Posted by Kromey at 1:25am Aug 4 '09So, to prove how much of a nerd I am, I snapped a few photos of my (newly-organized) office and hastily stitched them together into a panoramic celebration of my own nerdiness.
Behold!
HTML-shrunkified - click to few in its full-size glory!
From left to right, we see my Ethernet-worked LaserJet (under the teddy bear) on top of the file cabinet; on the floor next to it we have a small Dell Optiplex (kind of hiding behind the file cabinet), "the refridgerator" (an old home-built PC who's specs are long since lost and who doesn't even have a power cord currently), my new VM host (8GB of RAM running 4 cores of 64-bit Linux-y goodness), my somewhat new-ish file server (with just under 4TB of hard drive space), my Windoze desktop (still runs Winblows for one reason only: gaming), and finally the white battery backup that gives me at least 4 minutes in a power outage to gracefully shut these beasts down. Sitting on top of the "the fridge" with the green and orange lights is the KVM that lets me run all of this from the comfort of my single Logitech wireless ergonomic keyboard and Logitech laser gaming mouse with my Acer Ferari-branded 22" LCD monitor. Also pictured is my 5.1 surround-sound speaker system (only the front surround and center speakers visible; the subwoofer's on the floor, the rear surround speakers aren't set up yet). On the extreme right-hand side you can just make out (behind "Graduate Mickey") my 24-port Netgear gigabit switch; on the shelf above it (next to the can of compressed air and beside the fallen eagle) are my wireless routers; yes, routers, plural - there's the wireless-G router that I let my friends on when they come over, and the wireless-N router that's devoted to my and [private]'s laptops.
Not pictured:
[private]'s gaming machine, a quad-core beast running Windows 7 (actually a seemingly very nice OS!) and hooked up to the HDTV (I was pleasantly surprised - very surprised, actually - to discover that the HDMI hookup via the video card's DVI output actually does contain the audio stream as well!).
[private]'s and my laptops; nothing really special about 'em, they run well enough and are convenient for web surfing while lounging on the couch.
Our edge router, a repurposed circa 1995 HP Pavilion with a mere 64 MB of RAM and running at a molasses-speed 667MHz; it sports 2 10/100 Ethernet NICs (one connects directly to the cable modem, the other to the 10/100 Ethernet switch that supports the consoles and [private]'s gaming rig before connecting to the office's gigabit switch) and is powered by Ubuntu 9.04 Server, running Shorewall to get all the routing and firewalling done. It also serves as secondary DNS server for our home network (primary DNS, as well as DHCP, is handled by the file server).
Btw, although it didn't photograph at all, the pink background with white box on my screen is Ubuntu 9.04's installation routine - I'm presently in the midst of setting up my VM host.
Behold!
HTML-shrunkified - click to few in its full-size glory!
From left to right, we see my Ethernet-worked LaserJet (under the teddy bear) on top of the file cabinet; on the floor next to it we have a small Dell Optiplex (kind of hiding behind the file cabinet), "the refridgerator" (an old home-built PC who's specs are long since lost and who doesn't even have a power cord currently), my new VM host (8GB of RAM running 4 cores of 64-bit Linux-y goodness), my somewhat new-ish file server (with just under 4TB of hard drive space), my Windoze desktop (still runs Winblows for one reason only: gaming), and finally the white battery backup that gives me at least 4 minutes in a power outage to gracefully shut these beasts down. Sitting on top of the "the fridge" with the green and orange lights is the KVM that lets me run all of this from the comfort of my single Logitech wireless ergonomic keyboard and Logitech laser gaming mouse with my Acer Ferari-branded 22" LCD monitor. Also pictured is my 5.1 surround-sound speaker system (only the front surround and center speakers visible; the subwoofer's on the floor, the rear surround speakers aren't set up yet). On the extreme right-hand side you can just make out (behind "Graduate Mickey") my 24-port Netgear gigabit switch; on the shelf above it (next to the can of compressed air and beside the fallen eagle) are my wireless routers; yes, routers, plural - there's the wireless-G router that I let my friends on when they come over, and the wireless-N router that's devoted to my and [private]'s laptops.
Not pictured:
[private]'s gaming machine, a quad-core beast running Windows 7 (actually a seemingly very nice OS!) and hooked up to the HDTV (I was pleasantly surprised - very surprised, actually - to discover that the HDMI hookup via the video card's DVI output actually does contain the audio stream as well!).
[private]'s and my laptops; nothing really special about 'em, they run well enough and are convenient for web surfing while lounging on the couch.
Our edge router, a repurposed circa 1995 HP Pavilion with a mere 64 MB of RAM and running at a molasses-speed 667MHz; it sports 2 10/100 Ethernet NICs (one connects directly to the cable modem, the other to the 10/100 Ethernet switch that supports the consoles and [private]'s gaming rig before connecting to the office's gigabit switch) and is powered by Ubuntu 9.04 Server, running Shorewall to get all the routing and firewalling done. It also serves as secondary DNS server for our home network (primary DNS, as well as DHCP, is handled by the file server).
Btw, although it didn't photograph at all, the pink background with white box on my screen is Ubuntu 9.04's installation routine - I'm presently in the midst of setting up my VM host.
Proof that I'm a nerd (VERY large image inside) - Kromey