How many computers?Follow

we've got 3 desktops ( one for each person in the household) and hubby has a laptop he brings to and from work

I have 2 WinXP comps at my desk (for duel-boxing). I also have a Win 98 PC for running some of my older programs. Anyone esle still play some of the old DOS games? I still play Ascendancy and an old D&D game (which for some reason I can't think of the name now) Has a GM portrait on the top of the screen..."The elves of Aelfheim are formidable warriors. Perhaps you should try to recruit them."

My main comp is about to get an overhaul. Seem to be having trouble opening IE (takes a long time to load). The start button and task bar are slow to respond and when I shutdown, it takes forever for the shutdown/logout/restart buttons to come up. When I do finaly get it to start shutting down I get a pop up that says rundll32 not responding and have to end task before it will shutdown. If its a virus, its something Norton cant find. <shrug>

Edited, Tue Apr 25 10:59:48 2006 by BloodwolfeX

You didn't specify working or not, but at least two gaming comps. And from this angle, I count 7 monitors :P

hmm at home. up and running atm we have only 4.

1 IPCop (firewall)
my game box,
kids game box
and my laptop

i normally have 1 more comp up as a media box (connected to TV to play all of our media from mp3 to avi files to DVDs), but that system needs a new MB. blew up my last one from 5 years ago.

When i upgrade my game box, ill rotate things around and bring the media box back up.

after this week i will have 1 more box at the house as i will be bringing one of my computers from the school to the home for 3 months during our build out for the expansion. we will be in a temp loction that will not need a seperate P.O.S. computer. no that is not piece of ****... get heads out of gutter.

in the end i plan on having between 5 - 7 computers at the house with an additional 10 or so at my school. we will be starting up an aftercare program next school year.

*cheers* go me.

You have got to be kidding me....

I'll never understand the people who can't make the distinction between being able to do something and actually doing it.
Buy a freakin bose system and run your mp3's to it.

But then again, it seems as though you probably spend a vast majority of your life in the kitchen...
Consuming the sheer tonnage of food that you do might require a hardcore logistical management software, complete with RFID's and tracking databases.

Nope. Mine still seems to have a pulse.
I'll keep you posted though.

We have two desktops and three laptops and there are just two of us plus our three point five month old baby so this leaves us with 2.5 computers per person. This isn't counting the non-functioning doorstops. Two of the three laptops are from our workplaces so we don't technically "own" them. We cook from recipies from the internet all the time but it is just a question of dragging the laptop in there. The music we can pipe through TiVo from our desktops.

5Desktops
2Laptops
Touch screen PC built into the kitchen wall, has a slide show of photos and also a version of media center to play music and other stuff.
We also have a PC with a raid 5 set up in the loft which holds all the music and photo's
I have a room full of old pc's aswell... should probably get rid of them but you never know what i could do with them


Edited, Tue Apr 25 15:30:00 2006 by Purpple

Working at any given time? Two.

I have a unix server that I run my firewall, routing and NAT stuff on. I also use it for a native X environment for accessing computers at work. I also have my game machine PC. Which I use to play games on (ok. I do some Word document stuff on it too).

I have the "older computer" hooked up and ready. It's configured on the private network, but doesn't have a monitor hooked up. I also have the "even older computer" hooked up as well. Both are pretty much there for nostalgia's sake (although there's some files on each that I kinda leave there cause I don't necessarily want to move them all). I have both configured to start up a VNC server when they boot. That way if I do need to do something with one for some reason, I can always just boot them up and then run a virtual window on my unix machine to see what's going on. It's not the greatest solution, but allows me to keep them accessable via a network when needed.


Katie. An alternative to putting a full computer into your kitchen would be to just put some kind of thin client box in there instead. I'm not super up on such things for windows (but I do know they're available). Basically, you set up a server process on your computer and stick it in a closet somewhere, plugged into your home network. You hook up your thin client box to the same network and turn it on. It boots off the information downloaded from the other computer over the network. As long as your not trying to do super network intensive games or something, they work really really well.

The biggest advantage is that the thin client boxes are usually pretty cheap. They're diskless, so there's no fan and no noise. Actually, no moving parts at all (except for the keyboard). The box itself pretty much doesn't break or fail. They're also typically much much smaller then a full computer (I've seen some in which they're embedded inside a flat pannel monitor in fact), so you wouldn't need any holes drilled anywhere.

I'm not sure what the cost for those things are though. Typically, the boxes themselves are cheap, but the server software might not be. Again. I haven't researched this stuff for Window's, so I have no clue.