SYSTEM NAMING
I've had quite a lot of questions about the names of my systems and
the naming scheme(s) I have used and whether the many virtual machines
also have been given names in the same categories. So, here's a full
list:
Argon
Oxygen
Helium
Halon
Neon
Radon
Hydrogen
Octane
Nitrous
Xenon
Krypton
Hexane
Steam
Spark
Fire
Flame
Smoke
Cortex
Vortex
Nexus
Isis
Osiris
Luxor
Anubis
Avalon
Atlantis
Thunder
Lightning
Cassiopeia
Andromeda
Aurora
Solaris
Nova
Quasar
Meteor
Nebula
Jade
Opal
Pearl
Marble
Granite
Emerald
Onyx
Ruby
Diamond
Concrete
Stone
Slate
Lime
Shamrock
Clover
Ivy
Nightshade
Fern
Fennel
Hydra
Tiamat
Tempest
Dragon
Medusa
Chimera
Balrog
Siren
Phoenix
Banshee
Neo
Morpheus
Matrix
Trinity
Smith
Orwell
Kerosene
Methanol
Ethanol
Tellurium
Fluorine
Boron
Chlorine
Iodine
Chlorine
Europium
Monoxide
Deuterium
Oxide
Dioxide
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Stefan Didak's Home Office Desktop
"You can never have enough screen real-estate! And no, this is not Steve Ballmer's office."
"I don't tell people what to do so don't compare me with Al Gore either!"
The images above show the main desktop with its 7 screens, 9 screens if the two laptops are used.
The bricks, by the way, are not real bricks. They are brick textured foam wallpaper.
Nice side effect is they dampen and absorb a lot of fan white noise.
The streaks of light coming from the back of the desk are USB mounted LED lights.
4 Hyundai dual-input screens, 2 BenQ's because they had the same style, and one HP.
Resolution: 6400x1024 (wide) + 2560x1024 (lower two). Center quad: 2560 x 2048.
The workspace during daylight. Yes, I do sometimes allow daylight to flow in.
The desks are NOT held up by computers as some think they see. The desks are sturdy metal
Projekta electronics workbenches that can be adjusted for height.
There is wide-screen, ultra-wide, and insanely wide. This is the efficiently wide.
The two ASUS T2-AE1 (Athlon64 4000+) machines.
Hidden below you might notice the original Amiga 1000.
The HP NW8240 Mobile Workstation.
Amazing how they managed to fit 1920x1200 on a 15 inch wide screen.
The networking core of 3Com Office Connect switches, routers, and modems.
All systems have dual-NIC's (Gigabit) that split into two network segments.
Internet connectivity is split amongst 3 lines, good for 26mbps.
Cortex, Argon, and the centralized storage center to the right.
Big Fat Argon there is not a NAS. It's a properly sized VM host.
Oxygen (left), with its 3TB RAID-5 and 1.5TB RAID-0 Arrays (LSI MegaRAID SATA-6)
and additional 750GB of temporary backup storage (IDE 250GB Western Digital).
Helium (right) inside a Chieftec Bravo, 3.2TB RAID-6 (Areca), EN7950GX2, 800W PSU.
The paperless office is a myth!
Basic audio mixing to deal with various system's system sounds.
The chair is a Herman Miller Aeron, the best ergonomic chair ever made if you ask me.
Close-up of the network core... soon to be updated since it has expanded (again).
The Chieftec Arena 2000 case, housing a dual Xeon 5080 with 32GB of ECC RAM.
This monster has 8 case fans and uses two PSU's (500W + 800W) each with two fans,
and 2 CPU fans, 1 graphics card fan, 1 slot fan, 1 fan on the RAID controller,
with 2 80mm fans on the RAID cages. That's a whopping 19 fan wind turbine.
8TB of storage, 32GB RAM, Dual Xeon, hosting dozens of VM's.
On average will run 12-20 virtual machine OS guests.
Cables, more cables, some cables, and velcro to keep it all bundled neatly.
A bad attempt at creating a panoramic shot.
I just happen to like the blue engulfing light from the screens.
The Intel PR440FX dual Pentium-Pro motherboard with a 'whopping' 256MB ECC RAM.
Back in 1995 this was one of the most powerful SMP workstation boards.
The two Pentium-Pro CPUs that once graced the motherboard above.
Yes, that's a Sinclair ZX-81 (anno 1981) with a 16KB memory expansion pack.
I've saved it all those years and now it's on the wall.
How the desktop used to look before switching to TFT screens and overhauling the office.
A partial view of the personal library of books. Many for sentimental value.
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