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On 06/07/14 23:39, andrel wrote:
> On 7-7-2014 0:14, Doctor John wrote:
>> On 06/07/14 22:44, andrel wrote:
>>> snip
>>> ...mice,
>>
>> The ones with legs that eat cheese?
>
> The correct quote would be "are we talking about the little white furry
> things with the cheese fixation and women standing on tables screaming
> in early sixties sit coms?"
>
>
Indeed. . you have me there.
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On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 21:56:34 +0100, Doctor John wrote:
> On 06/07/14 21:52, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 21:05:35 +0100, Doctor John wrote:
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>>> What's on your desktop?
>>
>> Lots of stuff.
>>
>> Probably too much to enumerate, actually - and I need to clear some of
>> it off, because I am getting some new gear next week - including a new
>> 27" monitor for work. I'm not sure exactly where I'm going to put it,
>> because I hate to block the view I have to the north out my window.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
> OK just some of the more unusual items.
Green laser pointer, and a solar powered charger. :)
Oh, and a stack of "Get Out of Hell Free" cards.
Jim
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On 06/07/2014 11:17 PM, Doctor John wrote:
> All on one desktop?
> How big's your desk
The horizontal part is 240cm by 800cm.
Needless to say, you don't buy something like that in a shop. My mother
constructed the thing. It's actually several lengths of cheap laminated
counter-top, bolted together with a random assortment of screws,
dowel-pins and angle brackets. It also has a small set of shelves on
top. My mother lives for solving problems like this with needlessly
complicated solutions...
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> What's on your desktop? Not the virtual one but the real one.
Apart from the obvious items, I've got a SpaceMouse 3D mouse, a bottle
of coke with the label "Share a Coke Zero with Gin", some random parts
from some of the products we are making/designing. The most interesting
thing (and probably the highest price per unit volume) is a tiny disc of
sapphire with a 40 micron hole down the middle.
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> The horizontal part is 240cm by 800cm.
That is *HUGE*.
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> What's on your desktop? Not the virtual one but the real one.
> Right now I have two monitors, a keyboard, a mouse and a KVM switch.
> There are also an empty coffee cup (with the word TEA written on it),
> two landline telephones and a mobile, a pile of unanswered mail, a toy
> penguin called Tux, a half-empty bottle of Lucozade Sport and, for no
> apparent reason, a 2 metre length of Cat5 cable.
>
> John
>
From left to right (as if it mattered!):
3-in-1 Printer
Computer Tower
Speaker
20" screen (old 4x3 aspect ratio)
15" screen (also old)
Speaker
Cordless phone base with phone in it.
In-basket filled with:
- IBM logo cup with pens, pencils and X-Acto knife.
- Paperclip dispenser with paper-clips.
- dozen post-it pads of various sizes
- 12" ruler
- Bluetooth ear piece charger
Box of Kleenex
Bottle of screen cleaning spray
Notepad
CD filled with pictures from my daughter's daycare
two unpaid bills
Up to 10 days ago, there would have been a cat snoring on the desk as
well, but he's now in the Big-Comfy-Couch-In-The-Sky.
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> On 06/07/2014 11:17 PM, Doctor John wrote:
>> All on one desktop?
>> How big's your desk
>
> The horizontal part is 240cm by 800cm.
>
You sure about that?
that desk is 8ft by 25ft.
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Am 06.07.2014 22:05, schrieb Doctor John:
> What's on your desktop? Not the virtual one but the real one.
> Right now I have two monitors, a keyboard, a mouse and a KVM switch.
> There are also an empty coffee cup (with the word TEA written on it),
> two landline telephones and a mobile, a pile of unanswered mail, a toy
> penguin called Tux, a half-empty bottle of Lucozade Sport and, for no
> apparent reason, a 2 metre length of Cat5 cable.
I can confirm the Cat5 cable ;-)
Other than that:
Two monitors - check. Both 24", for maximum screen real estate.
A keyboard - check.
A mouse - check.
A KVM switch - nope. But I do have access to the other machine via Xming.
An empty coffee cup and half-empty bottle of Lucozade - nope. A
non-empty glass of water sits within arm's reach in a bookshelf to my
right though; the desktop proved to be a too dangerous place for liquid
containers.
Two landline telephones and a mobile - nope, just one landline. And not
actually landline, but ISDN via VoIP.
A pile of unanswered mail - check. Plus plenty of other pieces of paper
including invoices, newspaper clippings and a pizza service brochure,
CDs, and some odds & ends.
A toy penguin - nope, no mascots here. A plastic rose though.
That, plus:
A printer stand with plenty of blank printer paper; a laser
printer/scanner/photocopier/fax machine; two large jugs and a miniature
dustbin all crammed with pens, pencils, markers, eraser pens, and a pair
of scissors; a collection of plastic customer cards, business cards and
similar; a silver TC-RTC trophy keychain; a wristwatch that hasn't been
rewound for ages; a beyerdynamics headset I got for my 40th birthday; a
small toothpick container (with a few picks left); a colorimeter; an LED
flashlight; a set of nasty-sounding speakers I barely use anymore; a
mousepad; and two game keypads I've not used for ages.
Ah, and of course a Raspberry Pi. Which is the reason why /I/ have a 2
metre length of Cat5 cable on my desktop (a patch cable actually) ;-).
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Am 07.07.2014 09:45, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> On 06/07/2014 11:17 PM, Doctor John wrote:
>> All on one desktop?
>> How big's your desk
>
> The horizontal part is 240cm by 800cm.
You're sure you don't mean 240cm by 80cm?
Then again, no, that would probably be too small for all the stuff.
Gee, I don't even have a room large enough for such a beast!
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Am 07.07.2014 15:36, schrieb Francois Labreque:
> Up to 10 days ago, there would have been a cat snoring on the desk as
> well, but he's now in the Big-Comfy-Couch-In-The-Sky.
That's sad; my sympathies.
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