Guys,
Just wondering what the area where you guys post from looks like?.
Of course I'm not asking for brilliant 3-D graphics and what have you.
A picture of your chair would be cool!.
But me my b/side quite frequently goes to sleep on this wooden based chair.
How is it for you ones?.
Oh BTW here's a picture too of my little corner of the world.

How do you attach a picture?

This is my corner of the basement



Earl, to attach a picture, you'll have to e-mail it to Bill so that it is on a web server. You can also e-mail it to me if you don't know Bill's address.

[This message has been edited by Ryan_J (edited 02-01-2004).]

If I had a digital camera or scanner it would look like my easy chair with a laptop on one armrest and the TV in front. I surf here so I can be in the same room w/ my wife.

I sit in the living room on a recliner with a keyboard on my lap.

Right now my 3 year old is asleep beside me, my wife in sight at the dinning room table and "Law Order SVU" is on the TV.

No pics until I finish the extra room in the basement and setup my web server again

I compute from the end of the kitchen counter next to the back door! I had to get creative with a 2 year-old in the house, so the case & printer are on a cupboard-high shelf, and the keyboard rolls away under the counter. I'm stealing power from my dishwasher circuit too

Here's my chair... its from Ikea:

looks like a seat off an old john deere tractor

Sofas are nice with a ‘scratchpad’ keyboard in your lap.



p.s. a little off topic: My favorite “computer accessory” for the last 6 weeks has been… http://www.triliteinc.com/cozyfootwarmer.htm [Socks not included.]




[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 02-01-2004).]

Here are some pics of our Computer Room and Workstations.

(BTW: Sorry if there's a long loading time, due to these images...)



Image 1: Overview of Workstations.

My Workstations are on the Right-Hand side, and my Wife's is on
the Left-Hand side. Items in the center are:

* HP 450C Wide-Format color printer ("Plotter" for Arch. D size Media),
* MIDI Keyboard (sitting on top one of 4 planset containers),
* PC # 5's tower case, plus server equipment (behind "plotter"),
* Fax Machine (Xerox Workcentre 645 - also doubles as local printer for PC #5),
* 8 Port 10/100MBPS Switch,
* CD-ROM + Floppy Disk archives,
* Printing Media storage.

FYI: notice the messy state of bookshelves? This is a common occurance when
we both are performing heavy research!
Oh, the Cat is the "Print Manager" ... joke.



Image 2: Overview of my Workstations.

PC on Right is "CAD Work / Primary" Machine.
PC on Left is "Non-CAD Work / Secondary" usage - which includes most Internet stuff.
Physical usable Desktop space is shrinking by the minute!



Image 3: Close-Up shots of each Computer Workstation.



Image 4: Close-Up shots of Task Chair (both of us use similar types), "Plotter",
Local Printer for PC #6, plus "Print Manager" Cat (Marshall).

Scott35

.. Being as we still live in an apartment,..a one bedroom, mind you..the place is pretty cramped... our P.C. dominates the kitchen table now, and we usually eat in the living room...I'm looking for a house,but the prices around here are insane...for now,this is home...
AR

Our friend Al Davis (not the NFL owner) sent me this picture yesterday. Al Davis is AKA ALDAV

[img]https://www.electrical-contractor.net/BCodes/Aldav's_crib.jpg[/img]

Sparky's Space:

Here's Hutch's window into cyberspace ...



Snow outside makes it kinda bright!

Hey Great pic's folks!.
Just goes to show how antiquated my system is!.
Do most of you guys use the HP gear?.
Scott35,
You have a black Cat too?, I love them!!!!.

Hey Bjarney,
When it got real cold here last year and I was on holiday,I threw a few short lengths of 20W heat trace into my shoes and wore them around outside.
Magic I say, even though I had to run them on 230V and carry the flex as I walked.
Imagine 12/24V electric boots with an inter-woven heating element!.
Don't tell me someone has already had this idea!.

Mike,

Here's my Desk (although less messy than it's natural state!)


Bill

From classicsat:

Mike (Trumpy);


My Wife's Workstation is the newest Technology based Machine - Intel Celeron, based on the first Generation Pentium 4 CPUs.
Monitor is also the newest, but her Printer is the same HP 720C Color Inkjet which was used on her previous Machine (purchased new in July 1997).
The remaining W/Ss and server equipment are Pentium 2 (AL440BX) and older!


I currently use all HP gear (kind of biased, I guess...). Both flatbed scanners are also HP.
When I used Tractor Feed Impact Printers, these were universally Epson. First Laser Printer was an old "Legacy" HP type - with Font Cartridges, driven via serial port (yuck!).
Wide Format Printers and Pen Plotters were of two flavors - Calcomp & HP.
Both Companies made great Pen Plotters - media sizes upto Arch. E (36" x 48").
HP models often came with optional serial (RS232) port, or the HPIB (IEEE-488, AKA "GPIB"). It was a cool idea (HPIB), but equipment was expensive and difficult to find.
Common ports for past and present Plotters + Wide/Large Media Format Printers (AKA "Big Inkjet Printers") are Serial ports and Parallel (IEEE-1284) EPP.
The only "Non-HP" Printing peripheral in use currently is the Fax / Laser printer combo machine. It's a Xerox model, plus it doubles as Local Printer for PC#5.


Oh ya!!! We really have 4 Black Cats, but the others were sleeping at the time. Also, Marshall is a real Ham for the Camera - and when a Print Job queues, He runs upto the Printer and watches until the job is complete -hence the "Print Manager" reference!

I'll post a new message in the Computer area, with more details about our past and present setups. Will come back here to insert link to that topic afterwards.

Scott35

I'm repainting and recarpeting my "computer room" at the moment, so my system is in temporary quarters in my bedroom standing on assorted boxes and cases until I get everything organized again!

Scott,
I also have a "print manager," he's also black and named Lucky. He came from Ireland as a kitten about 5 years ago. Love cats!

Bill,
Nice to see you still have an traditional-style 2500 telephone on your desk!



[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 02-05-2004).]

hey "Clasicsat" is that a Star Choice remote on your desk. aka EG

Indeed it is. I have a receiver elsewhere in the house feeding the Kitchen TV, a TV upstairs, and the tuner card in the PC. The remote is a UHF one controlling the receiver upstairs (it is carried back and forth to the kitchen and the HO). An IR universal controls the upstairs receiver.

Paul,
I hope you've finished this by now!.

oh you had to drag this thread back up guess i will take a pic soon



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No pics it is a mess in violation of OSHA rules, good thing I am the only one who braves the danger. Rod

{from renosteinke:}

This is my hole (as my wife calls it).
Right in the living room. That's my latest "woodie" PC under the monitor. Wireless keyboard and mouse, network connected to the rest of the fleet.
There is another PC in the bottom drawer of the file cabinet and another one under the TV

Here is my spot



but let's look at the real nitty-gritty......what does it look like UNDER your desk??

Thanks for the touch of realism there Scott!.

Oh you mean this?



That is just the floor level stuff. I also have a bunch of stuff in the wall that follows the railway right of way around the room on the G guage train in the fiist pix.

[This message has been edited by gfretwell (edited 07-18-2006).]

Hmm Greg,
Cat-5e wire, you'd better be hoping that you aren't using that as a Phone line, otherwise the Cat-3 police will be on you tail.
And you think I'm joking do you?.

I am the ultimate wire abuser. I have a CAT5 with 2 LANs on it and another one with 2 phone lines and a LAN.
I also have a 4' IDE cable that is "T" connected to the disk ribbon for the externally mounted CDR drive. It works ... sue me.

Cat5e for phone? Maybe you're just ahead of the voice over IP crowd...

From Alan Belson:

Alan,
Judging by your shelving solution in the corner there, I take it that France doesn't have things like earth-quakes.
Everything is stored on the floor here in NZ, that way it can't fall any further.

LOL! Reminded me of my kids' bedrooms in the UK in a previous nightmare. Except in their case, it was to do with utter bone-idleness. Denise got to the point where she refused to enter their "filthy, rubbish-dump bedrooms", even to deliver their laundry, for fear of falling over something [or someone] disgusting and not being able to get up again! I must admit I have to bite my tongue sometimes on UK visits, remembering how the little buggers spent 20 or more years systematically wrecking our home, when on visits to their own now immaculate houses I get told to "wipe my feet", "take them boots off" or "go smoke out in the garden"!

As to 'quakes proper, France has seismic activity but it's centred southeastward in the the Alps in the Marseilles/Geneva/Lyon triangle. BTW, That's good 'ol Brit shelving from B&Q, so it "can't fall off the wall, there's nothing to stop it!"

Alan

Isn't amazing how smart the parents become, as the kids went from age 16 to 26?

LarryC

Edit to fix syntax

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Here's HCE727's Home Base:

This- without any clean-up for this pic- is what the cord clutter under my desk looks like.




[This message has been edited by renosteinke (edited 08-07-2006).]

Hmm, it depends on what computer I'm using. If I'm on the living room PC, I'm at a desk. If I'm on my bedroom iMac, I'm on my top bunk eyeing my dresser. My iBook? I could be anywhere, from my parents' bedroom to my neighbor's back yard. I'm planning a big desk that I'm going to build for my bedroom. My "print manager" is my cat Mikey. He's always on a sleep break, though.

Ian A.

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I often post from work, but I can't take pictures there, classified information and all, photos are frowned upon

Here's my home desk, monster everything- dual monitors with 21" CRT & 19" LCD (GREAT for cad, btw, highly recommend!), TV, full tower case running a P4-3200MHz with (used to be watercooled, but switched to a heatpipe when I got the P4), cable modem, wifi WAP/router, photo printer and of course all my R/C planes!
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I like http://imageshack.us/

[This message has been edited by SteveFehr (edited 08-09-2006).]
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And of course I'll ask one more time for you to send the pictures to the moderators

[This message has been edited by electure (edited 09-04-2006).]

From Electrikid


Ian



[This message has been edited by electure (edited 09-07-2006).]

This is one of those posts than cannot die.


Here's the new pics (no need to delete the old ones Scott.)
https://s29.photobucket.com/albums/...om/?action=view&current=100_3990.jpg


Please excuse the old lamp, it's older than me and still works.

Ian A.

[This message has been edited by Theelectrikid (edited 01-12-2007).]

I'll have to bring my camera in. I live too far out in the sticks to have internet service. So, the firehall at work is the only place I have computer access. Heard I can get a wireless card for laptops?? Not sure though.

Bump,
Anyone willing to add to this thread?.
Send your pics over here.

Here's the "work end" of my studio apartment which is roughly 11'x25', the main area of which is 11'x17'. Not terribly large, but sufficient. The only thing I don't like about it, is not having a garage space adjacent to the living quarters. And not having a dishwasher. But, that's what you get with student housing. Took this picture standing on the bed, in the "living" section.



My current computer setup. Currently have five around the desk, plus an extra one that will be going to a new home soon.



The cord situation doesn't look too bad, considering. However, there are more stuffed behind the panel of the desk, and another surge protector underneath.