Computing Al Fresco?

ear1grey writes "With summer fast approaching in the northern hemisphere, do any readers have experience of taking their 'working from home' one stage further and 'working from the garden'? Any tips for making the screen more visible in the bright sunshine? Any problems with direct sunlight and overheating components? Are there other issues that we should be aware of before we venture, blinking, into the great outdoors?"

Re:Tables + Parasols

[wan-fu]

Some of us like being exposed...


to the sun.

Al Fresco?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

We always took that to be a euphamism for "Naked".

You want to do that? Keep it indoors, please!

What? You can't!

[The Munger]

You mean (gulp) outside? You can't do that. There's like plants and animals out there. They eat you and stuff. And the sun! What about the sun? I'm sure you've been working on your geek tan. Why would you want to ruin that? Mine's a lovely blue. The star burns [penny-arcade.com] you know.

I hear there's even girls out there. Dude, it's not worth it. Trust me - I've heard the stories.

Pass the cheetos will ya?

Re:What? You can't!

[Nasarius]

Don't forget the bears [penny-arcade.com].

Outdoors?

[Gothmolly]

Isn't that the room outside the server room, where the ceiling is sometimes blue, and sometimes black with little white lights? The HVAC doesn't work to well there either.

Re:What? You can't!

[WolfWithoutAClause]

What about the sun?

You mean The Daystar? Nobody believes in that anymore. I mean it's so improbable- a large blob of radioactive hydrogen emitting deadly ultraviolet radiation.

I mean, if it existed the environmentalists, they atleast must have gone outside once or twice; they would be up in arms about it, but nary a peep from them- get real; it doesn't exist.