{"id":659,"date":"2008-01-09T23:28:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T04:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=659"},"modified":"2008-04-16T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T18:34:18","slug":"my-home-workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2008\/01\/09\/my-home-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"My Home Workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeydevilla.com\/2008\/01\/09\/tsot%e2%80%99s-first-rubyrails-project-night-a-success\/\">TSOT Ruby\/Rails Project Night<\/a> last night.  It was a great gathering, and I was treated very well by the hosts &#8211; they even brought in Guinness for me!<\/p>\n<p>The soiree was at the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsotinc.com\">TSOT<\/a> offices in downtown Toronto, on the 11th floor at 151 Bloor West, with a beeeautiful bird&#8217;s-eye view of the <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/ca\/Royal_Ontario_Museum.jpg\/800px-Royal_Ontario_Museum.jpg\">Royal Ontario Museum<\/a>.  Last time I was there, CEO Kris White showed me around the unfinished space, but now it&#8217;s finished and filled with staff and desks and computers and books and, well, you name it.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by my pal Joey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeydevilla.com\/2007\/12\/05\/the-office-desk\/\">Office Desk<\/a> posts, I figure it&#8217;s time to give you a peek into my basement home office.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a panorama of the computerized half of my L-shaped desk.  I control all of the computers on it from the Dell&#8217;s keyboard and mouse, using <a href=\"http:\/\/synergy2.sourceforge.net\/\">Synergy<\/a>, which allows me to pan the mouse right across, from Linux to XP to Linux to Mac, transferring keyboard control as I go, even cutting and pasting text between any of the machines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/nerdy-office.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:100%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/nerdy-office.jpg\" alt=\"my home office computer setup\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From left to right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dell B\/W Laser Printer<\/li>\n<li>Speaker Phone with Call Display<\/li>\n<li>Toshiba Satellite Pro 4260 pIII 550 running Xubuntu<\/li>\n<li>Dell 9200 Centrino Core Duo T2600\/2.16GHz 1920&#215;1200 running XP Media Center<\/li>\n<li>ASUS Eee PC 2G Surf running Xandros Linux &#8211; on top of external USB2 DVD writer<\/li>\n<li>8-port switch<\/li>\n<li>Mac Mini Core Duo running OSX10.4 just under left of monitor<\/li>\n<li>Toshiba A10 P4 2GHz running XP Home &#8211; the display died, so I ripped it off completely<\/li>\n<li>On the monitor you see the Mac desktop, with a VNC window into the Toshiba A10, and a TV window from the EyeTV USB tuner<\/li>\n<li>A\/B switch to switch between Mac and Toshiba A10.<\/li>\n<li>Speakers either side of monitor (subwoofer at floor level)<\/li>\n<li>Mac keyboard in sliding tray behind the chair<\/li>\n<li>Epson Stylus Color Inkjet Printer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What you don&#8217;t see in the next room is my server pc, a Compaq EVO small form factor with three 250G drives, which is also hooked to my home theatre, which uses an Optoma projector and 7&#8217;x5&#8242; screen hooked to HD PVR, DVD, 5.1 audio and the Wii (at that size, it&#8217;s like having a bowling alley in your basement!).  My daughter&#8217;s desk has a Dell Optiplex P4 1.8GHz with XP Home and a scanner, the kitchen has a Toshiba P4 2.8 Laptop running XP Pro, there&#8217;s a 160G NAS device at the other end of the house, and the Router is a Linksys 54G running the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarcloud.com\/tomato\">Tomato firmware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My newest machine is the <a href=\"http:\/\/eeepc.asus.com\/ca\/index.htm\">Asus Eee<\/a>.  I got the lowest model &#8211; $299 for the Blush Pink 2G Surf, with 512M RAM, 2G solid-state flash disk, no camera.  When I&#8217;m in the office, I use it as a handsfree phone using Skype &#8211; at 2 cents a minute for calls to landlines in North America and Europe, it&#8217;s a great deal.  <\/p>\n<p>The Eee is a fantastic computer, well designed, well implemented.  Best out-of-box experience I&#8217;ve EVER had.  I&#8217;m looking forward to using it as a road warrior machine, for hacking, and for presentations.  Those guys with their little 13 inch Apples will have nothing on me &#8211; I&#8217;ll stun them with my sheer nerdliness.  With that in mind, I&#8217;ve already done a case mod to fill them all with fear and envy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/eee-kitty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:75%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/eee-kitty.jpg\" alt=\"My Killer Eee PC\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"left: -2227px; position: absolute; top: -3337px\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the TSOT Ruby\/Rails Project Night last night. It was a great gathering, and I was treated very well by the hosts &#8211; they even brought in Guinness for me! 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