Okay, I dug around a bit and couldn't find any references to an Oak syslog watcher outside of info about this book. Does anyone have any info about this utility?
Or, better yet, a good recommendation for something to cull through a couple 100k or so syslog entries a day?
A relative of mine is good friends with a lawyer who likes to do this with illegal faxes.
He has everyone he knows send him their illegal faxes. They send a certified letter to the sender with, in proper legal-ese, a demand for $1500, next day by courier, or else a suit will be filed for the $500 plus all legal fees (which is always significantly more). Something like 90% respond with a check. The lawyer pockets $500, and the fax recipient get sthe other $1500.
How's that for some profit? $1500 for the cost of filling in the blanks on a form letter, and certified mail postage.
I'm sure a large chunk of the mark-up in the price for this cluster was due to them involving Cray.
It's interesting that his comes up. This month's Linux Journal had an article with a guy with no cluster experience building a large cluster using...drumroll...Dell systems. Cheap. And he did it with out expensive consulting services from big names. He's now on one of those international comparison lists for top-performing clusters.
I already took the precaution of also registering my cell phone numbers, despite the laws already in place protecting them from these vultures.
I already scared the hell out of some local company that was making calls (low-scale, probably just a couple secretaries doing it). When I mentioned the fines, they apologized profusely and got off the phone as quickly as possible.
This might very well be a book I'll pick up sometime. I'm always looking for more ideas.
I maintain about ~170 remote Linux boxes (in our company's retail stores and warehouses), as well as our ~30 or so inhouse servers.
I went through a lot of work to enable our rollout and conversion to go more smoothly. The network and methodology for users, printers, etc. is extremely simplified and patterened.
For each of the 3 'models' of PCs we use, I have a master system that I produced. I used Mondo Rescue to produce CD backups of these systems. These systems act as serial terminal controllers, print spoolers, routers, desktop system usage (OpenOffice, Mozilla, Kmail under KDE), and other functions as needed.
When we need to replace a system, or rollout a new location, we grab a system, pop in the Mondo CD, and do a nuke restore. When done, we have a standard configuration user that we log in as. It runs a quick implementation script where you answer anywhere from 3-8 questions (depending on the system type and options), and it configures everything. All networking, users, sets up Kmail, configures all printers and terminals (we use Comtrol Rocketport serial boards), and so on.
If the system is physically ready, we can have it ready software-wise in about 20 minutes (2 CDs to restore).
Updates are done via a couple different methods. I use SSH (over our internal VPN, using key authentication) in scripts to do most updates. If I need to do anything major, such as recently updating Mozilla, we do a CD distribution. The users have a simple menu to take care of running the update for them, even with autorun under KDE. Just pop in the CD, and it automatically takes them into the menu they need.
All logs are duplicated across the network to a central server, but intrusion is less likely as these systems sit on a private frame network. They do, however, have fully secured network setups, as we use cheap dial-up internet access as a backup in case the frame circuit goes down.
I can't help but feel every day like this is just one big hack/kludge, but it works, works damned well, and was about half the cost of any other solution (i.e. higher end Cisco routers to handle various functions, and using Equinox ELS-IIs or the like...those pieces of crap never would work right, we finally pulled only 2 we had in use, and they are currently collecting dust in a storage cabinet).
Needless to say, I am *always* looking for ideas to improve upon this.
Yeah, the whole ordeal over Everquest was major news on Duris at the time. Everyone complained that the entire EQ game was a blatent rip-off of Duris and it's predecessors.
I never did play on Toril or Sojourn. I started probably a couple months after Duris started up, brought in by a friend who had played on both Toril and Sojourn before that.
Ahh..I recognize the name. I drifted back and forth. Probably the highlight of all my time there (laugh!) was being chosen by Golrith (leader of CBL) to take over the lead of their sister guild at the time, Warpigs. I even stuck through going to Basternae, then back after Duris came back up. Hell, I followed a couple of the admins out and helped do some coding on GreyHawk, but got busy and left before doing anything serious.
I started out using TF under OS/2, and later under Linux. I tried others, but always went back. No GUI crap for me!
I used it for...far too many years. Try your best to avoid the black hole that is MUD addiction. It just about drummed me out of college. I still fight the urge to go back (I was a long-time player on Duris, as well as some GodWars muds), as the primary MUD I played on is still alive and kicking...as far as I know, at least. Fortunately I haven't checked in on it in almost a year.
I work for a large un-named company with a very large WAN (both private frame relay and software VPN tunnels over the internet), with VPN connections to outside companies.
Cisco-trained people, who have IP conservation drilled into their heads early on, almost drop dead at our lack of conservation. When I designed all this mess, I was trying to keep addresses 'logical'...as stated above, using department numbers and the like to help out the others on our staff that aren't the least bit network -savvy.
Internally, we use 10/8. We use a large/16 for our central office LAN, with the third octet used to distinguish between groups. 10.10.1 and 10.10.2 are our primary central servers and computer room equipment, and most of the rest are by department.
For our WAN, I used layered steppings. 10.220 between routers, 10.120 between routers and a back-office server in each location, and 10.20 for a back-office network handled by that server. The third octet here is our store number. All of these are/24s.
We connect with our software vendor, who runs an ASP for some of our customer stores. They use a 172.16/12. I worked out a similar 'layering' method for the remote systems there as well.
The only conflict we've come up with is another company we need to connect to also uses 10/8 for their network. We had to use a pair of Cisco VPN concentrators to do the double-translation to setup a tunnel between us. Fortunately, we only need access to a single system on their side, so it's not a major point.
DHCP isn't used at all in our organization. Once upon a time, someone higher-up was convinced (somehow??) that DHCP was inherently completely insecure, and we were just begging for trouble by using it. We aren't wireless, we're 100% hard-wired. The only issue is that the firewall I run is setup to allow internet access only for specified addresses. DHCP is simply a matter of maintenance, so I'm going to push it on, now that this misunderstanding has been corrected.
Also, we use the 192.168/16 block for people's home networks that connect via a VPN connection. There are only a couple of us, so this isn't much of an issue.
3Ware cards do this. I don't remember their branded name for it off hand, but it essentially does RAID-1 to write and a sort of simulated RAID-0 for reads.
I've been running a pair of IBM 75GXP 45GB drives on an original 3W-6200 mirrored for a couple years now. The bad reputation the IBM drives picked up was because of people not bothering to cool them well enough.
I also have a 6410 running four 80GB drives in RAID-5. My only issue was when I was using cheapo hot-swap trays for them. They were just too flaky, and caused enough problems to break the array on a regular basis.
My only complaint with the 3Ware controllers (and this may be fixed on later models) is their recovery on a hard power loss. Yes, I use large UPSes, but that isn't the issue--it's when you have a system lockup (trying kernel options, etc.) that causes a HARD freeze. This often requires you to actually turn off the power--when you do so, it always loses one drive on the array and forces you to rebuild.
Please tell that to the multitudes of HAM operators in my area that refuse to abide by the rules and cause MASSIVE TV reception interference. We've already HAD the FCC patrol vans checking them out before, and it did no good.
I do significantly more at work, but here's what's in my toolkit. Note that I do a lot of PC, phone, networking, and custom cabling work.
- 16-piece screw/nut driver set (one handle w/interchangable driver types, including the shaft) - Standard bits and nut driver sizes - A couple Torx bits (we deal with a lot of HP stuff) - An adjustable wire stripper - Small pair of diagonal wire cutters - Molex crimper - Crimper w/RJ45, RJ50/MP10, RJ11/RJ12, and RG6/RG6U/RG6Quad/RJ58 interchangable heads - A telescoping mirror (small 1" mirror) - 110V AC outlet tester - Digital multimeter - Mid/high-end telephone test set, w/full set of leads, break-out leads, piercing leads, etc. - 66 and 110 block punch-down tool - CAT5 cabling tester w/remote - A cheap canned air-duster - Needle-nose pliers - A large cable tester (DB9, DB25, Centronics, HD15, HD38, CAT5, BNC, USB, etc) -- includes featuers useful for quickly finding out the pinout for an unknown/custom cable - Serial break-out box (large jumpered break-out box with testing, power jumpering, etc.)
Also: My toolbag includes a pocket for one of those large compartmented plastic parts boxes. I keep various screws, nuts, fan screws, molex parts, extra wire, rackmount screws, serial modules, gender changers, RJ45/RJ12/RJ50 connectors, RJ12/45 couplers, RJ45 keystone jacks, crimp buttons, etc, etc.
Of course, I could also include my (seldom-used) $19k Fluke NetMeter, and my much-more-often used laptop (running Gentoo, of course).
They have obviously failed to apply some simple logic.
Nobody is pirating movies made by 'starving artists.' If it was worth buying, then it would be worth pirating. If it was worth buying, then they wouldn't be 'starving.'
The other point of view, though, is that these 'starving artists' are probably 'starving' because they buy more heroin than food.
I have a pair of Dell-branded (re-labeled) Trinitron monitors at home. Both are 21 inch, and I got them for $285 each refurb at a computer show. I bought one, loved it, and was amazed when I found another one a couple months later that was an exact match. Unbelievable picture quality, and a great deal. If I found another one, I'd probably by a third as a spare.
I used to work for a research institute that monitored tidal conditions along the Texas coast. One thing we did was monitor salinity and dissolved oxygen levels in the Corpus Christi and Nueces bays. It wasn't from desal plants, but from the Nueces river being dammed in, limiting it's flow into the bays. This caused salinity to rise, and dissolved oxygen to decrease, putting the local wildlife in danger. They used our measurements to schedule releases--times when they would open the dams and dump X amount of fresh water into the bay in order to correct the levels. As far as I know, it worked just like it was supposed to.
I haven't looked up any maps of the area, but surely there are similar factors at play.
European lawmakers must have an insanely high price if MPAA/RIAA haven't paid them off already. Ours were bought and sold for pennies.
Today's special, three Senators for only $1.00! Purchase 10 packs and you are entitled to your choice of 10% off any Supreme Court Justice of your choice or the Vice Pacemaker...erm...President!
The Simpsons runs about $25-35 per season (3-4 DVDs).
$100 a damned season for TNG? You're looking at $700 plus tax for the entire series.
Even TOS comes out to around $700-800 for all episodes--at barely 3 seasons, I believe, that's more like $200-$300 per season!
If the Star Trek eps were down to SG1 prices, about $45-55 per season, I'd buy all of TOS, TNG, DS9, and any others they put out and I wouldn't think twice about it.
I was going to post pictures, but all the image hosts I can find suck and the pictures are pretty large.
Oh well.
At home, I have all my core equipment rackmounted in a half-height HP rack. It's a full enclosure, with solid front door, drop-down door on top (my addition), and vented rear door. My APC UPS, Linksys switch, everything is rackmounted. I currently have only two systems in here, both in 4U cases--a large fileserver (3Ware RAID5) that is also my gateway, print server, etc., and my main workstation. On top of the rack are a bunch of media drawers for CDs, my stereo receiver (TV card in comp whose tuner sucks), and a Kyocera laser printer.
On my desk, which is a single-surface desk, convertible into a right-angle configuration (currently straight) with a keyboard drawer, I have dual 21" Trinitrons, my Klipsch speakers (drool!), and the usual assortment of crap. Between the monitors, a USB hub, and 7-in-1 media reader. To one side, a 2-line phone, tape, stapler, scissors, and for some reason a cup full of batteries (hmm...forgot about that). To the other side, a radio set atomic clock, a stack of Wheel of Time books, a couple stacks of CDR cake boxes, some music CDs, a bag of Kasugai roasted wasabi-coated green peas (great stuff!), and piles and piles of bills and mail. Fortunately, all up to date. And then there's the more fleeting equipment, both of my cell phones (normal and Nextell 2-way) for work, drink, etc. Underneet the desk is an old TV cart (containing various computer-related junk), another APC UPS, and my Klipsch subwoofer.
At work, I have the largest cubicle of anyone there. Sometime early next year (need to budget to have it fixed up), I get what every office worker wants--my own, real, lockable office. As large (larger?) than my bedroom at home. As for the cubicle, it's still large, and I have about a dozen 3ft by 1.5 foot by 1.5 foot cubicle cabinets, and about 4 desks, plus the usual wipeboard and wall of Sybase certificates (backup DBA).
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and I've obviously shortchanged y'all. Oh well.
You got better than we did. The AG here in Texas just completely blew it when he won our suit against Nintendo. Every Nintendo owner in Texas received a nice shiny new COUPON for $5 off your next PURCHASE of yet another overpriced game.
This is like telling a murderer that they are free to go, but have to give the police a 5-minute warning before the next time they kill someone.
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Okay, I dug around a bit and couldn't find any references to an Oak syslog watcher outside of info about this book. Does anyone have any info about this utility?
Or, better yet, a good recommendation for something to cull through a couple 100k or so syslog entries a day?
Yeah, yeah...typo... Damned Slashdot and it's missing Edit buttons!
A relative of mine is good friends with a lawyer who likes to do this with illegal faxes.
He has everyone he knows send him their illegal faxes. They send a certified letter to the sender with, in proper legal-ese, a demand for $1500, next day by courier, or else a suit will be filed for the $500 plus all legal fees (which is always significantly more). Something like 90% respond with a check. The lawyer pockets $500, and the fax recipient get sthe other $1500.
How's that for some profit? $1500 for the cost of filling in the blanks on a form letter, and certified mail postage.
I'm sure a large chunk of the mark-up in the price for this cluster was due to them involving Cray.
It's interesting that his comes up. This month's Linux Journal had an article with a guy with no cluster experience building a large cluster using...drumroll...Dell systems. Cheap. And he did it with out expensive consulting services from big names. He's now on one of those international comparison lists for top-performing clusters.
I already took the precaution of also registering my cell phone numbers, despite the laws already in place protecting them from these vultures.
I already scared the hell out of some local company that was making calls (low-scale, probably just a couple secretaries doing it). When I mentioned the fines, they apologized profusely and got off the phone as quickly as possible.
Tom happens to be German. Hence, he is not a native English speaker.
This might very well be a book I'll pick up sometime. I'm always looking for more ideas.
I maintain about ~170 remote Linux boxes (in our company's retail stores and warehouses), as well as our ~30 or so inhouse servers.
I went through a lot of work to enable our rollout and conversion to go more smoothly. The network and methodology for users, printers, etc. is extremely simplified and patterened.
For each of the 3 'models' of PCs we use, I have a master system that I produced. I used Mondo Rescue to produce CD backups of these systems. These systems act as serial terminal controllers, print spoolers, routers, desktop system usage (OpenOffice, Mozilla, Kmail under KDE), and other functions as needed.
When we need to replace a system, or rollout a new location, we grab a system, pop in the Mondo CD, and do a nuke restore. When done, we have a standard configuration user that we log in as. It runs a quick implementation script where you answer anywhere from 3-8 questions (depending on the system type and options), and it configures everything. All networking, users, sets up Kmail, configures all printers and terminals (we use Comtrol Rocketport serial boards), and so on.
If the system is physically ready, we can have it ready software-wise in about 20 minutes (2 CDs to restore).
Updates are done via a couple different methods. I use SSH (over our internal VPN, using key authentication) in scripts to do most updates. If I need to do anything major, such as recently updating Mozilla, we do a CD distribution. The users have a simple menu to take care of running the update for them, even with autorun under KDE. Just pop in the CD, and it automatically takes them into the menu they need.
All logs are duplicated across the network to a central server, but intrusion is less likely as these systems sit on a private frame network. They do, however, have fully secured network setups, as we use cheap dial-up internet access as a backup in case the frame circuit goes down.
I can't help but feel every day like this is just one big hack/kludge, but it works, works damned well, and was about half the cost of any other solution (i.e. higher end Cisco routers to handle various functions, and using Equinox ELS-IIs or the like...those pieces of crap never would work right, we finally pulled only 2 we had in use, and they are currently collecting dust in a storage cabinet).
Needless to say, I am *always* looking for ideas to improve upon this.
Yeah, the whole ordeal over Everquest was major news on Duris at the time. Everyone complained that the entire EQ game was a blatent rip-off of Duris and it's predecessors.
I never did play on Toril or Sojourn. I started probably a couple months after Duris started up, brought in by a friend who had played on both Toril and Sojourn before that.
Ahh..I recognize the name. I drifted back and forth. Probably the highlight of all my time there (laugh!) was being chosen by Golrith (leader of CBL) to take over the lead of their sister guild at the time, Warpigs. I even stuck through going to Basternae, then back after Duris came back up. Hell, I followed a couple of the admins out and helped do some coding on GreyHawk, but got busy and left before doing anything serious.
I started out using TF under OS/2, and later under Linux. I tried others, but always went back. No GUI crap for me!
I used it for...far too many years. Try your best to avoid the black hole that is MUD addiction. It just about drummed me out of college. I still fight the urge to go back (I was a long-time player on Duris, as well as some GodWars muds), as the primary MUD I played on is still alive and kicking...as far as I know, at least. Fortunately I haven't checked in on it in almost a year.
I work for a large un-named company with a very large WAN (both private frame relay and software VPN tunnels over the internet), with VPN connections to outside companies.
/16 for our central office LAN, with the third octet used to distinguish between groups. 10.10.1 and 10.10.2 are our primary central servers and computer room equipment, and most of the rest are by department.
/24s.
Cisco-trained people, who have IP conservation drilled into their heads early on, almost drop dead at our lack of conservation. When I designed all this mess, I was trying to keep addresses 'logical'...as stated above, using department numbers and the like to help out the others on our staff that aren't the least bit network -savvy.
Internally, we use 10/8. We use a large
For our WAN, I used layered steppings. 10.220 between routers, 10.120 between routers and a back-office server in each location, and 10.20 for a back-office network handled by that server. The third octet here is our store number. All of these are
We connect with our software vendor, who runs an ASP for some of our customer stores. They use a 172.16/12. I worked out a similar 'layering' method for the remote systems there as well.
The only conflict we've come up with is another company we need to connect to also uses 10/8 for their network. We had to use a pair of Cisco VPN concentrators to do the double-translation to setup a tunnel between us. Fortunately, we only need access to a single system on their side, so it's not a major point.
DHCP isn't used at all in our organization. Once upon a time, someone higher-up was convinced (somehow??) that DHCP was inherently completely insecure, and we were just begging for trouble by using it. We aren't wireless, we're 100% hard-wired. The only issue is that the firewall I run is setup to allow internet access only for specified addresses. DHCP is simply a matter of maintenance, so I'm going to push it on, now that this misunderstanding has been corrected.
Also, we use the 192.168/16 block for people's home networks that connect via a VPN connection. There are only a couple of us, so this isn't much of an issue.
3Ware cards do this. I don't remember their branded name for it off hand, but it essentially does RAID-1 to write and a sort of simulated RAID-0 for reads.
I've been running a pair of IBM 75GXP 45GB drives on an original 3W-6200 mirrored for a couple years now. The bad reputation the IBM drives picked up was because of people not bothering to cool them well enough.
I also have a 6410 running four 80GB drives in RAID-5. My only issue was when I was using cheapo hot-swap trays for them. They were just too flaky, and caused enough problems to break the array on a regular basis.
My only complaint with the 3Ware controllers (and this may be fixed on later models) is their recovery on a hard power loss. Yes, I use large UPSes, but that isn't the issue--it's when you have a system lockup (trying kernel options, etc.) that causes a HARD freeze. This often requires you to actually turn off the power--when you do so, it always loses one drive on the array and forces you to rebuild.
Please tell that to the multitudes of HAM operators in my area that refuse to abide by the rules and cause MASSIVE TV reception interference. We've already HAD the FCC patrol vans checking them out before, and it did no good.
What goes around, comes around...
I do significantly more at work, but here's what's in my toolkit. Note that I do a lot of PC, phone, networking, and custom cabling work.
- 16-piece screw/nut driver set (one handle w/interchangable driver types, including the shaft) - Standard bits and nut driver sizes
- A couple Torx bits (we deal with a lot of HP stuff)
- An adjustable wire stripper
- Small pair of diagonal wire cutters
- Molex crimper
- Crimper w/RJ45, RJ50/MP10, RJ11/RJ12, and RG6/RG6U/RG6Quad/RJ58 interchangable heads
- A telescoping mirror (small 1" mirror)
- 110V AC outlet tester
- Digital multimeter
- Mid/high-end telephone test set, w/full set of leads, break-out leads, piercing leads, etc.
- 66 and 110 block punch-down tool
- CAT5 cabling tester w/remote
- A cheap canned air-duster
- Needle-nose pliers
- A large cable tester (DB9, DB25, Centronics, HD15, HD38, CAT5, BNC, USB, etc) -- includes featuers useful for quickly finding out the pinout for an unknown/custom cable
- Serial break-out box (large jumpered break-out box with testing, power jumpering, etc.)
Also: My toolbag includes a pocket for one of those large compartmented plastic parts boxes. I keep various screws, nuts, fan screws, molex parts, extra wire, rackmount screws, serial modules, gender changers, RJ45/RJ12/RJ50 connectors, RJ12/45 couplers, RJ45 keystone jacks, crimp buttons, etc, etc.
Of course, I could also include my (seldom-used) $19k Fluke NetMeter, and my much-more-often used laptop (running Gentoo, of course).
They have obviously failed to apply some simple logic.
Nobody is pirating movies made by 'starving artists.' If it was worth buying, then it would be worth pirating. If it was worth buying, then they wouldn't be 'starving.'
The other point of view, though, is that these 'starving artists' are probably 'starving' because they buy more heroin than food.
I have a pair of Dell-branded (re-labeled) Trinitron monitors at home. Both are 21 inch, and I got them for $285 each refurb at a computer show. I bought one, loved it, and was amazed when I found another one a couple months later that was an exact match. Unbelievable picture quality, and a great deal. If I found another one, I'd probably by a third as a spare.
Is this really a good preview of what's to come over the next 24 hours? Jeez...lame...
April fools just gets more sad every year...
That came from one of the Dilbert episodes (they ran two seasons of an animated show on TV). Pretty good stuff. Season 1, Episode 9, 'The Knack'.
I used to work for a research institute that monitored tidal conditions along the Texas coast. One thing we did was monitor salinity and dissolved oxygen levels in the Corpus Christi and Nueces bays. It wasn't from desal plants, but from the Nueces river being dammed in, limiting it's flow into the bays. This caused salinity to rise, and dissolved oxygen to decrease, putting the local wildlife in danger. They used our measurements to schedule releases--times when they would open the dams and dump X amount of fresh water into the bay in order to correct the levels. As far as I know, it worked just like it was supposed to.
I haven't looked up any maps of the area, but surely there are similar factors at play.
European lawmakers must have an insanely high price if MPAA/RIAA haven't paid them off already. Ours were bought and sold for pennies.
Today's special, three Senators for only $1.00! Purchase 10 packs and you are entitled to your choice of 10% off any Supreme Court Justice of your choice or the Vice Pacemaker...erm...President!
Hell, I ordered a couple Tatu CDs from Amazon, and for a month after that I kept getting Lesbian book, movie, and music recommendations.
Surely they can find a way to weigh in all your purchasing, and not just the last two or three things I've ordered!
Yes, you get 26 episodes, blah blah blah, but...
Stargate: SG1 runs $45-55 per season (5 DVDs).
The Simpsons runs about $25-35 per season (3-4 DVDs).
$100 a damned season for TNG? You're looking at $700 plus tax for the entire series.
Even TOS comes out to around $700-800 for all episodes--at barely 3 seasons, I believe, that's more like $200-$300 per season!
If the Star Trek eps were down to SG1 prices, about $45-55 per season, I'd buy all of TOS, TNG, DS9, and any others they put out and I wouldn't think twice about it.
At $100 a season though...forget it.
I was going to post pictures, but all the image hosts I can find suck and the pictures are pretty large.
Oh well.
At home, I have all my core equipment rackmounted in a half-height HP rack. It's a full enclosure, with solid front door, drop-down door on top (my addition), and vented rear door. My APC UPS, Linksys switch, everything is rackmounted. I currently have only two systems in here, both in 4U cases--a large fileserver (3Ware RAID5) that is also my gateway, print server, etc., and my main workstation. On top of the rack are a bunch of media drawers for CDs, my stereo receiver (TV card in comp whose tuner sucks), and a Kyocera laser printer.
On my desk, which is a single-surface desk, convertible into a right-angle configuration (currently straight) with a keyboard drawer, I have dual 21" Trinitrons, my Klipsch speakers (drool!), and the usual assortment of crap. Between the monitors, a USB hub, and 7-in-1 media reader. To one side, a 2-line phone, tape, stapler, scissors, and for some reason a cup full of batteries (hmm...forgot about that). To the other side, a radio set atomic clock, a stack of Wheel of Time books, a couple stacks of CDR cake boxes, some music CDs, a bag of Kasugai roasted wasabi-coated green peas (great stuff!), and piles and piles of bills and mail. Fortunately, all up to date. And then there's the more fleeting equipment, both of my cell phones (normal and Nextell 2-way) for work, drink, etc. Underneet the desk is an old TV cart (containing various computer-related junk), another APC UPS, and my Klipsch subwoofer.
At work, I have the largest cubicle of anyone there. Sometime early next year (need to budget to have it fixed up), I get what every office worker wants--my own, real, lockable office. As large (larger?) than my bedroom at home. As for the cubicle, it's still large, and I have about a dozen 3ft by 1.5 foot by 1.5 foot cubicle cabinets, and about 4 desks, plus the usual wipeboard and wall of Sybase certificates (backup DBA).
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and I've obviously shortchanged y'all. Oh well.
You got better than we did. The AG here in Texas just completely blew it when he won our suit against Nintendo. Every Nintendo owner in Texas received a nice shiny new COUPON for $5 off your next PURCHASE of yet another overpriced game.
This is like telling a murderer that they are free to go, but have to give the police a 5-minute warning before the next time they kill someone.