I do today.  Partly because of packing, and also because I took an older PC and installed Windows Home Server on it.  Of course, I need a network cable and I can’t find the box I have them in.

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on Jun 10, 2009

I took an older PC and installed Windows Home Server on it.

Ok now that you have that all in order you still need a virtual system pc which you can use in case you need to click a bad link!

So what you got firewall and an anti-virus with anti-spy - too boot the ID protection stuff and all that.

Go virtual and use a browser with a proxy server setup in case they try to tie you up at your ISP/IP/DNS with a hijacking system for capturing your IP from your ISP and rerouting you to a new DNS server.

It is easy to do and does not cost you anything for software. It is all available free to the public to be used by you for your complete protection.

I have one here on a spare laptop and it does great for IP criss/cross and checking other system at domains/inside and outside.

I like that home server - it does a complete backup almost every night. Plus a system restore via networking is very quick with a n router system. Plus you can pick what you want in folders for sharing to media center for TV and Audio. Then there is that having a good ISP for doing the connect thing of using those PC's from anywhere. I love it and I find it helps a lot while I'm at work and I find I need something or for that matter while traveling and got to go get that file or document I was working on and left it on the computer at home and so forth.

The virtual system I use has no firewall, anti-virus or for that matter anything but a virtual partition for the 2nd OS copy of the original it use's in place of the actual system. Works great - I catch a bug and go as far as I can - even get a copy of the bug to a secure partition on a flash drive and then send the secure file partition to AV/security people to examine for what all they may want to know about it as such. I love that machine it pays in more ways than one! Like the home server too. A good system contains everything you really need to protect you and others that may be with you on the network you use and/or the internet you are all conneted to. Safe is a better way than oh no I should not of done that click... wow!

Nice to see you are going places ID.

on Jun 11, 2009

I want to know why you have your monitors so spread out...

One is a PC, and the other is a Mac.  I use them for two different things so they are separate.

 

 

on Jun 11, 2009

They dont make those logitech speakers anymore (=.

 

I have had these for a couple of years, they are a fantastic set of speakers.

on Jun 11, 2009

Not that messy... For now. .

 

on Jun 11, 2009

not me.........

on Jun 11, 2009

or... do you repeat it?

It's a force of nature I tells ya!

on Jun 11, 2009

Definitely messy.

Wires and cables everywhere. My whole comp and printer takes up about half the desk, thank God I didn't have to get that big crappy UPS up on too. I can't open my CD or DVD drives because they are being barricaded by books I plan on reading. I still have all the packaging from my new wireless modem, plasic and all. 3 sets of head phones. An old digital camera from the 90's. Floppy disks for that camera . Biology papers from December. Mail from April that I probably haven't touched since I put them on the desk in the first place. about 30 CDs and DVDs in total. A couple staplers. Random staples. Random USB cables. Spare change. Dozens of binders. Bits of miscellanious copper wire and plastic ranging from the size of my thumbnail to insignificant. A couple bottles of medicine. Old dead batteries. Boxes of tissues. Nail clippers. And an icecream sandwich I was planning to eat about 2 hours ago before I got distracted T_T.


Needless to say, it's a mess over here.

on Jun 11, 2009

After 21 years...I'm finally at the stage of doing up the front room of my house...[my office]...which was set up on day one of moving in....Feb, '87 ....still had the crappy carpet, etc...and benches were setup on a slope because the house hadn't been restumped then.

Now the floor is bare unsanded boards that are 100 years old .... the walls have [deliberately] roughly-filled cracks and the walls no longer have falling-down wallpaper but original milk-paint [pale aqua], the Drawing board bench is mounted [fixed to the walls] but still unpainted, and the computer desk is a semi-stripped bought one that will ultimately be replaced by a home-made and built-in one.  At that stage the wiring will be 'quite tidy'.

When you NEED to work [Archie drawings] whilst trying to rebuild....things take....

....um...

....time...

on Aug 12, 2009

Does this qualify?

This is the system im working on loading.  All the switches, all the computers, then it all gets shipped to site and setup to run the plant.. fun fun fun.

on Aug 12, 2009

Can I have your job, Dave?

on Aug 12, 2009

NOPE!!!! I'm far too darned sanitary/hygenic, as I recall being called in another thread about desktops.

Everything has its place... and HAS to be in it, as well as clean, tidy and respectable.
Starker, I think that's called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  And as far as respectable goes at least something has to be.

on Aug 12, 2009

Snowman
Can I have your job, Dave?

You do NOT Want my job.... Out of town 50-70% of the time, working in dirty nasty coal plants. 
This is only in the office till its loaded, then its going to be setup and installed in a typically dirty power plant.  and that will take about 3-4 weeks of 12-16+ hr days.. gonna be a "Blast".. so yeah, please take my job.. can i please just find a nice place to program DX?

 

on Aug 12, 2009

psychoak
I want to know why you have your monitors so spread out...

That's easy, just take a closer look at what's on each monitor.  Monitor 1: games. Monitor 2: Internet.  Monitor 3: porn.  Monitor 4: porn. 

That's not a dog, if you zoom in, you'll see it's really an old mop.  And the security system for his file-folders, now that's unbreakable.  And sombody please tell him that you can't fix computer bugs by using Raid. . . 

 

on Aug 12, 2009

RomanDA

Out of town 50-70% of the time, working in dirty nasty coal plants. 
This is only in the office till its loaded, then its going to be setup and installed in a typically dirty power plant.  and that will take about 3-4 weeks of 12-16+ hr days.. gonna be a "Blast".. so yeah, please take my job..

When can I start?

I'm not "tied down" by family-strings. I've only got myself to take care off, on a daily basis.

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