[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
System Administrator
Liftport - The Space Elevator Company
brian.dunbar at liftport.com
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