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!"

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WELL, SORRY!!! THIS PREVIOUS OFFICE HAS JUST GOTTEN BETTER!!! :-)

New workstations, upgraded servers, new monitors, new audio, new cables, new lots of stuff.

Stefan Didak's mega wide screen home office desktop

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.

Stefan Didak's mega wide screen home office desktop

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.

Stefan Didak's mega wide screen home office desktop

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.

Stefan Didak's mega wide screen home office desktop

There is wide-screen, ultra-wide, and insanely wide. This is the efficiently wide.

Frequently asked questions about the home office setup

Two ASUS T2-AE1 (Athlon 64 4000+) machines running as servers

The two ASUS T2-AE1 (Athlon64 4000+) machines.
Hidden below you might notice the original Amiga 1000.

HP NW8240 Mobile Workstation

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. A real feast of light in a dimly lit room

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.

Frequently asked questions about Stefan Didak

Cortex, Argon, and the storage center to the right

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.

The RAID brothers, LSI MegaRAID and Areca powered storage

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.

Konica Minolta Magicolor 2300 DL Network Color Laser Printer

The paperless office is a myth!

Mixed system sounds

Basic audio mixing to deal with various system's system sounds.

Frequently asked questions about other things

Yes, the chair is a Herman Miller Aeron, the best chair ever made

The chair is a Herman Miller Aeron, the best ergonomic chair ever made if you ask me.

3Com Office Connect Switches, Routers, Modems

Close-up of the network core... soon to be updated since it has expanded (again).

Chieftec Arena 2000B Server Tower

The Chieftec Arena 2000 case, housing a dual Xeon 5080 with 32GB of ECC RAM.

Chieftec Arena 2000 Server Chassis

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.

Frequently asked questions about the home office setup

Chieftec Arena 2000 Server

8TB of storage, 32GB RAM, Dual Xeon, hosting dozens of VM's.
On average will run 12-20 virtual machine OS guests.

Cables and Velcro, a match made in heaven!

Cables, more cables, some cables, and velcro to keep it all bundled neatly.

A terrible attempt at creating a panorama image

A bad attempt at creating a panoramic shot.

The Stefan Didak hallmark blue tones

I just happen to like the blue engulfing light from the screens.

Intel PR440FX Dual Pentium-Pro Motherboard

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.

Intel Pentium Pro CPUs

The two Pentium-Pro CPUs that once graced the motherboard above.

A Sinclair ZX-81 on the wall

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.

Stefan's previous non-TFT desktop

How the desktop used to look before switching to TFT screens and overhauling the office.

A small portion of the personal library

The personal library of books. Many for sentimental value because they include me or material I created.

Ramble Time