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Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like?
I thought it'd be fun to ask Slashdot readers one of the same questions we asked Larry Wall: What's your computer set-up look like? Slashdot reader LichtSpektren had asked:
Can you give us a glimpse into what your main work computer looks like? What's the hardware and OS, your preferred editor and browser, and any crucial software you want to give a shout-out to?
Larry Wall is running Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition), and he surfs the web with Firefox (and Chrome on his phone) -- "but I'm not a browser wonk. Maybe I'll have more opinions on that after our JS backend is done for Perl 6..." And for a text editor, he's currently ensconced in the vi/vim camp, though "I've used lots of them, so I have no strong religious feelings."
So leave your answers in the comments. What's your OS, hardware, preferred editor, browser, "and any crucial software you want to give a shout-out to?" What does your computer set-up look like?
Larry Wall is running Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition), and he surfs the web with Firefox (and Chrome on his phone) -- "but I'm not a browser wonk. Maybe I'll have more opinions on that after our JS backend is done for Perl 6..." And for a text editor, he's currently ensconced in the vi/vim camp, though "I've used lots of them, so I have no strong religious feelings."
So leave your answers in the comments. What's your OS, hardware, preferred editor, browser, "and any crucial software you want to give a shout-out to?" What does your computer set-up look like?
I haven't seen a teenage dick-measuring contest on Slashdot in a while...
What is a "Computer" Daddy?
It is like an iPad, son. Except it was used in the 21st century for things like pirating movies and games and committing terrorist acts. That is why we were assigned iPads by our local corpo-government association.
Thats really interesting Dad.
Windows 10 and Google Chrome all the way. Notepad++ for text editing.
Essential software, I dunno. I use Lastpass a lot. VLC for media stuff.
I'm whistling 300 BAUD into the mouthpiece of my landline telephone you insensitive cloh'/fIFYNUOb;/9' NO CARRIER
I use a Macbook A1342 upgraded to 8 GB of RAM and a 500 GB SSD. I run El Capitan for my OS. I've built gedit and use that primarily as my text editor. I can build or install most anything I want with Macports, which works quite nicely. I have a handful of other computers but that's my primary system. I've also got an old HP laptop that I use with some frequency, which has 3 GB of RAM and runs Ubuntu 14.04. But the old school Macbook is my preferred system. It more than gets the job done for me.
Surface pro 3 with docking station and 2 extra monitors, ubuntu-gnome 16.04, tmux, vim, finch, chromium, Opera (dev, with VPN) and keepassx (kpcgi)
wow, facebook looks different today
At home: a competent gaming + VR (Vive, DK2) machine running Win10. At work: top-spec Dell Optiplex running Ubuntu (not that I need top spec for all the LaTeXing I do).
I prefer Sublime Text and Chrome. Vim when GUI is unavailable.
Main system at home: Mageia Linux 5, KDE, but use Pluma as editor, Firefox, LibreOffice, Audacity, Audacious, Claws, vlc, Pidgin, Hexchat, ssh, etc.
Several-year-old homemade computer with a really nice Asus board and a 6 core 3.2Ghz AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, Antec 750W PS with huge, quiet fan. Centurion super tower case with 5x5.25" external bays, 1x3.5" external bays, and a lot of internal ones. Huge, quiet case fan, fanless Nvidia GeForce GT 730, 8GB RAM, several SATA hard drives in removable bays plus main drive is a Sandisk SSD, LG Bluray burner. Brother MFC-L2740DW all-in-one. LG ultrawide 29" LCD monitor (2560x1080). Cyberpower UPS, ASUS RT-AC68U router running Linux (of course). Ancient Microsoft Natural keyboard.
CentOS 7 with 4 virtual desktops. On Desktop 1 I keep my work stuff with Firefox, on D2 is my personal with Chrome to keep the logins separate. 3 and 4 are misc workspaces, like if we are running a training session I'll have ClusterSSH windows on D3 for the week.
;) Screenshots look very weird.
My monitors are Dell 24" with the left one horizontal (good for most browsing and looking at waveforms) and the right one vertical (good for coding).
There's a physical and virtual gap between them which has a banana stand holding my headphones for when my coworkers are too distracting.
For work, I moved from Windows to Linux before UltraEdit was ported, so honestly I just use Kate.
(nvidia control panel settings: Left: +0+275, Right: +2790+0 Rotate Left. That's on a sticky note because it never stays across reboots.)
I should put something clever here. Maybe someday.
Laptop with OS X, most of the time with an external 30" monitor. And no, I don't have any program on fullscreen there ... unless it is a game.
As I'm mainly programming in Java, Groovy, Scala I use an IDE (mostly Eclipse, but often IDEA IntelliJ).
Usually I have a VM running Linux (VirtualBox), sometimes one running an old Windows (like windows 2000, to run a CASE System like "Sparcs Enterprise Architect").
On both OS X and Linux I use bash and vi/vim. IDEs or dump editors make no sense if you are on the console and mainly do shell scripts. Emacs I simply can not use as I can not memorize its key short cuts. They make no sense to me.
Occasionally I do some AppleScript stuff, even more occasionally I use Automator.
I have no essential Apps, but an App I like, albeit not using it often anymore is "Omni Outliner".
Browsers: everything except FireFox (Safari, mostly Opera, sometimes Chrome and the new Vivaldi browser). FireFox auto upgraded itself to often into an unusable state.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
my development desktop machine died (seriously dead) late last year, so I'm using my laptop for now: - MSI gaming laptop - I7, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD - Windows 10 (hey, it's better than 8) - Visual Studio 2015 Since I am planning a new desktop development rig, let me throw the question back to y'all. What do you recommend for Windows development in terms of HW? I want to be able to run multiple VMs simultaneously, so I'm aiming for 32GB of RAM. AMD or Intel? I5 or I7? I want lots of screen space. Would a 4k TV (say, 40 - 50 inch) be preferable to 3 or 4 1K monitors?
linquendum tondere
Natch.
At least it doesn't, sorta, rhyme with Deloris.
Dell'); DROP table models; --
Gigabyte MB, 8 GB RAM, i5, 2 SSD (one for sys, Ubuntu 14.04 only, soon to become 16.04, one for home+data). A big monitor matte style with no super contrast that kills the eyes. Net via RJ45. Built in 2009 and still fast enough. Testing 16.04, it appears it's even faster!
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
One tablet to rule them all...
SP4 (i5) docking with 2 x 4k 42" IPS monitors (Mango Wasabi)
Work time: AutoCAD Building Design Suite, Bentley/RAM Elements
Play time: Reaper, CS 2016
Browser: Chrome (=email,cal,tasks in app windows)
Utilities I can't live without:
Image adjustment: Irfanview
Text editor: Notepad++
PDF: Bluebeam
I love when architects (esp. mac-based) come around and drool over the monitors with space for two (nearly) full D-sized PDF prints up at the same time, plus a pen-sketch on the tablet screen. I love it more when I tell them that the tablet is running the entire setup, and I can just pop the dock connector and take all of my work into the field.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Desktop: Windows 10, Firefox, Notepad++, Office 2016, Visual Studio 2015, Eclipse, Android Studio, IDLE Python, VirtualBox (running RHEL and Windows Server 2016 beta), Steam, Origin
Old Laptop: Lubuntu (I said it's old), Firefox, vim, gcc compilers, Swift for Linux, LibreOffice, and TrumpScript (for a laugh)
Phone: Android Marshmallow, Firefox, Google Office (came preinstalled in the phone)
I am running an ASUS G751JL 17-Inch Gaming Laptop that I have maxed out the specs on. I am running Sabayon Linux with the Cinnamon DE. As for editors, it is either nano or vim most of the time but I will use whatever is available. Web browsers don't mean much to me, I use chromium most of the time on this just because it is there. I don't really care much for Firefox but that is just a preference not that it is a bad browser. As for essential software, irssi for irc, Softmaker Office for documents (I am not hung up on the OSS thing), Virtualbox so I can run my Win7 (you couldn't print enough money to pay me to use Win10) so I have my Visual Studio for Windows Dev work (which I have been doing less and less of). Netbeans and Eclipse for Java and C++ work. Remmina for remoting into Windows boxes for management. Wireshark, NMAP etc for network stuff. ...
2x 8 core Xeon, 128 GB, 2x Tesla K20, Windows 7, 2 TB RAID, 3x 24" On order: 2x 8 core, 512 GB, 4x Tesla K40, 9T B SSD RAID, 3x 28" 4k
Laugh all you want, but at the time of release the 15-inch retina Macbook Pro was not that expensive.
I prefer 16:10 displays to 16:9 !
After three years, it still runs 8+ hours on its battery.
European Linux user, living in Antwerp
My computer set up is a disheveled pile of books, monitors, laptops, opened mail, unopened mail, notepads, trash, and other assorted items. Sometimes I’m lucky to find my power adaptor and phone charging cable under the mess. I have a scanner under there somewhere, but I can’t find it. The only reason I can find my printer is because it’s down in the basement, although it too is piled up with printouts I haven’t organized yet (and probably never will).
Sometimes I wish my house were like a TARDIS inside. I could pick up the stuff I use and move to another room every time I crap up the one I’m using.
Don’t judge me. Your office is just as messy and you have fewer excuses.
Most of my machines have ended up being Thinkpads (T61, X220, T440p, et al.). I also have a XMG P406.
All machines run Arch Linux with a choice of Gnome, KDE, IceWM, OpenBox, Fluxbox. The machine is use daily also has Deepin, WindowMaker, Awesome, i3 and Blackbox.
My preferred text editor is Kate and browser is Firefox or Seamonkey.
Main computer:
MacBook Air 11" with 2 Thunderbolt displays. Use Safari to browse, Eclipse to edit java code, Omnigraffle to do diagram, VmWare to run VM.
Game Computer:
PC with AMD-FX 8350, radeon HD-7970 32 Gigs RAM. 27" Samsung monitor (2660x1440). Play all games well even it still 3 years old.
Server:
Mac Mini + 2x Drobo storage.
Salut a toi EX Punk anarchiste devenu nouveau mouton conformiste...
Ah, good, I think it's about time to have a meaningless pissing contest. My work setup is three Dell UP2715K monitors in portrait orientation, giving a total screen resolution of 8640x5120, or 44 megapixels. If anyone can beat that, I will take you on in a stage-2 match of who has the lowest Slashdot user id.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10/32 Gb, Android Marshmallow
NAS: Synology DS212, 2x HGST 4Gb
Connectivity : Just got in AT&T Gigapower (showing 940 Mb symmetric).
Work:
MacBook Pro with one additonal 19" screen. Firefox + MacVim, except when I use PyCharm (with the vim plugin).
Most of my work is spent in iTerm2 and tmux anyway, since I have anywhere from 2 to 20+ SSH sessions opened. Also: pkgsrc.
Home:
MacBook Air 11", no additional screen. Otherwise, pretty much identical. Lots and lots and lots of USB3 external HDD.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
Dell PowerEdge R730 running VMware ESXi with VMs running CentOS 7 and OpenBSD.
Dell Precision T3610 running Windows 7 with Fedora 20 and CentOS 7 VMs. 31.5" wide gamut (Adobe RGB) at 3840x2160 resolution. Sanwa compact JIS keyboard, Wacom Intuos 5 pen and touch tablet, Logitech G502 mouse.
MacBook Pro (2010), 17" matte 1920x1200 resolution display, running OS X 10.6.8.
Who freakin' cares?
ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.32 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)
APK
P.S.=> As to software for more speed, security, reliability & anonymity-> https://news.slashdot.org/comm...
My primary machine is a I5 6600k, 16 GB of DDR4 ram, Asus Z170A mb, Radeon R9 390 gpu, EVGA 850W psu, Samsung 950 Pro M.2 SSD, 5 sata HDDs, a Blueray/DVD-RW drive... It runs windows 10, because I support windows systems more than anything else. Chrome with Ghostery and Adblock for the browser, though as Edge runs like hot shit on this system (for strange unknown reasons), Opera is my backup. LibreOffice, Notepad++, and google docs as editors depending on what I'm working with.
we are all invisible unless we choose otherwise
One monitor. Two computers. A stone old linux (tiny core, with busybox) on a c2d and an older freebsd on a via c7. Booted from USB keys. A shitty apple keyboard that regularly gets stuck on repeat for no reason. Or maybe that's just the USB stack, or Xorg. USB HID stuff is fun when you run out of memory. A veritable heap of broken parts like the two other monitors that used to be part of this set-up, mostly gotten for free, since too poor to buy actual hardware since that 2nd hand c2d. The software isn't much better.
But at least the network is all-gigabit. Too bad the uplink had 75% uptime over the last month or so. Yay liberty global cable.
Most used rig has an Asus motherboard running a core i5 with 4Gb ram and Windows XP (mobo can take up to 32Gb but no point adding more). Software is Reaper, Sound Forge, Sony Vegas, A few odd little Audio utilities, Lots of VSTs, old version of Logic Audio. Talks via 3 x Unitor 8 MIDI interfaces to large banks of hardware synths/drum machines plus old 8 track reel to reel (controlled by SMPTE from one of the Unitors). Still on XP as there's no driver support for my MIDI interfaces post XP and I'm not throwing out perfectly working gear. Not network connected.
Other development machine runs a Gigabyte mobo, 8Gb RAM, Ubuntu 16.04, Windows 7 in a VM (to run Visual Studio I've got a number of home written utilities to help catalogue my recordings etc. etc.)
"I have a Cray XC and will soon get a Shasta - yes, we'll paint it orange. Suck it losers!"
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit on Core i7-4790, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founder's Edition, Samsung 840 EVO 512GB SSD
I used Notepad++ for most of my editing, and I use Google Chrome for my browser (with LastPass, AdBlock, and Google Personal Blocklist as my extensions).
My main box is a couple of years old on the CPU at this point but it still cranks pretty fast. It helps that I upgrade GPUs every 2 years usually.
Core i7-4770K
16GB RAM
GeForce GTX 970
1 LG 34" 21:9
2 Acer 27" 16:9
Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSD for boot and core apps
2x WD 2TB HDD (RAID 1) for everything else
Windows 10
With 4 versions of Visual Studio (2008, 2010, 2013, 2015) and the rest of the 10+ apps in startup, my time from power on to usable desktop is about 75 seconds. (yay SSD)
The title says it all. I have basically the same setup on my workstation and laptop, which both have an Intel Core i7 and 16gb ram.
Supermicro 7048A-T with dual Xeon E5-2687W 10-core 3.1GHz CPUs, 512GB DDR4 RAM, three 4TB PCIe SSD (LVM for 12TB fast workspace), 8x8TB SATA hard drives (56TB SW RAID5 bulk storage), 64TB SATA SSD system, GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB video, Fedora 24. Life is good! Wrote my own multi-threaded multi-dimensional signal processing software in C to support my research. Xfce, gcc, lapack, atlas, plasma, imagemagick, mplayer/mencoder, emacs, bash, firefox, thunderbird, google-chrome, google-earth, virtualbox, xmms, audacity, pitivi. Have used Fedora since Core 1. Detest systemd and gnome3. At work, all of my computers/laptops have pushed the HW envelope, and all run Fedora, augemented by VirtualBox for the obligatory LoseDoze powerpoints and docs. At home, family has had ~12PCs/laptops, all run/ran Fedora; kids grew up using LibreOffice/OpenOffice. Live Free or Die!
HP i7 16GB RAM 256 SSD Win10 Laptop
Seamonkey w/ adblock and no script
nirsoft_package
windump
putty
nmap
notepad++
Keepass
Acronis
WinRAR, 7zip
truecrypt 7.1a
LogMeIn
EMET 5.5
MS Office & Visio 2013
Virtualbox w/ pfSense and CentOS
Sumatra
Imgburn
Filezilla
OpenVPN, Cisco VPN, NetExtender
XVI32
AD Info
Cisco_usbconsole_driver
Desktop is very similar but with games and a lot more storage. Desktop is a Lian Li case w/ Gigabyte MB.
I'm in your box watching you masturbate to Hentai.
Thinkpad T440s, connected to 27" (landscape) + 22" (portrait) screens in a 3-screen extended desktop mode.
Debian Stable (backported 4.6 kernel) with KDE (and its tools - konsole, okular, kmail, etc.), Firefox (main) + Chromium (backup) + Chrome (backup #2 for group Hangouts, etc.) as browsers.
Couldn't live without: ssh, git, rsync, bash, (i)python, OpenOffice Calc, R (RStudio), vnc, Skype, VirtualBox (Windows VM inside for proper Office).
Probably running some hundred software tools daily, 75% remotely in computing centers.
Meh,why not.
Main workstation / gaming:
i5 4590, 32GB RAM, reference GTX980, 128GB OS drive, 8TB ( currently, some disks are down and haven't been replaced yet ) of spinning rust storage. All run on a Server2k12R2 workstation. Razer Mech keyboard.
Also running 3+ Linux VMs and one FreeBSD VM at all times. Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom almost always running.
Hooked up to a Sony Bravia 40" 1920x1080 color corrected TV for display
Mobile workstation:
Lenovo with an i5 and 16GB RAM, hooked up to who knows what display since laptop displays generally suck. Still running Windows 8.1.
2x 1TB spinning rust drives.
Highly mobile laptop for Word / excel / taking Photoshop / Lightroom along:
2014 Retina Macbook Pro with 4GB RAM and an i5. Usually has some type of external storage hanging out of it since the internal drive is only 128GB. Fuck El Capitan, still running Yosemite.
To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password!
2 x 4K screen + 1 HD + 1x1920*1200
HD is connected to qn HDMI splitter so I have 3 screens zith the same outpu, so I use that for movies and video.
There are 2 keyboards, a mouse and a trackball connected.. One pair on my dersk, the other is for my tv setting.
Desktop is XFCE. Seperated screens and no Xinerama either.
Programs I use are liferea, mostly for the RSS feed of the several hundred Youtube channels I folow. Open the tab and click on a script to go to a website. (code is at http://houghi.org/v/?code and written in gvim)
Also XBMC, mutt, gvim, roundcube and all that belongs to it. mpd as music server.
For the making and posting of wallpapers I still use Usenet, so several scripts for that. My knowledge stops with Bash, so no real coding.
Geeqee for looking at and sorting of images.
But again, the main thing is screen real estate. My last Windows version was 95 and at that moment dual screen was not that easy and multiple desktops was unpossible. I have 5 on each monitor and each has a specific set of programs open.
The major pain I have is with Firefox. I have seperated monitors, screens and desktops and I must have 4 different instances of Firefox running if I want to have them on each screen.
I have two SSD drives where one is a backup of the other. Main data (like movies, pictures and music) is on a 4 port NAS. A second NAS does the backup for that data.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
At work: White box (assembled in house as are all our work machines) with Windows 10 (x64). Using NetBeans for editing and Microsoft Edge for browsing.
At home: openSuSE Tumbleweed (x86) on an old Atom based little tiny Asus VESA mount computer. I don't do any editing there. Stuck with Mozilla Firefox for a browser there (x86 really limits the options, I prefer Konqueror, but so many pages don't work with it now).
I have a Cray XC and will soon get a Shasta - yes, we'll paint it orange. Suck it losers!
Main PC: FX-8350, 2x Zotac GTX 950 AMP! (one was a RMA upgrade), 990FX-Gaming G1, Samsung 850 Evo, LG supermulti, NZXT Source 220, Win7x64
Secondary PC: 1045T, 1x Asus GTS 450 OC, GA-MA770T-UD3P, Intel SSD, another LG optical drive. Currently running Ubuntu, but I switch it up periodically.
NAS: Pogoplug v4 running Debian, MyBook 3TB
Router: WRT1200AC running OpenWRT
Printer: HPLJ2300DN +128MB DIMM
Total cost under 2k with monitors (currently using Samsung Syncmaster 2693HM)
Total standby power under 30W (even if PCs are in sleep mode), TDP around 550W not counting printing, I have a hard time even getting my PC up to 300W in spite of SLI.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Debian 8 minimal, w/ MATE on a mid-2014 Core i5 2.8GHz Retina MBP.
OpenVPN, Spotify, nano. I'm pretty boring.
This year it's:
-AMD APU in 2 out of 3 machines, intel Pentium (G3225?) in the 3rd for shits and giggles
-Windows 10 on everything, great OS, runs so much faster and more reliably than Windows 7, auto-reboot updates are annoying
-Chrome browser, it has some performance problems but it's the only browser I know of to offer free remote desktop over the Internet (Chrome Remote Desktop)
-VLC, #1 essential on every computer
-MakeMKV, for backing up DVD and Blu-rays discs
-One 27" LED Monitor @1080P, same for each system other than HTPC which is hooked up to 42" Plasma @1080P
-HP 10-key-less compact keyboard (shame they stopped making them)
-Logitech mouse (the really good one that's 7 years old now, MX something?)
I fix computers for a living so no need for special software, I just consume media and games with my own computers. The only thing special I have are a good set of tools and anti-static mat/band gear. Everything else is in my brain from decades of experience.
-==- Buy a Mac and leave me alone!
Main box: Current Ubuntu. Firefox. 22" VGA LCD (with DVI adapter). Some quad core thing. 3 tb, also runs a Plex server with music I actually purchased, all lossless, many of it higher def (96 or 192 khz, 24 or 48 bit).
Other box (via KVM): Win 10. Also some quad core cpu. Almost exclusively used to VPN into work.
Our network is neater. We have an extra WAP wired in, so we have a pretty large area with a pretty strong signal. No, our refrigerator isn't networked.
Apple, on a budget, relatively speaking.
A Late (-middle-age) 2008 Unibody Macbook (non-pro), upgraded to 8 gig of RAM with an excellent cheap SanDisk SSD (more excellent than the crock-of-shit Crucial V3 I put in it before, grr, now that was a waste of money). Bought from new but now over seven years old (model will be eight years old this year when it finally drops out of macOS support). On its second battery and second charger (the charger being the only bit of bad design in the thing). Still _rocks_. Keyboard getting a bit mushy after 7+ years of 18/7 use though.
A 2012 mac mini, un-upgraded, 4 gig, 400 quid Apple Refurb with a small apple wireless keyboard, a Tragic Macpad a friend gave me for free (whee!), and two Dell 19" turny-rotatey IPS panels I got for 80 quid in total.
Used with care, old Apple kit is _super_. Especially given how much faster Affinity Photo is than Photoshop. The old macbook even runs Virtualbox pretty well. I'll upgrade (probably to a 12" Macbook because portability is more valuable than power, but maybe to something older and reconditioned) when Sierra comes out but I'm sure I'll find a use for this thing. Maybe I'll run Windows 10 on it; I don't have a Windows 10 machine.
Secondhand iPad Mini: not such a great thing. In fact it's never been good. But it's my only television.
iPhone 5S recently bought outright at close-out price: I've been an Android user until this point, and would still be if any Android manufacturerr made anything this small!
I have ended up a just-Apple user, but it really is not out of fandom. Best tools for the job / surprisingly good value for money when all qualities are considered.
An old Thinkpad X61s. Disk has been replaced by a modern SSD, 3rd battery, memory upgraded to maximum 2GB. Internal fan has been replaced twice.
Running XUbuntu (started with Debian years back), using Chrome for browser and mostly Emacs for editor. Eclipse is working OK, as long as I fetch my morning-coffee while it's loading.
I like they keyboard, I like the screen ratio. Going to stick with it until I find something modern I like.
All home-build from parts, I've had the same case for over a decade.
Dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 ; Ubuntu is where it spends most of it's time, as this is my work OS. I no longer attempt to be productive on Windows (and haven't done for around 7 years), it contains only games. If I need Windows for work purposes, I have a Windows 7 VM I use for that.
For work, Eclipse, a bunch of text editors (usually ones with a vi emulation... or vim), normal Unix tools like VPN clients, secure shell, etc.
When I got a job that was mostly working at home, I also upgraded from an external USB drive to a RAID-0 NAS box, which has 4TB of RAID-0 in it. It's an x86 box rather than one of the ARM ones, so I can run normal Linux stuff on it in the potted Linux the vendor supplies.
Wireless router is an Asus RT16N flashed with OpenWRT (chosen specifically for compatibility).
My laptop is a Thinkpad 460s - slim and light but upgradeable enough to take over from my desktop for development if need be.
Since I am at work: Windows 7, Internet Explorer and Windows Notepad.
Exherbo with a pretty default gnome setup editing files in Vim, At work i use Windows 10 due to propetiary software we use and sublime text.
T60 running Ubuntu Mate. 4GB Ram 90GB HDD. Firefox because Chome 32bit is no more. This computer is in my woodworking shop and generally covered in sawdust. Still fast as hell for an old computer. T420 running Ubuntu Mate. 8BG Ram 250GB SSD. Chrome. Used primarily as recording station with Ardour. Also a Plex media server. Always on. T430s running Kali and Linux mint cinnamon 17.2. 8GB Ram 250 GB SSD. Chrome. It's my all around, do whatever the hell I want computer. Only one I travel with when on tour with my band Caspian. I'm the only PC guy in a van full of Mac dudes. Raspberry Pi2 running Ubuntu Mate. Mostly used for screwing around with python and small electronics projects.
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?...
Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
Verified by Malwarebytes' S. Burn "I've seen the code & it's safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... who also HOSTS & RECOMMENDS it!
APK
P.S.=> Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity. Compliments firewalls (w/ layered drivers blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).
That's NOT 'bloat' - it's ANYTHING but!
(It only uses native Win32/64 API's, no 3rd party libs + straight Object Pascal code only!)
I don't give away the code to make the mistake Google did having Chrome abused to create a malware doppleganger -> http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
Everyone KNOWS DNS = LOADED w/ security flaws & bloat https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (antivirus & routers being hijacked too) ... apk
emacs 4 lyfe
I use a 4 year old Toshiba with 6 GB ram and a spinning disc for storage. Isn't that quaint? I stick with the latest Ubuntu LTS version because it has the most reliable support (security updates). Other spinoff versions like Mint are downstream from Canonical Ubuntu and don't react as fast (or as well) to hacks. Cinnamon is pretty but lacks the basic desktop features I want .... user defined launchers for URLs, programs, and files.... and the ability to dock those launchers in a user defined panel.
I use Xfce as desktop although Mate is a close second. Mate is pretty but slow. Mate is legacy code so it is unlikely to get faster. Xfce is fast and might get prettier, but I'm not holding my breath.
"He took a duck in the face at 250 knots." -- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
My main gaming system is 7 inches at rest and 8.5 inches fully turgid.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You're collecting computer environment fingerprints for the next Stuxnet, aren't you?
Been on welfare most of the year so I can mooch all the free stuff I can before Obama is gone and American's have to get real jobs.
2010 Mac Pro 2.8 ghz 4-core running Windows 7 with some hardrives of various sizes, 16gb ram and an HD7950, 24 inch Monitor 1080p a Dell XPS 13 l321x running Linux Mint a Surface Pro 2 (my mobile entertainment device) a 2011 Macbook Pro running the latest Mac OS attached to my Yamaha P155 (I prefer the Braunschweig samples from Imperfect Samples) As for text editors Nano on Linux and Notepad++ on Windows. Browsers? Whatever works best for the page I am viewing, I really have no preference.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Microsoft Edge, Visual Studio 2016, Universal^WMetro App development, and secure boot so that pesky Linux virus can't infect me.
My home computers are pretty uncomplicated; an iMac at a conventional desk in the office and a Mac Mini at a standing workstation in the home theater, attached to the projector -- but my office setup is arguably where I've put the most effort and thought. I have five computers at my desk, serving various purposes. (Some are on a stand-alone development network, one is a version control server, one is my internet box... etc.) So needless to say, a KVM was one of the first necessities, there.
I also have three monitors across my desk. The KVM connects to the center 20" display, while the flanking 24" widescreen displays act as secondary displays on one or more computers. None of my computers actually support all three monitors, mind you... but most of them support at least two. Just for fun, I've also copied the same collection of panorama desktop backgrounds to each workstation, so that I can view a contiguous background image across all three displays, regardless of which machines are currently active.
Over time, I started thinking about the idea of having a standing workstation in the office, because I kind'a like the one I have at home, and because everyone has always lauded the health benefits of standing more and sitting less... but getting the Powers That Be to sign off on an expensive new adjustable height desk would be nigh impossible. So I designed my own "poor man's" standing desk. It's still the same desk I've always had, but now there are three stacks of old software engineering books (which nobody cares about) under the monitors, elevating them to standing height. I also used a bookshelf supported by some steel paper organizers (again, which nobody cares about... because who organizes hard copy papers anymore?) to elevate a keyboard and mouse appropriately. As an added element, I connected up a secondary keyboard and mouse on the desk under that bookshelf, so that I can sit down when my legs grow tired.
And they do. I don't think I'll go to all this effort again, when I finally leave this job behind me. Maybe I'll just hit the gym more often, instead...
in the late 90s I had very elaborate setups and multiple computers but these days things are much simpler. I have a MBP with a fast external harddrive for timemachine backups, a github and bitbucket account, and about a dozen servers at linode. I guess I should also include by Samsung S5 Active since it has JuiceSSH on it and I use it for taking care of the linodes when I'm out and about without my laptop.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
See subject: I provide more proof than your offtopic troll bs, & it's quite current, Mr. unidentifiable ac. Where's your proof it's malware vs. what I put out from Malwarebytes' own + virustotal? It's not.
* You have none.
(Plus, Open SORES'ing code can be a BIG mistake as Google found out w/ Chrome (which I pointed out w/ documented proof as well) & now? They're CLOSING the source to the latest Android (doubtless due to that blunder)).
APK
P.S.=> Hilarious! "Your kind" (jealous "ne'er-do-well" trolls, lol) could have the most powerful computer ever made & it'd be wasted on your type - you don't do anything of worth... I do! apk
My main computer looks like a brain, well, because that's what it is.
My two "main" auxiliary computers look like a smart-phone and a laptop because, well, that's what they are.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Windows 7
nearly 10-year-old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with SSD
Mozilla Firefox web browser,
AutoIt scripting language,
SciTE and TextPad tabbed text editors with regex support,
IrfanView
FinePrint virtual printer for N-up printing, combining print jobs, univeral print preview, saving without printing, etc.
and VPN client to connect to work.
I use NUC5i5RYH with Linux Mint 18, Windows 7, Windows 10 and El Capitan hackintosh, with a 4K DCI LG Monitor. Small but sufficient for everything.
Main PC: Lenovo Y700 (i7-6700HQ, 8GiB DDR4 2133MHz, 256GiBSM951 SSD, 1TiB HDD)
OS: Arch Linux
Environment: XFCE4, Numix theme with numix-circle icons. Taskbar on top. Docky on bottom.
Editor: Sublime Text 3 Dev (registered). Nano on command line.
Browser: Google Chrome.
Email: Claws mail.
I run Virtualbox on this with a number of different versions of Windows, Linux, and Haiku.
Secondary PC: Toshiba Libretto 110ct (Pentium MMX 233MHz, 64Mb EDO RAM, 4.3GiB HDD)
OS: Alpine Linux
Environment: Command line / Openbox / Windowmaker (I switch as I see fit)
Editor: Nano
Browser: Suckless Surf, Dillo
This machine is used for development and testing, and as proof that modern tasks can be reasonably achieved with ancient hardware.
We have 5 main computers at home, the OSes are:
1 running Ubuntu 10.4
3 running Linux Mint 17 KDE
1 running Linux Mint 18 MATE
The 4 towers all have ASUS mainboards with i7 or i5 SandyBridge CPUs. The 5th computer is a ThinkPad T420.
I put either 8GB or 16GB RAM in each tower. All the towers boot to a SSD. We have a grand total of somewhere around 30 TB of HDDs deployed among the towers.
The monitors are 2560x1600(30 inch), 2560x1440(27 inch), and 1920x1080(52 inch).
I use CM Storm cases.
I need to put graphics cards in the towers (NVidia), because Linux (still) doesn't have good drivers for watching video through the on-chip Intel GPU without streaking and tearing.
(Other computers: An ASUS Android tablet, and several Raspberry Pi's.)
I'm stuck with an ancient Lenovo t400, 4gb ram, 160gb disk. I'm forced to use Win7, bloated-notes etc. I also have a t410 with a ram upgrade and a spare caddy that i swap an 128gb SSD with Debian (Net-Inst) when no one is looking. I use that for packet captures etc. (you know, actual work). The "forced" is due to VPN requirements that do not allow non-windows because of security reasons. also, I've never gotten bloated notes linux client to install without it ever completely hosing up my system. bloated noted does not like wine either for me. it's going away, shouldn't matter much longer.
having said the above, day to day performance and usability of these systems is not bad. I'm not doing an huge calculations or processing, just network engineering stuff. i do not find these systems lacking in this mode.
Isn't this just a post designed to get people to start arguing about editor preference, whether Micorosft is evil or open-source is bad, whether Hillary is a crook or Trump is the devil?
Move along. Nothing to see here.
All my desktop systems (4) are the same:
Black cases, fanless power supplies (power is good, quiet is essential)
Asus MB with AMD processors (all 4 cores one octo-core)
All with 8G RAM one with 16G.
All boot a SSD with OS and applications with from 1-3 TB rotating storage. ( Two main systems have key switched RAWPOD off line internal storage for backups)
Main system AMD 8320 8 core @ 3.5 GHz, boots Linux MX-15 (a great polished debian derivative)
Wife's Windows 7 Pro box has an AMD A10-6700 (65W @ 3.7 GHz) .gds files.
Firefox ESR on all. The AMD FX-8320 has klayout for editing
At work, Windows 8.1 (ugh) i7 5820k, 16gb ram, 500gb ssd. Dual monitor setup, because I code.
Personal laptop, asus zenbook ux31a, dual-booting windows 10 and ubuntu. Recently upgraded the ssd on it to 1tb after the 256gb that came with it failed. Other than that, fantastic laptop.
Home gaming machine, Dual booting Windows 10 and Steam OS. Same as the work machine, except 1 tb platter hard-drive (I need to get an ssd for it) and a geforce gtx 970.
Home file storage / media server. Atom processor d510, 4gb ram, running ubuntu server. Storage drives running a zfs pool raidz setup.
I have an old mac mini in the office that doesn't get turned on very much, except when I want to try my hand at some iOS development.
I, too, wish to contribute to the most tedious thread on slashdot today!
Home: 7 year old 27" iMac, running El Capitan. Still running pretty well, although starting to get a bit sluggish.
Work: 3 year old 15" MacBook pro, running El Capitan. Still working great.
On both, VMware Fusion 8, with vms running various flavors of windows and linux, for when I need other operating systems.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnet C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnet C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnet C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned/downed dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam payloads
9.) Protect vs. phish payloads
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get past dns blocks
12.) Keep off dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks & hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data edit
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu/ram/I-O use
* Nope... not as well OR at all, lol - + I'm on topic, you're not & trolling!
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... - ClarityRay defeats it & Ab+'s crippled by default http://www.businessinsider.com... AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...
AMD FX4300 quad core overclocked from 3.8 to 6.3GHz
8GB RAM
500GB 1st Gen + 250GB 2nd Gen SATA drives
Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR5 to a 21.5" monitor@1080p
Fast enough for EVE Online at max everything fullscreen and Kerbal Space Program at native resolution and all the pretties on. Also great for video editing when I plug in a 1440x900 second monitor which is usually plugged in as a second screen on my laptop.
A project I have in mind is an ATX frame with mounts for up to a dozen 2.5" drives in a standard flight case. Just because.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Main system: Dual-CPU Xeon E5-2680v2 (10 cores per CPU, so 20 cores total, 40 w/hyperthreading), 128 GiB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 1 TB spinning disk, Quadro K2000 GPU, three monitors (2 24", in portrait mode, 1 30" in landscape), running Ubuntu 14.04 (upgrading to 16.04 soon). Desktop is the AwesomeWM tiling window manager w/10 virtual screens on each monitor.
Why so much horsepower? I work on the Android OS and a clean build takes an hour even on this beast of a machine and with make -j60. Why three monitors? Because I haven't gotten around to adding more. Duh.
And, yes, I'm posting this to brag, and making Tim the Toolman grunts while doing it. :P
Oh, and EMACS is the One True Editor. Nothing else compares.
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
Home computer is set up for games, which unless you are in denial means Windows and Steam.
My "laptop" is a 2 in 1 tablet running windows 10 and set up for writing (I write shitty novels as a hobby)
My work computer runs Mint, but the real magic happens in all the Docker images that let me run and debug a mini copy of our production system.
Dell XPS8700 from Costco (they sell XPS8900s now). Two actually; my son saved his money and bought one too. I found that I could only save about $100 doing my own build with the same components, and it was worth that to me to have a warranty and place to take it back to in case it broke.
i7-3770; not a 3770K, but this is an appliance, not a gaming rig, so no overclocking needed. 12GB RAM, 250GB SSD main drive, three 1TB secondary drives, one for Windows, one for Linux (Mint 18 Cinnamon under VMware), and one for backups.
Two-port KVM for this and my work computer, since I work from home. ("I got yer open plan RIGHT HERE, pal!")
Watch the prices in your Costco ads, and when the machines go on sale, which they do a few times a year, grab one.
My computer sits in the original CoolerMaster Stacker case with the side cover off, in a 3x5 cabinet built into the attic of my 1/2 story second floor. 8" window fans (one now broken) ventilate it from the attic side on days when heat becomes an issue. The internals are a Skylake 6500K, 16 GB RAM, an EVGA 1080 FTW, a 512GB Samsung 950 Pro M.2 boot drive, a Samsung 850 EVO 512 GB SATA, and a Soundblaster Z. It runs Windows 10 Pro and occasionally other guest OSes to play with. I am looking forward to dinking around with Ubuntu desktop on it, but not enough to install the fast ring. I browse on Firefox with ABP, Media Player Classic for media, PDF X-change for PDFs, Office 2007 with macros etc disabled (only because my wife owns a Home and Student copy and I almost exclusively work with only basic files of my own creation, otherwise it would be Libre Office) Search Everything because I can't be arsed to do chores while waiting for searches. This feeds to my sit/stand/treadmill desk which I made out of a DIY Uplift motorized base and a recycled interior door as the table top, with leftover laminate flooring as the top surface. On the desk are an Acer XB270HU IPS 1440p G-Sync 27"' monitor as primary, and, for now, a BenQ XL2410TX in portrait mode. It was previously my main monitor and replaced a SOYO Topaz S that exhibited ever more frequent image corruption. I use a CM Storm Quickfire Rapid tenkeyless keyboard, a $15 gaming mouse that tracks exactly as I expect, and an Oculus Rift with a Razer Hydra that I bought years and years ago on Woot for around $80. Also, no money to buy VR games because I blew this year's discretionary funds on this system.
At the office, I use a MacBook Pro a lot, but the iPad Pro is very useful. At home, I use the iPad Pro almost exclusively. This is what works for me. Please don't tell me that the iPad can't be used for "real work". I've been using my iPads to help out with my professional work for the past six years. The iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil is the best one so far.
I have plenty of computers in the house, but "my" computer is a 2009 iMac running OSX 10.6.8. Notable feature is several multi-terabyte FireWire external hard drives. I have newer ones, but I don't like the later OS revs. My Windows machines are the same; I actually use Windows 7, despite having newer revs.
With upgraded RAM and (of course) graphics, and SSDs. Works for me...
Operating system: Kubuntu 14.04.
Desktop Environment: KDE.
Browser: Firefox, with Classic Theme Restorer, uBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie Monster and Session Manager with auto save every few hours. I also have Chromium for when Firefox proves to be too restrictive for some sites. I also use Opera and rekonq occasionally.
Editor: vim and has been for decades, even before vim was invented (yes, plain vi on UNIX System V).
2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning.
Shuttle XBC
Intel Core i7-4790K
16GB RAM
Samsung Pro 850 SSD
OpenSuse 13.2
Firefox
I built my current computer a bit more than a year ago. It runs FreeBSD-10 stable. The hardware is:
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (8 cores, 16 threads)
- Supermicro X10SRA motherboard
- Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4K monitor
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 750
- 32 GB ECC 2133MHz DDR4
- 4x Seagate 5TB enterprise disks
- 1x Samsung 850 Pro 250GB
I'm running ZFS, and the SSD acts as an L2 ARC
my work desk at home has a Windows PC and a iMac. For video editing, the Digital Audio Workstation, and CGI/ Graphics work. Two LG Ultrawides on the Windows machine and a pair of portrait 22" monitors flanking the 27" imac. There is also a stack of used mac minis set up for a render farm running 64gig SSD's that makes Reaper and Final Cut render like a screaming ape.
At work work... the one that pays me a weekly wage I have a windows laptop, an OSX laptop and a Linux workstation. The laptop is a "Meh" class 2016 Lenovo 17" that is slower than the 2012 Macbook pro. the Linux box is technically a server as it's a 16 core sun server repourposed for running assorted VM's for differnt projects and hardware simulations.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Maybe that's a better slahdot survey, what's your primary workplace ?
- A chaotic mancave
- A lonely couch
- A glass designer desk with accompaning feng-shui room
- A toilet.
Me, I can't decide between option one or two.
After facing the fact I'm 'retired' whether I want to be or not, I downsized to an energy efficient 8 GB MintBox Mini (with the optional big heatsink) running Linux Mint 17.3 Mate. The MintBox is mounted to the back of a ViewSonic 19" DVI monitor. Favorite applications these days are Chromium, ThunderBird, VLC, Libre Office and Transmission. Coming up on my 20 year anniversary of banning Windows machines and starting out with Mandrake Linux.
Three displays: a 22" in landscape (fits my desk better), and a pair of 24" displays in portrait.
I'm running PC-BSD on my desktop, so my hardware choices are conservative.
Lately the 8 GB limit of my aging desktop box (though extremely quiet and reliable) is proving problematic, so I'm in the process of flipping my ZFS server box (Sandy Bridge Xeon with 32 GB ECC) to become my new desktop. The server itself will downgrade slightly to a second-hand box I picked up recently, a quad core Xeon with 24 GB of ECC.
I expect to use DTrace fairly heavily under Bhyve once 11 comes out, and I've heard rumours that this is only 99.99% stable, so I don't intend to use my server for this purpose, and only one of my two Xeons has the nested page table extensions required by Bhyve, so the fancier machine becomes my new desktop per force, not that my greedy side is complaining much.
Now that I've suffered through the PC-BSD / TrueOS transition all around (not painful, but not exactly free either) you'll pry boot environments out of my cold, dead hands.
But the simplest summary is this: wide + tall + tall + ZFS + boot environments.
My desktop is running a ZFS mirror with two 500 GB drives (both with five years power-on time) and just a couple of weeks ago ZFS started to autocorrect a block or two from one of the drives on each scrub. Nothing shows up in Smartmon, except the age.
No sudden rush to finish this transition project. I've got backups, and early warning, and verified live data.
Work:
i7 - 6700K
Radeon R9 380
64GB RAM
Raid 0+1 (2x 512GB SSD)
1 10 gig Ethernet
2 x 1gb ethernet
I run Dual 24" HP Z24nf monitors.
Microsoft Egonomic wireless sculpt keyboards
OS: Ubuntu + Win 10, with VM's of every windows version from XP - 10, and VM's of 14.04 - 16.04 of Ubuntu, VM's of Centos 6, Centos 7, and last a VM of FreeBSD. The FreeBSD VM is on 100% of the time, and I typically boot into Win 10 for admin work with the domain, and that's it. All other work and daily use is on Ubuntu.
Home Computer:
i5 - 4460
16GB Ram
Raid 0 (2x1TB SSD)
GT430 Graphics Card
Old style Dell Keyboard , with Microsoft wireless mouse.
1gb ethernet wired
802.11AC wireless card
Home Backup Computer/Media Server:
i3 - 3220
32GB Ram
LSI 9280 in IT mode
Norco 2u SAS Expander
12x4tb Drives
OS: NAS4Free (FreeNAS is cutting edge but NAS4FREE is solid as a rock).
My home setup:
Primary - Brix Gaming mini-Desktop with quad-core 3.5Ghz I7/16 GM RAM/SSD CPU, Windows 10 Enterprise, Visual Studio Community Edition, Unity 3D, Sql Server, Notepad2, Chrome - only safe browsing .
Secondary - 4-node cluster for CI, automation, database. 4 Intel NUC units with dual-core 1.8 Ghz, 16GB RAM, SSD in each. Windows 2012 R2, Visual Studio Community Edition, Sql Server, no browser.
Terminal/mobile - 5 year old sony vaio laptop with dual-RAID-0 SSD and dual--core 2.5Ghz processor - Only Firefox, any browsing, separate network
Networking - PfSense SG-4860 - FreeBsd
I was surprised to get on Slashdot this morning and see my question to Larry Wall inspired an article. So, uh, thanks for the shoutout Slashdot, couldn't've made it here without you...?
.DOCs with both LibreOffice and MSOffice to make sure there's no weird formatting compatibility problems; 99% of the time it's MSOffice that causes it, by the way), Notepad++, Cygwin, Thunderbird, Firefox (I'm using Nightly because e10s is great), GWX Control Panel so I don't get molested by the "free" "upgrade", PeerBlock (I don't trust the Windows firewall), and some other nifty tools.
I work for a translator company, where I am a technical assistant. Because of legacy Win32 programs, I have to use Windows 7 on some standard HP desktop. I try to make the best of it with LibreOffice (N.B. I check all of my
At home I recently bought a beautiful 27" 4K monitor, which looks amazing, and everything runs perfectly smooth on my i5-4590 quad core, GeForce GTX950, 16 GB RAM, SSD set-up. On this computer I have vanilla Ubuntu 16.04. I'm not a programmer, so all I use to edit with is nano because it's simple and light, and I don't need all the nifty features of emacs or vim.
Some shoutouts to things I like:
- Signal, an encrypted messaging app on my Android phone that is endorsed by Edward Snowden.
- KeePass X, where I save all my passwords.
- ownCloud, which I use to sync my encrypted files over the Swiss provider Woelkli (again for privacy & security reasons).
Two Xenon 2.4 CPUs, 72 GB Ram, a 500GB SSD primary and a 3TB secondary drive, Nvidia GTX 970, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, Visual Studio 2015, and Chrome.
Corsair Obsidian 800D Case
Corsair H100i AIO Cooler
Corsair HX1200i PSU
(8) Ugly-as-sin beige Noctua 120mm/140mm fans
(2) Original Generation NVidia Titans
Intel 4770K
Asus Maximus Hero VI mobo
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM
(4) 4TB Seagate Mechanical HDDs
(3) 512GB Crucial SSDs
(1) Asus BD/DVD+-RW
DasBoot Keyboard
Kensington Slimblade Trackball
43" LG 4096x2160 TV/Monitor
Windows 8.1 x64
I used to game a bit...
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
I used to build my own desktops and servers to save a buck, but ever since I figured out how to make my time worth something I just buy macs and prebuilt servers.
I'll list my two "main" systems:
Gaming:
CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k
Memory: 32GB DDR3
GPUs: NVidia GeForce 980Ti and Quadro K1200
Storage: 480GB Samsung 950 NVMe + 120GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD + 800GB Western Digital Hard Disk
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Displays: 2x 3440x1440 + 2x 1600x2560 (portrait mode)
Productivity:
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600k
Memory: 32GB DDR4
GPU: NVidia Quadro K1200
Storage: 2x 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD + 2TB Western Digital Hard Disk
OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Display: 1x 3440x1440
I'm moving this week and I'm going to move more monitors over to the Productivity system. I really do love that 3440x1440 form factor.
My main machine is a Mac Pro running El Capitan but I don't actually use the El Capitan environment much. I keep it very locked down. I have a virtual machine (actually a clone of my old machine) running Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) which is now dedicated to email, calendar and social networking. The reason is that Apple dropped functionality, involving the interaction of mail and iCal (yes that's iCal, not Calendar), which was important to me and you can't run the old stuff on the new OS. A second VM is dedicated for financial and medical transactions. In other words, on line banking, stock brokerage, IRA accounts and making medical appointments through my providers web site and storing information related to these activities. This one is running Debian 8 and is set up with full disk encyrption within the VM. While shut down, the info is locked up tight and I can continue to use the machine for other purposes. A third VM, also running Debian 8, is for general web surfing where I don't know where I'll end up. I have a Windows XP VM which I rarely use anymore. I thought about upgrading to Win 7 but I just don't tolerate that Microsoft #@&&$%+~ as much as I used to. Maybe Windows 11 will be okay... I have a private cloud calendar server (DAViCal) running on FreeBSD. I mostly just sync devices while connected to my local LAN but another, very locked down, FreeBSD VM serves as an SSH tunneling gateway to my internal network.
I use a functioning laptop, sitting on top of another non-functioning laptop.
hard to say, all the sensor names are in polish and the board print is English. whatevers
In our company, we still use Fedora 18, because, according to our Linux "Gurus", upgrading is to sophisticated; but back porting all the new stuff is of course easy. Go figure...
its got Linux :)
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
I would have liked seeing how many developers like me work with laptops and dock to real keyboards and multiple monitors at the office. I have a dell Inspiron laptop. At the office I have an old Microsoft ergonomic keyboard and two 1920x1200 Dell monitors.
in recent years, my setup has gotten a lot less interesting. running a core i5, 16gb ram ssd primary, raid(mirror) secondary, windows. i develop on the ms stack, so boringness aside it supports work, and play for when i sit down to game..
My primary desktop system in the office is a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro 15" (El Capitan), with dual 17" external displays connected (total of 3 displays counting the onboard screen). I also have a separate Windows 7 Lenovo Thinkpad that I use for teaching (since it has the stylus and touch screen that Apple does not support). I also administer a small computing laboratory consisting of five Dell Optiplex workstations running Ubuntu 14. At home, I have a 27" iMac running El Capitan, with about 10 TB of external disk storage.
Really? Have we come to this? OK then; "My Computer Is Look Like A Computer Unix Like System Looks!"
It's really quite a shame that 5:4 monitors aren't really produced anymore. They're great for extending desktops horizontally (portrait-mode monitors are weird to watch video on). A few are still available, but they're only 1280x1024. There'd need to be HD versions for newer monitors.
My "setup" is nothing special, just a Dell XPS 9530, couple of years old now. I use mostly VisualStudio 2015 or Sublime Text on Windows 8, sometimes Adobe Illustrator.
Given that "nothing special" setup, the one thing that I can't recommend enough that is a little outside of the box, is I use a Razer Naga gaming mouse for everything, including development. In the place where your thumb would rest on a standard mouse it has twelve little buttons that are all highly programmable. I have them all bound some of the things I do all the time; cut, copy, paste, build, execute, step over, step in, step out, escape, delete... Once you get used to it, it would be hard to go back. Especially the step over/in/out, I use that literally all the time (the cut/copy/paste is really useful too).
Try it, you really won't regret it.
Mine is a XXXXXXX monitor.
from the monitor cable from when the breadboard slid off the desk. I've been too lazy to clean it up and afraid I'll short something of I touch it. Uptime over two months.
MacBook Pro, 16GB ram, and 39" 4K external monitor. ssh to beefy Linux build/dev machines.
I am sure they have a copy of it.
No good deed goes unpunished.
- Beowulf cluster of PS2s
- Dual floppy drive RAID-0 system
- 52x/8x/4x/2x/8x/32x/16x BD/CD/DVD+/-R(W) combo writer
- SXGA+ multisync 20" with green/color/amber mode switch
- IBM model "M" keyboard with sound reinforcement system
- Monster cables, chaotic evil, always stay tangled
Which is my main computer?
- the one I'm having a lot of trouble to configure now, trying to make it work in spite of having an old graphics chip (but otherwise quite good); (challenge!)
- the one a bit more powerful which I use for bank access? (important!)
- the one with just 1GB RAM which works well for nearly anything, despite its age? (makes me proud!)
- my best Linux notebook which continues to work well even after the battery died? (currently playing Netflix)
- a newer, even better notebook (a Windows one, "inherited" from my daughter) which needs repairs (overheats)
- any one of the older, 586-based ones slowly being abandoned by the "main" distributions?
Anyway, on most computers I use Firefox. I cannot praise it enough. What they've done go well beyond a great program: they really change the world for better.
Libreoffice, of course, I cannot live without it. Firefox brings the world to me, Libreoffice allows me to send outside more finished works which I want to (or must) show others.
And some games -- all simple and relaxing -- because I got tired of heavy gaming.
But they all rely on Linux and its amazing ability to connect the atomic contributions of many different folks all over the world. It's a way for people of different origins to joy efforts for the common well-being.
That gives solace in this world made of egos and greed. But not only that, it keeps us able to come up with new things all the time and to invent all sorts of new devices and programs.
Of course, that cannot be allowed in a non-free world, because someone is making money by selling us things which we cannot see without paying.
Oh, yes, I guess my main application is... Freedom.
PS:
Captcha is "dusting"... you, who programmed that AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xrw0gbnNuU
I have more than ten computers, but my primary workstation currently has an i5 4690K with 8 GB of RAM, one 32 GB SSD for programs and a 2 TB magnetic drive for data.
Operating system is Debian Wheezy (yes, really). KDE desktop.
Browser is Firefox 28 (if my web development runs fine in it, I hope it will run OK on newer versions).
Editor of choice is "Nice Editor", heavily customized. I use every day (every minute, really) Konsole and ssh. gFTP is very important for me too, as graphical ssh client.
...So, after nearly 10 years of using this lovely processor I have just now discovered it is 64 bit capable...
One would think the fact it is called AMD Athlon 64, would have tipped me off within the first few years; but, one would be wrong...in other news...
Main desktop PC for entertainment and various other types of fuckery
-AMD 64 athlon x2 5200+ 1.9-3.2 GHz
-2GB ram
-300 something GB HDD
-some kind of cheap nvidia video card that works great
Mobile computer...
-Lenovo X60 -intel core2 T7200 2.0GHz
-2 gigs ram, i think, yup
-160GB SSD (SSD's are fast...)
1 monitor capable of 1080p or 1080i or whichever character comes after the 1080 (1080x1920)
1 monitor that is flat and can do better than 1024x768, which i appreciate.
some keyboards, some mice, a 2TB SSD external drive, and a handful of USB sticks
Devuan runs on my anything goes desktop, Parabola runs on my X60 with Libreboot
MATE DE, Firefox, Clementine, VLC, Icedove Qbittorrent, Pluma, GCC, XChat... in order of used most often...
Linux and BSD, and Android. Windows only because it came on some of them. Blocked all Windows updates, spyware, and IP addresses connecting to Markmonitor and others. NoScript and Adblock Plus... with some other tweaks on the browsers.
If it goes over the wire it is encrypted or profiled so it is generally encrypted. Time zone and times set wrong on purpose when surfing. This renders CIA/NSA time logs as /dev/null for anything.
PC specs: fast enough and hi res.
Eric Schmidt sure got some nice ass titties.
Desktop: GPU: GTX 1080 Founders Edition Mobo: ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ CPU: i5 6600K OCed to 4ghz Cooler: Nzxt Kraken x61 SSD: Samsung 950 Pro HDD: 5tb Toshiba x300 Mem: 32gb Ripjaws V DDR4 PSU: 1600w BFG Sound Card: Creative Titanium X-Fi Case: Custom Lego build Fan Control: Built in Arduino with a 3.5in touch screen with custom program for temp monitoring and fan control Work Computer: 2013 Macbook Pro - CPU upgrade to i7 2.8ghz - GPU upgrade to Gt 650M 1gb - SSD upgrade to 756gb PCIe Peripherals: Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow Ultimate - Mac Mouse: Razer Deathadder Chroma, Mad Catz Rat9 Monitors: 27in 2k 144hz Asus MG279Q, 28in 4k 10-bit Asus PB287Q, 4k 55in 21ms response time Samsung UN55JU7500 Sound: Harmon Kardon Sound Sticks II, Onkyo 7.2, 2x Polk T50 floor standing speakers, 2x Polk Monitor 40s bookshelf, Polk Monitor CS2 center, Polk PSW505 12in sub, Dayton 12in sub Home Server: Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe CPU: i3-3220 3.3ghz dual GPU: GTX 430 1gb Mem: 8Gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer SSD: Samsung 850 Case: Custom Lego build Media Center: Mobo: Intel DH61AG Thin Mini-ITX CPU: G630T 3.2Ghz dual Mem: 4gb SSD: Samsung 850 Case: Custom Lego build For software my main daily use OS is Mac. I use Ubuntu for my servers and on my desktop for development. And for games the necessary evil of Windows 10 on the desktop. For an IDE I like Eclipse but have been transitioning to a custom build of Jupyter which I can't recommend enough. Always Chrome for browsing.
The thing is that I have 2 ProLiant servers which are used as workstations, two tiny boxes that are used as Internet servers and a laptop for when not at home, plus a PA-RISC worstation.
MacBook air 13" Early 2015. External monitor 20"Dell 2011 pivoting. The laptopm monitor is used as a dashboard of sorts. (Activity monitor, terminal, Transmission, System Preferences, alternate browser...)
Main browser Firefox with uBlock, PrivacyBadger, NoSquint, VideoDownloadHelper, and https everywhere.
Alternate browser Chrome, with only chromecast plugins
Main productivity suite office365 (used and still have LibreOffice, but my current work needs full office compatibility, especial powerpoint).
Thunderbird ONLY to sabe email in elm format fso I can put as attachements in other emails.
Steam (of course).
seldomly used Bootcamp with Windows 10, for Project, visio, and some windows only games.
So far so standard. The intersting part is the NAS/san Synology DS1515+ . For a pure storage point of view, a drobo would have been better, but the Sylology is certified for the most importan hypervisors, and has iSCSI san capability. And in my current line of work (instructor for Huaweis Storage/Server/Clouds) being able to practice in your own lab is with this is important
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
My primary web browsing/banking/email/light duty gaming rig is a Lenovo M53 Tiny Desktop Intel J2900 Quad-Core 2.41GHz, 8GB Ram with Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. If I want to do hard core gaming or video editing I power up the overclocked Shuttle SH67 XPC Desktop, i7 Processor, 16GB Ram, GTX780TI with Win10pro and hit the KVM switch. Peripherals include an Airspy/Spyverter SDR, FIIO DAC audio, 19" monitor & 24" HDTV, flatbed scanner, wireless mouse/keyboard (yes, hooked up to KVM), PS2 game controller with a Playstation to USB adapter, and a bunch of misc toys and gadgets.
At home: Core i5 4690K, 16 GB RAM, two 256GB SSDs (one boots Gentoo, the other currently boots Windows 10), 750GB spinning rust, a Blu-ray burner, and 28" 4K monitor for the main desktop. Server's an A4-3300 with 10 GB RAM, a 256GB SSD that boots Gentoo, and 7.5 TB spinning rust. A couple of Raspberry Pis with LibreELEC drive the TVs from files on the server.
At work: Core 2 Quad Q6600 (it's old, but it's still reasonably quick for most things), 8 GB RAM, 256GB SSD that boots Windows 7, 750GB spinning rust, and a Radeon 6870 driving two 20ish" monitors (one at 1680x1050, the other at 1440x900). We're a charitable organization, so most of what's in my work computer is stuff that I didn't need at home any longer and donated (get to claim a tax writeoff on it). More recently, I brought in an Acer Aspire Revo 1600 that I no longer needed running a TV at home...it's now a Gentoo box with a built-in SD-card reader that mostly gets used to back up and restore the Raspberry Pis we have scattered around the building as digital signage, web kiosks, etc.
Model Ms are on all the machines I work with directly. joe is my preferred editor for Gentoo and Cygwin, though Windows installs also get Notepad++. Linux IDEs all appear to be varying degrees of hot mess, but they've not really been necessary for the things I've knocked together under it. At work, Visual Studio is what pays the bills. Whether on computers, phones, or tablets, Chrome is preferred over SJWfox.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
My work setup looks like who freaking cares. A desk and a chair and some computers and stuff. BFD. 36 years into it, even the highest zoot computers lose their new car smell on day three. GTF off my lawn.
Warning: This signature may offend some viewers.
...what and is. It can also be read as "what is". Saying "what is your computer set-up look like?" makes no sense at all. This isn't difficult, Slashdot.
Sigh, It's a wonderful day when you find out you are not alone in the world.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
{out of memory error}
My current desktop setup?
Main desktop 3x machines on a KVM switch - 1x Dell SE198WFP and an IBM KB-7993 keyboard
Machine 1. Debian Wheezy (7.11), Ram: 2GB, CPU: Intel 2160@ 1.80GHz, Graphics: GeForce 8400 GS ---- Browsing, torrents, etc, streaming Music
Machine 2. PCLinuxOS, Ram:4GB, CPU: Intel 4400@ 2.00GHz, Graphics: GeForce 8400 GS ---- Development
Machine 3. PCLinuxOS/Win7, Ram:4GB, CPU: Intel Q6600@ 2.40GHz, Graphics: Onboard Intel ---- 'Grunt' work
Attached to the Second Monitor and keyboard
Machine 4. Win XP/PCLinuxOS, Ram:2GB, CPU: Intel P4@3.4GHz, Graphics: Onboard Intel ---- DAW box
The 'Thing' under the Television: PCLinuxOS/Win7, RAM: 4GB, CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 9850, Graphics: GeForce 210 ---- 'Grunt' work, Games, Video work
Where's my TRS-80 IV.
See subject: Like you who can't backup false accusations directed my way (which I put away easily via documented proofs from BOTH Google's VirusTotal & Malwarebytes).
* It must SUCK to know you're a do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" zero accomplishments in your life "eater" like you... after all: I'm out there doing things people use & like for DECADES now in the computing world, often put into publication or trade shows in my work in fact, many times since 1996 (which are useful to them, in this case, for more speed, security, reliability & even anonymity online... unlike "your kind", lol).
Delphi's also KNOWN to rival C++ for abilities & performance (often exceeding it, especially in math or strings work) & it doesn't have null-terminated string security issues either... It's also in the TIOBE index's top 10 (or near it, fluctuates) for how much it's used... Plus it can do 16/32/64 bit TRUE exe (or runtime driven) code for most ANY major platform there is under the sun (Windows, MacOS X, Android - used to do Kylix for Linux too in 32bit only though).
APK
P.S.=> You obviously don't know very much about computing if you don't know who Google's VirusTotal & Malwarebytes are - if the best you've got is acting the online troll, I know you're just a waste of life, nothing more (so does anyone else)... apk
12" Macbook running Slackware64, i3 window manager, vim, mutt, firefox + vimperator
It's on the floor and, I guess, in portrait orientation. But I do have a monitor on the desktop along with a keyboard, mouse, mouse pad and an AOL install cd used as a coaster. Oh, and speakers
I found a combo I find extremely useful, but which I've not seen replicated elsewhere. As a network engineer I have to do a lot of modeling using CPU-intensive simulation software (GNS3, Ekahau, etc). Some of this software runs on Windows only, and doesn't work well in VMware or Parallels. So I really need a second computer, but most of the time I don't need to see its screen, as the simulation software runs in the background for hours at a time.
Apple's iMac with Thunderbolt lets one iMac use another as a second display, while the second iMac remains a fully-functional system in the background. I tailor each iMac for the tasks they run -- desktop software or simulation. My primary iMac is a 5K retina 27" i5 and 16GB. The secondary iMac is an older non-retina but maxed-out with a quad core I7 and 32GB. Both have SSD main drives, with a 4TB OWC Thunderbolt RAID array.
I can boot the secondary iMac in either MacOS or Windows, and then use its screen directly to set up a simulation before swapping the screen to my primary iMac (cmd-F2) as a second monitor. To check up on simulation status, I VNC into the secondary machine using the OS X ScreenSharing utility. This lets me enjoy the desktop advantages of the retina display and a second monitor for basic tasks like CAD and presentations, without being dragged down by CPU-intensive simulations,
A $500 Windows 10 laptop with Chrome. It is hooked up to 802.11n wireless router and backed up to the cloud.
When my old laptop died, I went to the store bought this one, and soon had everything back up and running the same except a bit faster. Down time was less than 1hr.
Nuff said.
past and current. ;)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Under my desk at home I have 4 towers, all connected to a Dell U2410 via a KVM. Two of the towers are fairly standard "PCs", one running windows 7 for my photography, gaming and some development, the other running Linux Mint for most other day-to-day things. The next tower is an AmigaOne G4 running AmigaOS 4.1, which I use for listening to music and some development. And the last is a beast: An old Amiga 1200 installed in an old AT-style PC case. It has a 68060 CPU at 66MHz with 256MB of RAM, SCSI host for the drives, PCI bus expansion fully loaded with a Voodoo 3-3000, network card, sound card and TV tuner, and various other bits and pieces added over the past 20 years or so. It's fun to see the old girl outputting Workbench at 1920x1200 and still relatively useable :)
All of the towers have two internal hard drives for backup of critical stuff (yes, there are also backups separate from the machines...)
See subject: To validly technically prove all my points wrong here (good luck, nobody ever has)-> https://ask.slashdot.org/comme... that extoll the MASSIVE SUPERIORITY of hosts files over blatantly INFERIOR browser addons like AdBlock/UBlock etc., ok?
* Go for it & good luck (you'll need it - heck, you'll need more than that... you'll need a miracle).
APK
P.S.=> Grow up, get on topic, & being a troll is no way to spend your life boy - but I do have to thank you for 1 thing (along w/ the rest of "your kind", worthless "ne'er-do-well" trolls): You make ME look GOOD via your failures to do the above challenge I put your way, lol... apk
I have a more realistic user id. Really, you guys cannot manage to sprint for more than 4 digits. Sad.
I do, however, still use a text-based mail user agent. It's called "elm", and it has the interesting feature that it simply does not run those zip files, java files, and other mailware that gets past the filters. Also it seems to be a lot faster than the graphical mail user agents.
And yes, you will please get off my lawn.
Tilt at windmills. Occasionally one will fall over out of sheer surprise.
Custom built machine with Gigabyte board, Asus screen, Debian 8 with Gnome 3. Vivaldi browser. I also have a Dell laptop (the one that ships with Ubuntu) which is also running Debian 8, Gnome 3, Vivaldi
Home: Ancient Dell Precision 370, 2.8GHz P4, 4GB memory, 40GB boot/system disk, 1TB data disk, 2TB external backup drive - used as a file server, Kubuntu 4.04.4 LTS on it right now. The most important software on it is my Logitech Media Server for streaming my music library to work ;-). 2015 MB Air 13-in for most normal use (web, EVE, etc.). A somewhat crappy Lenovo G550 with Windows 10 for the (very few) times I need Windows. iPad2. Jide Remix mini for video streaming.
Work: Dell Precision 490, 2X Xeon 5160, 16GB, 2X Dell 20-in monitors, CentOS 7, KDE.
Plus all the damn servers and other desktops I need to support. At least we finally got rid of the last VAXstations this past year...
For software, mostly Firefox for browser although every now and then it pisses me off and I switch to Chrome (and then, after a while, Chrome pisses me off and I go back to Firefox). Emacs/XEmacs is editor-of-choice for anything big, vi or nano for quick edits. Most used software is probably Konsole. VirtualBox and/or QEMU/KVM for VMs. Whatever random software I need to support/answer questions about on any given day. X11vnc/vncviewer gets a pretty good workout.
My computer setup consists of two computers. First computer has a standard Dell 3D projector with a Intellitech mind interface and 10PB of Lentax SRS memory. Second computer is a portable one with a smaller 3D projector, Huangfei mind interface and just 1PB of Dantec SRS memory. I often use them together because I like to make music with the portable one and mix it on the bigger screen virtual environment. What year is this again?
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
See subject: Trying to get "the last word"? You fail - how/why? Ads typically aren't served from the SAME domain (advertisers don't trust webmasters alleged "counts" of clicks & I don't blame them)... that's NO advantage as it never if ever occurs!
* I.E.-> So take your "phantasyland" bs elsewhere!
APK
P.S.-> Plus there ARE tons of things "AlmostALLAdsBlocked" just plain CANNOT DO for more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity that hosts can FOR FAR LESS RESOURCES used too no less-> https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9396753&cid=52533333 which you cannot validly technically prove me wrong on... apk