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? > > Todd > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > If I could afford to I'd have wall to wall computers in a massive home intranet (25-35)++ systems. Currently I have 4 computers here. I usually refer to them by Host name / Nickname rather then IP. My LAN depends a lot of Secure Shell and has both Nix and Win32 clients (the annoying ones) to it's server. Josephine "Jo" March: An old Dell Dimension 4500 (give or take a model#). My mom's E-Mail machine running Windows XP, has Dev-C++ (MinGW), XEmacs, and Vim installed from when I used to use it to. Pentium 4, 512MB Ram, 120GB HDD SAL1600: My Gateway Desktop and Game box, it runs Windows XP/MCE with MinGW, QT4/Win32 Open Source Edition, Perl, Python, Ruby, and several types of Emacs that I rarely use. Mostly I use it for playing games and working on Ruby and PHP scripts. I tripple boot the system with FreeBSD/PC-BSD Beta/RC releases and often keep one Linux Distro or a BSD system on the drive in case of emergency. Debian proper hates this machine. Pentium D 930, 2GB Ram, 500GB HDD (4 Primary Partitions, 4 Logical Drives) Dixie: My darling Laptop, a cheap Gateway that serves as my primary development system and workstation. It runs only PC-BSD (FreeBSD+KDE+Some GUI tools). Since PC-BSD is a custom install of FreeBSD. It includes the usual Unix tools for C/C++ development. Plus QT3/KDE/GTK+ libraries. Perl, Python, and Ruby are provided out of the box. However it only provides bindings to KDE/QT3/GTK+ out of the box for Python =/. This is the system I use for most stuff (the real work). It is also home to the current version of my vimrc file :-) Sempron Mobile 3300+, 512MB Ram, 80GB HDD Vectra II: An old HP Vectra Vli8 Desktop PC that my boss gave me. It's run a number of BSD systems as a test machine. But it currently functions as a dedicated File Server running OpenBSD 4.1. When I work on a C Program from my Desktop, I usually do it SSH'd into this one, using nvi via PuTTY or Vim and the file shares. I am _very_ tempted to install Ruby on this machine. But sadly with such a small hard drive available. I can't warrent installing Ruby, KornShell, Perl, Sed, AWK, and GCC/friends provide enough admin tools. Pentium 3 Katmai Core, 384MB Ram, 8GB Disk. My dream workstation is a Thinkpad R61 with FreeBSD+KDE, GCC, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, ELisp, Scheme, Java, D, Ada, and Vim (Editor) setup. So you know what I'd love for Christmas :-) TerryP. -- Email and shopping with the feelgood factor! 55% of income to good causes. http://www.ippimail.com