You would love my setup! Four 32" Apple displays and one 50" TV on the wall. I have a wall of information :). Of course every single part of my home is automated pretty much so it's my brain center as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
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You would love my setup! Four 32" Apple displays and one 50" TV on the wall. I have a wall of information :). Of course every single part of my home is automated pretty much so it's my brain center as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
Oh my office is just one 19" monitor hooked up to one of three of our POS Dell towers from 2003... at home I have a slim setup b/c I'm looking for a new place then I can deck it out with some high tech stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger
I did a lot of debating about getting a SRT8, but I cheaped out. Just couldn't pull the trigger (this is a gun forum right?) for another 10k.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omicron
Did you get the 6speed in yours? Really love my RT though.
You'd be sad too if you had to see our fat a$$e$ every day[ROFL1]Quote:
Originally Posted by MattR
Damn ranger, thats pretty ba.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger
Skreeeeeeetch! Derail!
Answer to every question you have is.... 4
I wanna go home and have a beer. Mmm.
Likewise! Oh wait, it's after 4, it's Friday, and I'm the only one in the office... no phone calls for the last 2 hours... I think it's time to leave a bit early today!Quote:
Originally Posted by UberTong
If there's an EMP, I'm pretty much f*cked!Quote:
Originally Posted by UberTong
Isn't this the answer to the universe as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
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Originally Posted by Ranger
and don't forget your towel...
I thought this was fitting for this thread.
[ROFL1][LOL][ROFL3][Beer] Perfect!!!!!!! Did you make it for this Thread??[Tooth]Quote:
Originally Posted by jscwerve
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Originally Posted by DSB OUTDOORS
No, I just found it.
SWEEEET!! Thats great!! [LOL]Quote:
Originally Posted by jscwerve
Nice. I'm running (3) 24" monitors across three machines with Synergy keyb/mouse sharing... what are you doing with four studio displays? What resolution are those running at? Doesn't it require two video cards per 32" display? How many machines are pumping those?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger
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And by your post you ether looked at it or wanted it. So just like an ad for a wasr AK for $1100 what is the problem? ;)[Flower]Quote:
Originally Posted by Monky
[ROFL2]$1100 [LOL]Thanks thats a good one!!Quote:
Originally Posted by jerrymrc
But it is true. EVERY firearm forum that has a WTS section also has the same rules. If you do not like the price do not buy it. On the same token if the price is out of line or over the top shut the XXXX up. Why do 1000's of people feel the need to post up "I can get it cheaper here" Blah, Blah, Blah. That is not what it is worth, Blah, Blah.Quote:
Originally Posted by DSB OUTDOORS
Like they are trying to save someone? Every board has members that for one reason or another feel the need to try and save someone from committing a mistake.
Has to be the funniest crap I have seen in the last 20 years of the net.
Just wait. I have some stuff to sell soon. [Coffee]
I have two Nvidea Quadro 4000's (dual monitors each, 2GB memory) and an HDMI firewire for the TV. Just one Mac Pro 12 core with 48GB memory. I actually could count a fifth and sixth screen since I also have a Henge Dock for my MacBook Pro on an HDMI switcher with the TV that I can also use the MacBook screen as a spare monitor with my setup AND I can use my iPad as yet another smaller monitor as well. Two monitors sit on my desk, the other two are on arms that can move where I need them (so if I want to switch a couple to portrait I swing them beside the two on the desk) and they normally are set above the two on my desk. They all run 1920x1200 - I could go higher but it gets a little small for me to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
To answer your question as to what I do with those screens - pretty much whatever I want :).
I'm a techno junkie. I have six servers at my house, one of which does nothing but run the house - lighting, power outlets, thermostat, sprinklers, drapes, exhaust fans, security cameras, garage door, voice interface and more.
I owned a national IT services and outsourcing company for years, so when I go geek I really go geek!
1920x1200 on anything larger than 24" means you're not driving at the monitors actual native dimensions, though, right? Do you have astigmatisms or other vision issues, or do you sit far back from the displays?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger
I have a couple servers in my house, but only one is powered up. It's a ubuntu machine which drives my Drobo for central storage. The builder of this house ran Cat5 in a star topography for the telephone lines, which is perfect for networking... I got lucky there.
I have three more servers scattered around the net, mostly in "cloud" environments now.
I remember seeing the pictures if your setup. Someday(tm) I'd love to get my house setup like that. I'd really like to design and have built a house that functions as a cohesive system instead of just a structure with a bunch of independent devices and wiring systems, like we build houses today. For example, sometimes I'll hear a noise and I'd like to know what it was. If my electrical system monitored amp draw on every outlet, I could check to see if there was a new circuit going hot that corresponded to time, and know that it was (for example) the sump pump that kicked on.
(This thread is for derailing, right?)
H.
Server...that's the person that brings you your scotch, right?
How's THAT for a thread derail?
[Peep]
No, that's a native resolution. I don't have any eye problems but sit far enough away from the monitors that I have found that to be comfortable for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
That's nice! When I bought the house I spent the first month before I moved in getting it wired and outfitted. I ran 3 CAT5e and 2 RG6 to each place I wanted to connect something. I'm glad I did, since then I've upgraded all my TV's to LCD wall mount, not a wire to be found :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
I do a lot in the cloud. My servers have certain purposes - like three are just for Windows Media Center and Plex (on Mac), one a general purpose server, one a Windows server for SQL replication and one for my home automation (Mac).Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
It takes time! I've probably got around $12K in Insteon devices alone! What I like is that I can see and control everything from anywhere in the world via my phone or a browser (prefer phone, native apps). Since I travel a lot, my house does things like randomize the lights and drapes to give it the lived in look. Plus, my house knows when there is any movement and notifies me immediately. It freaks people out because my house talks. I'm working on a system now that when a motion sensor is tripped, a camera will do facial recognition to identify who tripped it and set the lights and music to that persons preference (a long work in progress).Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
The funny thing is that if you ever meet me I'll be the least geekiest guy you have met! Electronics and computers have always fascinated me.
Nice setup...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger
Oh many Windows SQL brings back such bad memories of circa 1999 and the performance bottlenecks it brought us. Nearly brought a well known .com to it's knees after a superbowl ad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger
Cool idea. I've thought about designing a pyramid shaped device that would sit flush in the corner of a room up along the ceiling, and having smoke detector, emergency light, camera, thermal infra-red camera (to detect fire without smoke), passive infra-red motion detector all integrated into one unit, that could then be powered via Ethernet for a single-cat5 hookup. Could be prototyped using Arduino, or the new Microsoft .NET hardware hacker kits.Quote:
I'm working on a system now that when a motion sensor is tripped, a camera will do facial recognition to identify who tripped it and set the lights and music to that persons preference (a long work in progress).
Also, now that the technology in the Kinect is open and available, adding those sensors (structured light, 3d (stero) color camera, and 3 microphones for sound triangulation and noise filtering), you could begin to build in limited speech and motion recognition. For example, it would be possible for the structured light to determine you are pointing at a lamp in the room, and the microphones to hear you say "Turn on" and to know that this sound came from the person who was pointing, and actually turn on that lamp -- would be pretty amazing.
You're far more in tune with the housing automation market, would a product like that sell? Perhaps something that's in kit form or modular so that components can be added or removed as time goes on.
You mean you fake not being a geek. It's OK, let you geek flag fly. Have some geek pride. The geeks shall inherit the earth. I bet you like knowing how everything works, from a DI bolt assembly to the protocol your servers are using to share files to the various media centers.Quote:
The funny thing is that if you ever meet me I'll be the least geekiest guy you have met! Electronics and computers have always fascinated me.
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I actually use SQL quite a bit, I have five offices and network them together this way. I have some clients running 4K users that we set up like this!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
Depending on the cost, sure, but I think its too far out there for my hobbyists - it would be the super bleeding edge guys like me that go for it so I think your market would be quite small.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
I'm doing that here, aren't I ? :) No, that's just not me at all! Besides, it's inner geek now since what I do is so vastly different. I still own a company that provides IT to the legal industry (in a very high end and different way) but I don't really get involved in that much these days. Most of my techno stuff is purely just playing with technology and keeping current with my own stuff - even though I have more tech certifications than I can count (MCSE, CCIE, CIC, MCD, etc).Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
With anything technological, yes, but most of what I know about weapons I learned in the Army (most of what I hate about what I know I learned in RS!).Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier