Quick Poll
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How many computers do you have running at your house? Me, I am tipping the scales at 5. 1 Game machine. 1 Laptop 1 Linux Box 1 Dev Box 1 Beefy box to handle my VMs for testing, builds, and playing with betas. I've recently "simplified" things a bit in order to get down to this number :). Before depending on what I was developing or testing I would have anywhere from 8 - 10 boxes running. I am looking at cutting it down further if I can reasonably move my dev box and linux box to a VM.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
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How many computers do you have running at your house? Me, I am tipping the scales at 5. 1 Game machine. 1 Laptop 1 Linux Box 1 Dev Box 1 Beefy box to handle my VMs for testing, builds, and playing with betas. I've recently "simplified" things a bit in order to get down to this number :). Before depending on what I was developing or testing I would have anywhere from 8 - 10 boxes running. I am looking at cutting it down further if I can reasonably move my dev box and linux box to a VM.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
At this moment 2, my workhorse server (double xeon) and my HP Compaq laptop with Xp Home Edition.
With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart "I love the sound of Servers in the Morning!"
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How many computers do you have running at your house? Me, I am tipping the scales at 5. 1 Game machine. 1 Laptop 1 Linux Box 1 Dev Box 1 Beefy box to handle my VMs for testing, builds, and playing with betas. I've recently "simplified" things a bit in order to get down to this number :). Before depending on what I was developing or testing I would have anywhere from 8 - 10 boxes running. I am looking at cutting it down further if I can reasonably move my dev box and linux box to a VM.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
Let's see it depends on how you look at it. The answer is 2 - 8, possibly more. 2 Active (in regular use) 1 Toshiba Laptop P-3 700MHz running WinMe 1 Homebuilt "main machine" AMD Athlon 1GHz multibooting Win98SE, WinMe, & Win2K Pro (dual monitor) 2 Inactive (not in regular use, but are setup and usable0 1 Homebuilt AMD K6-3 400MHz running WinNT 4 with a custom dual monitor card 1 Homebuilt Pentium 200 MMX multibooting MS-DOS 6.22, Win95, & Win NT 4 (has TV tuner, but replaced with cheap TV) 4 Dormant (presumed in working order but not currently setup) 1 Homebuilt AMD K6-2 500MHz multiboooting MS-DOS 6.22 & Win98SE (has DVD drive, was used as DVD player, still for use for games with entertainment center which is being reworked following purchase of 51" Widescreen HDTV. 1 Homebuilt Pentimum 200 MHz multibooting MS-DOS 6.22 & Win98 for entertainment use in bedroom including DVD playing 1 Dell P-2 ? MHz running Win98SE for use in spare bedroom. 1 Original iMac running Mac OS 9 6 in Storage (presumed in working order but no plans to activate) 1 Homebuilt 486-100MHz running Red Hat 7.0, last used briefly four years ago as a firewall/router beofre being replaced with a solid state version (may load MS-DOS for legacy gaming) 1 Heavily-modified AST server with 486-66MHz processor running Red Had 5.1, was used as firewall/router before other machine (will probably scrap even though it has EISA slots!) 1 Compaq Presario "Pizza Box" P-2 ? MHz - no OS 2 Toshiba laptops with P-2 300MHz processors - no workable OS, both are mostly functional (will probably canibalize one for parts to get the other running) 1 Mac Quadra LC 68040 ? MHz running Mac OS ? This gives 2 in active use 4 that can be used TODAY (including the 2 above) 8 that I plan to have active (including the 4 above) There are many hulks including 6 or 7 IBM Netfinity servers with no hard disk and only enough RAM for one. Most of these will either be used for parts or scrapped.
Andrew C. Eisenberg Nashville, TN, USA (a.k.a. Music City USA) (Yes Virginia, there are rock and roll stations in Nashville! :laugh:)
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How many computers do you have running at your house? Me, I am tipping the scales at 5. 1 Game machine. 1 Laptop 1 Linux Box 1 Dev Box 1 Beefy box to handle my VMs for testing, builds, and playing with betas. I've recently "simplified" things a bit in order to get down to this number :). Before depending on what I was developing or testing I would have anywhere from 8 - 10 boxes running. I am looking at cutting it down further if I can reasonably move my dev box and linux box to a VM.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
Hmm, 7 right now: My main machine My husband's main machine My test box, currently running some Linux distro (don't remember which one is on it at the moment - I was playing with several different ones last month) The VM machine A fileserver A web/mail server The kitchen machine There's also a media pc that is in the process of being updated with new hardware, and my husband and I each have a laptop (not technically running at our house right now, since we both have them at work with us ;P )
Caffeine - it's what's for breakfast!
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How many computers do you have running at your house? Me, I am tipping the scales at 5. 1 Game machine. 1 Laptop 1 Linux Box 1 Dev Box 1 Beefy box to handle my VMs for testing, builds, and playing with betas. I've recently "simplified" things a bit in order to get down to this number :). Before depending on what I was developing or testing I would have anywhere from 8 - 10 boxes running. I am looking at cutting it down further if I can reasonably move my dev box and linux box to a VM.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
Just one. I've got another box sitting around doing nothing, but I have no use for it, so it can just sit there and collect dust until I can think of a good reason to recommission it :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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How many computers do you have running at your house? Me, I am tipping the scales at 5. 1 Game machine. 1 Laptop 1 Linux Box 1 Dev Box 1 Beefy box to handle my VMs for testing, builds, and playing with betas. I've recently "simplified" things a bit in order to get down to this number :). Before depending on what I was developing or testing I would have anywhere from 8 - 10 boxes running. I am looking at cutting it down further if I can reasonably move my dev box and linux box to a VM.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
1 SBS Server 1 Media Center 1 Desktop 1 TabletPC 2 Laptops
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots -
Well ok, on the condition that they have to be running it's only 21: 12 Windows servers (2x Win 2000, the rest are 2003, with three 64 bit) 3 PCs (old dev boxes that moved down the food chain, all XP) 2 Linux servers (CentOS, running Asterisk) 2 Laptops (XP, in bad need of upgrading) 1 Dev machine (XP 64 bit) 1 Media centre box (XP MCE) I hope to lose one of the old PCs in a few weeks by passing it on to a friend. I'm not including the 150 computers stacked on my living room floor[^] because those aren't actually running. ;P
Ðavid Wulff Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
10 PRINT 'HELLO MAINTAINER: GOTO HELLDavid Wulff wrote:
I'm not including the 150 computers stacked on my living room floor[^] because those aren't actually running.
I could take a couple of your hands if you need me to :)
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots -
How many computers do you have running at your house? Me, I am tipping the scales at 5. 1 Game machine. 1 Laptop 1 Linux Box 1 Dev Box 1 Beefy box to handle my VMs for testing, builds, and playing with betas. I've recently "simplified" things a bit in order to get down to this number :). Before depending on what I was developing or testing I would have anywhere from 8 - 10 boxes running. I am looking at cutting it down further if I can reasonably move my dev box and linux box to a VM.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
Five. And a Toshiba mini-laptop. Plus a Dell laptop that has had its disk drive amputated and so is non-functional.
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David Wulff wrote:
'm not including the 150 computers stacked on my living room floor
All I can say is WTF! Are computers born in your apartment, or do they go there to die? :~ I hope they're insured...
-- From the network that brought you "The Simpsons"
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
All I can say is WTF! Are computers born in your apartment, or do they go there to die?
Nope, they just have sex and reproduce themselves. :laugh:
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David Wulff wrote:
'm not including the 150 computers stacked on my living room floor
All I can say is WTF! Are computers born in your apartment, or do they go there to die? :~ I hope they're insured...
-- From the network that brought you "The Simpsons"
Vivic is kind of correct, they come here to breed and give birth. My house is built on an ancient computer spawning ground, and every spring they flock here in the thousands to lay their tiny capacitors and produce the next generation of computerlings. While they are still small, I lovingly care for them with my soldering iron of life and give them powerful new industrial innards and install switches and banks of RJ45 sockets into their tiny backsides. I educate them in the ways of the Linux and then they gather on palettes ready to venture out into the new world as telephony devices.
Ðavid Wulff Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Is there something you're not telling us, David?
Maybe he lives inside a hosting center. 24 hours on-site support. :-D
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blogYou might be onto something there. Hosting companies like Peer1, etc, could open a chain of hotels aimed at hardcore geeks by installing toilets, LAN ports and sleeping bags on a glass floor suspended above the server racks. The budget rooms would be shared with the backup generators, and the presidential suite could be above the switch racks. :~
Ðavid Wulff Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
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How many computers do you have running at your house? Me, I am tipping the scales at 5. 1 Game machine. 1 Laptop 1 Linux Box 1 Dev Box 1 Beefy box to handle my VMs for testing, builds, and playing with betas. I've recently "simplified" things a bit in order to get down to this number :). Before depending on what I was developing or testing I would have anywhere from 8 - 10 boxes running. I am looking at cutting it down further if I can reasonably move my dev box and linux box to a VM.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
5 1 Laptop with a bad keyboard. 1 Dev box running W2k (AMD 2800) 1 Test / Internet box W2k 1 4U Server W2k Server thats still in need of repair (bad mobo, have the replacement) 1 2U Server Linux (unplugged unused) and a bunch of older mobos laying around, loitering with intent...
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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5 1 Laptop with a bad keyboard. 1 Dev box running W2k (AMD 2800) 1 Test / Internet box W2k 1 4U Server W2k Server thats still in need of repair (bad mobo, have the replacement) 1 2U Server Linux (unplugged unused) and a bunch of older mobos laying around, loitering with intent...
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
