How many computers in the house?

[Jonathan Denni]

I have a mac mini, there's a 2004 IMB server running Ubuntu, two pretty
old laptops not doing so well, and my dad's work laptops (2).

so that's a total of 6 working computers.

My friend has about 15 I think, all fairly beefy gaming type computers
running XP or Vista.

 

[Winter Ayars]

I have one working desktop computer, which is my main one. I have one
that was donated to me that is currently not working (was cannibalized),
my old desktop which is currently not working (was cannibalized briefly,
haven't bothered to reassemble it), one laptop with a floppy drive but
no CD drive (useless), one laptop with a CD drive but a broken bios and
no floppy (quasi-useless), a really old computer that's looking for a
good home, and probably enough parts to put another one together.

Hm.

That's six-ish. I guess i'm lazy!

 

[Robert]

I have the following:

Dual booth Vista/SuSE 10.2 AMD 64 4800 dual core, 2GB ram, 1 to 2 TB
disk depending, DVD RW+-

Athlon XP 2400 Removable drives for Windows XP Pro, SuSE 10.2, Ubuntu 7.04
Athlon XP 2400 SuSE 10.0 1GB ram, 1 TB disk
Intel PIII 1.24 (I think) SMB, 1.5GB Ram, 2x250GB disks SuSE 10.0 going
to SuSE 10.3 when released or Ubuntu or CentOS TBD
ACER Laptop AMD 64 768k RAM, 80 GB Disk, DVD Dual boot Windows XP Pro
and Ubuntu 7.04
Vaio PII 400Mhz 168M Ram, 8GB disk, CD and USB floppy
2 Mac Titanium Laptops both LCDs broken but I use with external LCDs
iMac PowerPC 20'' Max OS X 10.4
2 PCs that are broken and being rebuild
Buffalo WHR-G125 with dd-WRT/OpenWrt depending

Ruby is on everything except the Titaniums, 2 broken PCs, and the
WHR-G125 but I am looking at the last if I ever get the time!

-r

 

[Ronald Fischer]

What's your inventory count?

5

(2 Linux machines, one Mac, one Windoze XP and Win 98 (!!!!)).
--=20
Ronald Fischer <[email protected]>
Phone: +49-89-452133-162

 

[Rick DeNatale]

What's your inventory count?

Let's see:

Frodo is an old IBM Intellistation M which is a workstation server.
It carries the heavy lifting running most of the services (DNS, DHCP,
mail, apache etc.) for the home lan, it's the box which runs my blog,
and a mediawiki site as well as several "intranet" apps. This is
running Ubuntu Dapper, and certainly has Ruby.

Bill is my trusty old slow Thinkpad, only 128MB or ram, kind of slow
and plodding. Ubuntu Feisty including Ruby.

Both of the Ubuntu machines have Ruby installed from source to stay
out of the Debian ruby packaging mess.

Shadowfax is the new addition to the stable, a MacBook which I've
had for just a few days. A nice fast white steed compared to old Bill.
This runs OSX tiger, I'm gradually teaching my old fingers to dance
the Textmate tango instead of the Vim valse.

Arwen is my wifes Compaq something desktop running Windows XP Home

Outside of the Tolkien group theres a Wrt54G running OpenWRT, I
guess this counts as a computer as well.

Lots of other old machines mostly not used, including an old Apple
][+ with Apple Integer Basic rom wrapped up in a plastic bag up in the
attic.

 

[Todd Benson]

Outside of the Tolkien group...

Let me know if you acquire a Tom Bombadil

For the record, I don't actually own anything, but I have at my
disposal 2 PCs. One is dual boot Win XP/FreeBSD (Pentium 4), the
other is OpenBSD (AMD). I named them after porn stars.

Todd

 

[Jesper]

What's your inventory count?


In use:

1x C64 with RR, RRnet, MMC, 1541 & 1581 diskdrives
1x Amiga 4000 (running AmigaOS 3.9)
1x s60 Thinkpad running Xubuntu
1x (amd64) PC running Ubuntu
1x PC running Debian (used as firewall/router/web+ftp-server)
1x PC running Windows

Stored in the basement: 15-16x C64, 2x C128, 5x Amiga 500, 1x Amiga 4000, 1x
Amiga 600, 1x ABC 80, 2x Vic 20, 1x Amiga 1200, 1x 286

/ J

 

[Gaspard Bucher]

Is this statiscal count related to

http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/

Or is it more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd ?

 

[SpringFlowers AutumnMoon]

I have 8... but one is a 486 with 16MB RAM... my friends came to my
house during that time and said, "wow, you have a lot of RAM!"

coz at work, I had a 486 33MHz with 8MB RAM, and a 386 with 4MB RAM...

and now, in about a month, maybe I will get a Mac mini or Macbook for
the Core 2 Duo and the OS X 10.5.

 

[Julian Raschke]

What's your inventory count?

Beth, the G4 iBook that has survived snow, candlewax, cat claws, beer,
chocolate and oh so many crunchtimes, and Mina, the Intel Mac Mini
that is sitting on my desk with a hard drive full of work. Also a
random old Dell box as a fileserver, soon to be replaced by Carla, the
G4 iMac.

So really just starting to become a collector. Ask again in 10
years. I doubt I can sell any box on eBay, they would grow eyes and
cry.

Julian

 

[Todd Burch]

Is this statiscal count related to

http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/

Or is it more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd ?


2007/9/17, Jesper <[email protected]>:

No, more of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

 

[Jeremy McAnally]

I have two: a black MacBook (domo) and a white MacBook (arigato).

I just realized how zen that is heh...

--Jeremy

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

--
http://www.jeremymcanally.com/

My free Ruby e-book:
http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/

My blogs:
http://www.mrneighborly.com/
http://www.rubyinpractice.com/

 

[Chad Perrin]

I have two: a black MacBook (domo) and a white MacBook (arigato).

I just realized how zen that is heh...

Zen . . . ? I was expecting you to next say you have an iMac or a Mac
Mini called "mr. roboto".

 

[Travis D Warlick Jr]

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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?

1 x86 Server (Linux) (+1 more on the way)
1 amd64 Desktop (Linux)
1 x86 Desktop (Win XP)
1 x86 Laptop (Linux)
1 Mac Mini (OS X)

- --
Travis Warlick

"Programming in Java is like dealing with your mom --
it's kind, forgiving, and gently chastising.
Programming in C++ is like dealing with a disgruntled
girlfriend -- it's cold, unforgiving, and doesn't tell
you what you've done wrong."
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[Dave Mccormick]

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

1 - Sever Mandrake 10
3 - Desktops win98
1 - Laptop win 98
3 - Desktops XP Home
1 - Laptop win 98
2 - Laptop XP Home
1 - Laptop XP Pro
3 - Desktops Ubuntu
1 - Laptop Vista (soon to have a new OS)

Dave

 

[Rick DeNatale]

1 - Laptop Vista (soon to have a new OS)

Or maybe, I'm guessing, an older but wiser OS. <G>

 

[Michal Suchanek]

Zen . . . ? I was expecting you to next say you have an iMac or a Mac
Mini called "mr. roboto".

My mini dictionary says it can be interpreted in several ways.
Especially depending on the way you read it. Separately or together?
Reminds my of poetry in one sci-fi novel where the words could make
different sense depending on the way you put them together into
sentences..

Michal

 

[Dave Mccormick]

Or maybe, I'm guessing, an older but wiser OS. <G>

--
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

You got that right, Ubuntu seems to be multiplying.

Dave

 

[Douglas F Shearer]

What's your inventory count?

1x Macbook Pro C2D 2.16Ghz 2GB 120GB. Running OS X
1x IBM XServe Pentium D 2.8Ghz 3GB 80GB. Running Opensolaris.
1x Whitebox Celeron 500Mhz, 192MB, 10GB (Now retired). Runs Ubuntu.

The MBP is my main work machine (Along with a 23" display), the
XServe is my main server, and the other machine is my old server.

Douglas F Shearer
(e-mail address removed)
http://douglasfshearer.com