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Great isn't it?
So today I pose the question, what does your home office look like?
Here is mine:
I have 2 Toshiba Satellite Laptops bought at Best Buy for $500 each thanksgiving day.
One is my fiances because I'm on the computer so much she had to get her own.
One is what I run my site on.
My home office is actually the dinning room of my apartment with all the furniture up against the wall and the dinning room table with all the computer stuff.
I had to buy a book shelf to hold all my computer/reserach books, thats the only piece of furniture I bought.
On one wall I have a whiteboard for brainstorming (I admit however that I commonly come up with my best ideas using the whiteboard pens while in the shower) and a tacky board for all my to do list.
All my hard copy record are kept in a $10 plastic file box.. although I never really use it.
Your turn...
Downstairs: new(er) desktop on/in nice desk/hutch next to sofa in living room so husband doesn't feel alone while I commune with the "electronic spirits" within my network and the internet at large (heh - he's watching whatever's on satTV sportswise, so not really "alone" per se, though he doesnt't even know how to turn on my machines - and if he hits the wrong button on the sat remote, guess who he hollers for to fix it?
Going to be buying a REALLY nice wireless laptop (what'shisface notwithstanding) for when I re-retire end of August and we go off into various sunsets in our truck (25' travel trailer tagging along behind....)
It's all relatively neat (house-husbands are WONDERFUL - I HIGHLY recommend obtaining one!) though "upstairs" tends to be less so than "down" for obvious reasons.... I like "upstairs" better simply because of the views of our mountain (the largest laccolith in the world) and the summer air (winter, however, is a RIGHT BITCH....) but "downstairs" actually works better for real work at this point. That's subject to change once I quite "working" of course....
Corner modular desk
Broke-in black highback leather chair
Lava Lamp
21" Sony Trinitron monitor
Custom built Shuttle CPU (I LAN alot)
A bookshelf
A printer stand
Epson Stylus CX6400 printer
Klipsch 2.1 sound
A Wal-Mart plastic file holder for records
Pictures of my soon-to-be wife
Picture of a Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo
"Broke-in black highback leather chair"
Mine's so broke in that you could use it to make an exact cast of my posterior. I know, too much info? ;)
All taking up half my bedroom, (yah, small) with Monitor strategically placed so's I can keep sight of my TV which keeps me company at all times.
OH, did I mention the clutter of CD discs, DVDs, Paperwork and more resembling the aftermath of a .0000000005 megaton nuclear bomb?
Finally broke down and purchased a HP1300 laserjet printer. highly recommended, no more inkjets for me!
Canon digital camera (elph 2.0 megs with a 512mb card) - this is my third camera (first two were won in raffles if you can believe it) and am considering a new Sony camera with the superbig LCD on back.
The office itself? an Ikea thingy that is on its last legs, so I use the laptop from the couch wayyyy more that I use the desktop.
The paperless office remains a myth, however!
Entire basement filled with product, machines etc...
2 bedrooms on main floor used for office/storage. 2 computers + 2000 paper network printer in 1 of the rooms.
4 season sun room is my office. 2 computers.
Garage - About a ton of flatened corrugate (cardboard) boxes.
My family has squeezed into the 2 bedrooms on the 2nd floor. Both Landcruisers sleep on the street... under a bird dropping tree.
My "home" office contians 2 computers, a P4 and a Duron - both running Windows XP. I have a satilite connection paid by the company. I have a fridge and in it, beer for quick access.
Thats probably it - my servers are based in the US - instead of home, here in NZ.
Sid
My "home" office contians 2 computers, a P4 and a Duron - both running Windows XP. I have a satilite connection paid by the company. I have a fridge and in it, beer for quick access.
Thats probably it - my servers are based in the US - instead of home, here in NZ.
Sid
Too many CRTs though, I really need to upgrade to laptops and flat panels at some point.
Kit we have:
2 unbranded destops
1 Dell server
1 mp3 server
1 unnetworked machine with emergency dialup accounts and a load of diff browsers
1 Aries laptop with wireless
2 19inch ctr and 1 19inch flat screeen
Netgear all in one broadband, switch, firewall, wireless
BT phone with caller ID
Brother laser printer
HP all-in-one inkjet printer/scanner/photocopier
Digital cameras, mp3 players etc
A3 laminater
Whiteboard
Canon scanner
Filing cabinet
Bookshelf
28inch TV for sporting events
and last but not least a WaterRower and inflatable moose head on the wall!
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Tell the truth it was the inflatable moose head that swung it wasn't it?!
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One desk with hutch purchased at thrift store. Holds 5yo HP mini-tower, 5yo Sony Trinitron monitor, 4yo HP 832 Deskjet printer, 3yo external CD burner, UPS, cable modem, speakerphone, cordless phone, and many many papers, most of which could probably be thrown out if I'd just take time to go through them instead of continuing to stack them up in precariously teetering piles. Inside the hutch are books, software, and office supplies.
One smaller desk purchased at a consignment shop. Holds 7yo Dell laptop which has been upgraded and maxed out and is a workhorse that keeps on keeping on. The laptop has PCMCIA cards for WiFi and broadband. I have pretty much everything from the PC also on the laptop so it's my backup machine and also still travels with me. This desk also has a postage scale, a small shredder, a lamp, and my Alice (from Dilbert) doll, since she is my alter ego.
One printer stand (thrift store) with a fax machine on top, a scanner on the slide-out tray, a CD rack, and a variety of CDs and printer papers. One rusty 2-drawer file cabinet holding a 13" TV (news junkie here), USB hub, and various card readers acquired over time (need to get an all-in-one). One plastic 2-drawer file cabinet. Second desk chair and a love seat, for visitors. Boxes of stuff especially by the windows, for the benefit of the cat.
An accountant has finally convinced me - this year for the first time I'm going to claim this room as a business expense.
But hey, materialism is overrated, and time is so precious. I wouldn't want it any other way.
My office is my bedroom. Computer, desk, bed, TV.
Hope to be away from it all this summer though, need to work real hard now so that I don't need to do anything over summer. Internet free summer, can it be done =0?
W.
3 computer desks: one for me, one for my wife, one for my 4 year old so he can play Tonka Power Tools.
In all, there are 7 PC's in the house. One for each member of my family, and 3 for me. My web sites require great computational power so when the kids go to bed, my home network comes alive and starts crunching data for 18 hours until the kids get home from school the following day. This allows me to justify keeping the kids equiped with fast PC's, while I get the tax write-off.
Last week my brother-in-law complained about his car repair bills and having to put in a whole new ignition system into his car. Since I put about 150 miles a month on my car, I complained too, stating that last month I had to put a whole new tank of gas in my car.
In all, a pretty good life I'd say...
At one end, the desk holds a mid-sized tower and a new 17" flat panel, replacing a burned out 15" Sony CRT that's sitting on the floor. Chair is a semi-ergonomic Herman Miller that will have to do until I can get my old ErgoMax fixed.
To the right of the desk are two 4-drawer filing cabinets topped with a flat-bed scanner and some plastic sorting shelves that are overstuffed with unsorted paper. To the left is an old oak typing table that holds an HP LaserJet 2200D and a telephone. Up above the desk on the wall are some shelves with project loose-leaf notebooks and two original Edward Curtis gravures of American Indians.
On the right wall are twelve Hotfile bins, all stuffed with project file folders, a cork bulletin board, and a bookshelf.
On the left wall are a couple of windows, shaded to keep out the morning sun, above another table covered with papers, and more bookshelves. Behind me is another bulletin board and a closet filled with office supplies, etc. Too much paper everywhere.
Work stuff sometimes spills out onto the dining room table, with tools and storage in the garage. Most of the rest of the house is filled with bookshelves, with some art I've collected on the walls.
There's also a "shipping room," a very narrow room with a fold-up table and shelves on both sides that hold video cassettes and color slide carousels from another part of my life.
I get some light and sun out in the back yard, whenever I can get out there.
The ADSL router (anly just got ADSL) is also connected to an old pentium II with an assortment of hard drives (largest is 4Mb) running Redhat 9.0. This is my development webserver. It's Redhat because I got a magazine with it and could get it to work with the network card unlike the copy of Debian from another magazine.
vkaryl> See [warchalking.org ]
Invented by the designer of the original BBC website, if I'm not mistaken.
Plans:
Buy a house, make one room only for working. Then, when I can afford it, get a real office and employees. Then, move to a small caye off the coast of Belize. Spend some time there, and some time in Cali.
All I need is time :)
