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Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? 326

Posted by EditorDavid from the pretend-you're-Larry-Wall dept.
I thought it'd be fun to ask Slashdot readers one of the same questions we asked Larry Wall: What's your computer set-up look like? Slashdot reader LichtSpektren had asked: Can you give us a glimpse into what your main work computer looks like? What's the hardware and OS, your preferred editor and browser, and any crucial software you want to give a shout-out to?
Larry Wall is running Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition), and he surfs the web with Firefox (and Chrome on his phone) -- "but I'm not a browser wonk. Maybe I'll have more opinions on that after our JS backend is done for Perl 6..." And for a text editor, he's currently ensconced in the vi/vim camp, though "I've used lots of them, so I have no strong religious feelings."

So leave your answers in the comments. What's your OS, hardware, preferred editor, browser, "and any crucial software you want to give a shout-out to?" What does your computer set-up look like?
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  • Um... OKay? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:32AM (#52532391)

    I haven't seen a teenage dick-measuring contest on Slashdot in a while...

    • Pissing contest (Score:5, Funny)

      by Ed Avis ( 5917 ) <ed@membled.com> on Monday July 18, 2016 @08:09AM (#52532565) Homepage
      Ah, good, I think it's about time to have a meaningless pissing contest. My work setup is three Dell UP2715K monitors in portrait orientation, giving a total screen resolution of 8640x5120, or 44 megapixels. If anyone can beat that, I will take you on in a stage-2 match of who has the lowest Slashdot user id.

      • Re: Pissing contest (Score:3, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward

        You forgot one detail: dick size scales inversely with display resolution. I'm glad I still use Mode X for everything.

        • I use a 4 year old Toshiba with 6 GB ram and a spinning disc for storage. Isn't that quaint? I stick with the latest Ubuntu LTS version because it has the most reliable support (security updates). Other spinoff versions like Mint are downstream from Canonical Ubuntu and don't react as fast (or as well) to hacks. Cinnamon is pretty but lacks the basic desktop features I want .... user defined launchers for URLs, programs, and files.... and the ability to dock those launchers in a user defined panel.

          I u

      • Re:Pissing contest (Score:4, Funny)

        by beh ( 4759 ) * on Monday July 18, 2016 @08:50AM (#52532759)

        Well - getting you on the UID is the easy part, oh young one! ;-)

        With my displays - nah - my plain 30" 2560x1600 is still fine by me. At work I only have two (portrait mode) 24" full HD screens - also "only" 2400x1920...

        As for the development tools - it always depends on what I work on - Java development - I still use eclipse (I have to use some plugins to interface with systems that aren't available for other IDEs... That said - I still think eclipse is decent enough to work with),
        For anything non-Java, I still use emacs -- sooo old, but it just works fine; and everything can be easily controlled by keyboard -- the mouse/touchpad is only a "last resort" tool. ...as for emails - still remember pine (or - alpine, as it was called in the last few iterations) - still the best tool for my imap space... :-)

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by coats ( 1068 )

        E5-1660 v4 (8 cores, 20M Cache, 3.2-3.8 GHz.
        64GB RAM
        Screen: 1xDell 27" 2560x1440; 10 KDE workspaces @ 3200x2256 virtual (==72 megapixels)
        512GB SSD, 20GB RAID5 + 12GB RAID0
        Mandriva 2015
        Compilers by Intel, Sun, PathScale, GNU

    • Re:Um... OKay? (Score:4, Funny)

      by Big Hairy Ian ( 1155547 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @09:25AM (#52532929)
      I've got a black box with a monitor, keyboard & mouse. You can't get the beige ones anymore :(

    • I don't understand how anyone would find that question interesting. At least not without pictures for possible inspiration from the rare exceptional setup. From experience it's one of those things people love telling other people about, yet noone cares to hear about. Like your dreams. Or your kids.

    • I haven't seen a teenage dick-measuring contest on Slashdot in a while...

      That's because most computers, like most dicks, are now "good enough" so what's the point?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Jawnn ( 445279 )
      No mod points today, and it's a damn shame, dude, 'cause you get first post and best fucking post of the week right out of the gate.

  • Computer? (Score:5, Funny)

    by 110010001000 ( 697113 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:34AM (#52532401) Homepage Journal
    What is a "Computer" Daddy?
    It is like an iPad, son. Except it was used in the 21st century for things like pirating movies and games and committing terrorist acts. That is why we were assigned iPads by our local corpo-government association.
    Thats really interesting Dad.
    • An iPad, an iPhone, they are computers. They are mobile computers. Desktop: Mac Mini w/ 2 27 inch thunderbolt displays, Apple TV for collaboration in my office as well. For my laptop, I use a 2012 rMBP with 16GB ram, 768GB disks. Served me for 4 years and it's still going strong. I use Safari for personal browsing since it integrates with my key chain, and chrome for developing. I use BBEdit for a text editor, or vi/vim when in a shell. VurtualBox for dev environments, and Apple Mail for... Mail.

      • Re: Computer? (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Lumpy ( 12016 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @08:19AM (#52532605) Homepage

        They are computers that limit your access to protect you from yourself.

        Sadly the hardware is also designed to protect the hardware from you as well. Very Very few tablets or mobile system allow you to have full control over them and install whatever Operating system you want.

        Yes little billy, at one time we had real freedom where you owned the hardwware you purchased, not like today. But back then the populace had more education and actually tried to learn on their own. People tinkered with electronics and built things.

        That was before the "restore consumer pride act of 2022" where making things yourself was deemed illegal. I remember when your grandmother actually made her own sweater, and I actually repaired a car once.

        • That reminds me of the song: Red Barchetta by Rush. We are headed down that road with computers and the Internet.

        • I want to make a note. There haven't been many wide scale attacks on these closed devices. While security vulnerabilities have been found no where near the wide scale attacks like we had on on our PC's. The general purpose PC's while make us happy to play with... However for the standard user it is just a risk of failure.

          • If you are using a closed device your data is already taken by the mega-corporations.

            • Vs. Take over by the Rouge Hacker. Who it is in their best self interest to either destroy or hold hostage.

              The mega-corp, having my data is troubling... However it is better them than a black market group who profit off of making us miserable.

          • "The general purpose PC's while make us happy to play with... However for the standard user it is just a risk of failure."

            Yep and instead of forcing users to actually learn something, we gave them all the power and none of the responsibility, so now all must suffer for the ignorant masses. Great job guys....

          • Re: Computer? (Score:4)

            by Lumpy ( 12016 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:41AM (#52533509) Homepage

            So forcing them hard closed for everyone is the answer? give me the "click here to violate your warranty" button that unlocks the bootloader and puts all the liability on myself.

            All the device makers utterly REFUSE to do this.

        • computer pride act of 2022

          Gay computers? I think Apple has prior art ...

      • No they aren't. They are consumption devices, not general purpose computers.

    • Re:Computer? (Score:4, Funny)

      by Ken_g6 ( 775014 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:27AM (#52533359) Homepage

      I'm suddenly picturing Bill Gates holding a Surface Pro over his head, and shouting, "From my cold, dead hands!"

  • Windows 10 and Google Chrome all the way. Notepad++ for text editing.

    Essential software, I dunno. I use Lastpass a lot. VLC for media stuff.

    • Why do you use Lastpass? If you use Chrome and Windows 10 the hackers already have your passwords anyway.

      • It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Barny ( 103770 )

        Duh, it is so HE has his passwords too.

        I prefer keepass for this. Chrome + Firefox on windows 10 (chrome is only for youtube/netflix on my TV), firefox runs noscript.

        Code editing is notepad++, text editing is via google docs, text writing is from LibreOffice.

        Essential other software? The aforementioned keepass, steam, skype.

        What it 'looks' like? Two 24" screens with a 24" TV in a quarter circle, my computer itself has its rear facing my keyboard in winter, facing the window in summer.

      • Re:Everyone's favourites. (Score:5, Funny)

        by Overzeetop ( 214511 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:58AM (#52532527) Journal

        Well, sure, the hackers have them - but it's not like I can go and ask *them* for my password every time I want to log in somewhere.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by GuB-42 ( 2483988 )

        Chrome and Windows 10 are actually pretty secure as far as modern browsers and Windows OS go.
        Sure, Google and Microsoft want to know everything about you but they don't want to share.

  • Computer setup? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:36AM (#52532411)

    I'm whistling 300 BAUD into the mouthpiece of my landline telephone you insensitive cloh'/fIFYNUOb;/9' NO CARRIER

  • At home: a competent gaming + VR (Vive, DK2) machine running Win10. At work: top-spec Dell Optiplex running Ubuntu (not that I need top spec for all the LaTeXing I do).
    I prefer Sublime Text and Chrome. Vim when GUI is unavailable.

  • Home (Score:3)

    by markdavis ( 642305 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:44AM (#52532461)

    Main system at home: Mageia Linux 5, KDE, but use Pluma as editor, Firefox, LibreOffice, Audacity, Audacious, Claws, vlc, Pidgin, Hexchat, ssh, etc.

    Several-year-old homemade computer with a really nice Asus board and a 6 core 3.2Ghz AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, Antec 750W PS with huge, quiet fan. Centurion super tower case with 5x5.25" external bays, 1x3.5" external bays, and a lot of internal ones. Huge, quiet case fan, fanless Nvidia GeForce GT 730, 8GB RAM, several SATA hard drives in removable bays plus main drive is a Sandisk SSD, LG Bluray burner. Brother MFC-L2740DW all-in-one. LG ultrawide 29" LCD monitor (2560x1080). Cyberpower UPS, ASUS RT-AC68U router running Linux (of course). Ancient Microsoft Natural keyboard.

    • +1 for Mageia 5.

      I run Mageia 5 on my work laptop, with Win7 in a VirtualBox VM. The biggest issue with running Linux at work is connecting to overhead projectors during meetings. XRANDR takes care of that rather nicely.
  • CentOS 7 with 4 virtual desktops. On Desktop 1 I keep my work stuff with Firefox, on D2 is my personal with Chrome to keep the logins separate. 3 and 4 are misc workspaces, like if we are running a training session I'll have ClusterSSH windows on D3 for the week.

    My monitors are Dell 24" with the left one horizontal (good for most browsing and looking at waveforms) and the right one vertical (good for coding).

    There's a physical and virtual gap between them which has a banana stand holding my headphones

  • Laptop with OS X, most of the time with an external 30" monitor. And no, I don't have any program on fullscreen there ... unless it is a game.
    As I'm mainly programming in Java, Groovy, Scala I use an IDE (mostly Eclipse, but often IDEA IntelliJ).
    Usually I have a VM running Linux (VirtualBox), sometimes one running an old Windows (like windows 2000, to run a CASE System like "Sparcs Enterprise Architect").

    On both OS X and Linux I use bash and vi/vim. IDEs or dump editors make no sense if you are on the conso

  • my development desktop machine died (seriously dead) late last year, so I'm using my laptop for now: - MSI gaming laptop - I7, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD - Windows 10 (hey, it's better than 8) - Visual Studio 2015 Since I am planning a new desktop development rig, let me throw the question back to y'all. What do you recommend for Windows development in terms of HW? I want to be able to run multiple VMs simultaneously, so I'm aiming for 32GB of RAM. AMD or Intel? I5 or I7? I want lots of screen space. Would a 4k

  • Homemade (Score:3)

    by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:56AM (#52532517)
    Gigabyte MB, 8 GB RAM, i5, 2 SSD (one for sys, Ubuntu 14.04 only, soon to become 16.04, one for home+data). A big monitor matte style with no super contrast that kills the eyes. Net via RJ45. Built in 2009 and still fast enough. Testing 16.04, it appears it's even faster!

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by aliquis ( 678370 )

      with no super contrast that kills the eyes

      If this wasn't Slashdot I'd ask you how you handled the real world.

      • Unless you only care about looking at plain text, most "special" contrast settings kill the color accuracy.

  • One tablet to rule them all...

    SP4 (i5) docking with 2 x 4k 42" IPS monitors (Mango Wasabi)

    Work time: AutoCAD Building Design Suite, Bentley/RAM Elements
    Play time: Reaper, CS 2016
    Browser: Chrome (=email,cal,tasks in app windows)

    Utilities I can't live without:
    Image adjustment: Irfanview
    Text editor: Notepad++
    PDF: Bluebeam

    I love when architects (esp. mac-based) come around and drool over the monitors with space for two (nearly) full D-sized PDF prints up at the same time, plus a pen-sketch on the tablet screen.

  • 2x 8 core Xeon, 128 GB, 2x Tesla K20, Windows 7, 2 TB RAID, 3x 24" On order: 2x 8 core, 512 GB, 4x Tesla K40, 9T B SSD RAID, 3x 28" 4k

  • Laugh all you want, but at the time of release the 15-inch retina Macbook Pro was not that expensive.

    I prefer 16:10 displays to 16:9 !
    After three years, it still runs 8+ hours on its battery.

    root@retinad:~# lshw -short (EDITED)
    /0/0 memory 7895MiB System memory
    /0/1 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4750HQ CPU @ 2.00GHz
    /0/100 bridge Crystal Well DRAM Controller
    /0/100/1 bridge Crystal Well PCI Express x16 Controller
    /0/2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 251GB APPLE SSD SM0256
    root@retinad:~# uname -a
    Linux retinad 4.6.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.2-2 (2016-06-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux

  • My computer set up is a disheveled pile of books, monitors, laptops, opened mail, unopened mail, notepads, trash, and other assorted items. Sometimes I’m lucky to find my power adaptor and phone charging cable under the mess. I have a scanner under there somewhere, but I can’t find it. The only reason I can find my printer is because it’s down in the basement, although it too is piled up with printouts I haven’t organized yet (and probably never will).

    Sometimes I wish my house wer

    • Maybe that's a better slahdot survey, what's your primary workplace ?
      - A chaotic mancave
      - A lonely couch
      - A glass designer desk with accompaning feng-shui room
      - A toilet.
      Me, I can't decide between option one or two.
  • Desktop: i7-4790K, 32Gb, Asrock Z97 Extreme 6, Samsung 850 EVO 250 Gb + 2x HGST 4Gb, Fedora Linux/Cinnamon UI + KVM for sandboxing other OS'

    Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10/32 Gb, Android Marshmallow

    NAS: Synology DS212, 2x HGST 4Gb

    Connectivity : Just got in AT&T Gigapower (showing 940 Mb symmetric).

  • Work:

    MacBook Pro with one additonal 19" screen. Firefox + MacVim, except when I use PyCharm (with the vim plugin).

    Most of my work is spent in iTerm2 and tmux anyway, since I have anywhere from 2 to 20+ SSH sessions opened. Also: pkgsrc.

    Home:

    MacBook Air 11", no additional screen. Otherwise, pretty much identical. Lots and lots and lots of USB3 external HDD.

  • Dell PowerEdge R730 running VMware ESXi with VMs running CentOS 7 and OpenBSD.

    Dell Precision T3610 running Windows 7 with Fedora 20 and CentOS 7 VMs. 31.5" wide gamut (Adobe RGB) at 3840x2160 resolution. Sanwa compact JIS keyboard, Wacom Intuos 5 pen and touch tablet, Logitech G502 mouse.

    MacBook Pro (2010), 17" matte 1920x1200 resolution display, running OS X 10.6.8.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by _merlin ( 160982 )

      Text editors are vim most of the time, and TextWrangler or Notepad++ if I decide I want a GUI. My compilers are gcc and clang.

      I use Firefox and Safari as web browsers, also have Opera and IE11 for testing against other rendering engines. I'm still using ageing Apple Mail, iCal and Address Book. I don't like their new versions in the later OS X versions.

      I use GNU Lilypond for typesetting music. I occasionally use GarageBand for basic sequencing and mixing, but nothing particularly serious.

      I use Adobe Lig

  • My primary machine is a I5 6600k, 16 GB of DDR4 ram, Asus Z170A mb, Radeon R9 390 gpu, EVGA 850W psu, Samsung 950 Pro M.2 SSD, 5 sata HDDs, a Blueray/DVD-RW drive... It runs windows 10, because I support windows systems more than anything else. Chrome with Ghostery and Adblock for the browser, though as Edge runs like hot shit on this system (for strange unknown reasons), Opera is my backup. LibreOffice, Notepad++, and google docs as editors depending on what I'm working with.

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  • My main box is a couple of years old on the CPU at this point but it still cranks pretty fast. It helps that I upgrade GPUs every 2 years usually.

    Core i7-4770K
    16GB RAM
    GeForce GTX 970
    1 LG 34" 21:9
    2 Acer 27" 16:9
    Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSD for boot and core apps
    2x WD 2TB HDD (RAID 1) for everything else
    Windows 10

    With 4 versions of Visual Studio (2008, 2010, 2013, 2015) and the rest of the 10+ apps in startup, my time from power on to usable desktop is about 75 seconds. (yay SSD)

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  • HP i7 16GB RAM 256 SSD Win10 Laptop
    Seamonkey w/ adblock and no script
    nirsoft_package
    windump
    putty
    nmap
    notepad++
    Keepass
    Acronis
    WinRAR, 7zip
    truecrypt 7.1a
    LogMeIn
    EMET 5.5
    MS Office & Visio 2013
    Virtualbox w/ pfSense and CentOS
    Sumatra
    Imgburn
    Filezilla
    OpenVPN, Cisco VPN, NetExtender
    XVI32
    AD Info
    Cisco_usbconsole_driver
    Desktop is very similar but with games and a lot more storage. Desktop is a Lian Li case w/ Gigabyte MB.

  • Meh,why not.

    Main workstation / gaming:

    i5 4590, 32GB RAM, reference GTX980, 128GB OS drive, 8TB ( currently, some disks are down and haven't been replaced yet ) of spinning rust storage. All run on a Server2k12R2 workstation. Razer Mech keyboard.

    Also running 3+ Linux VMs and one FreeBSD VM at all times. Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom almost always running.
    Hooked up to a Sony Bravia 40" 1920x1080 color corrected TV for display

    Mobile workstation:

    Lenovo with an i5 and 16GB RAM, hooked up to who knows what displa

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  • Main PC: FX-8350, 2x Zotac GTX 950 AMP! (one was a RMA upgrade), 990FX-Gaming G1, Samsung 850 Evo, LG supermulti, NZXT Source 220, Win7x64

    Secondary PC: 1045T, 1x Asus GTS 450 OC, GA-MA770T-UD3P, Intel SSD, another LG optical drive. Currently running Ubuntu, but I switch it up periodically.

    NAS: Pogoplug v4 running Debian, MyBook 3TB

    Router: WRT1200AC running OpenWRT

    Printer: HPLJ2300DN +128MB DIMM

    Total cost under 2k with monitors (currently using Samsung Syncmaster 2693HM)

    Total standby power under 30W (even if

  • This year it's:
    -AMD APU in 2 out of 3 machines, intel Pentium (G3225?) in the 3rd for shits and giggles
    -Windows 10 on everything, great OS, runs so much faster and more reliably than Windows 7, auto-reboot updates are annoying
    -Chrome browser, it has some performance problems but it's the only browser I know of to offer free remote desktop over the Internet (Chrome Remote Desktop)
    -VLC, #1 essential on every computer
    -MakeMKV, for backing up DVD and Blu-rays discs
    -One 27" LED Monitor @1080P, same for each syst

  • Main box: Current Ubuntu. Firefox. 22" VGA LCD (with DVI adapter). Some quad core thing. 3 tb, also runs a Plex server with music I actually purchased, all lossless, many of it higher def (96 or 192 khz, 24 or 48 bit).

    Other box (via KVM): Win 10. Also some quad core cpu. Almost exclusively used to VPN into work.

    Our network is neater. We have an extra WAP wired in, so we have a pretty large area with a pretty strong signal. No, our refrigerator isn't networked.

    • Core i7-2600k
    • Geforce 980 Ti (recent upgrade for the HTC Vive)
    • 16GB RAM (upgraded some years ago for some heavy Java work)
    • 512GB SSD for operating systems
    • 2TB spinning rust for games and home folders
    • Obutto r3volution desk with 3x 24" 1920x1080 monitors mounted on it
    • HTC Vive
    • IBM Model M

    All home-build from parts, I've had the same case for over a decade.

    Dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 ; Ubuntu is where it spends most of it's time, as this is my work OS. I no longer attempt to be productive on Windows (and

  • Since I am at work: Windows 7, Internet Explorer and Windows Notepad.
  • 2010 Mac Pro 2.8 ghz 4-core running Windows 7 with some hardrives of various sizes, 16gb ram and an HD7950, 24 inch Monitor 1080p a Dell XPS 13 l321x running Linux Mint a Surface Pro 2 (my mobile entertainment device) a 2011 Macbook Pro running the latest Mac OS attached to my Yamaha P155 (I prefer the Braunschweig samples from Imperfect Samples) As for text editors Nano on Linux and Notepad++ on Windows. Browsers? Whatever works best for the page I am viewing, I really have no preference.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Holi ( 250190 )
      I hate slashdot's inability to keep formatting

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Holi ( 250190 )
      So to fix it.

      2010 Mac Pro 2.8 ghz 4-core running Windows 7 with some hardrives of various sizes, 16gb ram and an HD7950, 24 inch Monitor 1080p
      a Dell XPS 13 l321x running Linux Mint
      a Surface Pro 2 (my mobile entertainment device) a 2011 Macbook Pro running the latest Mac OS attached to my Yamaha P155 (I prefer the Braunschweig samples from Imperfect Samples)

      As for text editors Nano on Linux and Notepad++ on Windows.

      Browsers? Whatever works best for the page I am viewing, I really have no preferenc

  • My home computers are pretty uncomplicated; an iMac at a conventional desk in the office and a Mac Mini at a standing workstation in the home theater, attached to the projector -- but my office setup is arguably where I've put the most effort and thought. I have five computers at my desk, serving various purposes. (Some are on a stand-alone development network, one is a version control server, one is my internet box... etc.) So needless to say, a KVM was one of the first necessities, there.

    I also have t

  • in the late 90s I had very elaborate setups and multiple computers but these days things are much simpler. I have a MBP with a fast external harddrive for timemachine backups, a github and bitbucket account, and about a dozen servers at linode. I guess I should also include by Samsung S5 Active since it has JuiceSSH on it and I use it for taking care of the linodes when I'm out and about without my laptop.

  • At work, Windows 8.1 (ugh) i7 5820k, 16gb ram, 500gb ssd. Dual monitor setup, because I code.

    Personal laptop, asus zenbook ux31a, dual-booting windows 10 and ubuntu. Recently upgraded the ssd on it to 1tb after the 256gb that came with it failed. Other than that, fantastic laptop.

    Home gaming machine, Dual booting Windows 10 and Steam OS. Same as the work machine, except 1 tb platter hard-drive (I need to get an ssd for it) and a geforce gtx 970.

    Home file storage / media server. Atom processor d510, 4gb

  • AMD FX4300 quad core overclocked from 3.8 to 6.3GHz
    8GB RAM
    500GB 1st Gen + 250GB 2nd Gen SATA drives
    Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR5 to a 21.5" monitor@1080p

    Fast enough for EVE Online at max everything fullscreen and Kerbal Space Program at native resolution and all the pretties on. Also great for video editing when I plug in a 1440x900 second monitor which is usually plugged in as a second screen on my laptop.

    A project I have in mind is an ATX frame with mounts for up to a dozen 2.5" drives in a standard flight cas

  • Main system: Dual-CPU Xeon E5-2680v2 (10 cores per CPU, so 20 cores total, 40 w/hyperthreading), 128 GiB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 1 TB spinning disk, Quadro K2000 GPU, three monitors (2 24", in portrait mode, 1 30" in landscape), running Ubuntu 14.04 (upgrading to 16.04 soon). Desktop is the AwesomeWM tiling window manager w/10 virtual screens on each monitor.

    Why so much horsepower? I work on the Android OS and a clean build takes an hour even on this beast of a machine and with make -j60. Why three monitors? Becau

  • Home computer is set up for games, which unless you are in denial means Windows and Steam.
    My "laptop" is a 2 in 1 tablet running windows 10 and set up for writing (I write shitty novels as a hobby)
    My work computer runs Mint, but the real magic happens in all the Docker images that let me run and debug a mini copy of our production system.
  • My computer sits in the original CoolerMaster Stacker case with the side cover off, in a 3x5 cabinet built into the attic of my 1/2 story second floor. 8" window fans (one now broken) ventilate it from the attic side on days when heat becomes an issue. The internals are a Skylake 6500K, 16 GB RAM, an EVGA 1080 FTW, a 512GB Samsung 950 Pro M.2 boot drive, a Samsung 850 EVO 512 GB SATA, and a Soundblaster Z. It runs Windows 10 Pro and occasionally other guest OSes to play with. I am looking forward to dinking
  • My day-to-day computing needs are satisfied by an iPad Pro.
    • I use Pythonista for Python scripting. Pythonista is a very capable Python IDE, and I don't use even a tenth of what it can do.
    • I use Textastic for general text editing and for web app development. Textastic allows me to install web apps on the iPad's home screen, which I love. It's the closest I can come to developing and installing my own apps on the iPad.
    • I use Apple's notes app for note-taking and quick sketches. I work for a small games company

  • I have plenty of computers in the house, but "my" computer is a 2009 iMac running OSX 10.6.8. Notable feature is several multi-terabyte FireWire external hard drives. I have newer ones, but I don't like the later OS revs. My Windows machines are the same; I actually use Windows 7, despite having newer revs.

  • With upgraded RAM and (of course) graphics, and SSDs. Works for me...

  • Operating system: Kubuntu 14.04.

    Desktop Environment: KDE.

    Browser: Firefox, with Classic Theme Restorer, uBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie Monster and Session Manager with auto save every few hours. I also have Chromium for when Firefox proves to be too restrictive for some sites. I also use Opera and rekonq occasionally.

    Editor: vim and has been for decades, even before vim was invented (yes, plain vi on UNIX System V).

  • I built my current computer a bit more than a year ago. It runs FreeBSD-10 stable. The hardware is:

    - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (8 cores, 16 threads)
    - Supermicro X10SRA motherboard
    - Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4K monitor
    - Nvidia GeForce GTX 750
    - 32 GB ECC 2133MHz DDR4
    - 4x Seagate 5TB enterprise disks
    - 1x Samsung 850 Pro 250GB

    I'm running ZFS, and the SSD acts as an L2 ARC

  • my work desk at home has a Windows PC and a iMac. For video editing, the Digital Audio Workstation, and CGI/ Graphics work. Two LG Ultrawides on the Windows machine and a pair of portrait 22" monitors flanking the 27" imac. There is also a stack of used mac minis set up for a render farm running 64gig SSD's that makes Reaper and Final Cut render like a screaming ape.

    At work work... the one that pays me a weekly wage I have a windows laptop, an OSX laptop and a Linux workstation. The laptop is a "Meh"

  • Three displays: a 22" in landscape (fits my desk better), and a pair of 24" displays in portrait.

    I'm running PC-BSD on my desktop, so my hardware choices are conservative.

    Lately the 8 GB limit of my aging desktop box (though extremely quiet and reliable) is proving problematic, so I'm in the process of flipping my ZFS server box (Sandy Bridge Xeon with 32 GB ECC) to become my new desktop. The server itself will downgrade slightly to a second-hand box I picked up recently, a quad core Xeon with 24 GB of ECC

  • I was surprised to get on Slashdot this morning and see my question to Larry Wall inspired an article. So, uh, thanks for the shoutout Slashdot, couldn't've made it here without you...?

    I work for a translator company, where I am a technical assistant. Because of legacy Win32 programs, I have to use Windows 7 on some standard HP desktop. I try to make the best of it with LibreOffice (N.B. I check all of my .DOCs with both LibreOffice and MSOffice to make sure there's no weird formatting compatibility prob

  • Corsair Obsidian 800D Case
    Corsair H100i AIO Cooler
    Corsair HX1200i PSU
    (8) Ugly-as-sin beige Noctua 120mm/140mm fans
    (2) Original Generation NVidia Titans
    Intel 4770K
    Asus Maximus Hero VI mobo
    16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM
    (4) 4TB Seagate Mechanical HDDs
    (3) 512GB Crucial SSDs
    (1) Asus BD/DVD+-RW
    DasBoot Keyboard
    Kensington Slimblade Trackball
    43" LG 4096x2160 TV/Monitor
    Windows 8.1 x64

    I used to game a bit...

  • My main machine is a Mac Pro running El Capitan but I don't actually use the El Capitan environment much. I keep it very locked down. I have a virtual machine (actually a clone of my old machine) running Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) which is now dedicated to email, calendar and social networking. The reason is that Apple dropped functionality, involving the interaction of mail and iCal (yes that's iCal, not Calendar), which was important to me and you can't run the old stuff on the new OS. A second VM is d

  • You might be a Redneck if... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by guises ( 2423402 ) on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:18PM (#52534175)
    I use a functioning laptop, sitting on top of another non-functioning laptop.

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