't bring myself to throw away: old video cards, old disk drives, old cables, wires, etc., etc. The closet contains the ancient 233-MHz pentium system that serves as my Internet gateway. It also has the two filing cabinets that keep all the family papers. In short: all the ugly stuff is hidden away in the closet.
I still have some computer stuff in the room, but it's just what I need and as neatly arranged as I can get it. The full tower PC sits pretty much hidden behind the antique library table that serves as my desk. My trusty old HP 5L printer sits by it on the Ikea modules. On the desk are just the monitor, mouse, keyboard, and telephone. I have enough room to open up a couple of books without having to move a bunch of computer crap out of the way.
The clutter and crap that I do need on a daily basis is hidden behind the opaque doors of the Ikea modules, so I can close the doors and hide it most of the time. I have to make an effort not to let the Dr Pepper cans stack up, but aside from that it's pretty easy to keep my room neat and clutter-free. I know this is the opposite of the geek ideal, but I like it much better than piles of computer crap and clutter. My study is a pleasant, even peaceful, place to sit and hack, watch TV, listen to music, strum the guitar, or just sit and read. Highly recommended, if you've got the room for it.
--Jim
Re:Geeks grow up...
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Anonymous Coward
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You need to go watch fight club again...before it's to late.
Re:Geeks grow up...
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Anonymous Coward
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Aha, I see I forgot to mention the beer fridge. Seriously - an old mini dorm fridge that, just for grins, I painted bright red. (OK, it's really not full of beer... it's full of Dr Pepper.)
Don't worry Jim. From what you write down, taste is the last thing that could be associated with you. Honest.:) I mean, black leath couch with glass table? Is there anything else that shouts more 'a geek lives here and BTW he happens to have some money...' Don't worry, you are still geek, just older:)
-- If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
Re:Geeks grow up...
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Sorry, I made a little mistake. You are gay, aren't you?
I know it's tasteful because my wife told me it is! But seriously - this is one of those combinations that sounds like it wouldn't work, but when you see it, you say "Yeah, that looks pretty good." The table is wood with a reddish-natural finish and an inlaid glass top. My sense of style is definitely eclectic, but please don't tell me I have no taste... at least let me pretend!
--Jim
Real Men Have Racks
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gnetwerker
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Real geeks don't brag about how much of a mess their Geek Room is --
Real Men Have Racks(tm).
I got tired having 10 PCs lying around on the floor. For real MIPS per square foot, you need a rack. I now have 4 dual P3 servers, 2 Cobalt servers, 2 480Gb NAS servers, and another 720Gb of RAID drives (along with the obligatory UPS, network routers/switches, KVM switch, etc) in 6 sq. ft. of floor space in a closet.
Wow! With the slanted, insulation stuffed, exterior walls, that room looks like it's in the attic. I don't know where you live, but my attic gets to be 110+ degrees in the summer time. And after helping my brother wire his house in Chicago this summer, I can verifiy that it isn't just because I live in the southern US. I musta sweat off 15 pounds wiring that house.
Where in your house is this, and if it *is* just below the roof (as it looks) how do you manage to keep it cool enough to run all of that equip?
-- Key to financial independence: Spend less than you earn. Save and invest the difference. Do it for a long time.
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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grytpype
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Re:Real Men Have Racks
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Anonymous Coward
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Um...what about the female population here?
Fuck 'em.
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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Anonymous Coward
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Damn straight! My work picked up 25 cabinets from another ISP that went out of business. We got them for $20/each, we called the manufacturer, and they list at +$2k. My office let me buy one and now it's sitting here in my living room. Whenever my friends come over, they think I've got a Tardis or something.
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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Anonymous Coward
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So do real women. The nice ones are even better.
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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Anonymous Coward
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Dude. You have a room with exposed insullation.
Um. You wanna die young or something? Put up a tarp or sheet rock over that stuff.
>>>So do real women. The nice ones are even better.
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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I don't know why, but about half of the residential outlets in places like Colorado Springs are installed that way - ground on top.
Maybe it's some ancient code, or I just lived in houses wired by lazy electricians, but it's QUITE annoying. Any 3-prong brick that's built to plug in and hang down (by gravity) ends up perilously balancing by its blades. Very ugly.
It's safer. A lot of places put their outlets in that way now and one of the electricians wiring a basement for some plugs that were on separate circuits did the same. He said it was the way people are doing things and not only that but if the plug isn't all the way in and something conductive falls on it, it won't short because it'll hit the ground first.
Cheepos like me just use a IKEA unit (u know the ones for putting ur stereo on and stuff). Atm ive got 2 PCs, my 8 port switch, KVM, DSL router and zip drive stuffed into it:)
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"What do you mean you have no ice? Do you expect me to drink this coffee hot?" - Random Customer, Clerks
Real men have one 17" flat panel display and a KVM switch.
-- If your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd murder you in your sleep
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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Anonymous Coward
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Almost as funny as seeing all that expensive shit and a linksys router on the rack. It's kinda like having a Ferrari with One wheel from a station wagon.
What are you doing with the RANE ? Is that a compressor or a gate or what ?
Scratches head... Hmm.
That's audio geek gear boy.... WTF ?
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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Anonymous Coward
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I took a look at those pics, and actually spoke out loud.
"I want a rack"
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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Anonymous Coward
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You can put a desktop case in a rack if you use a shelf:)
Seriously, servers usually come in free-standing (read: with wheels) or rack mount versions. If you have the free-standing kind and need to convert to a rack you can buy a kit that will let you take the innards of the server and mount it sideways on rails.
Re:Real Men Have Racks
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Anonymous Coward
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WTF is that rack 2/3 of the way up? the one with all the little knobbies... you stick some random piece of stereo equipment in there just to fill it up, eh? Looks like an equilizer or a synth component.
I know we've been over the whole mirror thing before, but It would be really nice if slas(dot|code) supported some sort of building a mirror when the message was taken from queue and posted to the front page.
Just a thought.
they don't run in terror from the sheer volume of Star Wars memorabilia.
I always wanted a Trek motif. Doors that slide open automatically when you walk near, a big-screen TV that turns on when I shout "Engage!", a captains chair, a young female Volcan communications officer in a short skirt. No, make that Klingon.
Then again, such tends to conflict with empty Domino pizza containers and Mtn. Dew cans.
ahem...that would be "on screen", not "Engage", please do not confuse the two. However, having a vibrating bed respond to "Warp speed X, Engage!" would just be too damn cool. And by cool I mean not cool at all, but nerdy, but nerdy in a good way.
-- Wax-Museum Fire Results In Hundreds Of New Danny DeVito Statues
Re:Beam me up!
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Polyphemis
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Want to see a Star Trek motif? Try and arrange a tour of Ensemble Studios in Dallas, Texas. (Ensemble Studios are the developers of the Age of Empires series and Age of Mythology.) I hear one of the presidents is a huge Trekkie, and that's why the both of the floors for the offices are decorated and designed Star Trek-style. Not just decorated and lit but the entire office spaces were built to those specifications. I mean, they even have a Holodeck! (which, sadly, wasn't fully functional when I visited.)
Seriously though, totally awesome place, incredible offices. They even have their own futuristic elevator and all this awesome mood lighting in these super-cool futuristic little light fixtures. Great big arches, huge circular swooping desks, TV walls, etc. Walking in the first time felt like I stepped onto a spaceship. Totally outstanding atmosphere.
I don't really know how to get in other than either knowing someone there (which I did) or going on a tour of there with the Art Institute of Dallas as a prospective student (which I did again three days later). Awesome bunch of people, great offices, great games, worth checking out if you can.:)
Re:Beam me up!
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Stinking+Pig
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what's the point of the doors? A true geek never leaves the room any way:-)
-- "Nothing was broken, and it's been fixed." -- Jon Carroll
This might be sad, but I actually know someone who did that.
His door to his bedroom looked just like a door from the origional series and even made the noise.
He had a touch panel on the wall that was behind painted plexiglas that set his light level and he had a captian's chair.
This was about nine years ago.
It took a while actually. I just took a series of photos of the whole area, arranged them in photoshop then took more pictures as I need them. The perspectives of course changed with each shot which made it sorta fun to arrange in a visually coherant fashion on screen.
Surely you mean "grammatically correct response" and perhaps even "smart-assed" or "smart assed".
Not to mention "so quick you had (or possibly 'will have') to slap me for it". I can't be certain on the last bit as your sentence is not grammatically correct.
Bitch.
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I am made of meat.
Why do we do this?
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Average
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It's in me to be this kind of packrat. It runs in the family. But I've fought it like no other. Life ruled by your stuff is no way to live. You have to think about it, store it, fix it, trip over it... etc. MINIMIZE!
Computing is pretty central to my life, so it's reasonable that it's front and center in my space. BUT, it doesn't overwhelm everything else in life, so it doesn't overwhelm my space.
I had the 10 monitors, 20 cases, 286 in the corner life. Eventually, I said "WHY??". Couldn't quite throw it out, but I stuck the approx 100 kilos of crap in the basement of my office building with a note saying "FREE. TAKE.".
Down to one desktop PC (dual-boots) and a BSD nat and filestorehouse server. That's it. Not keeping and buying crud means I can have good components. I don't need 5 keyboards "just in case". I have a Kinesis, and it's bulletproof. I don't have a parallel printer. Don't think I'll ever have another. Well then, I don't need to keep parallel cables, do I?
I think a lot of people, geeks and non geeks, could learn a lot from backpacking or bicycle touring. 25 pounds of stuff is usually enough. Really. Buy less junk, live smaller, and be happier, guaranteed!
Re:Why do we do this?
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I lived in a very minimalist apartment, bed, couch, table/chairs, very clean and simple. I eventually became so depressed I attempted suicide. Now my apartment is PACKED with countless boxen, monitors, spare hard/floppy/cd-rom drives, old burnt out UPS's, external modems, cisco routers, 3com switches, webcams, PCI cards, hentai dvd's, computer books, stacks of underground 'zines, cd-r's strewn about, a bunch of telephones, a mattress in one corner and tables covered with junk everywhere else, all kinds of junk. The walls are covered with giant full color Kogal pr0n that I printed up on the color plotter at work, I am now very very happy all the time I am also The Very Model of a Modern otaku-preevert practicing his preversions.
Re:Why do we do this?
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Personally, I find the ancient computers are still useful as furnature. Rather than buying an actual workbench, my work area is made up of 2 towers of old cases(3 ATs and 2 XTs on one side, 1 HP 486 server and 2 XTs on the other) with a heavy sheet of wood across them. It's pretty sturdy, and I've at times been tempted to chain all of those power supplies together and fire them up at once.:)
Sadly, most of my non-furnature capable hardware made it's way to the scrap heap long, long ago.
I don't have masses of pentium 1's. But I do have a couple of DECstations. I have a PA-RISC box. I run triple-head.
And those keyboards, "just in case", you don't type like me. Two days, and I killed the enter key on a crap keyboard. Takes about a year for me to destroy the escape key on a regular ergo. That stockpile of IBM Model M's comes in handy.
A lot of people here criticize keeping stuff. Don't say just that "you don't need more than XYZ". I've seen systems like my working DECstation going for $1000 on ebay now. Its a collectable. A 386 won't ever be valuble or particularly useful, aside from maybe NAT. And a stack of SGI Indigo's is pretty cool, if only for the penis-enlargement factor. But I could give a damn about my roomate's system with 5 NICs.
Oh, and one of the original compaq portables. We'd have an Osbourne if my roomate's dad hadn't sold it.
Nothing wrong with being a packrat, as long as you're a packrat with taste.
I see your point, but there also appears to be some kind of 'law', akin to Murphy's law, which states that after you throw away a usable component, you'll need it shortly after you've thrown it away.
Re:Why do we do this?
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I'd like to also point out how hypotcritical this attitude is as well..
Think about it: We expect clean and efficient code to minimize errors and bloat, but fail to remove its Real Life (tm) counterpart from our lives. I'm not saying that you should always be buying the latest rackount to keep up with the Joneses, but at some point all the extra stuff becomes clutter that should be replaced with something more efficient and manageable....
Has anyone else noticed a relationship between how a coder/sysop/geek keeps their room and how they work? Just a thought.
Re:Why do we do this?
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IIRCAFAIKIANAL
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Dude, you aren't a packrat. You can justify everything you keep (ie/ "I am rough on keyboards so I keep extras around" or "I have a couple of DECstations cuz their k3wl") but you don't just horde pc junk. I think what you said agrees w/ parent post.
Personally, whenever I get a new PC, I throw out an old one, so I only have 3 at a time (incidently only running one right now). I don't need anymore than that, so I don't keep em. And as for spare parts, I just have a plastic tub filled with em - if the tub fills up, I go through it and throw out the stuff I don't need.
-- Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Re:Why do we do this?
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I was the same way, now I have 1 laptop and nothing else save an external USB DSL modem. VMware gives me a complete testing lab for every version of Windows & Linux in a tidy package - it's more effecient too because I can cut & paste between the two. I haven't had a printer in the last year and haven't missed it. I find my 15" LCD screen is easy on the eyes than my old 21" monitors, but I may by a second LCD for multiple monitor support.
What is great is I'm very portable and can move without any fuss. My life is on my hard drive, and rented colocated servers provide backup and persistance with the world. This year I moved from the US to the UK and had no trouble. I can do all my work on the laptop. It's pretty nice to be able do all more work on the train and plane. I've been in 8 new countries in the last year and most of my clients still think I'm in the US.
It's total and complete freedom, and I love it!
Re:Why do we do this?
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a note saying "FREE. TAKE."
You can have some fun by taking a bunch of those notes and taping them to random objects.
OH MY GOD!!!!! I read your comment and somehow it inspired me. You see I am just a high school student but my little hobby has caused my to hoard away tons of computer equipment. Any chance I had to get free computer stuff I would take. I had two closets, an extra room, my room, and part of a garage just full of junk.
That night after reading your post I decided to start going through it all. I knew I would have done something about it eventually but for some reason, something got triggered in my head.
By 4 AM in the morning I had a hallway full of junk. Old retail hardware boxes, about 10 monitors, 5 or 6 cases, 8 motherboards, countless hard drives, cd rom drives, ISA cards, keyboards, printers, broken laptops, you name it - it was probably there. The next day my dad was just ecstatic since he had always been on my ass about taking over our upstairs.
We completely loaded up the back of our truck (almost got everything) and took it all to the transfer station the next day.
I doubt you will end up reading this comment, but I thank you very much for the original post. Now if only I could get you to say something about doing homework (which is what I SHOULD be doing right now):-D
hmm my room, i have a fair amount of deskspace although 99.99% of it is covered with crap (papers, homework, books, novels, computer manuals etc) and i have enough space for my mouse. My moniter is under a shelf thing, on the left shelf is blank CDr'sas well as a huge stack of CD's that came in paper cases (the kind of software you get free with a printer) the shelf to the right contaings books, lots of them, sci fi (mostly), Computer manuals and general books. AS i mentioned earlier the area to the right of my mouse is completely covered with crapm currently there is 2 hard drives, the notbook i use for my computer science dossier, some blank CDr's i bought last night, an empty spindle (ran out of that spindle last night and had to go and buy the currently almost full spindle) about 3" of paper, a C++ book, 2 DVD's.
TO my right (sort of beside the desk) is 2 CD towers containing most of my CD's (not including my binder). My computer is to my left and on the floor, the side is perpetually off for easy access (as well as slightly lowered temps). Beside my computer is my sterio which i route the output from my soundcard to when not using my headphones. Beside my sterio is my printer, a crappy epson bubblejet which i have invested about $600 in ink cartrages (gotta get me a laser) since i got it, aobut 12 times the value of the printer,
-- History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it - Sir Winston Churchill
In my college room, I had 2 modern PCs with 3 monitors, my roommate had his laptop. And we had an old Gateway full tower, and 13 SGI indegos with 21" monitors
-- I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
hehe, you got me. I'd be going out if there was anywhere to go but this bloody Uni is right out in the middle of nowhere, no local town to go to, no nearby city to club in. The 'getting laid' bit usually comes from my weekend trips to Sheffield to see my friends (and their friends:)
my dorm setup consists of a nux box, an xp laptop, 2 monitors, a 27 inch tv i can use as a spare monitor, and a shi tload of wires every where. oh, and then theres my roomates side...
The 'getting laid' bit usually comes from my weekend trips to Sheffield to see my friends (and their friends:) So what you are saying is you don't get laid at home. That explains it!;)
Luckily for me, the girl I met (and now live with) in college is an english geek so she had a bedroom crammed with the trappings of her geekiness (basically: lots and lots of books). My room wasn't much of a shock for her.
-- Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
I'm crusing slashdot on a Saturday night. I haven't been to a club since February. I got laid yesterday morning and was late for work, where I surfed slashdot for most of the day. Clubs are okay, but a good beer and Mozilla to surf slashdot with wins my vote any day!
Amatures ... indeed!
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ackthpt
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That's nothing. Honestly. My dad's been an amature radio operator for about 60 years and his entire basement is loaded with O-scopes, radio receivers, parts of analog computers, early digital computers, and manuals. Shelves and shelves of manuals. At least 4 workbenches and more boxes of electronic parts than you could shake a Weller soldering gun at.
I just attended the Findlay, OH hamfest for the 30th time (only coming away with a few odd bits and a working Elsa Gloria XL and a non-winmodem 56k) I think we financed Heath for a few years, as he's got several nice powersupplies, etc. and... we had one of the first microwave ovens in town, he put it together as a Heathkit.:-)
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Re:Amatures ... indeed!
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[W]e had one of the first microwave ovens in town, he put it together as a Heathkit.:-)
Okay, I have to ask: how many {extra|missing} body parts do you and your siblings have? Any special powers?:)
-- They that would sacrifice their.sig space for that cliched Franklin quote deserve neither.
You know you're a geek when...
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coene
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...your house has a bigger power generation & backup system than your ISP.
Re:You know you're a geek when...
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Anonymous Coward
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...you drool at the first mention of a foursome.
Re:You know you're a geek when...
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yack0
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that's funny. I might be getting the OLD generator from where I work (30kVA - replaced by a 60+kVA). Now, I don't work for the ISP I use at home, so between the 30kVA Generator and the UPS 2200 downstairs, I MIGHT endu p having more generation and backup power than my provider!!!:)
My geek room is... well... I guess I'll start from the door and go counterclockwise...
Two cardboard boxes full of stuff that my wife and I haven't looked at since we moved here. (Yeah, I got a geek wife... geophysics major, woohoo!)
Next, a SparcStation 10 with external 4-drive SCSI box and a 20" monitor.
A CD rack with an assortment of blanks, burns, and originals, no music here.
A Calcomp digitizer pad.
This spot is the first corner we come to...
My computer desk, which currently has my homebuild K6-III/450 system (which runs great, thank you) and a 17" monitor. External modem, zip drive, and tons of cables, running Linux.
A bookshelf with some cardboard boxes in front of them. These are piled with things like floppy drives and I think there's a Macintosh in there somewhere...
In the next corner is an old coffee table with some actual living plants on it, and two windows that you can see out of. Underneath is a UPS, a power strip, several ethernet cables and a couple pairs of military boots that I haven't used since I was in the Army.
Next in line is a wooden cabinet with a Cisco ethernet switch and an HP DeskJet on top. The DeskJet is plugged into the network via a Lantronix print server.
Then comes my wife's K6-II/350 system running Win98SE, on a desk. To the left is a flatbed scanner.
Next is a bookshelf with technical manuals and a shelf full of SCSI cases.
The next wall contains a closet that is inaccessabled, but is full of things ranging from spare circuit boards to rifles.
The closet is inaccessable due to a pile of stuff that I need to get rid of before my wife complains too much, but consists of
+ Several Apple IIgs's + More apple stuff + Tons of 5 1/4 inch floppies + All kinds of crap...
-- "Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
I stand in awe of all the uber-nerds on this board. I'm nowhere comparable to some of the people on this board (I've only got 6 computers at home) but I'd just like to add my two bits. I seem to accumulate hardware in any available drawer. I have drawers full of Riva 128s, Voodoo 2's, SB 16's, cables, etc. I've got a Celeron 366 motherboard + cpu combo sitting in the chest of drawers behind me (right next to a blanket and a couple of table cloths) and I've got RAM in random nooks and corners around the room. I've only been in my dorm room for about two months now, and I've already got a PIII-850, a PIII-667, and two 10,000 RPM Cheetahs sitting in the drawer next to me.
-- A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
A patch panel on the back of the rack, which has 3 laptops, an SGI, an Ultra 30, the 2u linux box and 4u freebsd fileserver, and 3 PCs (all over the house.)
- A.P.
-- "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
My office is a mess. It is better now, but at one point it looked like a history museum of computing in the 90's. Mac CI's, SGI refrigerator, UNIX workstations, Linux box, laptop, etc...
I'm not a computer tech, I'm a scientist.
My office is still a mess (parts for two new linux systems are lurking about), but I still keep one of the still working Mac CI as it has the what I consider to be the best Easter Egg in its boot prom.
One thing that I will keep is my collection of obsolete computer mice dandling from a hook on a wall. This is my new trophy case.
Perhaps I should frame this with some paper tape, linc tapes, and punch cards.
Re:WARNING!! PARENT IS a Bitchy little snitch!!
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Anonymous Coward
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I'm telling I'm telling!! Teacher teacher!!! Johnny is reading comic books instead of doing his biology homework!
Two-person college dorm combined equipment: 5 towers 3 portables 3 trinitrons 655gb combined hard drive space 160 unopened cans of pepsi
Re:Mein Geekroom
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Anonymous Coward
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One person in lounge.
4 PCs 2 laptops laser printer, inkjet printer, film scanner, flatbed scanner etc etc etc combined storage of about 1.6tb i scsi and ide raid arrays with fibre NAS.
Credit card people beating on the door...
Heres an idea ...
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Vilim
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· Score: 0, Redundant
Ok i got a crazy idea, it has probably been suggested already but why doesn't slashdot take the webpages obviously hosted of a 486 with a cable connection (ie not a website like the new york times) and mirror it BEFORE they post it to the slashdot world. The slashdot servers obvoisly have the capacity to deal with slashdot as all of the slashdottings originate here. Perhaps that is the better option instead of leaving it up to the readers to post mirrors, by the time any reader who has the means to post a mirror a good link is slashdotted.
-- History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it - Sir Winston Churchill
Re:Heres an idea ...
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Anonymous Coward
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Actually, thats in the FAQ. But yeah, maybe they could contact small/personal sites to see if they can mirror it.
Our basement and first floor of our building was and probably still is about a million times more crowded. We have WALLS of hard drives, WALLS of power supplies, stack after stack after stack of old motherboards and cases. Don't even get me started on keyboard and mice!
That's not to say there wasn't at least some organization -- there was, but it was always a little humbling to go down into a basement where the weight present in IDE cables alone exceeded your own weight.
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Man... that's the geekiest room I've ever seen!
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I planned on inserting something witty here but never got around to it.
Not much without the pictures, I know, but it looked like it was getting Slashdotted. Here:
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Mozilla's view source made that so easy, too.
The Site: In case it get's /.'d!
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Anonymous Coward
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How looks your monkey sex room?
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Anonymous Coward
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I'm sorry, my english is not so good. I am from Sweden or Germany - I am not sure where exactly. Would you be so kind as to show me your monkey sex room? You know - these place where you have the sex with the monkeys?
Mod me down if you like - I'm laughing my bag off here. It's funnier if you read it alound in an eastern european voice.
Re:How looks your monkey sex room?
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Anonymous Coward
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I feel like such a geek newbie, I have so little crap in my room. All there is is one desk with a tower, 17" monitor, some cheap speakers, plus my random accessories (i.e. old 4x CD-RW drive that I still use, my router and DSL modem, plus a fan that keeps the air moving around, and also the empty penguin mint tins).
I also have some cables running to my laptop, which sits on the floor and warms my feet on chilly days. The entire setup, even though it's pretty small, causes the room to be 2 or 3 degrees celsius higher than the rest of the house.
And then I have the box of CD cases, from failed burns (my HD must really suck, if I try and burn at 4x, I get a buffer underrun, LOL). There's also a sledgehammer in here somewhere, I used it recently on a full/sealed bottle of coke (boy, do those 58 cent RC Colas have "punch").
The only real amazing part of this setup is the power cables. I have everything running on 2 outlets, using 2 power bars. It doesn't even dim the lights when I switch everything on at once, though, so I guess I'm fine. Guess there's an upside to 145 watt power supplies.
I have this to warm my feet when it's cold - a dual processor Athlon MP and Cambridge Soundowrks amplifier. The heat from both of them together have been known to raise the room temperature by 6 degrees C.
ok, I should probably turn down the M$ hate a little bit. I do, after all, have 2 Wheelmouse Opticals, one for the desktop, one for the laptop.
Oh, that 2-3 degrees was taken before I got the laptop. The fan in it is almost definitely dead, so I'd imagine that if I started some distributed computing on it, and rested my feet on it, I'd be really comfy.
this is what I get !!!!!
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kaykay_2k1
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Let's see... I've sold 75% of what was pictured there at one hell of a profit (all on the books), and I've got about 200 new emails as a result of this post. I don't think I'll have any trouble unloading what's left...
You may call it crap, but a lot of people don't need cutting edge computing power. A certain gubernatorial candidate ran most of her campaign on my used hardware, with no problems. No need for a GHZ machine to run email and OpenOffice.
Re:Amatures - A total fraud - not his basement
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monsterzero2003
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I am surprised. This is obviously not a basement but some warehouse or junk shop. Get after this guy. Pictures are from some bankruptcy proceeding documentation. A Dead dot-com likely. We deserve better than tripe like this...(and we deserve better tripe than this...).
...Christ, I thought I was bad with 6PCs and 2 laptops! Thanks for this - I can show these pictures to girlfriends and family members when they question my sanity from now on;-)
Only 8 computers? I currently have 22 computers in my apartment ranging from a couple hp9000 boxes to sparcstations to linux boxes to windows boxes to SGI workstations and a mac classic and parts to build another 4 or 5. At one point I had over 30 computers running in my apartment.
Okay, so I only use 9 on a daily basis, but 8 of them are connected with an Apex switchbox, I have a public net, private net, and a wireless net.
I have some friends that are an order of magnitude worse than I am.
Yeah, your family has nothing to worry about.
Geeks do too drink diet....
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kati42
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Actually a number of geeks (meant in a very positive way of course!) I worked with one summer drank diet Coke. Which I never understood, as they'd get the chili-cheese-dip appetizer and Monte Cristos at lunch... If you're going to eat food like that, may as well enjoy the real thing!
(provided there are no medical issues such as diabetes of course)
Re:Geeks do too drink diet....
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Tablizer
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I worked with one summer drank diet Coke. Which I never understood, as they'd get the chili-cheese-dip appetizer and Monte Cristos at lunch... If you're going to eat food like that, may as well enjoy the real thing!
Excess fat and excess sugar have different effects on people. One or the other may be their primary cause of obesity and health problems. The medical community is fighting over which is worse right now.
IMO, diet coke tastes faaar better than fat-free food (like cake, crackers, etc.). Fat-free == MegaBland. It is like eating cardboard IMO. IOW, diet coke provides some satisfaction, but fat-free crunchies is the opposite.
Re:Geeks do too drink diet....
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Anonymous Coward
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Agreed. I notice that fatty food doesn't necessarily affect my wasteline if I am working out regularly. Non-diet soda and candy, however, make my pants tight... in a bad way.
Indeed
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Anonymous Coward
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I agree, except I don't think the tidiness is the problem. The problem is the computer whose different available colors are described by names of fruits. You know which one.
Then, the question you need to ask yourself when you meet one of these very special women is, "Does she like me for me, or does she just want me for my geek room?"
-- -SheWhoWalksWithToesLikeCobras
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Here's an 'artsy' photo of my room and my PC, Lara (haha.. who else gives their PCs female names?) from a few years back.
Most of it is in darkness (great way to hide the clutter) except for the vibrant colors on the monitor reflecting off screened sunlight. The two black towers next to it are Tannoy 632 Profile Plus speakers.
Re:Shadowy photo of my room
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Anonymous Coward
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Tabitha = desktop Gentoo Linux sometimes Win2k Samantha = laptop win2k somewhat of a Bewitched fetish... mmmm Elizabeth Montgomery... still need a big old fileserver to be Endora thou...
Do you suppose there is a way to rig up computers and their fans to the ventilation system so that the house can be heated while the web servers run? I mean, hey, there's no point in paying to heat your house twice as hot, is there? That would be soooo neat!
-- -SheWhoWalksWithToesLikeCobras
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Re:All pictures of rooms look the same..Parents.
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Anonymous Coward
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Well since the site is down, maybe I should post my links of naked hardware.
Site full of geekguys and we all whip out our photos like a bunch of parents showing off their kids.
Inside my geekroom...
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jht
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I have an old 3-bedroom house, but with 200 amp electrical service. Which is good, because 1 bedroom is for my wife and I, one is for our baby, and the third is my geekroom. I used to put photos of it on my website, but they're really out-of-date. Guests to our house either get a fold-out sofa or go to a hotel nearby that a friend of ours manages - they get a real cheap rate. We used to have a guest room but that's where the baby lives now.
The geekroom has two desks, two bookcases (tech stuff only - other bookcases in the house handle "real" books), and a big old metal shelving unit that holds a 16-port switch, three UPS units, a monitor, my Epson Stylus Photo, my current server (a little FlexATX box running e-Smith), a monitor, and a second PC that runs Mandrake and usually sits open because I'm always swapping stuff in and out of it. There's also a third PC on the rack that I just got - a Mini-ITX box that I'm going to run my server on because it's even smaller and quieter than the existing server. They're all on a 4-port KVM switch.
Then on the first desk, next to the rack, I keep my PowerBook G4, along with all it's gadgets (Palm cradle, Griffin powerMate, CF/Smartmedia reader, Keyspan serial port, iPod). I've got a Newton 2100 on the desk, too - I'm turning it into a web server soon and when I do it goes on the rack. My HP laser is on a stand next to the desk.
The next desk over holds my P4 system - I run XP on it and use it for gaming. I built this one over the summer. Wedged between the two desks are about 200 CD's that contain either software or backups of some sort or another.
In the corner of the room is an Athlon 700 that's currently semi-disassembled (I had to grab a couple of parts out of it for the P4), but used to be my gaming rig. Finally, the geekroom has some space allocated for short-term comic book storage. My workbench is in the cellar, along with virtually all my tools and the bulk of my comics (I built a moisture-controlled storage closet down there).
Geeky, but non-tech items in the geekroom include all my photo gear and slides, a small collection of stuffed toys, a 30-year-old (but still working) shortwave receiver, and a bass guitar.
Currently out on loan to my office is my Athlon 650 that I run Solaris X86 on. I'm testing some stuff for work on it, and it was handy to grab. We also have two other computers in the house - my wife has an iMac widescreen that she keeps on a small desk in our bedroom, and I have a hacked iOpener that we keep in the basement. Also in the basement are the DSL modem and my router.
This sounds worse than it is, though - my one geekroom is a disaster, admittedly, but the rest of the house looks like Martha freaking Stewart had her way with it. It's a good arrangement. I don't interfere with the rest of the house, and I'm allowed my one room to do as I see fit.
Unless, of course, we have another child, in which case my butt is banished to the basement. Good thing we had it finished this past winter...
--
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
They need to turn their webcam away from the wall
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ApharmdB
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I think the wallpaper in my room looks a lot better than theirs:
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I think that pattern would cause some serious eyestrain.
Nerd-vanna
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Anonymous Coward
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Describe my geek room? Ok but then I have to kill you. Seriously, lets see on one side is the futon (cheap metal and black cloth) then my work desk (4 Macs:7350 dual 180 running BeOS 5, G3(400) tower (beige) running suse 7.3, 7600 (G3 500) running 9.2.2 (had to install manually, and a QS 2002 dual 1ghz (10.2 server) then there are 2 web pads (crusoe), router, Ibsd firewall, 2 PCs ( dual athlon 2ghz and an athlon 1.3 media system ( win2k adv serv and win 2k serv respectively)having rounded the corner is my stained glass workstation and soldring area the the closet and exit door. Continuing around the room comes the wall-o-anime(TM)bathroom door then an 87 year old blanket chest holding my pitifully small 27 inch TV and DVD players and finally teh trademark comfy chair. all of this in a 10X12 room.. needless to say it gets hot in there.
The heat from the computers automatically adds to the heat of the room, causing the heater to turn on less frequently, that's what a thermostat is for.
I dunno...
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Mine doesn't look ANYTHING like that.
Re:Amatures - A total fraud - not his basement
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utahjazz
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Not sure if you are a troll, but, notice that he mentions his involvement in Team Vodka Martini These guys were mentioned on/. a while back (I don't feel like looking for the article). Although he says none of the computers pictured are used in the contest, someone named Jerkychew clearly has a lot of computers at his disposal. I doubt this is a hoax.
My geek room over the years
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I always get a chuckle out of people posting to 2cpu.com and their signature includes their PC specs. I usually tell people about my stuff and either they think I'm nuts (until they need help fixing their stuff) or they mutter some obscenities about what I have. At one time I had 8 PC's running Windows and Solaris in a small bedroom. I have either sold the old stuff off, or given it to my daughter's school.
Now that I have a room with over 500 sq. ft., I can "stretch out"! I have two Ikea Effektiv desks with the following hardware:
2 Sun Ultra 1's (one Enterprise, one Creator) 1 Ultra 30 1 IBM RS/6000 7043-140 3 dual processor Celeron rigs (one for each member of the family) 1 HP LaserJet 1 HP DeskJet 1 Umax 2200 scanner
In the closet I have a Sparc 20 MP, a Sun 911 enclosure and a few SCSI disks. And for Christmas I am getting an Ultra 2!
I also have room for my 27" TV, two butterfly chairs, foot stools, large bookshelf and two file cabinets. My wife and daughter try their best to "trash out" the place but I always pick it up (it is "my" room)! It might not as much as some people have, but it still looks impressive!
Re:My geek room over the years
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Dude! You've got an HP Deskjet?! For real?
Talk about Uber-Geek! You are our new God!
Next you'll be telling us you've got, like, a $90 scanner as well! Oh, wait...
Tim;-)
Re:My geek room over the years
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nemaispuke
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You have to keep the wife and daughter happy (they like color)! I would just as soon get a nice PostScript laser with duplexing and replace them both. The scanner I kkep around for the occasional thing I want to scan (it wasn't a cheapie, but I just couldn't justify a $30,000 drum scanner). Th problem I have now is I am running out of desktop space for my machines!
List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikini p
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phillymjs
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My bedroom: Beige Power Mac G3, upgraded to G4/400, with 17" and 14" CRT monitors. iBook 500MHz Home-built Duron 850 tower dual-booting XP Pro.and 98SE (shares keyboard, mouse and 17" monitor with the Mac via KVM). Apple LaserWriter Select 360. MicroTek ScanMaker IISP. Series 1 TiVo with 120GB HDD upgrade.
My server room: Two Power Mac 7600s, both with G3/400 upgrades-- one handles routing/firewall/mail/file/web/DNS/print, and the other runs the house via all those wonderful X10 modules and other things. They're named "Guardian" and "Colossus," respectively. Cobalt Qube2, hosting the site of my friend the aspiring model (you might have seen her on Blind Date the other night). NeXTStation Turbo with 17" black & white display. AirPort Base Station.
Also in the server room, all functional but not part of the LAN: Macintosh 128K. IBM PCjr. Macintosh Color Classic. TRS-80 Model 102 laptop. Newton Original MessagePad. Newton MessagePad 2000.
Basement: Power Mac G4/733/1.12GB RAM/40GB & 120GB HDD/SuperDrive (being prepped to replace the old G3 in my bedroom in January, when my bonus check buys the two huge LCDs to go with it). Power Mac 6360, being prepped to be the backup server for everything in the server room. Sony external SCSI AIT2 drive, to be hooked up to the backup server. Homebuilt Athlon 750, used to test various equipment. Two whiteboxes in slightly less than operational condition. Two PowerBook 170s (one for my collection, and one to sell as a collectible). PowerBook G3 Lombard, semi-operable, soon to be sold on eBay as a parts machine. PowerBook Duo 270c, for my collection. Two 'platinum' Commodore 64s with 1541 floppy drives & 1 1702 RGB monitor. Two 3Com Audreys destined to become the control panels for the web interface of my home-automation setup. Coleco ADAM. Vectrex + shitload of games. Sega Genesis + shitload of games. Sega Saturn + shitload of games. Atari 5200 + shitload of games. Atari 2600 + shitload of games. ColecoVision + shitload of games. NES + shitload of games. Panasonic 3DO + shitload of games. GE DVD/CD/MP3CD/VCD player with region-selection mod. Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh coin-op. Zookeeper coin-op.
On loan to aspiring model friend until she can afford a computer: Netpliance i-Opener hacked to run Win98SE with an internal 20GB HD and cooling fan.
Here is what I like to call my "Shrine to the 80's". Visible are a C64 (w/1702 monitor), Apple//c, NES, and a pile of assorted cables, controllers, disks, drives, etc. All the computers and video game consoles (there are more off-camera) are hooked up to the monitor (not at the same time:P), so any attempt to pick out a given controller from the cable mess resembles a Japanese porn movie.:D
I'm really starting to have problems powering everything, right now it's all on a power strip with a bunch of 3-way adapters, but still not everything fits, and I'm probably asking to burn the house down.:/
There's also an obligatory Enterprise model.;)
And no, I'm not summoning elemental forces in there, that's what I get from trying to squeeze a 25th photo onto the roll of 24.
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Omnes arx vestrum sunt adiuncta nobis.
Re:My modest room...
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Anonymous Coward
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Just today, Pac Bell told me that they screwed up and installed my T1 circuit at the wrong address. If it was up, i'd link to photos.. but I just moved, and my girlfriend decided that having all of the computers in the living room just wasn't going to fly at the new place. Now I have 2 full 60" racks in my kitchen. They're right by the fridge, so I can grab beer while I re-cable stuff. In the racks.. 1 Power Macintosh G3/300 Beige Desktop 1 Power Macintosh 7200 3 Sparc 5/110 1 Power Macintosh 6100/66 wth a G3/250 card 1 Duron 750 1 USR TOTALSwitch with 2x8 10bT blades and 2x2 100bT blades 1 24 port 10/100 Foundry ServerIron 1 HP Vectra PII/350 1 Duron 950 1 Athlon 700 (netsaint/internal dns/dhcp/ntp) 1 Sparc LX 1 Athlon 700 (Windows 2000 Server) 1 Celeron 366 (junk box) 1 Celeron 300 1 PIII/533 (web server)
The other machines are scattered about the house. My choices were "make the machines look like they belong there or I kick your ass" so down the artistic road we went..
There's also a few more Sparc 5s, Power Mac 6100s, 8100s, HP Vectras, and another homebrew box and gawd knows how much cable strewn about the living room. I'm sure I'll find a way to "decorate" the place with that stuff as well.:-)
"The printed word" refers to any published, written communication,
(The first of 3 times you ignored an obvious joke.)
You seem to have an affection for pedantic adherence to language rules, so I'll let you check your dictionary to see that printed means "created by pressing or stamping onto a surface".
It's not just niggling about definitions- in the context of journalism and editorial integrity, printed words are a different domain than electronically transmitted ones. Once printed, something can never be rescinded or repaired- but websight contents are eternally mutable. (Copyrightviolators notwithstanding). Printed words have an essential limitation on space, justifying the practice of "editing for brevity". That's much less defensible in the online arena, where the full text letter can be only a hyperlink away.
For example, I corrected each item shown above in boldface.
The fact that both "one-way" and "one-time" are dictionary words doesn't remove the unhypenated forms from valid English. This is akin to Dan Quayle's infamous potato/potatoe spelling-bee incident.
and a bit less on appearing cultured.
If I had meant "cultured" seriously, it wouldn't have been in scare quotes. It was a joke. (Finding the 3rd one is up to you. Don't waste your time on it, though)
because the editors regularly edit readers' letters for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and length
The fact that/. never censors is an advertised feature of the site, and is intended to distinguish it from traditional publications. Also, (advertising aside), I could enjoy my city's major newspapers for years without ever seeing a word not written by a paid employee- but 96% of Slashdot articles and 99.9992% of its total textual content are reader-contributions.
The rules are different here, because the demands are different.
Printed media have professional editors to ensure quality. On Slashdot, that job goes to the Moderators. The so-called editors are just there to keep the content flowing along smoothly; judging its quality it someone else's job.
There's a fundamental difference in the time-frame available to a printed periodical and an online one. Slashdot already has a reputation for lagging in articles, they can't afford to delay it further by more editing.
And that time constraint problem goes triple for comments on the stories- the comments aren't a static page, or a relaxed medium like a newspaper where a at least 72 hours can elapse between the publication of a story and the responses it evokes. Instead, it is a weird, quasi-real time conversation that will be broadcast to many more than those involved, and archived for posterity. Its unfortunate, but if even a very insightful comment fails to make it into the first 200, it's likely to be sqandered and fall comparatively unread. In this informal environment, first-hand knowledge, creativity, wit, and speed are more important than those qualities with 4th grade teachers specialize in.
Thus the rise of the "Grammar/Spelling Nazi" epithets. I don't dispute that people should be free to point out obvious minor errors- I just wish the bulk of readers didn't have to be burdened with language trivia, educational as it may be. The comment-submission for should have an option to "self-moderate" your post as "Spelling/Grammer Nitpick", "Off Topic", "Spoiler", and "Bad Pun". (No effect on your karma, but others can choose to filter them out of view)
(The first of 3 times you ignored an obvious joke.)
I just didn't get your jokes. Obviously, we have different senses of humor.
I'll let you check your dictionary to see that printed means "created by pressing or stamping onto a surface".
Dictionaries are notoriously out of date when it comes to usage related to computers. This is just one example. But I will try to use the phrase "the written word" in the future.
The fact that both "one-way" and "one-time" are dictionary words doesn't remove the unhypenated forms from valid English.
Your use was improper. You should always hyphenate between two adjectives when they come before a noun and act as a single idea. See the grammarbook.com.
But you missed the point: The edits show that one can correct errors without misrepresenting what the writer said.
This is akin to Dan Quayle's infamous potato/potatoe spelling-bee incident.
Don't be so hard on yourself. You just failed to capitalize and puntuate properly.
It was a joke. (Finding the 3rd one is up to you. Don't waste your time on it, though)
But what if the third one was actually humorous and I miss out?
Slashdot already has a reputation for lagging in articles, they can't afford to delay it further by more editing.
I have submitted stories and hours and hours go by before they are reviewed. Taking two minutes to edit three or four sentences isn't going to make a substantive difference in timeliness.
I just wish the bulk of readers didn't have to be burdened with language trivia, educational as it may be.
Then perhaps you should stop contributing to the "language trivia." But I'm willing to have the last word if you're willing to let me.;-)
Dictionaries are notoriously out of date when it comes to usage related to computers.
The fact that dictionaries are out of date actually supports the usage of "printed" as applying to websites. (One of the less prominent definitions can be construed as applying to anything resembling block letters).
However, in modern popular use, the word "print" has a very exact definition when used in the context of computer operation: it means "output to paper" (look under any File dropdown menu to see what I mean).
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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serutan
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Yeah, computer stuff. Cool. But seriously, she's a friend of yours? God damn, dude!
Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazard!
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SexyKellyOsbourne
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One of my computer science professors, whom I will not name, had a collection much similar to that in his shed -- it was something like 30 lousy computers with monitors, all from the 386/486 era, that he had absolutely no use for and just had to have.
Then, on a stormy night, the ungrounded shed was hit by lightning, and it caught fire. While he was asleep, the computers began melting under the heat and released some very toxic gas -- which blew through the neighborhood, and killed the professor's dog along with a few other animals, and made a few residents hospital-bound.
Because of it, he was sued for quite a hefty bit, though he avoided jail -- so rethink stockpiling all those useless computers for itself, and give them away to charity.
I wonder how many people posted pictures of their computers with sticky notes on the screen./me quickly starts resizing the pictures looking for passwords.;)
3 '96 gateway towers as legs to my desk..
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EMR
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Yup you read that right... I have 3 gateway computers (120MHz to 150Mgz each) as legs to my desk, with a small desktop computer ontop of two of them and my monitor above that.. Then a APC UPS on the other gatway with a board lain atop them both to place my speakers, keyboard, mouse, and the many Piles O' Stuff (tm) (cds, zips, game manuals,etc..)
I have a picture on the 'net, but I don't want my dads 384Kbit uplink to be slashdotted..(sorry, but it's a business connection)
Oh yeah.. Almost forgot.. I have a number of the 6" Tux suffies around the desk as well..
Amatures, Amatures - You say tomato...
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Sean+Clifford
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When people ask about heating in the winter, I just laugh.
I have to laugh at this one because I have the same situation (luxery?). With 11 computers in my extra "server" room and a nice PC with two monitors in my own bedroom, it's always nice and toasty.
I'm just glad to know I'm not the only one with a server farm in their house. And you know what, despite what everyone may say about being a geek or having a life, I love it!:)
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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Right, that way everyone can sue charity . ..
Oh wiat. Thats a bad thing to do.
-- No man is an island,
But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie them together, they make a pretty good raft.
Sigh! I just got rid of most of my geek- stuff
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SnoooBob2k
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My girlfriend finally convinced me to sort through all my computer junk laying around so now I'm down to my two PCs and two rubbermaid containers of stuff.
The worst was when she made me give up my six 120mb ide hard drives! --sniff--- I always thought they'd make a great wall decoration, but never got around to mounting them. Now everyone's talking about their geek rooms and I have nothing left!:(
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Romeo & Juliet for 1337 hax0rz!
http://www.redcoat.net/pics/romjul.swf
Wow, these guys are hardcore. Their room looks just like a mysql error.
I wish they showed how they did it, maybe I could deck out my basement to look like a BSOD!
My geekroom/bedroom is preetty simple...Two systems, one my server and one my gaming rig; a rackmount network concentrator that is pretending to be a bedside table for me; a Linksys switch, a 1988 laser printer, and some lamps and programming books.
Nothing majorly obtrusive.
I'd love a room full of Rackmount goodness, but I barely even use the Linux partition on my gaming rig; a whole second (third, fourth) system would never get used.
Too many computers, or not enough?
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Octorian
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Well, like everyone here, I've got a dorm room that scares people when they walk by. Some pictures from sophomore year can be found here. However, while the general layout remains the same, I'm always changing the hardware, so this is what I've got now.
I guess one thing that's special about my "massive pile of computing" is that I like to collect some diversity in my equipment. I've got many different OS's, and most of my machines are not PeeCees (none are Macs).
Of course like many of you, I technically have several more machines than are noted. I refer to this as "the pile", and I basically think of it as the computers I could assemble and/or put into service from stuff I have if I needed to. Always nice to have crap laying around when you want to test something.
Re:Too many computers, or not enough?
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Anonymous Coward
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An honest question.
What do you need all of these systems for ?
I mean, you're a college student, right ?
So you study and maybe run your own coding venture in the part-time and play games and maybe do some audio synthesizing. Why would you need more than 2 computers (if not 1) ? Wouldn't you be better off using 2 computers but with top-of-the-line specialized components for your "needs" ?
Re:Too many computers, or not enough?
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Octorian
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Why? Because I'm less of a developer and more of a sysadmin personality. First, I like learning about lots of different platforms. From all this I'm now quite familar with Solaris, AIX, IRIX, as well as Free/Net/Open *BSD and the like.
Also, I don't "need" that many machines, but I do find myself getting quite used to having most of them.
First, I like the separation of desktop and server. The server is my trustworthy, reliable, back-end machine that always stays up and is independent of my "desktop". Second, I like having 2 "heads" on my desktop. It's nice to make the "chat programs and misc stuff" appear on a separate display for when I'm doing full-screen stuff on the main monitor. Now I could do that by just making one machine dual-head, but with my equipment there's no need.
Now, I've just described the need for only 2-3 machines. One thing you need to keep in mind is when you tell most people "I have a computer", they assume you mean: computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc. When I say "I've got six or eight", they take that image and multiply it. What they don't realize is what I think of as "infrastructure machines". Those would be the firewall and console server. The firewall has obvious uses. The console server's usefulness is twofold. First, it saves me from having a bank of terminals over the desk, and second it allows me to get at the console of some devices remotely over the network.
Re:Too many computers, or not enough?
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Anonymous Coward
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"Now I could do that by just making one machine dual-head, but with my equipment there's no need."
But that's my point. Why do you have all that equipment ? You mentioned about having a sys-admin personality. What exactly do you DO on your Sparc and Indigo for example..etc ?
Re:Too many computers, or not enough?
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BiOFH
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Why does a gearhead builtd a hotrod in his garage when he could buy a Lamborghini with the money he'll spend?
He does it because it pleases him to do so.:)
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I am made of meat.
Re:Too many computers, or not enough?
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Octorian
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Well, my "good sparc" is my main desktop machine. I'm typing on it right now, in fact. (the Athlon is the "PeeCee machine" I use for games and watching full-screen video, and nothing else.) I like having rock-solid hardware with none of the "quirks" many people experience on PC machines, especially on the desktop, where driver support may be shoddy. (the "not so good one", is my firewall, of course)
My Indigo2 has a lot of other uses, as well. First, it's my current "chat-program machine", but I also use it to play MP3s (it has good audio hardware, unlike the Sun). In addition, whenever I need/want to do OpenGL in X, that's the box for it. It's 3D hardware works much better than anything I could possibly get from Sun without spending tons of money on something new.
Linked to before...
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singularity
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I linked to my bedroom before, but this is probably the best place for me to post the link again.
Harware in the bedroom: G4/933 hooked up to a 17" Studio Display, a 15" NEC LCD, and a 14" VGA CRT. Apple PowerBook Duo 2300c with DuoDock II. Headless at the moment. These two are hooked into a 5 port 100Base-T switch. The G4 is hooked (via another port) to a 100Base-T Internet connection. Also hooked up to the G4: CompactFlash drive, MemoryStick drive, Cambridge Soundworks speaker system, a Sony Clie T665c, a Canon S200 digital camera, and a Keyspan Digital Remote Control.
In the closet, I have an Apple//gs with monitor. At one time I had a UMAX S900/200DP hooked up as well That is loaned out, as is a Macintosh Centris 610.
I am looking to add a Athlon-based PC to the mix (via KVM switch to the keyboard and the NEC monitor) to learn FreeBSD on. I am also looking at buying one of the new iBooks to replace the very aging PowerBook Duo.
I am looking to add a Athlon-based PC to the mix (via KVM switch to the keyboard and the NEC monitor) to learn FreeBSD on. I am also looking at buying one of the new iBooks to replace the very aging PowerBook Duo.
Uh... OS X is based on BSD, just much around with the command line for awhile, and you'll learn BSD. Also, when you get that iBook, I'd be more than happy to take that Duo off your hands for you.:-)
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known.
Re:Linked to before...
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goatgirl
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I haven't gotten any spill over into the bedroom yet, but I did build my husband a computer desk for both of our equipment. Here I am with some of our stuff. We have an old hand-me-down in the living room powering our webcams, and another in a closet waiting for a new motherboard, and we took the other bits and just handed them down to his folks. This doesn't even include our roomates stuff! I admit we are baby geeks in regard to equipment, but the house is still decorated in early network.
-- -Nothing hides evidence like a stew. -Gus Pratt
The G4 is hooked (via another port) to a 100Base-T Internet connection.
You don't have a 100Mb net connection.
At ~12MB per second, it would cost you a jillion dollars a month !
You're forgiven, however, because you own the film "Kids" on DVD - one of my faves:)
Re:Linked to before...
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singularity
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That price would assume that I am always uploading or downloading something (at 12MB/s, the connection is usually not very busy, obviously).
My job requires me to live on campus and gives me the Internet connection. Network map (the map is a few years old and a few things have changed in the halls, epsecially with RC apartment connections)
The network topology looks like this: 100Base-T connection to a 100Base-T switch (shared with three other computers) Swtich, via 100mbs copper, to Cisco Catalyst 3000 switch. Catalyst 3000, via 200mbs fiber connection, to Cisco Catalyst 5000 switch Catalyst 5000 to DS3 (45mbs) fiber internet connection.
The important thing (and very nice thing) is that the traffic is separate from student traffic until the Catalyst 3000 switch.
I was assuming the 100Mb line was your own personal connection - if so, it would indeed cost a jillion dollars a month !
Yet another picture, as if you really care...
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mttlg
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I know everyone here has been anxiously awaiting a picture of my computer setup, so here you go.
Yeah, I know, it's not much, but I don't consider myself a true geek anyway. I just have enough computing equipment to get by.
Room of Doom... and overcrowdedness
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Pred
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My room is essentialy divided into 3 parts..
Office Big corner desk with a hutch on it. Nushi, 900mhz Thunderbird homebrew PC with a 15" Viewsonic VPA150 (no longer made) monitor and the ever cool Logitech Mouseman Wheel Optical with the lil blue LED logo ^_^, sitting in the corner part with the case its self under the desk, beside the monitor is my Belkin 4port router..; Tiffie, 733mhz G4 (Quicksilver) with a 17" Apple Studio Display (the lovely LCD ^_^) with a Intellimouse Explorer 3.0, beside it with the case under the other part of the desk (to the left)
Beside that on the end of the left side of the desk is my oldskool PPort scanner, a Mustek A3 EP (11.7"x17"). On the other side is a load of cds and papers and bawls bottles, with a Polaroid PDC 700 digicam lurking in the clutter... Under the desk, besides the 2 computers, are nicely tied up and organized cords, and a zip drive... cause it doesnt fit anywhere else -_-. On a bookcase beside the desk (kinda making it a U shape) is my HP Deskjet 940C. also on the bookcase is lots of printer paper, cds, non-computer-related crap..Sitting on the hutch is more of the same..action figures, etc. Not to mention my cool leather office chair and blue rollymat;p
The opposite wall to this has anime wallscrolls, a vanity and a glass shelved thing, that has my Bamboo plant on it ^_^
Art Studio?
A glass shelved large metal case faces it, theres a drafting table with a magnifying swing-arm fluorescent lamp, and all my jewelry making and drawing goddies on the shelves. The closet also faces this part and kinda spews into this area a bit;p also a trashcan right beside the table for easy access. The bathroom also faces this, and has a beaded curtain ^_^My drafting stool and clear rollymat finish it up;p
Bed
The waterbed is walled off in a corner by a metal and cloth screen behind the bookshelf of the office area, and the glass and metal shelves of the art area, and it hides very well;p got a small metal nightstand with a lamp on it and the omnipresent bottle of water.
Etc..
Throw in various small shelf units with trinkets, and loads of vanilla candles of different shapes/sizes everywhere, and you're set.
-- "You all laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same."
my bedroom after a slashdotting
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brer_rabbit
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Looks about right:
Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) in/usr/local/apache/htdocs/thinknerd/html/pnadodb/dr ivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 108
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) in/usr/local/apache/htdocs/thinknerd/html/pnadodb/dr ivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 108 mysql://thinknerd:@localhost/thinknerd failed to connectCan't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)
BTW, if you're into guitar effects and amps...
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sup4hleet
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If you're interested in guitar effects and amps, but like me lack serious cash, check out SlumTone. It's a little project I'm working on. Lemme know what you think.
Lets see...
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Anonymous Coward
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Moving around my room... Coke cans, dishes, phone, television, spare controller parts for joystick, chair, desk, desk, desk, sketchpads, empty M&M's bag, more coke cans, wallet, scattered dollar bills, PS2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Textbooks, garbage, random cd's, coasters (failed burned cds), asthma inhaler, more soda cans, more trash, more dishes, cable modem, router, 4 surge protectors, leftover candy, more soda cans, air freshener, clothes, clothes, more clothes, dirty underwear, scanner, pencils, pens, a couple PS2 games, a GC game, a crapload of DC games, Redhat Linux CDs, Cough medicine, crapload of dead batteries, and an empty pretzle bag.
Doesnt look like Google has a Cache of the images page.. bugger, cause it seems the images are accessable, just not the mysql ran pages.
-- "You all laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same."
Just dismantled the 'array', but...
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Anonymous+Freak
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Well, I have an 'L' shaped computer desk (fancy thing, got it as a Christmas present a few years ago) that, until this morning, had my main PeeCee (Abit AT7/AthlonXP 1.47GHz/512MB PC2100/200GB of RAID/WinXP/ViewSonic 17" CRT,) my server (Intel MS440GX/Dual P3Xeon 700 1MB/512MB ECC PC100/18GB of 10kRPM SCSI RAID/OpenBSD/headless,) that was right next to it in the 'closed cabinet' area of the desk, which had it's door ripped off long ago because of cooling problems. On the 'L' extension was a rev.b iMac (160MB RAM/OS X Jaguar,) and a beige G3 PowerMac (233MHz/512MB RAM/OS X Jaguar/USB and FireWire cards.) But, today I finished rewiring the house, and relocated the server (hey, the thing is almost as loud as my vacuum,) cable modem, etc, to the basement server closet, and moved the iMac to the kitchen to be a recipe computer.
Also on the network are my son's Pentium II/400 with Win95 and a VooDoo3 3500TV; my wife's Pentium 3/1000 with WinXP, my Sony PictureBook (wireless,) my PowerBook 1400c with G3 upgrade (wireless,) a PowerMac 7300 (with OS X 10.1.5 thanks to XPostFacto,) a PowerMac 6100 DOS Compatible, a Quadra 660AV, a Mac IIfx, a Color Classic II, an SE/30, an SE, and a Plus. About 20 other Macs not on the network yet. (I need to find a LocalTalk to Ethernet converter.)
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known.
I'm in the process of purchasing a 50" plasma (I work for a manufacturer) and its going on my desk, at the foot of my bed, so I can watch tv too (TLC, Discovery, FoodTV, Travel Channel, and Sci-fi until I finally realize how crappy it has become) network TV blows but that is a whole 'nuther rant.
currently there is a 21" monitor sitting on my rack mountable KVM with 2 desktops next to it. a laptop off to my right, and a minidisc recorder under a Epson printer, and a bunch of misc stuff (cd-r's, GPS, Nostromo Speed pad altoids, pitcher for water... you get the idea)
on the floor off to the right there is my tower server, and 2 more standard servers. ive got a laser printer next to them blocking the heater so no one can turn it on. and a pile of books and crap within throwing distance of my right hand...
since I have been thinking of gettin the plasma, ive been seriously looking at my desk and how DISGUSTING it is (not filthy just MESSY), maybe its becoming a trend.. but I to am appaled by the sheer amount of CRAP that I have amassed... looks like a trip to ebay is in my future... I gotta offload some laptops to help off set the cost of the plasma!!!
-- moo.
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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isorox
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he was sued for quite a hefty bit
ahh, todays society. If your computer gets fried by lightning - you get sued. If your house gets fried, the insurance company say "It's an act of god".
Why must people sue at every possible thing? It ends up with everyone suing everyone, and the only winners are lawyers.
Hang on, my S.O. is a lawyer - well will be in august. Forget that, sue everyone!
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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Was he successfully sued? That is, he lost? He should have promptly sued the manufacturers of the computers for compensation and the victims probably should have done the same, as it was the negligence of the manufacturers to use such dangerous products without informing the customer (can you imagine new computers with a big yellow warning label like new cars with airbag labels?).
Of course, that's what I'd do if I was a lawyer. I'm shaking my head at the whole thing -- lawsuits are getting to be too much these days.
What kind of keyboards do you have?
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Wee
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Would you happen to have any KeyTronic KB101 keyboards? The kind without Windows keys? How about old IBM keyboards (the heavy ones, not those wimpy PS/2 kind)? Would you have any for sale? If so, how much? I'm stockpiling good (circa 1989, 8 pound) keyboards.
Lemme know...
-B
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Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
Re:What kind of keyboards do you have?
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G27+Radio
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I've still got one of those old IBM keyboards somewhere. I had to replace it though because it kept waking up the neighbors...
Re:What kind of keyboards do you have?
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Wee
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Don't you love them? Gimme a loud keyboard anytime. I need one for work so I can have my own office...
-B
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Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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Anonymous Coward
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On loan to aspiring model friend until she can afford a computer: Netpliance i-Opener hacked to run Win98SE with an internal 20GB HD and cooling fan.
She must be running her website with it, as slow as it was...
No no
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Anonymous Coward
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I think you have a typo, it's "feltch"
How did you make that LCD control panel?
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Anonymous Coward
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where's the link to that. that's awesome.
Re:How did you make that LCD control panel?
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skull
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The LCD control panel is actually a RIO mp3 player for his car. it is not a LCD for the PC.
Re:How did you make that LCD control panel?
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leftyfb
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Good ol Empeg. THE best purchase a geek/audiophile can make in his entire life
It looks like this:
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Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) in/usr/local/apache/htdocs/thinknerd/html/pnadodb/dr ivers/ adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 108
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) in/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ thinknerd/html/pnadodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 108 mysql://thinknerd:@localhost/thinknerd failed to connectCan't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)
I was going to post pictures, but all the image hosts I can find suck and the pictures are pretty large.
Oh well.
At home, I have all my core equipment rackmounted in a half-height HP rack. It's a full enclosure, with solid front door, drop-down door on top (my addition), and vented rear door. My APC UPS, Linksys switch, everything is rackmounted. I currently have only two systems in here, both in 4U cases--a large fileserver (3Ware RAID5) that is also my gateway, print server, etc., and my main workstation. On top of the rack are a bunch of media drawers for CDs, my stereo receiver (TV card in comp whose tuner sucks), and a Kyocera laser printer.
On my desk, which is a single-surface desk, convertible into a right-angle configuration (currently straight) with a keyboard drawer, I have dual 21" Trinitrons, my Klipsch speakers (drool!), and the usual assortment of crap. Between the monitors, a USB hub, and 7-in-1 media reader. To one side, a 2-line phone, tape, stapler, scissors, and for some reason a cup full of batteries (hmm...forgot about that). To the other side, a radio set atomic clock, a stack of Wheel of Time books, a couple stacks of CDR cake boxes, some music CDs, a bag of Kasugai roasted wasabi-coated green peas (great stuff!), and piles and piles of bills and mail. Fortunately, all up to date. And then there's the more fleeting equipment, both of my cell phones (normal and Nextell 2-way) for work, drink, etc. Underneet the desk is an old TV cart (containing various computer-related junk), another APC UPS, and my Klipsch subwoofer.
At work, I have the largest cubicle of anyone there. Sometime early next year (need to budget to have it fixed up), I get what every office worker wants--my own, real, lockable office. As large (larger?) than my bedroom at home. As for the cubicle, it's still large, and I have about a dozen 3ft by 1.5 foot by 1.5 foot cubicle cabinets, and about 4 desks, plus the usual wipeboard and wall of Sybase certificates (backup DBA).
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and I've obviously shortchanged y'all. Oh well.
Desk: Two two-drawer file cabinets, supporting a 2' x 6' piece of plywood.
Coffee table: Two cardboard boxes, supporting an identical piece of plywood.
Bookshelf: Metal. Wal-Mart. 55 bolts. Listing alarmingly. Not recommended.
Stereo shelf: Plastic. Wal-Mart. Assembles in one minute. Bending alarmingly. Not recommended.
Junk drawer: Three-drawer module purchased at Target for $10, intended to designate one junk drawer, ended up creating one electronics junk drawer, one computer junk drawer, and one general junk drawer. Purchased two more modules next Target run for expansion.
Filing system: Multi-layered cellulose-based platform, powered by light brown carpet, rented with apartment.
(What, you thought I
used those filing cabinets?)
I'm sitting with my back to the door.
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Anonymous Coward
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Well, perpendicular to the door. At any rate, Thufir Hawat would be ashamed.
I've little space from that door, sitting here in my leather chair, but hey, I have a small room and lots of crap. Starting from the chair (Which is sort of in an alcove of sorts - to the right is both room to move about and a closet)..
In front of me is my desk. The monitor is slightly to the left, the keyboard in front, the ashtray in front of the keyboard. The box is on the floor to the right of the desk, the switch is mounted underneath the legroom to the left.
There's a good two meters maybe, of space, from the back of the desk. Going forward/left, there's a chest of draweres with a large cage containing a ferret. Going forward, there's a shorter chest of drawers, with some shelving built in on top, that contains everything from a small trebuchet (pointed away from me), to a mail coif, to empty bottles of piratey goodness.
To the immediate right of that piece of furniture is the TV/DVD/Dreamcast (Yeah, I was stupid enough to believe Sega would allow themselves to succeed at something)/etc. To the right of that, the server.
In front of the server, and therefore, stretching to the immediate right of my desk as well - the futon...You know, I feel like I'm in a freakin' cubicle.
Re:I'm sitting with my back to the door.
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Thufir Hawat would be ashamed.
The universe is full of doors =)
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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KarmaBitch
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Good luck to your Raq..
It's midnight on a Friday and you have a modded up post that has the words "aspiring model" in it.
I will send a priest over to give your server the last rites. And you can bring your "friend" over I'll let her cry on my shoulder about the death of her website.
Aren't most geeks cat people?
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bluethundr
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Many in this community are dog people, but is it my imagination that a higher percentage of geeks are cat people? It's either a startling coincidence or my life represents a real Nielsen-style rating as to the percentage of computer volken who like the furry little beasts...
This observation began for me when once I lived in an apartment complex with an exclusive population of nerds. It was the mid 90s at that time. Before I got there it was just a couple of Mac II-Ci's with phone-net (!!!) flowing out of the windows. I'm pretty sure we had the first network in the little beach-town of Seaside Park, NJ.
Eventually, there were 7 units each with Ethernet dangling from window-sill to window-sill. And only 500 feet from the beach! With a tremendous view of the Ocean from a kickin' deck upon which we would regularly grill mahi-mahi and the like whilst imbibing on food-breaks from endless network gaming and hacken (and more imbibing). It was bloody Nirvana!...but I digress.
All were tiny little cracker box apartments (we were beginning our tech careers at that point) that at the peak of geek occupancy housed a motley collection of Macintoshen, NT boxen, 1 NeXT machine (mine, a slab serving a 400dpi laser printer and also playing the part of a shuh-WEETNIS server), a couple of Linux box0rz and an Amiga 2000. PowerBooks galore. All nic'd and sharing the the love.
Nearly every apartment was populated with at least one cat, and in one case at least a bloody-stinkin' (emphasis on the "stinkin'" pheeeyew!) cat colony! I, resident mac-geek with a love of code and 3-d, had two...Lumpy and Jake. Neighbor James, who was an NT tech with a penchant for work-related travels to Kazakhstan on occasion, had two as well...Simba (a 22 pound orange basketball with legs and a tail) and Mim (tiny little fucker, even as a full-grown feline).
My friend Ian had a cat named Mr. Beau... Mr. Beau's special talent was vomiting on technology. Yup. If the thing flipped bits in some manner, and it was in Ian's apartment, that shit was getting vomited on. No negotiations. Also, beer was likely to have been spilled on said equipment at some point, but that I believe was (mostly)the fault of the humans about the place.
My friend Mark who also lived there was a 300lb pro wrestler who could lift full grown men over his head in addition to his impressive geek abilities. Adding to those formidable(and imposing)wrestling talents was a steady gig as Mac/NT/Network tech. The guy was also a 3-d rendering guru who made valuable additions to the old Ambrosia game Escape Velocity. He and his (then pre-) wife housed the afore mentioned (sHt1nKeN!) colony of kitties who (despite their numbers...and lovely odor!) managed to not vomit on the tech nearly so often. All the other guys had cats too. Not nearly as smelly.
Since those days, I've worked with a fair number of techs and the sampling of overlap between the cat-ownership and tech communities seemed to grow larger with the more tech-geeks I've met as time passed.
If I might posit a guess, I'd say it had something to do with the independant nature of both beasties. Here I speak of techie cr3tins (myself included) the race of kitt33z. Both seem to have a strongly independant sense of self. The solitary nature of bit-dribbling andromorphs is evinced most strongly by the the noticeable high percentage of said who also play musical instruments. When you think about it, in order to develop ability in either (music or tech), you have to spend a lot of time with yourself thinking, playing, experimenting. Cats, while not much on the thinking or tip seem to be quite competent at being on their own. Far more than dogs anyway in that respect...
-- Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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blankmange
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Nope - 3 dogs here. 2 of the 3 fetch properly, the third is a dachsund and doesn't much care...
-- ...we are from the government - we are here to help...
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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Anonymous Coward
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...you're the exception that proves the rule then. Thanks for electing yourself spokesman for the dog minority...;)
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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Anonymous Coward
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"Most people who live in Japan are Japanese"
"No. I live in Japan and I'm not Japanese"
The "No" is incorrect, since one exception does NOT negate the original statement.
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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Fear+the+Clam
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If I might posit a guess, I'd say it had something to do with the independant nature of both beasties.
Naw. You don't have to outside to take a cat for a walk.
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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nizo
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I think that the reason cats are popular is they survive on minimal care whilst other geek pets would starve to death or otherwise die from neglect. Heck in the proper bug-infested environment a cat can *thrive*
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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loginx
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Heck in the proper bug-infested environment a cat can *thrive*
I have a windows box somewhere, it will do just fine for my new kitty I'm planning on getting around christmas.
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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Pig+Hogger
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Many in this community are dog people, but is it my imagination that a higher percentage of geeks are cat people? It's either a startling coincidence or my life represents a real Nielsen-style rating as to the percentage of computer volken who like the furry little beasts...
It's no surprise. Elsewhere in life, you'll notice the same thing. Intellectual-types will have cats. That is, people who value intellectual achievement, be it art, litterature, programming, etc.
Whoever, people who value owning things just for the sake of owning things will have dogs. Could be because those people are control freaks.
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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bteeter
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I've noticed this too. I've got 4 cats myself: Tabby, Rocky Balboa, Sylvester and Fluffy.
All but the first one we adopted from local rescue agencies. I highly recommend this method of adoption if your considering getting a kitty. Rescue agencies often save cats that were "thrown away" or abandoned by their previous owners. They keep the cats socailized and they are generally much nicer/happier than cats bought from a pet store.
Take care,
Brian
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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fuzdout
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I also have three dogs (and two more that live at my parent's house, so a total of 5)..I further more have a fellow geek friend with about 40 canine beasts..Though he also has 2 cats.:)
-- Fuzdout ..My sig ran away. Has anyone seen my sig?
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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Cothrom
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Cat people? I use to follow the cat croud (7 of the things at the hieght of my following) But that was back in the late seventies/early eighties. The more I let the population dwindle, the better life became.
The past six years have been Labrador years, a much happier man for that. No more festering hairballs out behind the desk where you can't see but get a whiff, no dander in the feed of my laser printer. No happy purring when you don't need it.
Now put up with a silent but deadly rise of noxious fume that takes you by surprise while I'm on the phone with a client, a slightly chewed cat5 between a switch and the hub. I can live well with that.
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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Alphtoo
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I've always found it difficult to respect most dogs; they seem geared to being their owner's slaves. I've seen some exceptions, of course, but most dogs seem to lack any concept of dignity or self-respect. For example, it is possible to OWN a dog.
If you think you own a cat, you don't understand the relationship at all. The cat owns YOU, but doesn't much care. You will be taken for granted, as we people often take old shoes or cold beer (or dogs) for granted. Most cats only notice you if (a)they want something.. food, petting, cleaning out their litter box... or (b) if you happen to leave without their permission. From the cat's standpoint, you are its slave; your home and its contents are the cat's possessions.
If you neglect a dog, its feelings will be hurt. If you neglect a cat, it will be blindly infuriated by your damned insubordination.
If you call a dog, it will likely come to you.
Call a cat and it'll take a message and get back to you. But one of the greatest differences, and perhaps the main reason I prefer cats over dogs, is this: I have NEVER had a cat sneak up behind me, while I was trying to set a tiny jumper or solder a delicate electronic part, and BARK! There is probably nothing so annoying as having one's peace and tranquility shattered by that sound. I think if cats barked, I'd probably hate most of them too.
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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PsykhoKiwi
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No, no, no.
The reason we like cats is because we are a power hungry people and we can pretend we are Doctor Evil with our own Mr Bigglesworth...eeeeeexcellent.
-- Just remember that if the world didn't suck we'd all fall off.
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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Reziac
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You rang?:)
Geeks tend to either have cats or be allergic to cats, no middle ground. As a rule they're NOT dog people, tho. I'm a freak.;)
-- ~REZ~
#43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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fuzdout
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What about ferrets and iguanas??;)
-- Fuzdout ..My sig ran away. Has anyone seen my sig?
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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Reziac
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Dunno about ferrets, but I want a stuffed Quincy to perch on my monitor:)
-- ~REZ~
#43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Re:Aren't most geeks cat people?
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fuzdout
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Well, ferrets are illegal in CA anyway:)
As for Quincy iguanas, I've looked for them on e-bay with no success. So, instead sits a rubber Dogbert excersizing the Demons of Stupidity from my computer:)
-- Fuzdout ..My sig ran away. Has anyone seen my sig?
Has 4 computers, i would take a picture of it, but my friends who have 8 cant find there digital camera, its some where in all the technolgy, and look at http://erikd.org/index.php?do=comps (erikd.org) and log on to irc.erikd.org to talk to all of us and our crazy adventures in linux land (don't ask...). hehehe
p.s. I would log in to post, but i forgot my password.
Hm. Took some pics when I had a digicam handy once. they're up here:
http://www.namor.ca/pics/photos/IMAG0082.JPG
http://www.namor.ca/pics/photos/IMAG0083.JPG
There's more hidden, and a closet full of old monitors, a dumb terminal and stuff hidden around the desk, and every drawer full, but it's a nice little corner. And almost everything was donated - family comes first.
Besides the numerous computers, parts, and other geeky stuff... I remember when my roomate was moving out (moving to Chicago to go to school), he came in my room and asked if I had any cat-5 cable. Of course I did and I asked what for. He replied "I needed to tie my bag to the cart and i figured we didn't have rope but plenty of cable." I just started laughing and of course... got him some cat-5.
Honestly, now - How many of us have moved into a house with a roommate or two, also geeks, and said something along the lines of, "We'll get some wall plates and string some of this cat-5 in the attic next weekend..." Anyone? Oh, yes. You know what I'm talking about. That's where it starts, every time. The weekend comes and goes, several times, and the idea is abandoned some months later, but not before guests or inebriated roommates have not only got compound fractures in their shins, but more importantly they've snatched the ports out of the only two NIC cards that you ever actually paid for? Did you discover you could trip on a wire on the way into the bathroom in the morning and make a print server JetDirectly into the toilet? Did you question the fact that you didn't question the presence of a printer in the bathroom? Of course not. The bathroom was the centermost point between the bedrooms. Did you clean your room every two or three months? Not because you couldn't walk in, but because you'd lost yet another keyboard due to the cat knocking over the Great Beer-A-Mid on your desk and you knew you had another one in there somewhere? Did you think that in moving out of your parents' home and away from your little brother that your days of squarely planting the tender soles of your feet onto well-honed blades wielded by vigilantly waiting action figures were over? Oh, no. You still had to limp around painfully and try to ignore the bitchings of the little twit whose toy you'd just slain without remorse, only now you've got a hangover to go with it, and at least your little brother didn't have the habit of getting up minutes before you did so he could usurp your claim on the Last Beer for breakfast. Yes, brothers. I have felt your pain.
Can't beat this
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Anonymous Coward
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This guy wins, hands down:
http://www.reputable.com/~skywriter/
Haven't even seen the link yet but I can honestly say that only instiutions have more hardware and bigger nut-jobs than Skywriter;)
How come stuff like this doesn't get modded up, this guy has computers!
Re:Armatures
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Anonymous Coward
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Where?!? I don't see a single friggin' armature in the entire place! No windings, no coils, no brushes, no bearings, not even any pulleys, chains, belts, or a pillow block to serve as a hint of evidence that there might be an armature somewhere in that basement. What a crock!
What? Oh.... nevermind.
BitTorrent anyone?
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Anonymous Coward
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Isn't it time/. made use of BitTorrent mandatory for these kinds of sites? Could save on/.ing...
Don't leave the computer!!
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orius_khan
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· Score: 3, Funny
Now this is a room that needs cleaning (that was in my dorm room when I went to cram school in Japan).
Speaking of rooms,
this wasn't a very good idea. I went on a coding spree during which I spent around 30 continuous hours coding for about 10 days straight (came out to about 5 30-hour blocks). The problem is, I was sitting on the floor cross legged the whole time, only getting up to get coffee or go to the bathroom. Needless to say, it killed my knees, forcing me to invest in a desk and chair. Often times you can get away with being cheap, but sometimes, well, sometimes it kills your knees.
It used to look really geeky...
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Anonymous Coward
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I had every game system, an iPaq H3656, a dell laptop, my desktop, my turntables, my mixer, my mixing board, my keyboards, whole lotta networking equipment, wires everywhere, LEDs EVERYWHERE (when you turned out the lights, it looked like a little city). I had 30 plug-in-power devices running at any given time in my room. Until today, at least. My house got robbed, and some of my stuff got stolen. Not much, the pda, the laptop, and my xbox and ps2. It's okay, all replaceable, no sensitive information, EXCEPT MY SAVEGAMES AND MY GTA: VICE CITY!!!! AHHH!!!! Stupid theives.
Just tell? Why not show? ;)
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Powercntrl
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Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry/.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead.;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.
Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.
mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.
bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.
bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.
guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.
hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.
tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.
server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.
wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires!;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.
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--- DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Rackmount in the front room, next to the door and filing cabinets. Starting at the top of the rack there's a stuffed penguin sitting on top of the USRobotics 26-port TotalSwitch (24 ports @10mb, 2 @100bm), which is only in operation because the smaller, more useful hub is below it has no free ports. Left of the hub is the DSL modem. Under the modem resides our two 2u Intel L440GX+ server boxes. Beneath that is a 30-port telephone patch panel with only one port wired up. Leftover from trying to get a local FreeNet going... matching modem rack is in storage. Below that there's a small shelf with a monitor and KVM switch. Below that resides two UPS units, plugged to different outlets as current draw is too much with other electronics around...
Desk next to rack has a 21" monitor next to an aging K6 web browse/student use box (we do tutoring here). Then there's the two boxes in each bedroom her for personal use, the laptops, printers, and an ungodly assortment of peripherals and cards stored in the closets & scatterred around.
Let's not even get into the storage unit, which has all kinds of stuff... networking hardware for Apple ]['s even. Whoah.
-- When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong.
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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Zork+the+Almighty
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What ?! The lawyers are winning ?! Lets sue *them* !
Almost all my computers are stuffed into one room, where I only am when burning DVDs. Check it out here and here. One Sun Sparcstation 5, one SGI Indigo 2, one Celeron 433, one Pentium 233 MMX, one Pentium 150 (not visible on the pictures), two SGI Indigo O2s (on the floor, not in use at the moment), one Amiga 1200 (not visible, not in use:). In the basement I've got two SGI Challenge S servers (not in use) and in the living room I got my laptop and a GameCube, PS2 and an XBox.:)
The home page translates "gomi no sensei" as "master of junk" but that's not really an accurate translation. The word "sensei" is used (at least in Japan) to literally mean "teacher" and "gomi" is more like "trash", so "gomi no sensei" would mean "teacher of trash". A better translation for "junk" would be "garakuta" and I think "shishou" or "tatsujin" might be more suitable translations for "master".
...and here's a QT VR of my computer room (not clutered) as it was back in 1/2001 (that G3's been turned into a dual G4 since...and some other changes to the room).
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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Anonymous Coward
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Actually a friend and I were joking around about this: "All I need to do is get hit by a car" "Why?" "Then I can sue the driver" "Oh, then you can probably start a class action suit about how something is wrong with the particular car!" "Hey yeah, after that I can sue the city for not having enough crosswalk signs in the area or something" "And then you can sue the hospital that treated you for malpractice!" "And maybe the company that made the pain killers for some odd coincedental side effect, like a unibrow"
It went on longer, but I think that makes the point =)
Lets see, computer hooked up to tv and home stereo, also used for wireless router, laptops sitting on coffee table, old laptops just sitting on desk not in use anymore, cat5 all over the place, switch, routers...yeah i could go on...but its just not right....but we (roommates and I) need more stuff still:)
-- How do you take a picture of the best moment of your life?
A darkened house, lot's of beds, some furniture, Pink Floyd, 802.11b, some laptops (one iBook:) - no mess, the way it should be.
But then again, I'm not a geek, I'm just insane.
-- what goes up must come down, ask any sysop / sig11
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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Anonymous Coward
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You need more bandwidth...;)
Geek Pad Abstract
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Anonymous Coward
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Well, let's see.
My geek pad's about 15 feet by 12 feet.
One wall's occupied by a bed(read: mattress on the floor) and a dresser.
The opposite wall's occupied by a 27" TV, 5.1 sound system hub, printer, scanner, two full tower cases, a mid-tower case, a VCR, an A/V switch, an ethernet switch, a KVM switch, a webcam, and an external CD burner. Including the various stands and shelves, the entire side of the room is fairly well geeked.
Perpendicular to the geeked wall is the I/O central, with a pair of monitors, six more speakers, two keyboards(one wireless) and two mice(one optical, one wireless). They're all on a desk that also has a bookshelf containing assorted tabletop RPG books on it, as befits the room's geek nature and its occupant's overwhelming social inadequacy.
Across from the I/O wall is the relatively technologically barren wall, which is solely occupied by shelves and drawers and a bookshelf, as the room has a relatively low ceiling(8' sloping down to 4.75'), and the bookshelf is just under 8' tall. That wall's also got the RJ45 ethernet port mounted, since I wired the entire house with CAT5 during a bored and lazy week last summer.
The whole setup's not too intrusive, all things considered. There's still a decent amount of floorspace, although one can move through the place at night navigating by the various multicolored LEDs from all the assorted devices. Still, apparently chicks dig the geek-room. Not a one has run screaming at the sight of it, yet, and quite a few have decided to stay for a prolonged period.
The only problem I encounter is that the house itself is roughly 120 years old, and thusly its power system isn't built to handle the degree of strain I put on it. When I kick in the window-mounted A/C unit, the lights tend to dim each time it cycles. Until I can upgrade the house's power infrastructure, there'll be no implementing of my minibar/microwave addition. Once that's done, however, I'll be able to store caffeine, liquor, and frozen burritos within easy reach. Then, truly, I shall be a god.
thinknerd.de avail
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Anonymous Coward
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Sure, it's geeky to have lots of computers and servers and ups' all over the place, but do you people actually use all those things?
i can imagine two workstations would be handy (although you can only use one at a time), and one webserver / router or whatever, and maybe a notebook and a handheld, but that's about it. What's the use of all the other computers and servers? I recall the last power failure i noticed was like a year ago, so it's not like i'd really need a ups. Besides, the more computers that are connected to it, the shorter the thing will hold.
So tell me: what is the point of having more than, like 2 computers in one house?
Come back when you get beyond the 'room' and need to expand to the basement. Half the entire basement. And that's just computer geekware. There's an entire bedroom filled with swords, armor, costumes and garb for me European Medieval Martial Arts and Renaissance Faire stuff. So , I have 3 geek rooms. And if you include brewing, make it 3 geek rooms and a closet (and expand the basement usage to 3/4 (1/2 computer 1/4 brewing).
Wow, I need to get my priorities straight, there's another 1/4 of basement that needs to get used for brewing!
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There is no sig line, only Zuul.
Large containers of MD??
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Andy+Dodd
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Um, 2-liter bottles?:)
Available in plenty - Even Code Red is now available in bottles in diet form. (CR was available canned for a bit, but not for long - Now I can only find 2L bottles. But I can still get my Diet CR fix.)
Yup, I'm diabetic. Regular soda tastes weird to me at this point - One sip and my first thought is, "something is wrong".
-- retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Re:Large containers of MD??
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amentia
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i'm not a diabetic but after 6 months or so of just drinking diet soda the regular taste really bad and make my teeth hurt. well almost.
just wish diet dr pepper (or diet mountain dew or diet anything but cola) was available in sweden.
indeed, regular soda tastes horrid after drinking diet for so long
-- --fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
OT: Fastest way to paint a room white
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Idarubicin
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I seem to recall a Mr. Bean episode along these lines. He wanted to paint his apartment, but was too efficiency-minded (read: lazy--I'm sure there are a lot of coders out there who can relate) to pick up a paintbrush.
The obvious solution was to place the can of paint in the middle of the room, and add a small explosive charge. Before detonating the can, ensure that all of the objects in the room that are not meant to be painted are coated in newspaper. Oh, and make sure that nobody enters the room while the fuse is burning. It will lead to much hilarity, yes, but also human silhouettes that will have to be hand painted later.
If anybody tries/has tried this, I implore them to please post links to photos.
-- ~Idarubicin
Re:OT: Fastest way to paint a room white
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Tablizer
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The obvious solution was to place the can of paint in the middle of the room, and add a small explosive charge.
I actually independently thot of that in college and drew a cartoon of it.
In practice I bet one would get burnt peices of casing and other stuff in the mix and the result would look like choclate chip ice-cream. IOW, 31 Flavors may get away with it, but not the rest.
Re:OT: Fastest way to paint a room white
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AJWM
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If anybody tries/has tried this, I implore them to please post links to photos.
Sorry, no photos, but I, er, a friend was once involved in trashing someone's dorm room by a similar method involving, not paint, but a couple of custard tarts (residence food -- what else is it good for?) and a large firecracker. As luck (and a bit of planning) would have it, the firecracker detonated just as the occupant was about to open the door, so he heard the BANG!
lots of cats fetch. Usually the smarter ones and/or hybrids with some 'wildcat' in their blood(which are more intelligent that purely domesticated cats).
One fact that most 'cat people' refuse to admit (or believe, or research, or even ask about) is that cats are not as smart as dogs.
Depends on how you define smart... as far as I'm concerned, spending all day sleeping and eating, obeying nobody's orders and getting away with it is pretty damn smart.
My cat used to catch flies and mosquitos... They infuriated him so he would stay veeeery low and quiet and then jump and clap both paws together at them.
He had a very high rate of success... at least better than me with a flyswatter!
These were first bred as weapons, big boned and strong so that they would perch on a warriors shoulder and serve as a pair of ultra-sensitive ears and nose when looking for the enemy in the middle of the jungle. Then, when the enemy was discovered, the warrior would toss the cat at the opponents face, before closing in for the kill. The cats supposedly were trained to claw at the opponents eyes and face and could reportedly incapacitate a person in just a couple of seconds...
Wow, the kind of things you learn on a trip to Thailand (the Thai are the ultimate cat lovers)!
-- No sig for the moment.
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah, like having more hardware makes you more of a geek. Right. Isn't it more about how you use it?
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If you moderate this, then your children will be next.
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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dfj225
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That girl is your friend...then you are the luckiest geek ever!
-- SIGFAULT
MOD PARENT DOWN (-6)!
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Anonymous Coward
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SexyKellyOsbourne is a known TROLL. This is just giving karma to a troll!
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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phillymjs
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Yeah, right now I've got 608K down but only 128K up and it can be a little painful sometimes. I'm trying to hold out until the new year to bump up to the next tier, I think it's 384K up.
Still, the trusty little Qube2 stood up to a reasonably impressive onslaught of horny slashgeeks-- though it wasn't a true slashdotting by any stretch of the imagination.:-)
I live in a modest 3 bedroom home that features a loft. When we bought the house, the loft seemed like the ideal place to put the home multimedia (this being well before "home theater" entered the lexicon). As it turns out, this isn't the best idea acoustically, so eventually it became my Geek Loft.
Alas, my young son was fascinated by the many computers (PCs, Macs and a NeXT Cube) in the loft and would try to push the buttons that glowed with pretty lights. Servers were being powered down by the little imp. I started to panic. Visiting a used office supply outlet, I discovered that I could buy expensive Hayworth cubicle walls for very little money. Presto! $600 later, I have an instant geek room in the middle of the loft that's also a cubicle with a door.
I built a seven foot tall cubicle along the main footprint of the loft, leaving a path to the bedrooms upstairs and not walling the edge of the loft that opens to the rest of the house. The door has a lock on it, which solved the access by kids problem. I lined the inside with bookshelves, hung up a few Mars posters and put dozens of slogan buttons on one cloth lined wall.
When you walk into my home and look up, you see a full cubicle looming overhead.
I've recently taken the nook along the longer loft wall and setup narrow table tops across the whole length. At one end, I built an Elfa(tm) rack for my network gear and the printers shared on the home net. On the tables themselves I put my finest Apple/NeXT boxen (NeXT Color Turbo Slab, Power 8100, Apple ][e) on display in what I call my "Shrine to Steve Jobs". They all run, and are networked (well, not the ][ -- get real).
While this Geek Room pales in comparison to others, I think it does stand out for a couple of reasons. First, it's in the fricking middle of a 'married with children' home. How many wives would put up with this visual: a huge cubicle in the middle of their home. I think I won them over by networking the house and making sure everyone has their own decent PC (AMD boxen with lots of RAM). Second, it's small but packed full of gear -- three or four systems KVM'd together, three full height bookshelves crammed with sci-fi novels, NeXT programming guides, and every Mac or PC programming book I've bought since 1985. I got all the usual elements: eclipse light, scanner, A/V setup including S-VHS deck, laser disc player and small monitor television, UPSes, cables, cables and cables tucked under the desk. Office Depot chair on a carpet mat. It's all here. Even the propeller beanie.
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The two most common things in the Universe are dark matter and stupidity.
All my friends tell me that my room looks like the Nebuchadnezzar from the Matrix. Four shelves, one for each wall holding model rockets and action figures, wall 2 holding RC equipment, wall 3 holding computer and RC equipment and wall 4 holding computer equipment. I've got speakers on each wall, and a sub below my desk. A 233mhz gateway is in my closet powered by a deltech Powerite Pro 2 UPS. My main machine, a silver self built, runs a 19" dynaflat and has an AIW card in it, also connected to my TV. Connected to the AIW is my dreamcast, and the N64 is going straight to the TV. There is an old IBM thinkpad sitting around, and a very old Compaq 5528 planar PC that I'm hollowing out for a wicked casemod. There is an aquarium that i would like to one day store fish in, but it is full of power supplies keyboards and mice at the moment. My closed and shelf is full of Gundams and random models. Dilbert sits on my stereo reciever, and I've got a Shining Gundam Fighting Wing Gundam.
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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Suing someone else is more satisfying than anything else- how else can you cash in on a person's hard earned worth through their mistake, AND also to have someone in power say "You were the one who was right, not them!" You ever see an M5 tailgating a Corsica? Why not?:D
-- slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Hah! You've seen nothing yet...
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Anonymous Coward
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Hiding this stuff -- real-world solutions
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gregwbrooks
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:::tossing his pittance of geek cred out the window...:::
OK, here in the real (i.e., married with non-geek friends) world, we have to hide this stuff. We do this because:
There is a direct correlation between the visible amount of free-range Cat-5 wiring and the frequency of spousal sex.
It's ok to have stuff lying about when you're tinkering with it (and there's always one deconstructed boxen lying around), but the stuff that's up and running needs to be protected from dust, pets and people with large feet who trip over things.
I pay too much for my mortgage to have the house look like my old dorm room.:)
Here are the mantras in our house:
KVM is your friend. You saw some of these photos -- a one-to-one computer/monitor ratio is just silly unless you're herding iMacs.
Bitchin' furniture often equals bitchin' rack space.We're in an old house and we have some antiques. We've found that a lot of old furniture (amoires, buffets, etc.) that can be picked up on the cheap does a great job of holding the equipment and keeping it out of sight. Remember: WAY back in the day (i.e., turn of the century), most rooms didn't have closets, so they were always thinking in terms of "where can I put this stuff?"
Spend a minute or two thinking about ergonomics, dammit. Nearly every photo on the original post is going to screw someone's back or wrists up.
The minute you own your own place, ditch the wires. OK, so you can't start running cable through the walls in your dorm or apartment. But once you actually OWN the walls, you sure can -- and life suddenly becomes a helluva lot more clutter-free. Wireless? Yeah, if you can live with the lower bandwidth.
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"It was a summer's tale: Just a boy, his Linux, and a head full of dreams..."
Re:Hiding this stuff -- real-world solutions
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Zonekeeper
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AMEN brother. When my now-wife moved in, my clutter was told to hit the road, or spend the night getting warmed up by a athlon instead of a warm you-know-what. Guess which I picked? I threw BOXES and BOXES of shit away. But you know what? Not a damn thing have I ever missed. Guess I reall WAS just a packrat. Don't get me wrong, I still have about 8 computers, they just look nice all arranged and not thrown everywhere.
Re:Hiding this stuff -- real-world solutions
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jafuser
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a one-to-one computer/monitor ratio is just silly unless you're herding iMacs.
VNC will solve that one =)
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Really surprised me. I found him roaming my apartment complex years ago. He would keep finding hair bands (had a female roomate) and bringing them to me. I thought it was really strange. So I finally threw one of them - he ran, grabbed it, and brought it back. I've never seen such a thing - whoever had him before must have trained him.
He's usually ultra-lazy. He's laying at the foot of my bed sleeping as I type this. Glad to know I'm not the only one with a cat that fetches!
It's amazing to me how these guys manage to keep their rooms so organized and uncluttered compared to mine. Perhaps it's the German penchant for neatness.
Shure enough: German geek rooms.
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Qbertino
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Those shure are mostly german geek rooms. Wooden paneling, old walls, square 9cm pine beams from the "Baumarkt", 230 Volt powerconectors, suse stickers, 'Kaltgeräteanschlußkabel' (sorry, don't know the english word for that:-) )...
Just then I noticed the '.de' in the URL. Bingo.
-- We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Re:Shure enough: German geek rooms.
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TarPitt
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According to Altavista, this comes out as:
Cold device connection cable
-- If your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd murder you in your sleep
Ham Radio has you beat!!
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TarPitt
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The November 2001 issue of QST magazine had a "messiest ham radio shack" contest. No link unfortunately - even as an ARRL member, I could not get the article online. Some amazing stuff, though the proprietors have about 30-40 years on the supposed owners of the Slashdot geek-spaces. Of course, ham radio operators get to clutter up their roof and backyard with all sorts of interesting antennae as well.
Something to look forward to in your old age?
BTW, ARRL = American Radio Relay League, an amateur radio organization, which publishes QST their monthly magazine.
-- If your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd murder you in your sleep
My computer room stays eternally messy. All attempts to clean the room lead to more crap being piled up.
A few months back, I tossed out a few old 486's. Next thing I know, I got a 4U rackmount Pentium Pro. ($25 on ebay!)
Then, I straightened up the room, getting the floor completedly clean. So my wife comes and dumps all my crap that's been piling up in the living room.
-- A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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isorox
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I'm with you. Thank god I don't live in America.
Same in the UK. If I hear one more advert with "Bob tripped over his shoelace and received £3000 in compensation, Poor John spilt his pint of beer, and he recieved £10,000! If you've ever done anything ever in the last three years, call this number and we'll get you one million dollars!.
Wasnt there a south park episode where everyone sued everyone else?
Re:What about the Neat Geek?
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johnrpenner
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why is there this stereotype that a 'geek room' has to be messy and fully of crap?
what about the 'neat geek' ?
i spend endless time at this desk tinkering and working on the computer. i use a soldering-iron, i've etched my own circuit boards, disassembled computers and CRTs (replacing analogue boards on a Mac+), and soldered together with resin-core solder and built a theramin, written code, built web-sites, ripped tunes, made mixes, read slashdot faithfully, spent endless hours downloading, archiving, and organising data; and in every manner possible, have tried to fully integrate technology in a fully artistic way into my living - there is not a single component that hasn't had thought put into it -- all here:
the apparent simplicity and cleanliness of this space belies the inordinate amount of work that goes into making a well-used geek-room so spare and uncluttered. there's several hundred CD's, a firewire hard drive, burner, audio-amplifiers, with USB hubs and surge-protected powerbar hidden behind the desk (with cables bound together with elastics). there's a high-power HeNe Laser power supply, coils of wire, soldering iron, toolkit, VOM and DMM, a scanner, boxes of data CDs and ZIP disks. the hard drive and burner are neatly stacked in the left and right flanking drawers under the desk. and to either side are a pair of loudspeakers for audio work and listening to MP3s. when i undertake to dissassemble a machine, and get the parts all spread over the desk - the whole METHOD of doing so is well thought-out, and done with care, so that even in the procedure, everything is done neatly.
so once again, just because its messy, doesn't make it geek.
there are neat geeks too, which are just as devoted to technology, and do just as much tinkering as any of you.
Not many LCD screens!?
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redwoodtree
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These are some low budget pictures. All these people are going to die of CRT radiation. Why do some people have one monitor for each machine have they never heard of a switch???
The best one was the guy with the rack and the "Windoze free zone" banner. Nicest setup of them all.
Steel Racks and Stupid Desks, a pictoral
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i may not be that much of a geek (failed out of comp sci) but i do get laid, and often. in my social circle the only people who spend more time on a comp than me are the evercrack-heads... but thats because getting laid alot cuts into comp time. in college i achieved this by limiting myself to only two computers and i set them up inside my closet with a little wooden stool in between. of course college students are pretty much required to have a comp on the desk so you can actually get away with having three, and that can be adjusted depending on the size of your closet/monitors/towers. then, when you go out, dont wear cool shirts (trek, star wars, shirts with code on em) and by the time you get that freshman back to your hole... as long as you keep the door closed... shell have no idea about the skeletons in your closet. as for hygiene... i just add deodorant when i can start to smell myself.
-- "associate with men of good qualilty if you esteem your own reputation; for it is far better to be alone than in bad com
geeks and attics
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Anonymous Coward
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What's up with the preponderance of attics in the pictures? Can't these euro-geeks get their moms to let them use a room closer to the rest of the family? Or is there some benefit to living in an attic with sloped ceilings like Greg Brady?
Re:What about the Neat Geek?
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Parent's topic should read: "What about the Anal-Retentive Geek?"
I seem to be the only geek to had gotten rid of monitors via VNC. Only got one monitor for 5 computers, much less heat and I can hide the computers in the closet.
Not too long ago there was a link that long time behind a CRT is bad for your health. But the real message was that long time sitting behind a monitor is bad for your health.
Only a few rooms seem to have some sensible ergonomic setup. Look at the location of monitors, the very poor quality of chairs and the limited movement space around the desk.
Twisting part of you spine (in the upper neck or lower back) in a static manner will have major consequences on the long term for your physical health. Maybe this is something where geeks are not concerned about, or is not that cool to consider. But keep in mind you only have one back spine. And till so far the medical advances in swapping out an old spine and upgrade with a new one has been limited.
Wishing you all the best in health and geek wisdom,
SFMarco
Worst pictures, ever!
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Anonymous Coward
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Yes, give a computer nerd a digital camera and he'll take the WORST effing pictures you've ever seen! I was expecting something a little bit cooler than that. My lab looks better and I practically live there!
If that's the same place we have the DayLUG users group meetings, I think I've seen it (though I haven't been in a while... sorry guys)
Don't they always have a booth at computerfest, with a bunch of old computers? (the old Commodores always bring a tear to my eye).
-- Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
How looks your geekroom?
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Anonymous Coward
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3 computers (this one running Suse 8, a new Dell XP box and an Apple 500 ibook), several telescopes, a boatload of Ham radio gear, a work bench, shelves full of astronomy,ham radio,computer and Space program books. A big framed photo of a shuttle launch, a contact award from the Mir space station, a QSL card from a QSO with John Balha on Mir in 1997, several shuttle contact QSL cards, A framed crew photo from the original Star Trek crew, signed by all 7 hanging on the walls.A meteroite collection. I guess I'm some what of a geek. But I love it!
Merl Terkin - not signed in yet...
503 new?
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Anonymous Coward
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One book I have has it but the other does not (1996 O'rielly CGI), list stopping at 501. Must of been added after 1996, or a typo left it out.
These guys have rooms that are as messy as mine, without half as much usable hardware. Come on.
Oh.. I'll back it up with an image.
The server that is hosting the picture is in the room in the picture.
Cisco specific geek room
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Anonymous Coward
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http://www.optimumdata.com/ccielab
Was worth about $30k in that picture circa 6/2000. There is a Lightstream 100 ATM switch, a Cisco 7505, a Catalyst 5505 with L3 engine, an Adtran Atlas 800 and a TSU 600, an AS5200, a collection of 25xx series routers, etc.
For a while I had a 7206 with a PA-HSSI connected to a 7505 with a VIP2-40/w PA-HSSI, a variety of MC3810 and 26xx series VoIP gear, and whatnot.
I finished my CCNP & CCDP and things have decayed since the picture was taken - just a couple of 1605s and a 2620 I picked up yesterday:-( I need another job at a used equipment dealership...
looks like my room...
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gosh. Oh, how I love seeing giant female ass' on the desktop.
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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mo+wiggley
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Do you think if you layed back some on the
computing time, she wouldnt be going on blind
date? Now keep in mind, I told a girl that
under normal circumstance I would have been
in love with, that I couldnt see goin out
to dinner unless the restraunt had phone
jacks at some of the tables. I expect, that
over the next few years, phone jacks will
become common at restraunt tables(Im talkin
fine dinning, more upscale places where dinner
can be a couple of hours.) and then I will be
able to date again. I cant wait.
-- Libranet GNU/Linux - Excellent Debian Based Distro
http://www.libranet.com
Check it out!
...kvm sales opportunity...
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segfault_0
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...funny how you can buy more computers than you can use but you can never scrape up the cash for a kvm...heh
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I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something.
(Charles Manson)
third sunday of every non-winter month at Albany street.
your post says you're in franklin, so get another uhaul and don't drop so many this time! tons of people in your position have offloaded all their shit (working and not) there. only costs $17 (plus $12 for each additional space, you'll probably need ~3 spaces). you set up at 7:15-9am and buyers swarm in at 9am (most sales are done in that hour, the good stuff goes in the first ten minutes). most sellers leave before noon, but (i think) it lasts till about 1:30.
there's lots of cool stuff there, all related to computers, wireless/radio, or 'cool gadgets.' stuff i've bought there include: door sensor, computer remote control, TONS of cables and connectors, cdrs, ropelights, my palm pilot, floppy drives, led's, movies, and tons of stuff the i have forgotten about. it's all dirt cheap too... floppy drives ~$2, rj45 eth cord ~$1, and so on. there are tales of "the one buck guy"... a friend of mine bought two complete computers (120mhz and 90mhz) for two bucks, but he only made one appearance at the flea and was sold out by the time i arrived at 9:30am.
one seller once told me "swapfest! get yesterday's technology today!"... don't go there looking for something released in the past few months. can't find edo ram, pentium pros, a complete (~200MHZ) computer for under $100, or some strange connector? this is the place for you!
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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asavage
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IANAL, but if you choose to store anything that can hurt anyone else on your property, no matter how safe you try to store it, if it does hurt other people, it is your fault and you will be sued.
It may sound unfair, but it was still his fault that people and animals were exosed to toxic fumes, and he should be liable.
female geeks...
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Anonymous Coward
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Hard to tell if any have posted thus far, but I'd be curious to know if the female side of the geek population has setups similar to the ones described. Or do they decorate with that mysteriously acquired 'sense of taste'?
I posted mine in comment http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44580&cid=4630 564
(pasting so as to try to avoid the/. effect... if someone wants to see they'll cut and paste)
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I am made of meat.
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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Art+Tatum
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And absolutely *anything* can hurt someone. This stuff is ridiculous, no matter how much lawyers try to spin it.
OK, what's the point of this?
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I have a bunch of computer crap around my house too. I'm so 31337 that I have three flat panel displays on my desktop and another one sitting on a steel rack with three PCs connecting to it. Who cares? Oh, and I have two Herman Miller chairs, which makes me even 31337er.
-- cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
I have to say I enjoyed those pictures - I really liked the panoramic multi-monitor system - that is something I am thinking about doing myself.
I must be lucky - I have not one, but two geek rooms!
My main room is a small bedroom in which I have my main Linux box and an old 'doze box I use for one one piece of software, and someday I am ditching that and running it on Wine. Anyhow, my table is a 6 foot folding table (soon to be modified for a new server I am building - if I ever get my mb back from iwill in working cond), with a 19 inch monitor on one end, a KVM next to that, a phone, and an ATX power supply on the other end taped down with blue painters tape (used for testing motherboards). All the wires for both machines drape down the back of the desk and along the floor. I have a centralized DC power supply and bus running along the underside of the desk (to get rid of wall warts), which is powered by a Sun switching PS. I have what may be an almost one-of-a-kind IBM Model M keyboard (it is one made by Lexmark, but still has clicky keys AND the drain slots - strange) to type on, a Precision Technologies 3 button serial mouse, which rides upon a BSA "report software pirates" mousepad I "picked up" scrounging at DefCon 5. In a U shape around me the walls are lined with steel shelving floor-to ceiling, filled mostly with books, CDs, floppys, tapes, videocassettes, and other assorted crap. Speakers hang on the walls with power and audio wires running "open". My LOAF firewall sits on the floor next to me. My biggest problem is lighting - all I have is an adjustable arm lamp with magnifier lit with a 15 watt CF bulb. I am planning on adding a couple of smaller CF tube lights elsewhere, to help with the problem.
My other geek room? That would be my "workshop", which while attached to the house, can only be reached by going out on the back patio - there I have another small room containing all of my tools - regular tools, power tools, junk parts, miscellaneous computers in various states, old monitors, soldering and test equipment, a large greasy bench for building shit on without worrying about burning/mangling furniture or floor. Floor is bare concrete, it also has an attic access for other storage room, my half-completed recumbent bicycle EV hangs from the ceiling by hooks, patiently awaiting more work. I can do just about any work in there short of welding and be OK (and a welder is coming soon, but that will be stashed in the garage)...
-- Reason is the Path to God - Anon
Re:Geek room...?
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Anonymous Coward
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Most important parts of my room are not the 2 computers but the Technics SL-1200MK2s, Pioneer CDJ700s and Vestax PCV-175 mixer and hundreds of vinyl records and CDs.:)
Sounds cool, AC - there are days I wish I had the knowledge and skill to work sound, as I love music - but my thing is coding and hardware (I barely have time to tweak with my sound card in my Linux box - it works, but it still has issues with the mixer control)...
its not a room. its a geek apartment.
rack cabinets everywhere, and the command center parked nicely on a 8ft foldable table.
the wiring cant support the load.. tank god for UPSes.
-- Lizard
"Never let them set limits on your mind!"
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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OneFix
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It doesn't look like you're running mod_gzip on that site...any reason why not? If you did, it has been known to decrease traffic load by 4x-8x in some cases...
I'm not sure if the Cobalt distro of Apache has mod_gzip by default, but I'm gonna guess not...if so, try this before you spend the extra change on a higher service tier.
I HATE CATS !!!!!!!!!!!!! we have three lizzards three snakes a ferret a mouse two rats (for breeding lizzard / snake food the mouse was lucky and escaped the jaws of death) a dog and the wife has a kat !!!! It's allways a mess in here allways working on somthing wires everywhere. 16 channel mixing board 16space rack full of audio gear a sony svo-160 vhs machine dirrect tv box,formac studio a mac g4,dell 550 a old e machine made for crashing a police scanner and other video gear all cramed into a 10x12 bedroom
On the other hand, there is no truer love than that of a dog. Its amazing the kind of things a dog will do for its human companion, even disregarding its own well being to help a human in time of need.
I am a cat person myself but ever since my cousin's St.Bernard saved my life once when I was 8, I respect dogs enourmosly. Although I could not have a dog in the house because of the ammount of attention they need.
-- No sig for the moment.
Re:What about the Neat Geek?
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FurryFeet
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Dude, nice desk... Would love to see pictures of the floor, tough;)
Trolling aside, I'm a neat geek too, and it suckswhen other geeks look down at me. It's like, "you're not geeky enough, your desk isn't full of crap" even as I outhardware them, outcode them and even outQuake them. Stereotypes suck big time.
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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isorox
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so lets say my house falls down, thanks to some freak flooding. The wall collapses into my neighbours garden and kills their cat. Is it fair I get sued because of an act of god?
Re: Cats and Dogs
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Anonymous Coward
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neat.sig
Re:Be careful... Computers are a deadly fire hazar
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Anonymous Coward
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hmm - probably the architect, engineer and general contractor could get sued for inferior design and construction
Surrounded by sci-fi and music!
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wessman
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I'm not a hardware junkie, but I am a music and sci-fi techie. My office is on the first level of our home. My wife got all crazy and painted it pumpkin orange as a brilliant background for all my Star Wars posters and books, my guitar gear, and my black metal CD drawers. The room wakes you up when you walk in, especially at night. I originally wanted midnight blue, but my wife gave me a killer computer room, my room!
Re:Amatures - A total fraud - not his basement
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Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this country was built.
-- Hubert Allen
- this post brought to you by the Automated Last Post Generator...
Slashdot Mirror
...Link is dead
Yay slashdot, i guess i'll just look around my apartment for a while
------------ Internet? Is that thing still around? H.J. Simpson
holy SHIT.. first post AND slashdotted????
mirrors anyone?
---- "Logoff! That cookie shit makes me nervous!" - A. Soprano
The ol' slashdotted motif.
Table-ized A.I.
Pah-leeze... when they can compete with my basement, then maybe they can be linked to on slashdot... :-)
How'd they get a picture of my bedroom?
I will not be posting any new pictures of my geek pad, as it is currently ablaze in a three alarm fire after my website was slashdotted the AMD without heatsink that I was running spontaneously combusted.
They should really release those things with a Slashdot warning. -_^
Well, what can I say... I guess I am the steriotypical nerd. The side of computer case is perpetually unscrewed and leaning against the tower. I have a really big bookcase for all my DVDs, sci-fi books and CDs. Got a log box 'o parts for when I need to make a connection or repair somewhere. I have papers for various projects and ideas spewn about everywhere. That's about it. I would have more, but this is just the stuff I took with me to college. The rest is filling another room at home. :)
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
Zero comments, already slashdotted.
Come on people! *puts on Ballmer hat*
MIRRORS! MIRRORS! MIRRORS! MIRRORS!
This
How Looks Your Geekroom?
How correct is Slashdot editor?
Oops... This is Slashdot. Move along, move along.
No current pix, but here's my old one, or the exploded diagram. ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Just a few weeks ago I just moved all of my non-desktop/notebook PC equipment out of my room and into the hallway. Before the move, my room was well, very loud -- about equal to a small car engine actually, and very hot -- 15 degrees hotter then the rest of the house.
Since the move, I can hear myself think, and the whole level of the house is comfortably heated thanks to my server "farm" in the hall.
I consider it a interior decorating success story of the geeky kind!
this is an act(s) (orgy?) of geek masturbation .. as there is nothing they like more then stroking their own egos.. especially in a collective such as this one =)
dislcaimer: the preceding is the expression of opinion based on observations as a life long member.
Supposedly I'm partway there - but after putting a pic online - I'm told my room is just too tidy, and I have to redo Geek101: Coke cans and sticky notes.
damn.
This should be a popular article considering that geeks are generally socially retarded shut-ins. How about posting a how-to on how to go out, do stuff, and maybe get laid every once in a while. At least this would help the (pathetic) state of affairs.
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Well, it's a dorm, so there's not much space. Computer, bigass monitor, bigger speakers, and books. 3 shelves of books. 2 bunked beds, and some stuff of the roommate's.
Ah, but to have more than 11'x10' of space...
-- Bill "Houdini" Weiss
dog hair, too
What we need are pictures of non-geek rooms so we can get some inspiration on how to decorate our place in the hopes that the next time a female comes over, they don't run in terror from the sheer volume of Star Wars memorabilia.
... when the sites hosting them are /.ed
I am unique, just like you, and you, and you...
tell us how your room looks like
How about if we tell you what our rooms look like? If Slashdot editors did any less work, the Slashdot offices could be mistaken for a hospital coma ward.
does my o'reilly wallpaper/covering count?
(You know what I'm going to say, so I won't bother.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Wrong. That's developers, developers, developers.
Fault loves the past, worry loves the future, but content enjoys the present.
The webserver has a maximum of 10 concurrent users.
Luke-Jr
At that rate, all us geeks can look at the pictures after about 4 days of trying...
DOH!
Have to clean my room in the meantime...
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
With hive-mind intelligence permeating from geek herds, why has nobody come up with a clean solution to excess wiring and dust? My allergies!!!
I think the webserver is inebriated at the moment. I'll just have to look around my lab here.
... then I got married. It was an efficiency apartment, and all available horizontal areas were covered either with clothes (the floor and dresser), dishes (the kitchen), or breadboards, chips, and discrete components. My last project was a little quickie 555 circuit. I hooked it up to a counter and some LED's to make a simple bounce back-and-forth effect.
My new wife wanted me to make something blinky that would go around a license plate frame. I started getting nervous... that would be a Real World design! Then, we needed the table for dinner (what was wrong with sitting on the bed, I wondered?). And within a couple of weeks, I realized that having more than one room is a Good Thing... when we moved to a one-bedroom apartment, the Geek Room was no more.
But there's hope for the next generation... my 12-year-old daughter just wrote her first Visual Basic program today. You click the button and a MsgBox pops up that says "THIS IS BORING".
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Check out my home. "It's just temporary, I swear!"
I mean really, why the hell do you even POST articles like this? You KNOW damn well that you'll end up taking down their web server--and you did, once again.
So now, not only can no one see the pictures, the owners of that web site have to repair the damage.
Nice going.
Two desks. The main one has my tower sitting next to it with a 19" monitor on top. On top of the monitor is my Ximian monkey.. next to the monitor on either side are speakers. A sub sits under the desk. Phone, printer and a pair of lamps also take up space on the desk.. oh, keyboard, optical mouse and calculator as well as too many papers and other shit are on the desk. Next to this desk is another desk with pretty much the same setup. That tower is black, mine is blue. Next to that desk (that's my lady's desk) is a third desk that has been converted into a bookshelf. Bunch of programming/tech books sit on that. Then the rest of the room is occupied by various parts that I haven't found a use for yet. Several zip drives, cd-rom drives, a couple of dvd drives, sound cards, modems, God knows what else... yea maybe I should clean up this dump.
This is depressing... I think I show go get some food and quit thinking about what a freakin pig pen my office is.
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
Get out the Gimp.
Blah blah blah???
a midi keybaord, some psychedelic posters, my computer, lots of papers, a 32 inch televison on the other side of the room, a couch and a few chairs... nothing special really. I often swivel the chair to watch tv while I am doing things on the computer.
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
It is stuff like this that makes we wonder if the estimate of us needing 3 earths to sustain our current level of consumption is accurate.
It's really sickening how much stuff we aquire only just to end up as pollution.
I've a friend or two with some hazardous looking basements full of old hardware and despite the fact they do not need that kind of excess they just won't quit.
It is just sad.
"Survival of the fittest Max, and we've got the fucking gun!" - Pi
You have to speak up to be heard over the blower noise. :P
there are burn marks on the walls from electrical fires.
When people ask about heating in the winter, I just laugh.
six printers
two cisco switches
four routers
six servers
two racks
11 monitors
three workstations
two kvm switches
toeknring
and all the cables to with them
30 amps and not one mA available
carpet? I have a carpet?
girlfriend? no such luck
But here's what it looked like, with labels identifying the equipment:
http://www.shre.ws/shrews/scitech/myroom.html
You sir "extrarice" [if that is your real name] are a complete moron. All you had to do to be ontopic was to say how many computers you sleep with, and whether or not they have Linux and Mozilla on them.
I sleep with 2 computers in my room, and one of them's a Dell. I only keep it because it makes my homebuilt computer look like a GOD next to it. If I had any more desk space, I would fill it too with computers, perhaps even a Commodore 64 to go with my colour Commodore monitor/TV that I have hooked to my VCR. I used to keep an 8086 Epson laptop around for emergency use with my UPS, but I ran out of floor space in my dorm room, so it is sitting at home with the parent's computer museum collection. [An unimpressive website currently, sorry.]
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
10 concurrent users is all this site will handle, now it's /.ed and......
OK I'll check back on this one in a week.
slashcache
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come ON you guys.......!!!
- I am made of meat.
We are not interested in how long your member is...or isn't.
Subject line says it all.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
A room full of computers and related stuff is a lot of fun... for a while. I got tired of the clutter, the boxes of CDs, the old disk drives, tape drives, power supplies, all the crap lying around all the time. All the junk just got in the way. But above and beyond all that, I got tired of my room looking like a geek's room - I wanted something a little bit more... tasteful.
(When did I get a sense of "taste"? I don't know it just happened to me - I didn't mean for it to... honest.)
So last year, when we bought a new house, I claimed the large upstairs bedroom and turned it into my study/library/computer room. I put up shelves to neatly store all my books - not just the computer manuals, but also the sci-fi novels, the old textbooks, the old albums, the artsy-fartsy books, the Edward Gorey books, and all the other books in my "collection".
I put a black leather couch by the windows, with a nice wood-and-glass coffee table set in front. I bought a bunch of Ikea bookshelf modules with internal lighting, some glass doors, some opaque doors, and built a wall of cubbies to hold the stuff I need near me. I set out a bunch of knick-knacks, plants, vases, even a couple of antique radios. I painted the walls a warm brown color. I bought and set out a couple of nice lamps. I even bought an on-stage stand for my Ibanez six-string.
Best of all: the room has a big walk-in closet. In there I put the nasty old bookshelves that used to sit out in the room. On them are all the computer manuals, the archive CDs, the stuff I don't need on a daily basis. On the other shelves are all the office supplies: printer paper, spare ink cartridges, backup tapes, and all that kind of stuff. In there I keep the crappy old stuff I don't use any more, but can't bring myself to throw away: old video cards, old disk drives, old cables, wires, etc., etc. The closet contains the ancient 233-MHz pentium system that serves as my Internet gateway. It also has the two filing cabinets that keep all the family papers. In short: all the ugly stuff is hidden away in the closet.
I still have some computer stuff in the room, but it's just what I need and as neatly arranged as I can get it. The full tower PC sits pretty much hidden behind the antique library table that serves as my desk. My trusty old HP 5L printer sits by it on the Ikea modules. On the desk are just the monitor, mouse, keyboard, and telephone. I have enough room to open up a couple of books without having to move a bunch of computer crap out of the way.
The clutter and crap that I do need on a daily basis is hidden behind the opaque doors of the Ikea modules, so I can close the doors and hide it most of the time. I have to make an effort not to let the Dr Pepper cans stack up, but aside from that it's pretty easy to keep my room neat and clutter-free. I know this is the opposite of the geek ideal, but I like it much better than piles of computer crap and clutter. My study is a pleasant, even peaceful, place to sit and hack, watch TV, listen to music, strum the guitar, or just sit and read. Highly recommended, if you've got the room for it.
--Jim
Real geeks don't brag about how much of a mess their Geek Room is -- Real Men Have Racks(tm).
I got tired having 10 PCs lying around on the floor. For real MIPS per square foot, you need a rack. I now have 4 dual P3 servers, 2 Cobalt servers, 2 480Gb NAS servers, and another 720Gb of RAID drives (along with the obligatory UPS, network routers/switches, KVM switch, etc) in 6 sq. ft. of floor space in a closet.
So there. See it here.
gnetwerker
I know we've been over the whole mirror thing before, but It would be really nice if slas(dot|code) supported some sort of building a mirror when the message was taken from queue and posted to the front page.
Just a thought.
ohhhhh, so THAT's how you post a comment. i'm suck a dumbass.
I can't compete with you, but...
The BiOFHsphere.
I'm moving out of the country so all I have left is the Cube, but this used to be my world.
- I am made of meat.
they don't run in terror from the sheer volume of Star Wars memorabilia.
I always wanted a Trek motif. Doors that slide open automatically when you walk near, a big-screen TV that turns on when I shout "Engage!", a captains chair, a young female Volcan communications officer in a short skirt. No, make that Klingon.
Then again, such tends to conflict with empty Domino pizza containers and Mtn. Dew cans.
Table-ized A.I.
in which case my email address is real
How looks your geekroom?
Dude.. wtf... Reading this 'story' I get the feeling I'm in #malaysia...
LEARN ENGLISH!!! IT COULD BE YOUR JOB SOMEDAY MIKEY!
Think about it.. I can write you a smartass gramatical response to your idiocy so quick you have to slap me for it (waits 20 seconds)
Forget pictures, real geeks use QuickTime VR! Anyway, here is my room. It is a fairly old picture, but not too much has changed.
with not nearly enough geeky stuff lying around (hey, I'm meant to be studying for exams).My desk.
Just thought i'd post pics of my room that people have found amusing since the current pics were /.'d, as will be mine, but oh well.
http://www.mikerosoft.net/~leftyfb/computers/
Will Robinson! Warning!
... soooooooooooooo drunk now ....
Sorry
---- "Logoff! That cookie shit makes me nervous!" - A. Soprano
Ok, so it's not exactly geeky but here's a collage picture I made up of my desk at home. The space works for me and the bright green walls keep me awake.
_nfotxn
Surely you mean "grammatically correct response" and perhaps even "smart-assed" or "smart assed".
Not to mention "so quick you had (or possibly 'will have') to slap me for it". I can't be certain on the last bit as your sentence is not grammatically correct.
Bitch.
- I am made of meat.
It's in me to be this kind of packrat. It runs in the family. But I've fought it like no other. Life ruled by your stuff is no way to live. You have to think about it, store it, fix it, trip over it... etc. MINIMIZE!
Computing is pretty central to my life, so it's reasonable that it's front and center in my space. BUT, it doesn't overwhelm everything else in life, so it doesn't overwhelm my space.
I had the 10 monitors, 20 cases, 286 in the corner life. Eventually, I said "WHY??". Couldn't quite throw it out, but I stuck the approx 100 kilos of crap in the basement of my office building with a note saying "FREE. TAKE.".
Down to one desktop PC (dual-boots) and a BSD nat and filestorehouse server. That's it. Not keeping and buying crud means I can have good components. I don't need 5 keyboards "just in case". I have a Kinesis, and it's bulletproof. I don't have a parallel printer. Don't think I'll ever have another. Well then, I don't need to keep parallel cables, do I?
I think a lot of people, geeks and non geeks, could learn a lot from backpacking or bicycle touring. 25 pounds of stuff is usually enough. Really. Buy less junk, live smaller, and be happier, guaranteed!
Is that a quad noisegate below the Belkin unit?
hmm my room, i have a fair amount of deskspace although 99.99% of it is covered with crap (papers, homework, books, novels, computer manuals etc) and i have enough space for my mouse. My moniter is under a shelf thing, on the left shelf is blank CDr'sas well as a huge stack of CD's that came in paper cases (the kind of software you get free with a printer) the shelf to the right contaings books, lots of them, sci fi (mostly), Computer manuals and general books. AS i mentioned earlier the area to the right of my mouse is completely covered with crapm currently there is 2 hard drives, the notbook i use for my computer science dossier, some blank CDr's i bought last night, an empty spindle (ran out of that spindle last night and had to go and buy the currently almost full spindle) about 3" of paper, a C++ book, 2 DVD's. TO my right (sort of beside the desk) is 2 CD towers containing most of my CD's (not including my binder). My computer is to my left and on the floor, the side is perpetually off for easy access (as well as slightly lowered temps). Beside my computer is my sterio which i route the output from my soundcard to when not using my headphones. Beside my sterio is my printer, a crappy epson bubblejet which i have invested about $600 in ink cartrages (gotta get me a laser) since i got it, aobut 12 times the value of the printer,
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it - Sir Winston Churchill
I have three VAXen - mv3100, MV4000/200 and an 11/750 with TU81 and a few RAxx disks, an SGI Iris Indigo, a few Sun Sparcs and a PDP-11.
In my Uni dorm room.
And I get laid occasionally. I win!
Feel that power? That's mah MOUSING FINGER
I just attended the Findlay, OH hamfest for the 30th time (only coming away with a few odd bits and a working Elsa Gloria XL and a non-winmodem 56k) I think we financed Heath for a few years, as he's got several nice powersupplies, etc. and... we had one of the first microwave ovens in town, he put it together as a Heathkit. :-)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
...your house has a bigger power generation & backup system than your ISP.
My geek room is... well... I guess I'll start from the door and go counterclockwise...
Two cardboard boxes full of stuff that my wife and I haven't looked at since we moved here. (Yeah, I got a geek wife... geophysics major, woohoo!)
Next, a SparcStation 10 with external 4-drive SCSI box and a 20" monitor.
A CD rack with an assortment of blanks, burns, and originals, no music here.
A Calcomp digitizer pad.
This spot is the first corner we come to...
My computer desk, which currently has my homebuild K6-III/450 system (which runs great, thank you) and a 17" monitor. External modem, zip drive, and tons of cables, running Linux.
A bookshelf with some cardboard boxes in front of them. These are piled with things like floppy drives and I think there's a Macintosh in there somewhere...
In the next corner is an old coffee table with some actual living plants on it, and two windows that you can see out of. Underneath is a UPS, a power strip, several ethernet cables and a couple pairs of military boots that I haven't used since I was in the Army.
Next in line is a wooden cabinet with a Cisco ethernet switch and an HP DeskJet on top. The DeskJet is plugged into the network via a Lantronix print server.
Then comes my wife's K6-II/350 system running Win98SE, on a desk. To the left is a flatbed scanner.
Next is a bookshelf with technical manuals and a shelf full of SCSI cases.
The next wall contains a closet that is inaccessabled, but is full of things ranging from spare circuit boards to rifles.
The closet is inaccessable due to a pile of stuff that I need to get rid of before my wife complains too much, but consists of
+ Several Apple IIgs's
+ More apple stuff
+ Tons of 5 1/4 inch floppies
+ All kinds of crap...
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
I stand in awe of all the uber-nerds on this board. I'm nowhere comparable to some of the people on this board (I've only got 6 computers at home) but I'd just like to add my two bits. I seem to accumulate hardware in any available drawer. I have drawers full of Riva 128s, Voodoo 2's, SB 16's, cables, etc. I've got a Celeron 366 motherboard + cpu combo sitting in the chest of drawers behind me (right next to a blanket and a couple of table cloths) and I've got RAM in random nooks and corners around the room. I've only been in my dorm room for about two months now, and I've already got a PIII-850, a PIII-667, and two 10,000 RPM Cheetahs sitting in the drawer next to me.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
This is in the corner of my bedroom.
It actually has a Cisco 2924 in it now though...
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
My office is a mess. It is better now, but at one point it looked like a history museum of computing in the 90's. Mac CI's, SGI refrigerator, UNIX workstations, Linux box, laptop, etc...
I'm not a computer tech, I'm a scientist.
My office is still a mess (parts for two new linux systems are lurking about), but I still keep one of the still working Mac CI as it has the what I consider to be the best Easter Egg in its boot prom.
One thing that I will keep is my collection of obsolete computer mice dandling from a hook on a wall. This is my new trophy case.
Perhaps I should frame this with some paper tape, linc tapes, and punch cards.
I'm telling I'm telling!!
Teacher teacher!!! Johnny is reading comic books instead of doing his biology homework!
Two-person college dorm combined equipment:
5 towers
3 portables
3 trinitrons
655gb combined hard drive space
160 unopened cans of pepsi
Ok i got a crazy idea, it has probably been suggested already but why doesn't slashdot take the webpages obviously hosted of a 486 with a cable connection (ie not a website like the new york times) and mirror it BEFORE they post it to the slashdot world. The slashdot servers obvoisly have the capacity to deal with slashdot as all of the slashdottings originate here. Perhaps that is the better option instead of leaving it up to the readers to post mirrors, by the time any reader who has the means to post a mirror a good link is slashdotted.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it - Sir Winston Churchill
Although I unfortunately have no pictures of it, I used to volunteer at a place called OTAP (Ohio Technology Access Project) in Dayton, Ohio where we would (and still do) take pretty much anything we're given and refurbish for usage by poor/disadvantaged.
Our basement and first floor of our building was and probably still is about a million times more crowded. We have WALLS of hard drives, WALLS of power supplies, stack after stack after stack of old motherboards and cases. Don't even get me started on keyboard and mice!
That's not to say there wasn't at least some organization -- there was, but it was always a little humbling to go down into a basement where the weight present in IDE cables alone exceeded your own weight.
I planned on inserting something witty here but never got around to it.
Not much without the pictures, I know, but it looked like it was getting Slashdotted. Here:
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Mozilla's view source made that so easy, too.
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I'm sorry, my english is not so good.
I am from Sweden or Germany - I am not sure where exactly.
Would you be so kind as to show me your monkey sex room? You know - these place where you have the sex with the monkeys?
Mod me down if you like - I'm laughing my bag off here. It's funnier if you read it alound in an eastern european voice.
here
here my current room.
here
I feel like such a geek newbie, I have so little crap in my room. All there is is one desk with a tower, 17" monitor, some cheap speakers, plus my random accessories (i.e. old 4x CD-RW drive that I still use, my router and DSL modem, plus a fan that keeps the air moving around, and also the empty penguin mint tins).
I also have some cables running to my laptop, which sits on the floor and warms my feet on chilly days. The entire setup, even though it's pretty small, causes the room to be 2 or 3 degrees celsius higher than the rest of the house.
And then I have the box of CD cases, from failed burns (my HD must really suck, if I try and burn at 4x, I get a buffer underrun, LOL). There's also a sledgehammer in here somewhere, I used it recently on a full/sealed bottle of coke (boy, do those 58 cent RC Colas have "punch").
The only real amazing part of this setup is the power cables. I have everything running on 2 outlets, using 2 power bars. It doesn't even dim the lights when I switch everything on at once, though, so I guess I'm fine. Guess there's an upside to 145 watt power supplies.
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some of you have put yours up so here goes mine...
my room
some people say it is messy...but I say it's homely
"linux is only free if your time has no value" - Jamie Zawinski
Too bad those are all so crappy. You're gonna have to work hard to make any money from selling those things.
Hmmmmmmm...
I'm thinking Beowulf. Anyone else?
Co-founder and designer at Music Nearby: http://musicnearby.com
I am surprised. This is obviously not a basement but some warehouse or junk shop. Get after this guy. Pictures are from some bankruptcy proceeding documentation. A Dead dot-com likely. We deserve better than tripe like this...(and we deserve better tripe than this...).
...Christ, I thought I was bad with 6PCs and 2 laptops! Thanks for this - I can show these pictures to girlfriends and family members when they question my sanity from now on ;-)
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Actually a number of geeks (meant in a very positive way of course!) I worked with one summer drank diet Coke. Which I never understood, as they'd get the chili-cheese-dip appetizer and Monte Cristos at lunch... If you're going to eat food like that, may as well enjoy the real thing!
(provided there are no medical issues such as diabetes of course)
I agree, except I don't think the tidiness is the problem. The problem is the computer whose different available colors are described by names of fruits. You know which one.
-SheWhoWalksWithToesLikeCobras Please enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
Most of it is in darkness (great way to hide the clutter) except for the vibrant colors on the monitor reflecting off screened sunlight. The two black towers next to it are Tannoy 632 Profile Plus speakers.
-SheWhoWalksWithToesLikeCobras Please enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
A.K.A. Rack Mount Madness!
my corner in Montreal.
Well since the site is down, maybe I should post my links of naked hardware.
Site full of geekguys and we all whip out our photos like a bunch of parents showing off their kids.
I have an old 3-bedroom house, but with 200 amp electrical service. Which is good, because 1 bedroom is for my wife and I, one is for our baby, and the third is my geekroom. I used to put photos of it on my website, but they're really out-of-date. Guests to our house either get a fold-out sofa or go to a hotel nearby that a friend of ours manages - they get a real cheap rate. We used to have a guest room but that's where the baby lives now.
The geekroom has two desks, two bookcases (tech stuff only - other bookcases in the house handle "real" books), and a big old metal shelving unit that holds a 16-port switch, three UPS units, a monitor, my Epson Stylus Photo, my current server (a little FlexATX box running e-Smith), a monitor, and a second PC that runs Mandrake and usually sits open because I'm always swapping stuff in and out of it. There's also a third PC on the rack that I just got - a Mini-ITX box that I'm going to run my server on because it's even smaller and quieter than the existing server. They're all on a 4-port KVM switch.
Then on the first desk, next to the rack, I keep my PowerBook G4, along with all it's gadgets (Palm cradle, Griffin powerMate, CF/Smartmedia reader, Keyspan serial port, iPod). I've got a Newton 2100 on the desk, too - I'm turning it into a web server soon and when I do it goes on the rack. My HP laser is on a stand next to the desk.
The next desk over holds my P4 system - I run XP on it and use it for gaming. I built this one over the summer. Wedged between the two desks are about 200 CD's that contain either software or backups of some sort or another.
In the corner of the room is an Athlon 700 that's currently semi-disassembled (I had to grab a couple of parts out of it for the P4), but used to be my gaming rig. Finally, the geekroom has some space allocated for short-term comic book storage. My workbench is in the cellar, along with virtually all my tools and the bulk of my comics (I built a moisture-controlled storage closet down there).
Geeky, but non-tech items in the geekroom include all my photo gear and slides, a small collection of stuffed toys, a 30-year-old (but still working) shortwave receiver, and a bass guitar.
Currently out on loan to my office is my Athlon 650 that I run Solaris X86 on. I'm testing some stuff for work on it, and it was handy to grab. We also have two other computers in the house - my wife has an iMac widescreen that she keeps on a small desk in our bedroom, and I have a hacked iOpener that we keep in the basement. Also in the basement are the DSL modem and my router.
This sounds worse than it is, though - my one geekroom is a disaster, admittedly, but the rest of the house looks like Martha freaking Stewart had her way with it. It's a good arrangement. I don't interfere with the rest of the house, and I'm allowed my one room to do as I see fit.
Unless, of course, we have another child, in which case my butt is banished to the basement. Good thing we had it finished this past winter...
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
I think the wallpaper in my room looks a lot better than theirs:
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I think that pattern would cause some serious eyestrain.
Describe my geek room? Ok but then I have to kill you. Seriously, lets see on one side is the futon (cheap metal and black cloth) then my work desk (4 Macs:7350 dual 180 running BeOS 5, G3(400) tower (beige) running suse 7.3, 7600 (G3 500) running 9.2.2 (had to install manually, and a QS 2002 dual 1ghz (10.2 server) then there are 2 web pads (crusoe), router, Ibsd firewall, 2 PCs ( dual athlon 2ghz and an athlon 1.3 media system ( win2k adv serv and win 2k serv respectively)having rounded the corner is my stained glass workstation and soldring area the the closet and exit door. Continuing around the room comes the wall-o-anime(TM)bathroom door then an 87 year old blanket chest holding my pitifully small 27 inch TV and DVD players and finally teh trademark comfy chair. all of this in a 10X12 room .. needless to say it gets hot in there.
The heat from the computers automatically adds to the heat of the room, causing the heater to turn on less frequently, that's what a thermostat is for.
Not sure if you are a troll, but, notice that he mentions his involvement in Team Vodka Martini These guys were mentioned on /. a while back (I don't feel like looking for the article). Although he says none of the computers pictured are used in the contest, someone named Jerkychew clearly has a lot of computers at his disposal. I doubt this is a hoax.
I always get a chuckle out of people posting to 2cpu.com and their signature includes their PC specs. I usually tell people about my stuff and either they think I'm nuts (until they need help fixing their stuff) or they mutter some obscenities about what I have. At one time I had 8 PC's running Windows and Solaris in a small bedroom. I have either sold the old stuff off, or given it to my daughter's school.
Now that I have a room with over 500 sq. ft., I can "stretch out"! I have two Ikea Effektiv desks with the following hardware:
2 Sun Ultra 1's (one Enterprise, one Creator)
1 Ultra 30
1 IBM RS/6000 7043-140
3 dual processor Celeron rigs (one for each member of the family)
1 HP LaserJet
1 HP DeskJet
1 Umax 2200 scanner
In the closet I have a Sparc 20 MP, a Sun 911 enclosure and a few SCSI disks. And for Christmas I am getting an Ultra 2!
I also have room for my 27" TV, two butterfly chairs, foot stools, large bookshelf and two file cabinets. My wife and daughter try their best to "trash out" the place but I always pick it up (it is "my" room)! It might not as much as some people have, but it still looks impressive!
My bedroom: .and 98SE (shares keyboard, mouse and 17" monitor with the Mac via KVM).
Beige Power Mac G3, upgraded to G4/400, with 17" and 14" CRT monitors.
iBook 500MHz
Home-built Duron 850 tower dual-booting XP Pro
Apple LaserWriter Select 360.
MicroTek ScanMaker IISP.
Series 1 TiVo with 120GB HDD upgrade.
My server room:
Two Power Mac 7600s, both with G3/400 upgrades-- one handles routing/firewall/mail/file/web/DNS/print, and the other runs the house via all those wonderful X10 modules and other things. They're named "Guardian" and "Colossus," respectively.
Cobalt Qube2, hosting the site of my friend the aspiring model (you might have seen her on Blind Date the other night).
NeXTStation Turbo with 17" black & white display.
AirPort Base Station.
Also in the server room, all functional but not part of the LAN:
Macintosh 128K.
IBM PCjr.
Macintosh Color Classic.
TRS-80 Model 102 laptop.
Newton Original MessagePad.
Newton MessagePad 2000.
Basement:
Power Mac G4/733/1.12GB RAM/40GB & 120GB HDD/SuperDrive (being prepped to replace the old G3 in my bedroom in January, when my bonus check buys the two huge LCDs to go with it).
Power Mac 6360, being prepped to be the backup server for everything in the server room.
Sony external SCSI AIT2 drive, to be hooked up to the backup server.
Homebuilt Athlon 750, used to test various equipment.
Two whiteboxes in slightly less than operational condition.
Two PowerBook 170s (one for my collection, and one to sell as a collectible).
PowerBook G3 Lombard, semi-operable, soon to be sold on eBay as a parts machine.
PowerBook Duo 270c, for my collection.
Two 'platinum' Commodore 64s with 1541 floppy drives & 1 1702 RGB monitor.
Two 3Com Audreys destined to become the control panels for the web interface of my home-automation setup.
Coleco ADAM.
Vectrex + shitload of games.
Sega Genesis + shitload of games.
Sega Saturn + shitload of games.
Atari 5200 + shitload of games.
Atari 2600 + shitload of games.
ColecoVision + shitload of games.
NES + shitload of games.
Panasonic 3DO + shitload of games.
GE DVD/CD/MP3CD/VCD player with region-selection mod.
Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh coin-op.
Zookeeper coin-op.
On loan to aspiring model friend until she can afford a computer:
Netpliance i-Opener hacked to run Win98SE with an internal 20GB HD and cooling fan.
~Philly
I'm really starting to have problems powering everything, right now it's all on a power strip with a bunch of 3-way adapters, but still not everything fits, and I'm probably asking to burn the house down. :/
There's also an obligatory Enterprise model. ;)
And no, I'm not summoning elemental forces in there, that's what I get from trying to squeeze a 25th photo onto the roll of 24.
Omnes arx vestrum sunt adiuncta nobis.
Just today, Pac Bell told me that they screwed up and installed my T1 circuit at the wrong address. If it was up, i'd link to photos.. but I just moved, and my girlfriend decided that having all of the computers in the living room just wasn't going to fly at the new place.
:-)
Now I have 2 full 60" racks in my kitchen. They're right by the fridge, so I can grab beer while I re-cable stuff. In the racks..
1 Power Macintosh G3/300 Beige Desktop
1 Power Macintosh 7200
3 Sparc 5/110
1 Power Macintosh 6100/66 wth a G3/250 card
1 Duron 750
1 USR TOTALSwitch with 2x8 10bT blades and 2x2 100bT blades
1 24 port 10/100 Foundry ServerIron
1 HP Vectra PII/350
1 Duron 950
1 Athlon 700 (netsaint/internal dns/dhcp/ntp)
1 Sparc LX
1 Athlon 700 (Windows 2000 Server)
1 Celeron 366 (junk box)
1 Celeron 300
1 PIII/533 (web server)
The other machines are scattered about the house. My choices were "make the machines look like they belong there or I kick your ass" so down the artistic road we went..
There's also a few more Sparc 5s, Power Mac 6100s, 8100s, HP Vectras, and another homebrew box and gawd knows how much cable strewn about the living room. I'm sure I'll find a way to "decorate" the place with that stuff as well.
I went back and looked at the story again. The phrase "how looks" was not used. The phrase was "how your room looks like" .
Perhaps "cultured" readers such as yourself, should concentrate a bit more on reading and a bit less on appearing cultured.
Yeah, computer stuff. Cool. But seriously, she's a friend of yours? God damn, dude!
One of my computer science professors, whom I will not name, had a collection much similar to that in his shed -- it was something like 30 lousy computers with monitors, all from the 386/486 era, that he had absolutely no use for and just had to have.
Then, on a stormy night, the ungrounded shed was hit by lightning, and it caught fire. While he was asleep, the computers began melting under the heat and released some very toxic gas -- which blew through the neighborhood, and killed the professor's dog along with a few other animals, and made a few residents hospital-bound.
Because of it, he was sued for quite a hefty bit, though he avoided jail -- so rethink stockpiling all those useless computers for itself, and give them away to charity.
I wonder how many people posted pictures of their computers with sticky notes on the screen. /me quickly starts resizing the pictures looking for passwords. ;)
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Yup you read that right... I have 3 gateway computers (120MHz to 150Mgz each) as legs to my desk, with a small desktop computer ontop of two of them and my monitor above that.. Then a APC UPS on the other gatway with a board lain atop them both to place my speakers, keyboard, mouse, and the many Piles O' Stuff (tm) (cds, zips, game manuals,etc..)
I have a picture on the 'net, but I don't want my dads 384Kbit uplink to be slashdotted..(sorry, but it's a business connection)
Oh yeah.. Almost forgot.. I have a number of the 6" Tux suffies around the desk as well..
...and I say tomatoe. ;-)
When people ask about heating in the winter, I just laugh.
:)
I have to laugh at this one because I have the same situation (luxery?). With 11 computers in my extra "server" room and a nice PC with two monitors in my own bedroom, it's always nice and toasty.
I'm just glad to know I'm not the only one with a server farm in their house. And you know what, despite what everyone may say about being a geek or having a life, I love it!
Who said Freedom was Fair?
slashdot owned it lol. Anyone have any of the pics on there, like are they worth it or what?
DHermit.com
First let me say I'm an audio geek and a computer geek too. Here's the command center. The audio/video area, and yeah those speakers can handle 500 watts rms *each* :) Don't forget the guitar amps And finally the shelves I built to hold the 30 some guitar effects I collect. And yeah, that's an Apple Network Server on the bottom of the rack running Linux!
Right, that way everyone can sue charity . . .
Oh wiat. Thats a bad thing to do.
No man is an island, But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie them together, they make a pretty good raft.
My girlfriend finally convinced me to sort through all my computer junk laying around so now I'm down to my two PCs and two rubbermaid containers of stuff. The worst was when she made me give up my six 120mb ide hard drives! --sniff--- I always thought they'd make a great wall decoration, but never got around to mounting them. Now everyone's talking about their geek rooms and I have nothing left! :(
Romeo & Juliet for 1337 hax0rz! http://www.redcoat.net/pics/romjul.swf
in our old apt.
loft
People who have witty things here blow.
Wow, these guys are hardcore. Their room looks just like a mysql error. I wish they showed how they did it, maybe I could deck out my basement to look like a BSOD!
My geekroom/bedroom is preetty simple...Two systems, one my server and one my gaming rig; a rackmount network concentrator that is pretending to be a bedside table for me; a Linksys switch, a 1988 laser printer, and some lamps and programming books.
Nothing majorly obtrusive.
I'd love a room full of Rackmount goodness, but I barely even use the Linux partition on my gaming rig; a whole second (third, fourth) system would never get used.
Geekroom, huh? Depends where you look. In my office, I've got 3 desktops and 4 monitors. A laser printer, filing cabinets, etc.
In my workshop? Probably 4 desktops worth of various components. None currently assembled.
In my truck? Multiband HAM radio w/ data and GPS capability. Homebrew mp3 jukebox.
And in my pants? Pager, cell phone, LED flashlight, Handspring Visor (w/ wireless net, of course), and of course, a Leatherman.
I have a girlfriend whose name doesn't end in
Daughter: Jesus Christ, just forget the whole programming thing. [Starts SIMS Online]
late night coding session.
However, while the general layout remains the same, I'm always changing the hardware, so this is what I've got now.
I guess one thing that's special about my "massive pile of computing" is that I like to collect some diversity in my equipment. I've got many different OS's, and most of my machines are not PeeCees (none are Macs).
Of course like many of you, I technically have several more machines than are noted. I refer to this as "the pile", and I basically think of it as the computers I could assemble and/or put into service from stuff I have if I needed to. Always nice to have crap laying around when you want to test something.
a partridge in a pear tree
I linked to my bedroom before, but this is probably the best place for me to post the link again.
//gs with monitor. At one time I had a UMAX S900/200DP hooked up as well That is loaned out, as is a Macintosh Centris 610.
Harware in the bedroom:
G4/933 hooked up to a 17" Studio Display, a 15" NEC LCD, and a 14" VGA CRT.
Apple PowerBook Duo 2300c with DuoDock II. Headless at the moment.
These two are hooked into a 5 port 100Base-T switch. The G4 is hooked (via another port) to a 100Base-T Internet connection.
Also hooked up to the G4:
CompactFlash drive, MemoryStick drive, Cambridge Soundworks speaker system, a Sony Clie T665c, a Canon S200 digital camera, and a Keyspan Digital Remote Control.
In the closet, I have an Apple
I am looking to add a Athlon-based PC to the mix (via KVM switch to the keyboard and the NEC monitor) to learn FreeBSD on. I am also looking at buying one of the new iBooks to replace the very aging PowerBook Duo.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
I know everyone here has been anxiously awaiting a picture of my computer setup, so here you go.
Yeah, I know, it's not much, but I don't consider myself a true geek anyway. I just have enough computing equipment to get by.
My room is essentialy divided into 3 parts..
;p
The opposite wall to this has anime wallscrolls, a vanity and a glass shelved thing, that has my Bamboo plant on it ^_^
;p also a trashcan right beside the table for easy access. The bathroom also faces this, and has a beaded curtain ^_^My drafting stool and clear rollymat finish it up ;p
;p got a small metal nightstand with a lamp on it and the omnipresent bottle of water.
Office
Big corner desk with a hutch on it. Nushi, 900mhz Thunderbird homebrew PC with a 15" Viewsonic VPA150 (no longer made) monitor and the ever cool Logitech Mouseman Wheel Optical with the lil blue LED logo ^_^, sitting in the corner part with the case its self under the desk, beside the monitor is my Belkin 4port router..; Tiffie, 733mhz G4 (Quicksilver) with a 17" Apple Studio Display (the lovely LCD ^_^) with a Intellimouse Explorer 3.0, beside it with the case under the other part of the desk (to the left) Beside that on the end of the left side of the desk is my oldskool PPort scanner, a Mustek A3 EP (11.7"x17"). On the other side is a load of cds and papers and bawls bottles, with a Polaroid PDC 700 digicam lurking in the clutter... Under the desk, besides the 2 computers, are nicely tied up and organized cords, and a zip drive... cause it doesnt fit anywhere else -_-. On a bookcase beside the desk (kinda making it a U shape) is my HP Deskjet 940C. also on the bookcase is lots of printer paper, cds, non-computer-related crap..Sitting on the hutch is more of the same..action figures, etc. Not to mention my cool leather office chair and blue rollymat
Art Studio?
A glass shelved large metal case faces it, theres a drafting table with a magnifying swing-arm fluorescent lamp, and all my jewelry making and drawing goddies on the shelves. The closet also faces this part and kinda spews into this area a bit
Bed
The waterbed is walled off in a corner by a metal and cloth screen behind the bookshelf of the office area, and the glass and metal shelves of the art area, and it hides very well
Etc..
Throw in various small shelf units with trinkets, and loads of vanilla candles of different shapes/sizes everywhere, and you're set.
"You all laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same."
Looks about right:
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If you're interested in guitar effects and amps, but like me lack serious cash, check out SlumTone. It's a little project I'm working on. Lemme know what you think.
Moving around my room...
;)
Coke cans, dishes, phone, television, spare controller parts for joystick, chair, desk, desk, desk, sketchpads, empty M&M's bag, more coke cans, wallet, scattered dollar bills, PS2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Textbooks, garbage, random cd's, coasters (failed burned cds), asthma inhaler, more soda cans, more trash, more dishes, cable modem, router, 4 surge protectors, leftover candy, more soda cans, air freshener, clothes, clothes, more clothes, dirty underwear, scanner, pencils, pens, a couple PS2 games, a GC game, a crapload of DC games, Redhat Linux CDs, Cough medicine, crapload of dead batteries, and an empty pretzle bag.
That's not even the half of it
Well, since the link in the story is dead you can all look at my room if you want. It's not particulary interesting, but it is a geek's room.
We're going to make information free Mr. Anderson, whether you like it, or not.
Google Cache, cause the site seems to have eaten its self:
Main Page
Doesnt look like Google has a Cache of the images page.. bugger, cause it seems the images are accessable, just not the mysql ran pages.
"You all laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same."
Well, I have an 'L' shaped computer desk (fancy thing, got it as a Christmas present a few years ago) that, until this morning, had my main PeeCee (Abit AT7/AthlonXP 1.47GHz/512MB PC2100/200GB of RAID/WinXP/ViewSonic 17" CRT,) my server (Intel MS440GX/Dual P3Xeon 700 1MB/512MB ECC PC100/18GB of 10kRPM SCSI RAID/OpenBSD/headless,) that was right next to it in the 'closed cabinet' area of the desk, which had it's door ripped off long ago because of cooling problems. On the 'L' extension was a rev.b iMac (160MB RAM/OS X Jaguar,) and a beige G3 PowerMac (233MHz/512MB RAM/OS X Jaguar/USB and FireWire cards.) But, today I finished rewiring the house, and relocated the server (hey, the thing is almost as loud as my vacuum,) cable modem, etc, to the basement server closet, and moved the iMac to the kitchen to be a recipe computer.
Also on the network are my son's Pentium II/400 with Win95 and a VooDoo3 3500TV; my wife's Pentium 3/1000 with WinXP, my Sony PictureBook (wireless,) my PowerBook 1400c with G3 upgrade (wireless,) a PowerMac 7300 (with OS X 10.1.5 thanks to XPostFacto,) a PowerMac 6100 DOS Compatible, a Quadra 660AV, a Mac IIfx, a Color Classic II, an SE/30, an SE, and a Plus. About 20 other Macs not on the network yet. (I need to find a LocalTalk to Ethernet converter.)
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
I'm in the process of purchasing a 50" plasma (I work for a manufacturer) and its going on my desk, at the foot of my bed, so I can watch tv too (TLC, Discovery, FoodTV, Travel Channel, and Sci-fi until I finally realize how crappy it has become) network TV blows but that is a whole 'nuther rant.
currently there is a 21" monitor sitting on my rack mountable KVM with 2 desktops next to it. a laptop off to my right, and a minidisc recorder under a Epson printer, and a bunch of misc stuff (cd-r's, GPS, Nostromo Speed pad altoids, pitcher for water... you get the idea)
on the floor off to the right there is my tower server, and 2 more standard servers. ive got a laser printer next to them blocking the heater so no one can turn it on. and a pile of books and crap within throwing distance of my right hand...
since I have been thinking of gettin the plasma, ive been seriously looking at my desk and how DISGUSTING it is (not filthy just MESSY), maybe its becoming a trend.. but I to am appaled by the sheer amount of CRAP that I have amassed... looks like a trip to ebay is in my future... I gotta offload some laptops to help off set the cost of the plasma!!!
moo.
he was sued for quite a hefty bit
ahh, todays society. If your computer gets fried by lightning - you get sued. If your house gets fried, the insurance company say "It's an act of god".
Why must people sue at every possible thing? It ends up with everyone suing everyone, and the only winners are lawyers.
Hang on, my S.O. is a lawyer - well will be in august. Forget that, sue everyone!
Was he successfully sued? That is, he lost? He should have promptly sued the manufacturers of the computers for compensation and the victims probably should have done the same, as it was the negligence of the manufacturers to use such dangerous products without informing the customer (can you imagine new computers with a big yellow warning label like new cars with airbag labels?).
Of course, that's what I'd do if I was a lawyer. I'm shaking my head at the whole thing -- lawsuits are getting to be too much these days.
Lemme know...
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
On loan to aspiring model friend until she can afford a computer:
Netpliance i-Opener hacked to run Win98SE with an internal 20GB HD and cooling fan.
She must be running her website with it, as slow as it was...
I think you have a typo, it's "feltch"
where's the link to that. that's awesome.
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I was going to post pictures, but all the image hosts I can find suck and the pictures are pretty large.
Oh well.
At home, I have all my core equipment rackmounted in a half-height HP rack. It's a full enclosure, with solid front door, drop-down door on top (my addition), and vented rear door. My APC UPS, Linksys switch, everything is rackmounted. I currently have only two systems in here, both in 4U cases--a large fileserver (3Ware RAID5) that is also my gateway, print server, etc., and my main workstation. On top of the rack are a bunch of media drawers for CDs, my stereo receiver (TV card in comp whose tuner sucks), and a Kyocera laser printer.
On my desk, which is a single-surface desk, convertible into a right-angle configuration (currently straight) with a keyboard drawer, I have dual 21" Trinitrons, my Klipsch speakers (drool!), and the usual assortment of crap. Between the monitors, a USB hub, and 7-in-1 media reader. To one side, a 2-line phone, tape, stapler, scissors, and for some reason a cup full of batteries (hmm...forgot about that). To the other side, a radio set atomic clock, a stack of Wheel of Time books, a couple stacks of CDR cake boxes, some music CDs, a bag of Kasugai roasted wasabi-coated green peas (great stuff!), and piles and piles of bills and mail. Fortunately, all up to date. And then there's the more fleeting equipment, both of my cell phones (normal and Nextell 2-way) for work, drink, etc. Underneet the desk is an old TV cart (containing various computer-related junk), another APC UPS, and my Klipsch subwoofer.
At work, I have the largest cubicle of anyone there. Sometime early next year (need to budget to have it fixed up), I get what every office worker wants--my own, real, lockable office. As large (larger?) than my bedroom at home. As for the cubicle, it's still large, and I have about a dozen 3ft by 1.5 foot by 1.5 foot cubicle cabinets, and about 4 desks, plus the usual wipeboard and wall of Sybase certificates (backup DBA).
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and I've obviously shortchanged y'all. Oh well.
My whole apartment looks like Lain's room. So ha! :P
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
Thanks for the link, I live in Fairborn, OH ;) I have a couple of (working) comps to get rid of
...aspiring model friend...
Yeah, no problems with aspiration here, that's for sure, not with that chest...
Have EVDO, will travel.
Well, perpendicular to the door. At any rate, Thufir Hawat would be ashamed.
..You know, I feel like I'm in a freakin' cubicle.
I've little space from that door, sitting here in my leather chair, but hey, I have a small room and lots of crap. Starting from the chair (Which is sort of in an alcove of sorts - to the right is both room to move about and a closet)..
In front of me is my desk. The monitor is slightly to the left, the keyboard in front, the ashtray in front of the keyboard. The box is on the floor to the right of the desk, the switch is mounted underneath the legroom to the left.
There's a good two meters maybe, of space, from the back of the desk. Going forward/left, there's a chest of draweres with a large cage containing a ferret. Going forward, there's a shorter chest of drawers, with some shelving built in on top, that contains everything from a small trebuchet (pointed away from me), to a mail coif, to empty bottles of piratey goodness.
To the immediate right of that piece of furniture is the TV/DVD/Dreamcast (Yeah, I was stupid enough to believe Sega would allow themselves to succeed at something)/etc. To the right of that, the server.
In front of the server, and therefore, stretching to the immediate right of my desk as well - the futon.
Good luck to your Raq..
It's midnight on a Friday and you have a modded up post that has the words "aspiring model" in it.
I will send a priest over to give your server the last rites. And you can bring your "friend" over I'll let her cry on my shoulder about the death of her website.
Many in this community are dog people, but is it my imagination that a higher percentage of geeks are cat people? It's either a startling coincidence or my life represents a real Nielsen-style rating as to the percentage of computer volken who like the furry little beasts...
This observation began for me when once I lived in an apartment complex with an exclusive population of nerds. It was the mid 90s at that time. Before I got there it was just a couple of Mac II-Ci's with phone-net (!!!) flowing out of the windows. I'm pretty sure we had the first network in the little beach-town of Seaside Park, NJ.
Eventually, there were 7 units each with Ethernet dangling from window-sill to window-sill. And only 500 feet from the beach! With a tremendous view of the Ocean from a kickin' deck upon which we would regularly grill mahi-mahi and the like whilst imbibing on food-breaks from endless network gaming and hacken (and more imbibing). It was bloody Nirvana!...but I digress.
All were tiny little cracker box apartments (we were beginning our tech careers at that point) that at the peak of geek occupancy housed a motley collection of Macintoshen, NT boxen, 1 NeXT machine (mine, a slab serving a 400dpi laser printer and also playing the part of a shuh-WEET NIS server), a couple of Linux box0rz and an Amiga 2000. PowerBooks galore. All nic'd and sharing the the love.
Nearly every apartment was populated with at least one cat, and in one case at least a bloody-stinkin' (emphasis on the "stinkin'" pheeeyew!) cat colony! I, resident mac-geek with a love of code and 3-d, had two...Lumpy and Jake. Neighbor James, who was an NT tech with a penchant for work-related travels to Kazakhstan on occasion, had two as well...Simba (a 22 pound orange basketball with legs and a tail) and Mim (tiny little fucker, even as a full-grown feline).
My friend Ian had a cat named Mr. Beau... Mr. Beau's special talent was vomiting on technology. Yup. If the thing flipped bits in some manner, and it was in Ian's apartment, that shit was getting vomited on. No negotiations. Also, beer was likely to have been spilled on said equipment at some point, but that I believe was (mostly)the fault of the humans about the place.
My friend Mark who also lived there was a 300lb pro wrestler who could lift full grown men over his head in addition to his impressive geek abilities. Adding to those formidable(and imposing)wrestling talents was a steady gig as Mac/NT/Network tech. The guy was also a 3-d rendering guru who made valuable additions to the old Ambrosia game Escape Velocity. He and his (then pre-) wife housed the afore mentioned (sHt1nKeN!) colony of kitties who (despite their numbers...and lovely odor!) managed to not vomit on the tech nearly so often. All the other guys had cats too. Not nearly as smelly.
Since those days, I've worked with a fair number of techs and the sampling of overlap between the cat-ownership and tech communities seemed to grow larger with the more tech-geeks I've met as time passed.
If I might posit a guess, I'd say it had something to do with the independant nature of both beasties. Here I speak of techie cr3tins (myself included) the race of kitt33z. Both seem to have a strongly independant sense of self. The solitary nature of bit-dribbling andromorphs is evinced most strongly by the the noticeable high percentage of said who also play musical instruments. When you think about it, in order to develop ability in either (music or tech), you have to spend a lot of time with yourself thinking, playing, experimenting. Cats, while not much on the thinking or tip seem to be quite competent at being on their own. Far more than dogs anyway in that respect...
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
...home looks yours geek ?
...gik hom lok yurs ?
or
oh man(), English is going down the drain!!!
Has 4 computers, i would take a picture of it, but my friends who have 8 cant find there digital camera, its some where in all the technolgy, and look at http://erikd.org/index.php?do=comps (erikd.org) and log on to irc.erikd.org to talk to all of us and our crazy adventures in linux land (don't ask...). hehehe
p.s. I would log in to post, but i forgot my password.
Hm. Took some pics when I had a digicam handy once. they're up here: http://www.namor.ca/pics/photos/IMAG0082.JPG http://www.namor.ca/pics/photos/IMAG0083.JPG There's more hidden, and a closet full of old monitors, a dumb terminal and stuff hidden around the desk, and every drawer full, but it's a nice little corner. And almost everything was donated - family comes first.
Besides the numerous computers, parts, and other geeky stuff... I remember when my roomate was moving out (moving to Chicago to go to school), he came in my room and asked if I had any cat-5 cable. Of course I did and I asked what for. He replied "I needed to tie my bag to the cart and i figured we didn't have rope but plenty of cable." I just started laughing and of course... got him some cat-5.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
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Honestly, now - How many of us have moved into a house with a roommate or two, also geeks, and said something along the lines of, "We'll get some wall plates and string some of this cat-5 in the attic next weekend..." Anyone? Oh, yes. You know what I'm talking about. That's where it starts, every time. The weekend comes and goes, several times, and the idea is abandoned some months later, but not before guests or inebriated roommates have not only got compound fractures in their shins, but more importantly they've snatched the ports out of the only two NIC cards that you ever actually paid for? Did you discover you could trip on a wire on the way into the bathroom in the morning and make a print server JetDirectly into the toilet? Did you question the fact that you didn't question the presence of a printer in the bathroom? Of course not. The bathroom was the centermost point between the bedrooms. Did you clean your room every two or three months? Not because you couldn't walk in, but because you'd lost yet another keyboard due to the cat knocking over the Great Beer-A-Mid on your desk and you knew you had another one in there somewhere? Did you think that in moving out of your parents' home and away from your little brother that your days of squarely planting the tender soles of your feet onto well-honed blades wielded by vigilantly waiting action figures were over? Oh, no. You still had to limp around painfully and try to ignore the bitchings of the little twit whose toy you'd just slain without remorse, only now you've got a hangover to go with it, and at least your little brother didn't have the habit of getting up minutes before you did so he could usurp your claim on the Last Beer for breakfast. Yes, brothers. I have felt your pain.
This guy wins, hands down:
;)
http://www.reputable.com/~skywriter/
Haven't even seen the link yet but I can honestly say that only instiutions have more hardware and bigger nut-jobs than Skywriter
Where?!? I don't see a single friggin' armature in the entire place! No windings, no coils, no brushes, no bearings, not even any pulleys, chains, belts, or a pillow block to serve as a hint of evidence that there might be an armature somewhere in that basement. What a crock!
What? Oh.... nevermind.
Isn't it time /. made use of BitTorrent mandatory for these kinds of sites? Could save on /.ing...
True, because as we all know, leaving the computer to goto the bathroom is the cause of pre-mature death of computer geeks!
Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all the unhappy people.
to keep the OTHERS out of the geek room...
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here you go
:)
As you can guess, the green curtain is a "female" influence
Ok here are a few links to my geek palace. enjoy.
my server
my laptop (Libretto CT100)
my desk
my room
and here is my collection of old computers
There are lots of other more detailed pics around the gallery, so have a look around
.:work is a selfinflicted handicap:.
Now this is a room that needs cleaning (that was in my dorm room when I went to cram school in Japan).
Speaking of rooms, this wasn't a very good idea. I went on a coding spree during which I spent around 30 continuous hours coding for about 10 days straight (came out to about 5 30-hour blocks). The problem is, I was sitting on the floor cross legged the whole time, only getting up to get coffee or go to the bathroom. Needless to say, it killed my knees, forcing me to invest in a desk and chair. Often times you can get away with being cheap, but sometimes, well, sometimes it kills your knees.
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I had every game system, an iPaq H3656, a dell laptop, my desktop, my turntables, my mixer, my mixing board, my keyboards, whole lotta networking equipment, wires everywhere, LEDs EVERYWHERE (when you turned out the lights, it looked like a little city). I had 30 plug-in-power devices running at any given time in my room. Until today, at least. My house got robbed, and some of my stuff got stolen. Not much, the pda, the laptop, and my xbox and ps2. It's okay, all replaceable, no sensitive information, EXCEPT MY SAVEGAMES AND MY GTA: VICE CITY!!!! AHHH!!!! Stupid theives.
Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.
;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.
Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.
mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.
bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.
bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.
guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.
office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.
hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.
tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.
server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.
wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires!
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Rackmount in the front room, next to the door and filing cabinets. Starting at the top of the rack there's a stuffed penguin sitting on top of the USRobotics 26-port TotalSwitch (24 ports @10mb, 2 @100bm), which is only in operation because the smaller, more useful hub is below it has no free ports. Left of the hub is the DSL modem. Under the modem resides our two 2u Intel L440GX+ server boxes. Beneath that is a 30-port telephone patch panel with only one port wired up. Leftover from trying to get a local FreeNet going... matching modem rack is in storage. Below that there's a small shelf with a monitor and KVM switch. Below that resides two UPS units, plugged to different outlets as current draw is too much with other electronics around...
Desk next to rack has a 21" monitor next to an aging K6 web browse/student use box (we do tutoring here). Then there's the two boxes in each bedroom her for personal use, the laptops, printers, and an ungodly assortment of peripherals and cards stored in the closets & scatterred around.
Let's not even get into the storage unit, which has all kinds of stuff... networking hardware for Apple ]['s even. Whoah.
When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong.
What ?! The lawyers are winning ?! Lets sue *them* !
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Almost all my computers are stuffed into one room, where I only am when burning DVDs. Check it out here and here. One Sun Sparcstation 5, one SGI Indigo 2, one Celeron 433, one Pentium 233 MMX, one Pentium 150 (not visible on the pictures), two SGI Indigo O2s (on the floor, not in use at the moment), one Amiga 1200 (not visible, not in use :). In the basement I've got two SGI Challenge S servers (not in use) and in the living room I got my laptop and a GameCube, PS2 and an XBox. :)
The home page translates "gomi no sensei" as "master of junk" but that's not really an accurate translation. The word "sensei" is used (at least in Japan) to literally mean "teacher" and "gomi" is more like "trash", so "gomi no sensei" would mean "teacher of trash". A better translation for "junk" would be "garakuta" and I think "shishou" or "tatsujin" might be more suitable translations for "master".
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"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
blakespot
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
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Actually a friend and I were joking around about this:
"All I need to do is get hit by a car"
"Why?"
"Then I can sue the driver"
"Oh, then you can probably start a class action suit about how something is wrong with the particular car!"
"Hey yeah, after that I can sue the city for not having enough crosswalk signs in the area or something"
"And then you can sue the hospital that treated you for malpractice!"
"And maybe the company that made the pain killers for some odd coincedental side effect, like a unibrow"
It went on longer, but I think that makes the point =)
Lets see, computer hooked up to tv and home stereo, also used for wireless router, laptops sitting on coffee table, old laptops just sitting on desk not in use anymore, cat5 all over the place, switch, routers...yeah i could go on...but its just not right....but we (roommates and I) need more stuff still :)
How do you take a picture of the best moment of your life?
A darkened house, lot's of beds, some furniture, Pink Floyd, 802.11b, some laptops (one iBook :) - no mess, the way it should be.
But then again, I'm not a geek, I'm just insane.
what goes up must come down, ask any sysop / sig11
You need more bandwidth... ;)
Well, let's see.
My geek pad's about 15 feet by 12 feet.
One wall's occupied by a bed(read: mattress on the floor) and a dresser.
The opposite wall's occupied by a 27" TV, 5.1 sound system hub, printer, scanner, two full tower cases, a mid-tower case, a VCR, an A/V switch, an ethernet switch, a KVM switch, a webcam, and an external CD burner. Including the various stands and shelves, the entire side of the room is fairly well geeked.
Perpendicular to the geeked wall is the I/O central, with a pair of monitors, six more speakers, two keyboards(one wireless) and two mice(one optical, one wireless). They're all on a desk that also has a bookshelf containing assorted tabletop RPG books on it, as befits the room's geek nature and its occupant's overwhelming social inadequacy.
Across from the I/O wall is the relatively technologically barren wall, which is solely occupied by shelves and drawers and a bookshelf, as the room has a relatively low ceiling(8' sloping down to 4.75'), and the bookshelf is just under 8' tall. That wall's also got the RJ45 ethernet port mounted, since I wired the entire house with CAT5 during a bored and lazy week last summer.
The whole setup's not too intrusive, all things considered. There's still a decent amount of floorspace, although one can move through the place at night navigating by the various multicolored LEDs from all the assorted devices. Still, apparently chicks dig the geek-room. Not a one has run screaming at the sight of it, yet, and quite a few have decided to stay for a prolonged period.
The only problem I encounter is that the house itself is roughly 120 years old, and thusly its power system isn't built to handle the degree of strain I put on it. When I kick in the window-mounted A/C unit, the lights tend to dim each time it cycles. Until I can upgrade the house's power infrastructure, there'll be no implementing of my minibar/microwave addition. Once that's done, however, I'll be able to store caffeine, liquor, and frozen burritos within easy reach. Then, truly, I shall be a god.
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i can imagine two workstations would be handy (although you can only use one at a time), and one webserver / router or whatever, and maybe a notebook and a handheld, but that's about it. What's the use of all the other computers and servers? I recall the last power failure i noticed was like a year ago, so it's not like i'd really need a ups. Besides, the more computers that are connected to it, the shorter the thing will hold.
So tell me: what is the point of having more than, like 2 computers in one house?
Come back when you get beyond the 'room' and need to expand to the basement. Half the entire basement. And that's just computer geekware. There's an entire bedroom filled with swords, armor, costumes and garb for me European Medieval Martial Arts and Renaissance Faire stuff. So , I have 3 geek rooms. And if you include brewing, make it 3 geek rooms and a closet (and expand the basement usage to 3/4 (1/2 computer 1/4 brewing).
Wow, I need to get my priorities straight, there's another 1/4 of basement that needs to get used for brewing!
-- There is no sig line, only Zuul.
Um, 2-liter bottles? :)
Available in plenty - Even Code Red is now available in bottles in diet form. (CR was available canned for a bit, but not for long - Now I can only find 2L bottles. But I can still get my Diet CR fix.)
Yup, I'm diabetic. Regular soda tastes weird to me at this point - One sip and my first thought is, "something is wrong".
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
The obvious solution was to place the can of paint in the middle of the room, and add a small explosive charge. Before detonating the can, ensure that all of the objects in the room that are not meant to be painted are coated in newspaper. Oh, and make sure that nobody enters the room while the fuse is burning. It will lead to much hilarity, yes, but also human silhouettes that will have to be hand painted later.
If anybody tries/has tried this, I implore them to please post links to photos.
~Idarubicin
lots of cats fetch. Usually the smarter ones and/or hybrids with some 'wildcat' in their blood(which are more intelligent that purely domesticated cats). One fact that most 'cat people' refuse to admit (or believe, or research, or even ask about) is that cats are not as smart as dogs.
The truth doesn't care what I think.
I'm with you. Thank god I don't live in America.
Yeah, like having more hardware makes you more of a geek. Right. Isn't it more about how you use it?
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If you moderate this, then your children will be next.
That girl is your friend...then you are the luckiest geek ever!
SIGFAULT
SexyKellyOsbourne is a known TROLL. This is just giving karma to a troll!
Yeah, right now I've got 608K down but only 128K up and it can be a little painful sometimes. I'm trying to hold out until the new year to bump up to the next tier, I think it's 384K up.
:-)
Still, the trusty little Qube2 stood up to a reasonably impressive onslaught of horny slashgeeks-- though it wasn't a true slashdotting by any stretch of the imagination.
~Philly
Alas, my young son was fascinated by the many computers (PCs, Macs and a NeXT Cube) in the loft and would try to push the buttons that glowed with pretty lights. Servers were being powered down by the little imp. I started to panic. Visiting a used office supply outlet, I discovered that I could buy expensive Hayworth cubicle walls for very little money. Presto! $600 later, I have an instant geek room in the middle of the loft that's also a cubicle with a door.
I built a seven foot tall cubicle along the main footprint of the loft, leaving a path to the bedrooms upstairs and not walling the edge of the loft that opens to the rest of the house. The door has a lock on it, which solved the access by kids problem. I lined the inside with bookshelves, hung up a few Mars posters and put dozens of slogan buttons on one cloth lined wall. When you walk into my home and look up, you see a full cubicle looming overhead.
I've recently taken the nook along the longer loft wall and setup narrow table tops across the whole length. At one end, I built an Elfa(tm) rack for my network gear and the printers shared on the home net. On the tables themselves I put my finest Apple/NeXT boxen (NeXT Color Turbo Slab, Power 8100, Apple ][e) on display in what I call my "Shrine to Steve Jobs". They all run, and are networked (well, not the ][ -- get real).
While this Geek Room pales in comparison to others, I think it does stand out for a couple of reasons. First, it's in the fricking middle of a 'married with children' home. How many wives would put up with this visual: a huge cubicle in the middle of their home. I think I won them over by networking the house and making sure everyone has their own decent PC (AMD boxen with lots of RAM). Second, it's small but packed full of gear -- three or four systems KVM'd together, three full height bookshelves crammed with sci-fi novels, NeXT programming guides, and every Mac or PC programming book I've bought since 1985. I got all the usual elements: eclipse light, scanner, A/V setup including S-VHS deck, laser disc player and small monitor television, UPSes, cables, cables and cables tucked under the desk. Office Depot chair on a carpet mat. It's all here. Even the propeller beanie.
The two most common things in the Universe are dark matter and stupidity.
Hrm...whats my room like?
All my friends tell me that my room looks like the Nebuchadnezzar from the Matrix. Four shelves, one for each wall holding model rockets and action figures, wall 2 holding RC equipment, wall 3 holding computer and RC equipment and wall 4 holding computer equipment. I've got speakers on each wall, and a sub below my desk. A 233mhz gateway is in my closet powered by a deltech Powerite Pro 2 UPS. My main machine, a silver self built, runs a 19" dynaflat and has an AIW card in it, also connected to my TV. Connected to the AIW is my dreamcast, and the N64 is going straight to the TV. There is an old IBM thinkpad sitting around, and a very old Compaq 5528 planar PC that I'm hollowing out for a wicked casemod. There is an aquarium that i would like to one day store fish in, but it is full of power supplies keyboards and mice at the moment. My closed and shelf is full of Gundams and random models. Dilbert sits on my stereo reciever, and I've got a Shining Gundam Fighting Wing Gundam.
I"m a well rounded geek.
13 year old white supremacists are shitty web designers.
Suing someone else is more satisfying than anything else- how else can you cash in on a person's hard earned worth through their mistake, AND also to have someone in power say "You were the one who was right, not them!" You ever see an M5 tailgating a Corsica? Why not? :D
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Check out these pictures of Audun Ytterdal's old cubicle!
OK, here in the real (i.e., married with non-geek friends) world, we have to hide this stuff. We do this because:
Here are the mantras in our house:
"It was a summer's tale: Just a boy, his Linux, and a head full of dreams..."
Really surprised me. I found him roaming my apartment complex years ago. He would keep finding hair bands (had a female roomate) and bringing them to me. I thought it was really strange. So I finally threw one of them - he ran, grabbed it, and brought it back. I've never seen such a thing - whoever had him before must have trained him.
He's usually ultra-lazy. He's laying at the foot of my bed sleeping as I type this. Glad to know I'm not the only one with a cat that fetches!
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It's amazing to me how these guys manage to keep their rooms so organized and uncluttered compared to mine. Perhaps it's the German penchant for neatness.
Those shure are mostly german geek rooms. :-) )...
Wooden paneling, old walls, square 9cm pine beams from the "Baumarkt", 230 Volt powerconectors, suse stickers, 'Kaltgeräteanschlußkabel' (sorry, don't know the english word for that
Just then I noticed the '.de' in the URL.
Bingo.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Something to look forward to in your old age?
BTW, ARRL = American Radio Relay League, an amateur radio organization, which publishes QST their monthly magazine.
If your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd murder you in your sleep
My computer room stays eternally messy. All attempts to clean the room lead to more crap being piled up.
A few months back, I tossed out a few old 486's. Next thing I know, I got a 4U rackmount Pentium Pro. ($25 on ebay!)
Then, I straightened up the room, getting the floor completedly clean. So my wife comes and dumps all my crap that's been piling up in the living room.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin
I'm with you. Thank god I don't live in America.
Same in the UK. If I hear one more advert with "Bob tripped over his shoelace and received £3000 in compensation, Poor John spilt his pint of beer, and he recieved £10,000! If you've ever done anything ever in the last three years, call this number and we'll get you one million dollars!.
Wasnt there a south park episode where everyone sued everyone else?
why is there this stereotype that a 'geek room' has to
be messy and fully of crap?
what about the 'neat geek' ?
i spend endless time at this desk tinkering and working on the computer.
i use a soldering-iron, i've etched my own circuit boards, disassembled
computers and CRTs (replacing analogue boards on a Mac+), and soldered
together with resin-core solder and built a theramin, written code,
built web-sites, ripped tunes, made mixes, read slashdot faithfully,
spent endless hours downloading, archiving, and organising data;
and in every manner possible, have tried to fully integrate technology
in a fully artistic way into my living - there is not a single component that
hasn't had thought put into it -- all here:
GeekRoom-Front.jpg
GeekRoom-Side.jpg
the apparent simplicity and cleanliness of this space belies the
inordinate amount of work that goes into making a well-used geek-room
so spare and uncluttered. there's several hundred CD's, a firewire hard
drive, burner, audio-amplifiers, with USB hubs and surge-protected
powerbar hidden behind the desk (with cables bound together with elastics).
there's a high-power HeNe Laser power supply, coils of wire, soldering iron,
toolkit, VOM and DMM, a scanner, boxes of data CDs and ZIP disks. the
hard drive and burner are neatly stacked in the left and right flanking
drawers under the desk. and to either side are a pair of loudspeakers
for audio work and listening to MP3s. when i undertake to dissassemble a
machine, and get the parts all spread over the desk - the whole METHOD of
doing so is well thought-out, and done with care, so that even in the
procedure, everything is done neatly.
so once again, just because its messy, doesn't make it geek.
there are neat geeks too, which are just as devoted to technology,
and do just as much tinkering as any of you.
best regards,
john
These are some low budget pictures. All these people are going to die of CRT radiation. Why do some people have one monitor for each machine have they never heard of a switch???
The best one was the guy with the rack and the "Windoze free zone" banner. Nicest setup of them all.
http://gallery.networkgeek.org/computers
There's a rather comprehensive quick look at what my 2 computer rooms look like.
i may not be that much of a geek (failed out of comp sci) but i do get laid, and often. in my social circle the only people who spend more time on a comp than me are the evercrack-heads ... but thats because getting laid alot cuts into comp time. in college i achieved this by limiting myself to only two computers and i set them up inside my closet with a little wooden stool in between. of course college students are pretty much required to have a comp on the desk so you can actually get away with having three, and that can be adjusted depending on the size of your closet/monitors/towers. ... as long as you keep the door closed ... shell have no idea about the skeletons in your closet. ... i just add deodorant when i can start to smell myself.
then, when you go out, dont wear cool shirts (trek, star wars, shirts with code on em) and by the time you get that freshman back to your hole
as for hygiene
"associate with men of good qualilty if you esteem your own reputation; for it is far better to be alone than in bad com
What's up with the preponderance of attics in the pictures? Can't these euro-geeks get their moms to let them use a room closer to the rest of the family? Or is there some benefit to living in an attic with sloped ceilings like Greg Brady?
Wasn't that a skit on SNL some years back?? :)
Learn to Play Go
I seem to be the only geek to had gotten rid of monitors via VNC. Only got one monitor for 5 computers, much less heat and I can hide the computers in the closet.
Not too long ago there was a link that long time behind a CRT is bad for your health. But the real message was that long time sitting behind a monitor is bad for your health.
Only a few rooms seem to have some sensible ergonomic setup. Look at the location of monitors, the very poor quality of chairs and the limited movement space around the desk.
Twisting part of you spine (in the upper neck or lower back) in a static manner will have major consequences on the long term for your physical health. Maybe this is something where geeks are not concerned about, or is not that cool to consider. But keep in mind you only have one back spine. And till so far the medical advances in swapping out an old spine and upgrade with a new one has been limited.
Wishing you all the best in health and geek wisdom,
SFMarco
Yes, give a computer nerd a digital camera and he'll take the WORST effing pictures you've ever seen! I was expecting something a little bit cooler than that. My lab looks better and I practically live there!
I found it interesting to note that many of these geek rooms seem to be located right in the attic.
With diagonal walls. Is this that common? Just asking, because none of my mates is geeking in a room like this here. :-)
42. Easy. What is 32 + 8 + 2?
If that's the same place we have the DayLUG users group meetings, I think I've seen it (though I haven't been in a while... sorry guys)
Don't they always have a booth at computerfest, with a bunch of old computers? (the old Commodores always bring a tear to my eye).
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
3 computers (this one running Suse 8, a new Dell XP box and an Apple 500 ibook), several telescopes, a boatload of Ham radio gear, a work bench, shelves full of astronomy,ham radio,computer and Space program books. A big framed photo of a shuttle launch, a contact award from the Mir space station, a QSL card from a QSO with John Balha on Mir in 1997, several shuttle contact QSL cards, A framed crew photo from the original Star Trek crew, signed by all 7 hanging on the walls.A meteroite collection. I guess I'm some what of a geek. But I love it!
Merl Terkin - not signed in yet...
One book I have has it but the other does not (1996 O'rielly CGI), list stopping at 501. Must of been added after 1996, or a typo left it out.
My desk
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Oh.. I'll back it up with an image.
The server that is hosting the picture is in the room in the picture.
http://www.optimumdata.com/ccielab
/w PA-HSSI, a variety of MC3810 and 26xx series VoIP gear, and whatnot.
:-( I need another job at a used equipment dealership ...
Was worth about $30k in that picture circa 6/2000. There is a Lightstream 100 ATM switch, a Cisco 7505, a Catalyst 5505 with L3 engine, an Adtran Atlas 800 and a TSU 600, an AS5200, a collection of 25xx series routers, etc.
For a while I had a 7206 with a PA-HSSI connected to a 7505 with a VIP2-40
I finished my CCNP & CCDP and things have decayed since the picture was taken - just a couple of 1605s and a 2620 I picked up yesterday
except my monitors are bigger ;)
They call themselves Geeks, and nary a ham radio or slide rule in sight!
Geez. . .
gosh. Oh, how I love seeing giant female ass' on the desktop.
Do you think if you layed back some on the computing time, she wouldnt be going on blind date? Now keep in mind, I told a girl that under normal circumstance I would have been in love with, that I couldnt see goin out to dinner unless the restraunt had phone jacks at some of the tables. I expect, that over the next few years, phone jacks will become common at restraunt tables(Im talkin fine dinning, more upscale places where dinner can be a couple of hours.) and then I will be able to date again. I cant wait.
Libranet GNU/Linux - Excellent Debian Based Distro http://www.libranet.com Check it out!
...funny how you can buy more computers than you can use but you can never scrape up the cash for a kvm...heh
I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something. (Charles Manson)
my geekroom was killed by a bird
perfect place to get rid of that stuff
... floppy drives ~$2, rj45 eth cord ~$1, and so on. there are tales of "the one buck guy" ... a friend of mine bought two complete computers (120mhz and 90mhz) for two bucks, but he only made one appearance at the flea and was sold out by the time i arrived at 9:30am.
... don't go there looking for something released in the past few months. can't find edo ram, pentium pros, a complete (~200MHZ) computer for under $100, or some strange connector? this is the place for you!
the mit flea ("Swapfest").
third sunday of every non-winter month at Albany street.
your post says you're in franklin, so get another uhaul and don't drop so many this time! tons of people in your position have offloaded all their shit (working and not) there. only costs $17 (plus $12 for each additional space, you'll probably need ~3 spaces). you set up at 7:15-9am and buyers swarm in at 9am (most sales are done in that hour, the good stuff goes in the first ten minutes). most sellers leave before noon, but (i think) it lasts till about 1:30.
there's lots of cool stuff there, all related to computers, wireless/radio, or 'cool gadgets.' stuff i've bought there include: door sensor, computer remote control, TONS of cables and connectors, cdrs, ropelights, my palm pilot, floppy drives, led's, movies, and tons of stuff the i have forgotten about. it's all dirt cheap too
one seller once told me "swapfest! get yesterday's technology today!"
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IANAL, but if you choose to store anything that can hurt anyone else on your property, no matter how safe you try to store it, if it does hurt other people, it is your fault and you will be sued. It may sound unfair, but it was still his fault that people and animals were exosed to toxic fumes, and he should be liable.
Hard to tell if any have posted thus far, but I'd be curious to know if the female side of the geek population has setups similar to the ones described. Or do they decorate with that mysteriously acquired 'sense of taste'?
And absolutely *anything* can hurt someone. This stuff is ridiculous, no matter how much lawyers try to spin it.
I have a bunch of computer crap around my house too. I'm so 31337 that I have three flat panel displays on my desktop and another one sitting on a steel rack with three PCs connecting to it. Who cares? Oh, and I have two Herman Miller chairs, which makes me even 31337er.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
I must be lucky - I have not one, but two geek rooms!
My main room is a small bedroom in which I have my main Linux box and an old 'doze box I use for one one piece of software, and someday I am ditching that and running it on Wine. Anyhow, my table is a 6 foot folding table (soon to be modified for a new server I am building - if I ever get my mb back from iwill in working cond), with a 19 inch monitor on one end, a KVM next to that, a phone, and an ATX power supply on the other end taped down with blue painters tape (used for testing motherboards). All the wires for both machines drape down the back of the desk and along the floor. I have a centralized DC power supply and bus running along the underside of the desk (to get rid of wall warts), which is powered by a Sun switching PS. I have what may be an almost one-of-a-kind IBM Model M keyboard (it is one made by Lexmark, but still has clicky keys AND the drain slots - strange) to type on, a Precision Technologies 3 button serial mouse, which rides upon a BSA "report software pirates" mousepad I "picked up" scrounging at DefCon 5. In a U shape around me the walls are lined with steel shelving floor-to ceiling, filled mostly with books, CDs, floppys, tapes, videocassettes, and other assorted crap. Speakers hang on the walls with power and audio wires running "open". My LOAF firewall sits on the floor next to me. My biggest problem is lighting - all I have is an adjustable arm lamp with magnifier lit with a 15 watt CF bulb. I am planning on adding a couple of smaller CF tube lights elsewhere, to help with the problem.
My other geek room? That would be my "workshop", which while attached to the house, can only be reached by going out on the back patio - there I have another small room containing all of my tools - regular tools, power tools, junk parts, miscellaneous computers in various states, old monitors, soldering and test equipment, a large greasy bench for building shit on without worrying about burning/mangling furniture or floor. Floor is bare concrete, it also has an attic access for other storage room, my half-completed recumbent bicycle EV hangs from the ceiling by hooks, patiently awaiting more work. I can do just about any work in there short of welding and be OK (and a welder is coming soon, but that will be stashed in the garage)...
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It doesn't look like you're running mod_gzip on that site...any reason why not? If you did, it has been known to decrease traffic load by 4x-8x in some cases...
I'm not sure if the Cobalt distro of Apache has mod_gzip by default, but I'm gonna guess not...if so, try this before you spend the extra change on a higher service tier.
Even Slashdot is using mod_gzip...
I HATE CATS !!!!!!!!!!!!! we have three lizzards three snakes a ferret a mouse two rats (for breeding lizzard / snake food the mouse was lucky and escaped the jaws of death) a dog and the wife has a kat !!!! It's allways a mess in here allways working on somthing wires everywhere. 16 channel mixing board 16space rack full of audio gear a sony svo-160 vhs machine dirrect tv box ,formac studio a mac g4 ,dell 550 a old e machine made for crashing a police scanner and other video gear all cramed into a 10x12 bedroom
On the other hand, there is no truer love than that of a dog. Its amazing the kind of things a dog will do for its human companion, even disregarding its own well being to help a human in time of need.
I am a cat person myself but ever since my cousin's St.Bernard saved my life once when I was 8, I respect dogs enourmosly. Although I could not have a dog in the house because of the ammount of attention they need.
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Dude, nice desk... ;)
Would love to see pictures of the floor, tough
Trolling aside, I'm a neat geek too, and it suckswhen other geeks look down at me. It's like, "you're not geeky enough, your desk isn't full of crap" even as I outhardware them, outcode them and even outQuake them. Stereotypes suck big time.
so lets say my house falls down, thanks to some freak flooding. The wall collapses into my neighbours garden and kills their cat. Is it fair I get sued because of an act of god?
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hmm - probably the architect, engineer and general contractor could get sued for inferior design and construction
and who hired them? YOU! that's who!
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I'm not a hardware junkie, but I am a music and sci-fi techie. My office is on the first level of our home. My wife got all crazy and painted it pumpkin orange as a brilliant background for all my Star Wars posters and books, my guitar gear, and my black metal CD drawers. The room wakes you up when you walk in, especially at night. I originally wanted midnight blue, but my wife gave me a killer computer room, my room!
Your sarcasm isn't lost on me, monsterzero2003 :-)
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