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"Black Bo[X posted:

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This thread has inspired me to finally clean up my desk.

Before:

After:

As a side note I hate my desk and now that I'm no longer a broke-rear end student I'm looking for a nicer one.

Out of curiosity could we see your new cable management?

# ? Nov 4, 2008 22:18

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 05:40

Universal ReMonster: Oct 26, 2007; Yeah, you could poke him with a pillow and kill him

super plain walmart desk, nothing special at all about my setup, sigh

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Living like poo poo

# ? Nov 4, 2008 22:26

snarkcookie: Mar 25, 2007; Delicious Sarcastic Morsels with Every Bite!

georanma posted:

el oh el @ your case

The best part is what's not pictured is another fan of equal size to the one in the front of the case, and I've drilled holes in the side of the desk so that it could function effectively.

Can you tell I've had issues with overheating in the past?

# ? Nov 5, 2008 01:04

Mugmoor: Dec 13, 2006; I had a ruff day at work.

Universal ReMonster posted:

super plain walmart desk, nothing special at all about my setup, sigh

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Living like poo poo

sup case buddy? :hfive:

# ? Nov 5, 2008 02:17

Trapdoor: Jun 7, 2005; The one and only.

bob arctor posted:

Out of curiosity could we see your new cable management?

What if he just disconnected everything? :iiam:

Somebody fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Nov 5, 2008

# ? Nov 5, 2008 02:28

Universal ReMonster: Oct 26, 2007; Yeah, you could poke him with a pillow and kill him

Mugmoor posted:

sup case buddy?

yeah, works pretty well, can't complain!

# ? Nov 5, 2008 04:17

Black Bo[X]: Feb 18, 2001

bob arctor posted:

Out of curiosity could we see your new cable management?

Everything is still hooked up, it's not too pretty but at least it's hidden now. It's kind of cheating because I have a ledge running along the wall behind my desk which the cables are sitting on. They're looped over an empty CD spindle and kept in check with lots of zap straps.

Black Bo[X] fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Nov 5, 2008

# ? Nov 5, 2008 05:00

ScaryFast: Apr 16, 2003

I envy those of you with your own personal space at work. The 12 people in my department have always had to share 4 (now 5) cubicles. Not at the same time though, unless we have the summer student working, but I doubt we'll be able to do that with the tiny rear end cubicles we have now. These new ones are easily 1/3rd the size of the ones we had across the parking lot in another building.

Every single person in the building we work in now has their own similarly sized cubicle or a larger office all to themselves while our department gets shafted. I get if they were in charge of our funeral arrangements they would have us sharing a coffin.

Here's my desk at home.

# ? Nov 5, 2008 22:28

hobolooter: Dec 25, 2006

live on campus in a pretty decent apartment.

taken at night so not the best quality, but i like my setup... works really well for me. when i'm developing i make the linux vm go dual monitors and its loving sexy.

# ? Nov 6, 2008 04:27

rubbersoul: Oct 11, 2007; curse you mop toppers!

ScaryFast posted:

Here's my desk at home.

What kind of desk is this and who makes it, I have the same one and I want more wire hanger things for it, but have no idea where to get them as I got the desk second hand.

# ? Nov 6, 2008 04:49

jeff8472: Dec 28, 2000; He died from watch-in-ass disease

rubbersoul posted:

What kind of desk is this and who makes it, I have the same one and I want more wire hanger things for it, but have no idea where to get them as I got the desk second hand.

The famous Jerker desk from Ikea. Its out of production now. It might be tough to find accessories for it.

# ? Nov 6, 2008 05:45

Star War Sex Parrot: Oct 2, 2003

rubbersoul posted:

What kind of desk is this and who makes it, I have the same one and I want more wire hanger things for it, but have no idea where to get them as I got the desk second hand.

Are you talking about these:

strwrsxprt posted:

I need to go to Ikea and pick up a pair of these to get my cables off of the ground, unless someone has a better suggestion.

Because I just picked up a pair not too long ago. Ikea still sells 'em.

# ? Nov 6, 2008 06:25

Luminous: May 19, 2004; ~~Girls~~
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hobolooter posted:

live on campus in a pretty decent apartment.

taken at night so not the best quality, but i like my setup... works really well for me. when i'm developing i make the linux vm go dual monitors and its loving sexy.

Ok, my curiosity is perked: what is the emergency button for?

# ? Nov 6, 2008 12:45

dr cum patrol esq: Sep 3, 2003; A C A B

Luminous posted:

Ok, my curiosity is perked: what is the emergency button for?

Rape

# ? Nov 6, 2008 14:54

rubbersoul: Oct 11, 2007; curse you mop toppers!

strwrsxprt posted:

Are you talking about these:

Because I just picked up a pair not too long ago. Ikea still sells 'em.

No they make little file folder hangers that go into the rows of holes that run up the sides of the desk.

# ? Nov 6, 2008 16:39

Lo_Pan: Nov 5, 2008

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# ? Nov 6, 2008 21:37

wigbot v2.0: Oct 10, 2008; Hales

Jesus dude, pics big and grainy enough??

That aside, sounds like you've got a sweet PC box. 2x GTX260's though? I've got one and that destroys everything i've tried.

VVV Yeah, i guess. If you've got the cash to splash an all that. VVV

wigbot v2.0 fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Nov 6, 2008

# ? Nov 6, 2008 21:45

Lo_Pan: Nov 5, 2008

Mr.Wiggles posted:

Jesus dude, pics big and grainy enough??

That aside, sounds like you've got a sweet PC box. 2x GTX260's though? I've got one and that destroys everything i've tried.

Yeah sorry about the grainies, I only recently got a real camera. Had been using lovely phone cameras before then, which invariably perform lovely in low light.

I got two GTX260s because I wanted to run three screens, and at the time I had an 8800GTS 640MB, and wanted a GTX260 but the drivers for the two were not compatible. They are now though. So I decided to just get two 260s.

# ? Nov 6, 2008 21:51

syphon^2: Sep 22, 2004

way to goatse all of us.

# ? Nov 6, 2008 23:23

Inverse Icarus: Dec 4, 2003; I run SyncRPG, and produce original, digital content for the Pathfinder RPG, designed from the ground up to be played online.

samoth posted:

To everyone with multiple computers and monitors running 24/7/365: what do your electric bills look like?

I live with 4 other people. We have a bunch of computers.

6 desktops on 24/7. There are 9 monitors across them.
2 Laptops that are on 24/7
2 Laptop that are on 16/5 24/2 when we work
1 Laptop that's only on when one guy wants to jerk off or play WoW in his bedroom.
An EEE PC on 24/7 that I should probably turn off but I never do.

We also have a pool filter, which runs once a day for like an hour.

Our electric bill is usually $350-450 a month.

# ? Nov 7, 2008 02:19

hobolooter: Dec 25, 2006

renraku posted:

Rape

Yeah I dunno what happens if you push it though.

# ? Nov 7, 2008 04:16

IronDoge: Nov 6, 2008

wow you guys have clean desks.

My computer is the little white box you see there. For some reason my parents decided to buy me a Mac Mini instead of a normal PC. It's alright, but I generally dislike Apple products -_-. Hopefully I can get a PC soon, just need to acquire the budget.

IronDoge fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Nov 7, 2008

# ? Nov 7, 2008 04:28

c0burn: Sep 2, 2003; The KKKing

ironsights42 posted:

wow you guys have clean desks.

My computer is the little white box you see there. For some reason my parents decided to buy me a Mac Mini instead of a normal PC. It's alright, but I generally dislike Apple products -_-. Hopefully I can get a PC soon, just need to acquire the budget.

Good god man. Fix your desktop Icon transparency!

# ? Nov 7, 2008 13:06

Isbiten: Oct 23, 2005

Inverse Icarus posted:

Our electric bill is usually $350-450 a month.

Is it worth it? Because turning off the computers when you're sleeping would save a lot. Can't you have one computer on 24/7 if you need a server.

# ? Nov 7, 2008 19:41

HalloKitty: Sep 30, 2005; Adjust the bass and let the Alpine blast

Isbiten posted:

Is it worth it? Because turning off the computers when you're sleeping would save a lot. Can't you have one computer on 24/7 if you need a server.

Well, I guess you save on heating

# ? Nov 7, 2008 20:36

Inverse Icarus: Dec 4, 2003; I run SyncRPG, and produce original, digital content for the Pathfinder RPG, designed from the ground up to be played online.

Isbiten posted:

Is it worth it? Because turning off the computers when you're sleeping would save a lot. Can't you have one computer on 24/7 if you need a server.

Between the 5 roommates, 3 of us have our own music/movie collections on our own computers (mine is across 2 machines with smaller hard drives

), which we all share so we can stream them to eachother's speakers/screens, or play them on any of the three xboxes in the house. It's easier to leave these on all the time, rather than try to play some music in the living room and have the server be offline.

There's also one server in that mix that's on 24/7, so that's another that needs to stay on. Total of 5 deskops.

The other desktop could probably be powered down every night.

The EEE PC I never use for anything really, and should be off.

MY GIRLFRIEND and I use our laptops for work, and they're both on / connected to VPN all the time when at home. It's easier to just leave it on at night so I wake up and check all my emails quickly. I guess we could turn these off too.

My friend leaves his Macbook on all the time. Not sure if he has to.

The other laptop is just a "community t30" in the living room for VNC / Remote Desktop really, and we just leave it on and plugged in most times.

We're all "professionals" working in Silicon Valley, so $70-80 each a month for power isn't unreasonable. If you want to hear unreasonable, we have 2 internet connections in the house.

# ? Nov 7, 2008 20:38

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Inverse Icarus posted:

Between the 5 roommates, 3 of us have our own music/movie collections on our own computers (mine is across 2 machines with smaller hard drives ), which we all share so we can stream them to eachother's speakers/screens, or play them on any of the three xboxes in the house. It's easier to leave these on all the time, rather than try to play some music in the living room and have the server be offline.

There's also one server in that mix that's on 24/7, so that's another that needs to stay on. Total of 5 deskops.

The other desktop could probably be powered down every night.

The EEE PC I never use for anything really, and should be off.

MY GIRLFRIEND and I use our laptops for work, and they're both on / connected to VPN all the time when at home. It's easier to just leave it on at night so I wake up and check all my emails quickly. I guess we could turn these off too.

My friend leaves his Macbook on all the time. Not sure if he has to.

The other laptop is just a "community t30" in the living room for VNC / Remote Desktop really, and we just leave it on and plugged in most times.

We're all "professionals" working in Silicon Valley, so $70-80 each a month for power isn't unreasonable. If you want to hear unreasonable, we have 2 internet connections in the house.

As someone posted, put the music on a server and shut of the three computers.
Also, two internet connections wtf?

# ? Nov 8, 2008 05:27

Open Source Whore: Apr 26, 2007; Shiny

Inverse Icarus posted:

Between the 5 roommates, 3 of us have our own music/movie collections on our own computers (mine is across 2 machines with smaller hard drives ), which we all share so we can stream them to eachother's speakers/screens, or play them on any of the three xboxes in the house. It's easier to leave these on all the time, rather than try to play some music in the living room and have the server be offline.

There's also one server in that mix that's on 24/7, so that's another that needs to stay on. Total of 5 deskops.

The other desktop could probably be powered down every night.

The EEE PC I never use for anything really, and should be off.

MY GIRLFRIEND and I use our laptops for work, and they're both on / connected to VPN all the time when at home. It's easier to just leave it on at night so I wake up and check all my emails quickly. I guess we could turn these off too.

My friend leaves his Macbook on all the time. Not sure if he has to.

The other laptop is just a "community t30" in the living room for VNC / Remote Desktop really, and we just leave it on and plugged in most times.

We're all "professionals" working in Silicon Valley, so $70-80 each a month for power isn't unreasonable. If you want to hear unreasonable, we have 2 internet connections in the house.

Aggregate the media onto a low-power box, look at an MSI Wind barebone, with a lot of USB drives. My solution for a few years was a Linksys NSLU-2. Running debian, I can use it for an SSH gateway, NFS server, CIFS, Apache, you name it. Great, and takes less than 5 watts.

Try some suspend-to-RAM for all the desktops/laptops. You won't draw nearly as much electricity, and wakeup time is nearly instant(2 seconds). I would not buy a laptop if I couldn't suspend-to-RAM it.

# ? Nov 9, 2008 02:54

Stuntman Mike: Apr 14, 2007; The saucer people are coming!

This be my setup:

# ? Nov 9, 2008 04:14

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; Can't post for 4 hours!

I got sick of my Ikea desk so I went to a local hardwood supplier and bought a 25"x72" maple desktop slab and put it on top of two maple filing cabinets I bought a while back.

The result is a desk finally large enough to accommodate four screens at one time and is made of solid wood throughout:

https://wi.somethingawful.com/e8/e89b174e15620ec887888e5b2f4ce6fb5142e526.jpg

I still have to change out the stock hardware on the cabinets and put the monitors on mounts (two of these). The first 22" monitor is hooked up to an HDMI switchbox so I can swap between the PC (which usually runs XBMC) and an Xbox360 I'm getting soon.

Each cabinet has a frame into which I can slide a piece of pegboard. I zip-tied my networking equipment, power strips, power bricks, and everything else to the pegboard. Most of the cabling runs behind the pegboard.

# ? Nov 9, 2008 04:31

qlat: Aug 12, 2003

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15.4" 1920x1200
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo
1.5GB RAM
120GB HD

Everything I need

qlat fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Nov 9, 2008

# ? Nov 9, 2008 08:29

MW: May 20, 2001; "Nooooooooo!?"

qlat posted:

Click here for the full 1632x1224 image.
15.4" 1920x1200
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo
1.5GB RAM
120GB HD

Everything I need

What's with the wings?

# ? Nov 9, 2008 15:17

Dean!: Jan 31, 2005

I own the finest and most complete collection of Super Mario based art in the South.

# ? Nov 9, 2008 17:06

gregday: May 23, 2003

I need to vacuum.

MacBook Pro
iPhone
Logitech Bluetooth mouse
Logitech Z4 speakers with control module
FireWire hard drive for Time Machine
Notebook & pen
Dell 2005fpw LCD
Apple aluminum keyboard
DSL modem & Linksys WRT54G running Tomato
Custom built Linux server
Dell laptop (not mine, just setting it up for someone)
Pen & pencil holder, mail sorter

Actually, after looking at this, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that my server is in the middle when I'm using the Mac 98% of the time. But I do like having the light from the window right behind it.

edit: This has inspired me to rearrange a bit. The white cord over to the right of the server is a USB extension for the Apple Keyboard. When the keyboard is over on the side, it's connected to the server. When it's centered, it's connected straight to the Mac. The Dell LCD is connected to the server with VGA, and to the Mac with DVI, and a toggle button on the front switches between inputs. And right after taking this, I connected the Mac's audio output to my Logitech speaker control module input.

It was just a shame to not use the LCD, keyboard, and speakers more, so thanks thread!