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. :-)"
Mine sounds a lot worse than it looks...
by
Blimey85
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· Score: 2, Informative
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?
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.
Actually, it's a legitimate (if somewhat archaic) sentence... like, "Ho, Volstagg! How goes the battle?" or "How stands the Golden Realm?"
(Methinks Michael and I spent too much time reading The Mighty Thor in days agone...)
Garg
-- Garg
Alumnus, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
Re:Amatures - A total fraud - not his basement
by
utahjazz
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· Score: 3, Informative
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.
Re:Why do we do this?
by
IIRCAFAIKIANAL
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· Score: 3, Informative
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.
Ham Radio has you beat!!
by
TarPitt
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· Score: 2, Informative
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
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!
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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?
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.
Actually, it's a legitimate (if somewhat archaic) sentence... like, "Ho, Volstagg! How goes the battle?" or "How stands the Golden Realm?"
(Methinks Michael and I spent too much time reading The Mighty Thor in days agone...)
Garg
Garg
Alumnus, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
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.
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.
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
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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