[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

Brian Dunbar brian.dunbar at liftport.com
Sun Mar 26 01:11:49 CST 2006


Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:03:50AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
>>Most normal people only have one computer, a desktop, and it runs Windows or
>>MacOS. So all of us with UNIX on the desktop, and servers sitting nearby are
>>pretty well announcing our geekness with that alone.
> 
> 
> Frankly, I'd rather that the servers not sit near by.  Having the server
> sit in the office is for non-geeks.  The real geeks will create a
> dedicated space for their servers.
> 

I have in my dayjob office an Ultra 2 that has seen use as a desktop,
then a server, and now it's a desktop again.  It's a former server but -
more-or-less - a server.

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Brian Dunbar
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Liftport - The Space Elevator Company

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