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Recently we moved from one end of our office building in Hudson, Ohio to the other, and while we wait for some space to open up and get renovated, a few of us are working out of a conference room with a 10’ or so long heavy duty table in the middle of it.  So we decided to deck it out with as many computers and hi-res flat screens as possible.  Sitting on one side, there are 3 keyboards, 3 mice, and 5 monitors (driving 3 computers with a combined 18GB of RAM), which makes for a pretty good pair programming experience (the laptops on the ends are for email/IM).

Once we move to more permanent quarters, it’ll be tough to duplicate this much hardware in such a compact space, but for now it’s rather impressive (though having some more desktop space for notepad usage would be nice).

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Tuesday, 22 September 2009

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Aaron Seet said on 22 Sep 2009 at 10:48 PM

where do you place your papers and books? Or are you totally paperless now? :-)


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ssmith said on 22 Sep 2009 at 11:39 PM

Under real use conditions there are a bunch of small notepads, pens, etc. also cluttering the desktop. This was what it looked like, briefly, right after we got all the computers set up and before we actually went back to real work. :)


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klas said on 23 Sep 2009 at 5:48 AM

You should try synergy, mouse+keyboard over sevral computers! synergy2.sourceforge.net Share


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Jason said on 23 Sep 2009 at 10:42 AM

That looks a lot more like a LAN party to me... are you sure any work gets done... ;)


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UGG Boots sale said on 28 Jan 2010 at 2:26 AM

Under real use conditions there are a bunch of small notepads, pens, etc. also cluttering the desktop.


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home insurance quotes said on 02 Feb 2010 at 1:50 AM

Let me know how it goes and if you have any suggestions for making the presentation better.


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