seems like you could use a cleaner or two to give that place a good scrub. Very cool effect though!

I think you've just encouraged me to follow through on the NY resolution to give up smoking! Between the ash tray and the yellow stained walls (evident where it it looks like you've removed a picture or something and its bright white!) I've looked in the mirror and dont like what I see!

Think the walls are bad? Look at the G5 grille!!

The black hole in the center of the floor is for guests who object to my smoking.

Dave

If a computer taking in diluted cigarette smoke that ends up looking like that isn't a warning of what is happening inside the lungs that are inhaling the concentrated stuff - I don't know what is.

Anyways... nice QTVR spectre, how'd you do it?

With Stitcher - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11594

I just used a conventional tripod and did three 360° pans at different levels taking about 15 pictures each pan. Stitcher automagically puts them all together.

To really do it correctly though, one needs something like this: http://www.nodalninja.com/

Dave

Time for a game of spotto, people.

Dave am I right in my count of 6 (excluding whatever's in your rack)?

1 - cube
2 - g5
3 - da or quicksilver
4 - laptop
5 - agp/sawtooth
6 - da or quicksilver

I also remember there being posts on the hamsters and the rack but I didn't look them up.

Yeah, the Cube runs us.madchat.tv (one of the irc.madchat.tv IRC servers.)
The G5 is a DP 2.7 with 8 GB RAM
One QuickSilver is a DP 800. It'srunning Ubuntu Linux
The other is a single 867. I sold it about a week ago.
The Sawtooth is a G4 1.2 GHZ now. It's running Debian Linux
The laptop (which is really hard to see there) is a Pismo 400 dual booting Tiger Server and Debian Linux

In the rack are two Xserves: A DP 2.0 with 8 GB RAM (which is my main web/mail server and a single 2.0 GHZ with 4.5 GB RAM. It's primarily a backup server and I don't run it often. When I do, I stream QuickTime from it.

On top of the rack are two Belkin 1500 VA UPS's and two Sophisticated Circuits PowerKey Pro's for remote administration of power - http://www.sophisticated.com/product...y/pkp_650.html

On the desk to the right of the G5 DP 2.7 are 5 x 250 GB Western Digital Lighted Drives and 1 x 120 GB Lighted Drive - http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...Legacy.asp?r=5

Beneath the right portion of the desk is a JVC 17" HDTV and behind it are three modems: T1, ADSL and Cable.

And so on....There's a mini and two PC's in the bedroom and a couple of printers.

This dinky Canon printer is a neat toy - http://www.zarabeth.com/temp/canon_printer.mpg (2.2 Mb)

Most importantly, there are three hamsters: Two dwarf males and a full sized female named Emmalina. =)

http://www.zarabeth.com/temp/emmalin...umping_1mb.mov (1 Mb)

http://www.zarabeth.com/temp/dwarves...ness_5.6mb.mov (5.6 Mb)

Dave

Neat. I like it too! you have forced me to do that to mine aswell!

- Cinema Display HD 23"
- iSight
- TDK speakers
- Universal iPod dock
- 30GB (Gen 5) iPod Video
- Apple Wireless Keyboard and Wireless Mighty Mouse
- PowerMac G5 Dual Core 2.3GHz, 8Gb RAM, 320Gb HDD
- And the newest addition to the family: MacBook C2D 2GHz

Everybody give up,

This is without a doubt the best setup. Could'nt give a rats arse about the hardware, but where it lives is a great location.

F__King Neat.

New Category for the Mactalk Awards

how did you hide all the wiring ?... i so need to do that

The desk is basically a bench I had made at a kitchen company, and is fixed directly to the wall. Along the back (just inside the opening at the back of the desk) and middle is a right angle piece of metal with holes in it to prevent it from developing a woop in it. At the back, i threaded some velcro cable straps though the holes and ran the cables up behind it.

I don't have a photo of my home setup yet, I'll grab one tonight. For now here's my little Macbook.

BTW, notice how CLEAN my G5 is now after being windexed. =)



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The toy is an IBM self-powered USB floppy drive which I'll need from time to time when working on older macs;e.g., Transferring files on floppy to CD, transferring files from ancient Macs to newly purchased ones, etc.