Post Your Desktops

[Lawrence]

Just curious what everyone's work environment looks like. Maybe give me some ideas to increase productivity.

You'll have to scroll right to view the entire thing if you don't have a wide screen. Also, don't post anything you don't want the world to see. For instance, I've hidden all my desktop icons.

[Patrick]

I'll post mine tomorrow from both my laptop and my desktop as both are my coding and work machines.  Both work computers are gaming computers so they are a little different then a plain ole windows machine.  So you'll see more games and apps then a normal "office" computer LOL.  I swear i'm not 12, i've just been an gamer most my life and even competed professionally for money.  Heck you're talking to the #3 top Quake 2 player here haha!!  Desktop is dual monitor so once i boot it up again i'll make sure nothing i don't want seen is there.  My son is my background picture, so i'll change that temporarily

I find the best thing for me at least is my dual monitor.  2 27" IPS monitors.  Mainly for programming but comes in handy for a lot of specifically work related stuff.

[Patrick]

Here is mine.  Heavy scrolling obviously, dual monitor so it's expected.  Only thing i hid was my bookmark bar.  Too many private day to day links to display.  This is how this computer sits every day though hostbill support desk is usually open on the right side.  Work laptop is essentially the same setup, same resolution which was one of the reasons i paid so much for 6 of these laptops for the office. 

Ignore the core temp and GPU stuff.  I run these under water cooling so unfortunately i must monitor it at all times.  This is my home office.  When i to the office Monday i'll post the screen of my laptop which is essentially the same as the other 5 my staff use.

I don't usually do this but it's all in good fun i guess   Before i'm nagged about Windows, i run a dual boot just not in Ubuntu atm.  Never know many linux users hate windows users so i had to say something

edit:  I had to "adjust" the screenshot.  I had something displayed i shouldn't have shown on the forums. 

[tallship]

My faithful "hammer" lappy - a DV9000 with more replacement than original parts LOL. That makes it a veritable cyborg, and it needs a new fan/heatsink installed. I'm dreading that....

I'm currently running XFCE, but also use Enlightenment and Mate on Slackware64 -current. In fact, most of my prod servers are running either debian testing or Slackware64 -current. I move slowly and methodically through upgrades, but can't stand the stupid RPM method of use and then throw away and re-install - I like rolling releases, which is why I recommend LMDE to new UNIX  converts/users, and also like/recommend distro's like Arch, Sorcerer, and Gentoo (Plus I like to compile most of my own software creating .deb's and Slackware Packages - even on CentOS or Mageia I like to build my own RPMs from source).

Full size screenie of hammer running Twin in one of my ten virtual desktops under KDE (I also typically use two or three virtual consoles simultaneously too, which are running other twin or tmux or screen sessions, and I pop in and out of X or attach to remote Twin or tmux sessions - sometimes it's like running IBM Top-View for that "video feedback effect" LOL:



Good rule of thumb - whenever ssh'ing into a box, check to see if there are already any tmux sessions running and attach to them first

I'm the Slackware package maintainer for the SBo of Twin, and if you want to know more about it, go HERE

Fitting the whole thing on one screeen (width=800px)





And below is a current screenie of my bare desktop on hammer under Xfce - the pic is of two of my five most fav superheroes (besides The Mighty Thor and Conan the Barbarian), the other three guys, not pictured - not even part of the landscape when this pic was shot - are Bill Joy of UC Berkely, and Leonard Kleinrock and Charley Kline of UCLA (The three people who created the Internet, IMNSHO):



Yes i know I'm a Linux & BSD nutbag, having adopted the former back in 1992, and the latter back with BSD 4.2b - so you don't have to bother saying so.

Remember:

Frinds don't let frinds run ewboontew!

Kindest regards,

[cloudhopping]

Here is an image of mine.
I run a system that allows us to watch our zabbix alerts right from the desktop.

Most of what you see there however is the wireless network we run - covering roughly 3200 Square miles now i think -
never keep track of how big it is- as its always changing...

[tallship]

Here is an image of mine.
I run a system that allows us to watch our zabbix alerts right from the desktop.

That's pretty darn kewl there @cloudhopping!

[cloudhopping]

We are using Mikrotik to completely overhaul the Wireless side of the network.
These two business really complete each other however.


Hosting for the most part after all is all Outbound Traffic.
Have you ever tried to purchase Metro Ethernet one way ?
They don't sell it as such.

will be very happy when OSPF is 100% in place and we can migrate over to a full MPLS network.
I actually use our wireless infrastructure to drop into one of our cell tower huts an entire offsite backup location

Works like wonders  - and I can bring that live in minutes if ever needed.
(we test it monthly and it works every time)

[Patrick]

Talk about geek porn

[cloudhopping]

HA HA -   

Ok have you ever looked up the home datacenter guy?
speaking of that - perhaps we should post some pics of our datacenters / racks etc ?
Not sure if most are colocating or leasing or what.

I need to get some pics of ours again - this i saw on a companies website and told my guys they needed to emulate it.
can you tell which one is my interworx cluster - and what I want it to look like in the near future?

[cloudhopping]

woops - realized i attached the wrong pic - shucks looked close to ours -have to go find it...
bbiab

[tallship]

We are using Mikrotik to completely overhaul the Wireless side of the network.

I was into Ubiquiti's products when I was doing small WISP stuff in the desert. My ranch had a 270 degree unrestricted view fromthe back side of Big Bear out to Twentynine palms, Joshua Tree, and parts of Johnson Valley.

Being a Ham I only had to put up a 60' non-commercial tower on my hilltop, and considering there were only 5 commercial establishements (a coffee shop, three small markets - two were gas stations, and a Moose Lodge) I installed captive portal hot spots in all of those locations and got my advertising signage for free.

Plus rural communities like that are heavily dependent upon word of mouth and the county supervisor liked me too, which helped a lot until he got caught up in, and hamstringed by, an ethics scandal. I was unable to get funding from the USDA under BIP/BTOP (that was a scam - they gave the grant money to big cable providers who had no interest in building out infrastructure), although I was the only provider in my SUTA, and had the support of San Bernardino County Supervisors.

Although I found being a WISP fascinating and fun, I wanted to get back to my homeland along the beaches of Super Sunny SoCal and so I eventually closed up shop and packed my bags. I provided more VoIP phone service than anything, as most people were retirees who had no real use for even email, or they were filesharing bittorrent freaks that hammered me on weekends when they were partying at their cabins LOL.

Where I was there was no fiber, and my driveway was about a half a mile long going up the ridge, and without being able to get a (promised as soon) wireless backhaul I had to make due on three T1's that effectively shutdown any possibility of anyone on my side of the highway getting additional POTS service - coz I bought up what little copper was there.

Fascinating stuff. Really ubergeeky

I was active in WISPA for a couple of years, and have Jack's bible too, but haven't really looked into that mail folder for a long time now that I live back in the beach communities of Los Angeles, but what you're doing looks really kewl!

You go girl!

Okay so I'll take you up on the facilities pics

Here's  a profile pic from my google+ page - My suite is the middle set of windows, second row from the top:




And here's she is again, with her sister building, the old L.A. Telecom building at 530 W. 6th St, in the foreground. The main POP for Cogent is in that building, and I used to share a suite in Quadranet's penthouse there:



Here she is at night, with a light burned out LOL. One Wilshire is arguably the world's most densely interconnected building, but certainly, it's the hub of the entire pacific rim - All roads lead to Rome:



And when Rome was still a republic, before she was an empire, here's the view from there looking west down Wilshire Blvd. towards Santa Monica:




The next two shots are from inside the suite on the 28th floor:

[tallship]

The suite I'm in is just off the elevator bays on the 28th floor.

Here's a shot of the left hot aisle:



And here's a shot of the cold (center) aisle:

[Lawrence]

Talk about geek porn

Nerdrection....

I guess in terms of simplicity, I got everyone beat so far! Darn cloudhopping, that's wicked cool! @Tallship, very nice stuff going on there. I have a minimal version of Gnome 2 with a few changes. I was debating whether I should go Gnome or XFCE, and stuck with Gnome because I'm more familiar with it.

[Patrick]

Lawrence, I have everyone beat with my son holding my other geek porn lol... (that i didn't mean to show him but it became too late after i realized it 24 hours later) I'm heavily in to RC Heli's   One he's holding is a 5.5 foot rc heli.  Worth about 5 grand each. 

HA HA -   

Ok have you ever looked up the home datacenter guy?
speaking of that - perhaps we should post some pics of our datacenters / racks etc ?
Not sure if most are colocating or leasing or what.

We lease about 13 servers off the top of my head for hosting.  We also own as of about 3 weeks ago, 3 racks (2 in Arizona and 1 in Telus in Toronto)  Pheonix i doubt i'll be visiting as i just returned from there anytime soon for a picture.  The telus colo i may be soon.  So for now i have no pictures.  (well i do, but finding them is like a needle in a haystack).  I find leasing very cost efficient and very cool to be honest if you pick the right provider.  We still colocate as one think i learned 17 years ago from having a T1 trunk line running in to my parents basement.   Complete control feels damn good (expensive) but love it.

I started my hosting business with 3 ugly white desktop computers and a home made rack beside my bed.  Took manual orders and back then even helped a local ISP setup and ended up working for them in the end.  Ahh fun times!

I don't do some of the more complex stuff some of you guys have setup, i've stuck to more of the basics and a good portion of my servers is like a playroom for me.  Just fell behind over the years after letting a CTO handle most of the technical stuff.  So don't make that mistake as it's easy to forget dung if you don't stay plugged in.

anyhow, i'm ranting here, boiling my butt off.  94F in this damn room.  Window AC is shot or something.  Pulled the sucker out of the window, ripped it apart and bypassed the thermostat and rewired it to be always on and the sob still turns off randomly.  I need to buy a modern home, tired of these old homes with no central air.

[Fusionhost]

Fresh install on Friday, so nice and clean, just how I like it!