Your computer room

[gatorback]

Describe in detail your computer room and why you like it that way.

At work I have over 1600 computers in my computer room.  I would show you a picture but that's probably against corp. policy or something.  It takes a long time to find a machine in my computer room sometimes.  Mark is suppose to keep the sheets at the end of each row with the machine in that row, but he's fundamentally against it as it would take to long to keep the sheets up to date and to many people change things around for him to keep up.  I don't blame him.  I work for by far the world's largest information technology company in terms of revenue and by most other measures, a position it has held for about the past 100 years.  I've only been with this company for 7 months now.  I like it.  It's a real job.

At home, I just have my laptop.  I don't need anything more then the ThinkPad I have to get my work done.  Sometimes I take it into the kitchen with me while I make omelets. 

I take my laptop to Starbucks too, it’s just downstairs and Simon Mall has WiFi I can connect to.  I really don’t need to go to the office and sometimes I wonder why I do go there then I remember, we have free coffee and on Wednesday it’s treat day.

[downtownparks]

I have a couple at work.

I have my server room. Its sort of my baby. When I started there were two old wheel around racks with cat 5, thinnet, and god only knows what else bubbling out of it. Hundreds of cables. I was in essence, hired to fix it.

Its still not perfect, and sometimes I forget how far its come, but its an actual server room with racks and ladder runs and cable management, and everything. All most all of it by my own two hands.

My room here at home is an old trunk room. Its a nice small space. Big enough to get work done in, but small enough to not feel like your wasting space for the computer. I have a nice view out on the street in front of my house, and I can keep an eye on the kids in the TV room just down the hall.

[thelakelander]

At home, I've moved the computer desk out of the third bedroom/office and into the living room, since I like to work with noise and it allows me to keep an eye out on everything.  I keep the blank CDs/DVDs on the left and the printers on the right.  I store disks and paper work in a few cabinets below the desk.  I also have a laptop that I use for presentations and when I travel out of town.

[Webini]

At home, I had to move my PC from the computer room to the ... *drum roll* ...DINING ROOM (hey, I'm a bachelor.  It'll change once the fiance gets her way).  It was moved because I use it for music and music production (and ocassional surfing)...all of my equipment just didn't fit in the other room.  For personal, I have my own laptop.  Then there's the one provided by the job so that I can work 24-7...

[adamh0903]

At work I am a POS/Server and Network Tech So I have 4 POS PC's, 6 Workstations and a Server Running the old At & T OpenServe SCO system. At home, I have a Macbook in the corner loaded with ProTools LE, USB interface with Roland RD-100 keyboard, Les Paul, Telecaster and Larrivee Acoustic. 

[second_pancake]

Well....we (my husband and I) have a small computer room off of one of the bedrooms (used to be a family room) and it's pretty much a dark, doorless closet with shelves and a built-in desk, and a view of a wall.  Sitting at the desk, your back faces the open room and a window.  I hate it and rarely ever use that computer.  I have my own computer which doesn't look like a computer at all.  It's an HP Media something or other and looks like a stereo reciever.  It's connected to a small flat-panel television in our family room which has windows covering two walls for a panoramic view of what used to be a golf course.  I love that computer because I can veg-out on the sofa, wireless keyboard in my lap, surf the internet and watch tv at the same time (the media center allows you to pull up the television and shrink it into a corner of the screen while working on other things).

[Jason]

My office (computer room) is a corner office with floor to celing glass on the exterior wall.  I have a great view of the parking lot...      I have a Dell desktop PC with a 17" flat panel LCD monitor.  My desk is usually pretty cluttered with drawings, specs, and other "things to do" but when I'm not using that stuff my desk is very neat and clean.  I'm a neat freak and have to stay organized to be able to work effeciently.  I'm also the resident "IT Guy" and am responsible for keeping the network and PCs up and running smoothly for a ginormous 5 person firm.  I'm self taught but hold my own pretty well.  When we moved into our new office 6 months ago I had to rewire the entire office (phone and data) and install our network equipment.... I'm a pro now! 

My home "office" is much the same but belongs primarily to my wife so its set up the way she likes it.  She's also pretty tidy and has a proper place for everything.  I work all day in front of a computer and do what I can to stay away from them when I get home!