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Someone get these computers off of my desk.
No, I'm serious. I'm typing on my new laptop. It can stay. My desktop can stay. This is ridiculous. I have three laptops, plus my desktop (which is under the desk, but its monitor is on the desk), plus a backup monitor for the laptop with the flaky screen (which is now too far away to reach the monitor, but the screen is presently behaving).
Aie.
It's 10:10. I can't post this as I type it (two network connections, four computers, this one doesn't got one just now). Why do I have so many computers?
1) My laptop. Duh. Main work machine, email, compiling, etc. Easy one.
2) My old laptop. Being deinstalled, cleaned up, virus scanned, etc.
3) New rotations laptop. HOPEFULLY being set up for, well, rotation with the pager (which will let me ship #2 back to have its mangy self fixed).
4) Desktop. Secondary work machine for testing. Recently had motherboard upgrade and OS reinstall, but I have it back to a useful state. Pity I'm too busy with answering people's questions and sorting out #2 and #3 to use it, but that should ease by next week.
By next week, I might be back to two machines. (The rotation laptop's home is in the lab, when not in use by someone on rotation; but if I had to hike back and forth between the lab to get setup tasks done, this would take even longer.)
By the way: four computers means you're either trying to do more at once than you are capable of, or waiting on more things than you care to think about at once.
No, I'm serious. I'm typing on my new laptop. It can stay. My desktop can stay. This is ridiculous. I have three laptops, plus my desktop (which is under the desk, but its monitor is on the desk), plus a backup monitor for the laptop with the flaky screen (which is now too far away to reach the monitor, but the screen is presently behaving).
Aie.
It's 10:10. I can't post this as I type it (two network connections, four computers, this one doesn't got one just now). Why do I have so many computers?
1) My laptop. Duh. Main work machine, email, compiling, etc. Easy one.
2) My old laptop. Being deinstalled, cleaned up, virus scanned, etc.
3) New rotations laptop. HOPEFULLY being set up for, well, rotation with the pager (which will let me ship #2 back to have its mangy self fixed).
4) Desktop. Secondary work machine for testing. Recently had motherboard upgrade and OS reinstall, but I have it back to a useful state. Pity I'm too busy with answering people's questions and sorting out #2 and #3 to use it, but that should ease by next week.
By next week, I might be back to two machines. (The rotation laptop's home is in the lab, when not in use by someone on rotation; but if I had to hike back and forth between the lab to get setup tasks done, this would take even longer.)
By the way: four computers means you're either trying to do more at once than you are capable of, or waiting on more things than you care to think about at once.
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