Yesterday a friend of mine pointed out that I have six computers which I all use regularly: a laptop for work, a laptop at home (for photography and hacking), a netbook, a backup/file server at home, a webserver and a smartphone.
Is this too much, do I need to go into rehab? Or is the average much higher? How much computers does the average IT-er have (and why do you have them)?
Discuss in the comments!
1 PC en 1 laptop… :D
I have 4
* a desktop
* a netbook
* a laptop for work
* a nokia n800
I must confess that I got the netbook and the nokia because I couldn’t resist, not because I needed them. :-)
I have: 7:
1 Laptop for work
2 personal laptops (One for guests and testing, One for my wife)
1 Work server
1 Backup/Web/DNS/DHCP server
1 SmartPhone that I use daily
1 N810 that I use daily
And other junk computers that I keep around for whatever reason.
My own devices are desktop system, server, and sometimes the netbook; but I spend 8 hrs a day at the computer at work so maybe that should be included as well.
Grappig onderwerp. Doe graag mee.
1 desktop met Ubuntu (werkmachine)
1 desktop met dualboot Ubuntu/Windows (vrouw en kinderen)
1 Netbook met Ubuntu (speeltje)
1 Apple Powerbook (PPC) met OSX (voor onderweg)
1 Bubba|Two Homeserver (fileserver, muziek)
2 smartphones (Nokia N958GB & HTC Magic (Android)
I have just laptop for work and home (two in one, heh) and a playstation (doesn’t count. or does it, huh).
I don’t see many reasons for having a physical web server, unless you are concerned about data privacy. In that case in my eyes you would be the perfect candidate for rehab and all computers but one should be revoked. You could choose which one stays :)
1. Laptop (study)
1. Netbook (piece of crap I take with me sometimes so it is not a complete waste of money)
1. Main computer
1. Server
1. Mac mini (to sync agenda and stuff)
1. Digital agenda (ipod touch)
1. Beagle board
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hey,
I’ve 5 ones:
1 laptop + 1 computer at home
1 for sporadically watching tv (an old monitor and an outsourced computer was much cheaper than a tv)
1 file and tv recording server
1 at work
regards
What counts as an owned computer? Something you can ssh into and get root access? That would include routers.
Or only devices that are traditionally described as computers?
My “active” list:
1. my desktop pc (Acer)
2. my old desktop pc, moved to the mrs’ desk (homebrew)
3. my netbook (Acer Aspire One)
4. her netbook (ditto)
5. her laptop (Acer)
6. her old laptop that I have claimed (Toshiba Satellite)
7. my smartphone (Nokia 6680)
8. DSL modem/router (Freecom)
9. wifi router downstairs (Linksys WRT54G)
10. wifi router upstairs (Asus WL54GP)
11. my mail/webserver hosted @ Hetzner
My “in storage” list (not switched on in the last months)
12. my old PDA (Psion Revo)
13. my very old desktop (Celeron)
14. my dad’s old desktop (Celeron)
15. a Cisco 2600 router
16. a Sun UltraSparc 5
Hmmm… seems like I have a lot of Acer equipment. I also have 2 Acer monitors.
Dude you only have 6. To be fair though I am the exception to most rules.
I’m a tester for Ubuntu so I have 8 machines in regular usage on a daily basis.
My wife then has 2 more.
Then there are always things like the N800, dsi, ps3 all of which have browsers in use on a regular basis :)
Hmm… I think my count is ~108 (Lost fans may smile now!). That’s normal among my colleagues and friends :)
1 desktop at work
~100 servers at work
1 private laptop
1 private desktops
1 private fileserver
1 private VoIP-server
2 private multimedia computers connected to TV/projector.
1 private jukebox
We have six computers at home as well: my main desktop computer, her desktop laptop, our two netbooks, her smartphone, our wii.
not counting the videogames (wii runs linux, xbox runs linux) i have 3 laptops, 3 desktops :P
I try to keep my computer down on purpose (for environmental reasons). So I have a work laptop which I use everywhere and a media-center in the living room which doubles as my home server.
I got an N810 from my previous employer and I am currently using a second hand Nokia e61i phone ;-)
Ohh, It’s including the wife’s crap and embedded stuff…
108 in the previous post +
1 Smartphone
1 desktop
4 (!) laptops. I don’t know why, but for some reason she has four laptops?! She seems to buy a new one every time her Windows install gets slow. That is often.
2 Linksys wrt’s running OpenWRT
1 NAS
1 Wii
and 1 Mac Mini I forgot about in the last post.
I think all our IP-phones are running Linux too, but they seem a bit too embedded.
- I guess that leaves us at 118 computers. Wow.
1 laptop at home, ubuntu
1 laptop for teaching, macbook pro, snow leopard
1 intel ss4000 nas, debian
1 (old P4) desktop at home, debian
1 sparc fileserver, ubuntu
2 sparc testmachines, solaris/opensolaris
1 android phone
1 kiss dp600 dvd player, linux
(and 1 cisco pix internal firewall)
Counting your phone seems a bit borderline; if you’re doing that you could make a case for counting games consoles, PVRs (they’re basically just PCs inside…), routers, etc. If we restrict it to things you _interact_ with as a computer, not things that happen to have computer-level processing capacity:
desktop
laptop/netbook (vaio p)
htpc
server (single physical machine runs two VMs, one for web server, one for mail server)
plus my partner has a desktop and a netbook (aspire one).
You could probably combine your web and file servers into one machine running separate VMs, as I did, if you feel so inclined, but otherwise I can’t see much of a way to rationalize your setup (unless you used a single powerful ultra-portable instead of separate laptop and netbook).
I have nine. Trying to get rid of 4 of them.
3 Portables, unused Asus EeePC 900, unused old iBook and new Thinkpad.
1 Heavily upgraded HP Mediasmart Server 475, running a MS NFS server.
1 Desktop machine.
1 Unused desktop pc.
1 Unused iPod Touch (jailbroken).
1 Android phone.
1 IBM ThinkPad T60 -> my primary machine (Fedora 11)
1 HP Workstation XW4100 -> central server with CentOS
1 Laptop from work
1 HP ML150 that waits for 6 sata drives
1 Sun Ultra 1 creator 3D -> should become a firewall some day
1 Dell Inspiron that my wife uses
1 Dell GX260 for my 7year old son.
1 Dell PE 1750 in the datacenter
1 Supermicro in the datacenter
i think that’s it..
Hmmm.
This iPod Touch
Dell mini 9 netbook
MacBook Pro
Mac Mini for a media center
whitebox server for a DVR / central file storage
old, crappy laptop for a separate DNS server
AppleTV in a bedroom
2 whitebox servers I control at relatives’ for remote DVRs
vitrual Linux box on a real Windows box at a cousin’s house
virtual Linux box at a commercial site
lots of wifi routers & dsl modems that run linux at the relatives’
i think that’s it.
3 computers (my Nokia 6300 is hardly a computer):
- A 12″ laptop that is my primary computer.
- 2 servers, one for general purposes at home and one for my CUDA project (didn’t want to touch the other one).
I have some 5 older computers lying around, but I don’t need them so they are not set up. My two servers will eventually be KVM server hosts so I can run a lot of VM’s.
2 macbook laptops, one unused with a warped case :/
1 PVR used daily
1 iMac (OMG SHOOT ME I HATE FREEDOM /sarcasm)
1 OLPC rarely used but still interesting to play with at times
1 N810 that I never use
1 Apple newton – Interesting device to play with, the interaction here is awesome for something from 98
1 HTC Hero – My current *bastard* phone, sorry profanity required I’ve hit a google sign in bug
1 Psion Revo – Old device but it’s pretty awesome
Probably a variety of other devices are hanging around somewhere….
I used to have a lot, but now I mainly use 3 devices:
- A desktop computer at work, running ubuntu
- A 12″ Tablet PC running ubuntu too (it’s this one, and it kicks arse: http://shop.winux.fr/catalogue/portables-winux-tablet-pc/3342-winux-tablet-pc-tactile/ )
- An android smartphone
1 desktop at home
1 laptop at home
2 junk computers (don’t use them, suppose that doesn’t count)
1 backup and ntp server
1 ntp and jabber server
1 counter-strike server
1 iPod Touch
1 laptop at work
yikes
1 Desktop, 1 Desktop Replacement Laptop and 1 Netbook,
1 WD MyBook World Edition, to be configured as a server
This is after my purge of:
2 Smartphones
1 Spare PC
I think 3 is the key, Desktop, Laptop/Netbook, Server.
Everything else is Virtualization these days :)
Depends what you call ‘a computer’, but I really just have one — my MacBook Pro, which I use at home and at work. Couldn’t be bothered with not having everything on the one machine, and can’t afford to buy anything else anyway!
My previous laptop, a G4 PowerBook, became a home fileserver when its display died. So I suppose you could count that too, although it gets virtually zero usage.
Just 2 -
1 personal netbook
1 work laptop