Posted by
ryuzaki0
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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Internet?
Is that thing still around?
H.J. Simpson
Re:Second post and...
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killthiskid
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· Score: 5, Funny
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.:)
Re:Second post and...
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grytpype
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Actually, that game is not called "fetch." It's called "throw."
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. -_^
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.
dust is essential
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h2odragon
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· Score: 5, Funny
Re:dust is essential
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frozenray
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· Score: 4, Funny
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.:-(
-- "There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
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.
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
Real Men Have Racks
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gnetwerker
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· Score: 5, Funny
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.
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.
a young female Volcan communications officer in a short skirt. No, make that Klingon.
You want your voluptuous female Vulcan to wear a short Klingon? Wouldn't that be both very disgusting and a major turnoff?
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!
-- --fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
Re:Apparently I'm not a true geek...
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iCEBaLM
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You're disqualified, they're not real computers, they're macs.
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.
You know you're a geek when...
by
coene
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· Score: 5, Funny
...your house has a bigger power generation & backup system than your ISP.
...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;-)
Re:Amatures ... indeed!
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nurightshu
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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.
Re:List of my stuff & gratuitous link to bikin
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KarmaBitch
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· Score: 5, Funny
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.
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.
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?"
Don't leave the computer!!
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orius_khan
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· Score: 3, Funny
-- Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all the unhappy people.
Shure enough: German geek rooms.
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Qbertino
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· Score: 3, Funny
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
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...
-- Sig removed because it was obnoxious
OK, what's the point of this?
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multiplexo
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· Score: 2, Funny
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.
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
The ol' slashdotted motif.
Table-ized A.I.
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. -_^
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.
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.
I truly hope you're not overcompensating for something else ('it' being inversely proportional).
Tb.
An OPEN mind is a beautiful thing...
Who did you rob? :P
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
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
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
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.
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!
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
You're disqualified, they're not real computers, they're macs.
-- iCEBaLM
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
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.
...your house has a bigger power generation & backup system than your ISP.
Two-person college dorm combined equipment:
5 towers
3 portables
3 trinitrons
655gb combined hard drive space
160 unopened cans of pepsi
...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.
Just a small dick, does that count?
Good idea, but my parents keep scaring off all my potential girlfriends.
late night coding session.
[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
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.
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.
Now imagine a gorgeous woman having sex with you every night...
Yeah, I do that already. Without having to wash.
Reliable, Great Value Hosting: $7.95/mo 2.4G/120G
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?"
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.
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
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...
Sig removed because it was obnoxious
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.