On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:29:56AM +0900, Todd Burch wrote:
> I went to the Lone Star Ruby Conference last week.  7 of us went out to
> dinner one night, and we counted up how many computers each of us had at
> home, that were operational and could be use if needed.
> 
> We counted 53 between the 7 of us.  I only have 6, others had over 14.
> 
> What's your inventory count?

Counting not only mine, but also the SigO's:

RUNNING
  2 laptops (FreeBSD and Debian, both with Ruby)
  1 desktop (MS Windows XP, soon to be FreeBSD instead)
  3 servers (FreeBSD,Debian, and Debian, all with Ruby)

SOON TO BE RUNNING
  1 game machine (FreeBSD, with Ruby)

SOON TO BE PLAYED WITH, OPERATIONAL STATUS UNKNOWN
  2 mini PC systems
  2 Sun IPCs
  1 ancient Sony Vaio
  1 Sun Sparcstation

OPERATIONAL, BUT PROBABLY JUNKED SOON
  1 Toshiba laptop, 75MHz CPU (Slackware, broken screen)
  1 ancient pizza-box form factor (Debian)

Then, of course, there are the various non-operational systems.  I'm
pretty sure I haven't forgotten any of the operational systems, though
there may be one or two x86 "operational status unknown" systems I
forgot.  The stuff in the "unknown" category will probably, as I get
(some of?) them running, will probably become a test network -- though I
may end up giving a couple away.

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actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game."