I have a dream...

I have a dream...

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

I want to lie on the couch while programming.

This may seem like something that would be easy to achieve, but it
isn't, really.  Machines nowadays make so much noise that having them
nearby is painful.  I've solved this up 'till now by putting the
machines into this nice closet here, but there's no way to stretch a
ten meter monitor and keyboard cords over to the sofa way over there.

So I want to buy a new machine, and that machine must be diskless, so
that after I snip the fan in the power supply, it'll be  s i l e n t.

Now, if I'm going to but a machine, I guess I'll have to buy a PII,
and if I buy a PII, I might as well buy a dual PII.  (Makes sense,
huh?  I mean, I really *need* a machine that can compile the Linux
kernel once every five minutes.  Like, really.)  I have most of the
parts; I just need two processors and a motherboard.  

It turns out that if I could buy those three items in the US instead
of here, and then successfully circumnavigate the Norwegian customs, I
could save (/ (- (+ 2200 1800 1800) (* (+ 151 151 125) 7.5)) 7.5) =>
346.33333333333331 dollars (approx).  So I was wondering whether
someone in the US would aid me in perpetrating this crime by acting as
a way-station -- I order the stuff, set the mailing address to yours
truly; you receive the packet(s), rip off the packaging and re-package
it in bubblewrap and an innoscous-looking envelope and mail it to me.
(I'll send you money for postage, of course.)

Hm?  Then I'll be able to lie on the couch while programming, which
will mean much more Gnus programming this summer.

*cough*

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: I have a dream...

[Didier Verna]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> I want to lie on the couch while programming.

	Don't lie (on the couch).


> but there's no way to stretch a ten meter monitor over to the sofa way over
> there.

	You need virtual reality glasses. You could even hack more Gnus from
your couch and in the dark :-)

Appart from that, I'm in france so ... I could get you a soccer ball, maybe.

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Re: I have a dream...

[Jari Aalto+list.ding]

| 1998-06-26 Didier Verna <verna@inf.enst.fr> list.ding
| Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
| 
| > I want to lie on the couch while programming.
| > but there's no way to stretch a ten meter monitor over to the sofa way over
| > there.

I heard that Logitech announced wireless keyboard and Mouse which is
based on radio frequencies. I'm considering getting one when I see
the product and when I get my first PC :-)

jari

Re: I have a dream...

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Didier Verna <verna@inf.enst.fr>:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> Appart from that, I'm in france so ... I could get you a soccer
> ball, maybe.

One signed by the Norwegian national football team after the Brasil
match on Tuesday 23rd?

The Italy match on Saturday is forgotten already... What match?

Re: I have a dream...

[Felix Lee]

laptop.  my life has changed since I got a laptop.  I no
longer do anything but type on the computer, play backgammon
with the computer, read lisp porn on the computer, wherever
I go.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>:
> I want to lie on the couch while programming.
> 
> This may seem like something that would be easy to achieve, but it
> isn't, really.  Machines nowadays make so much noise that having them
> nearby is painful.  I've solved this up 'till now by putting the

Re: I have a dream...

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 05:06:06 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> said:

Lars> I want to lie on the couch while programming.

Lars> This may seem like something that would be easy to achieve, but it
Lars> isn't, really.  Machines nowadays make so much noise that having them
Lars> nearby is painful.  I've solved this up 'till now by putting the
Lars> machines into this nice closet here, but there's no way to stretch a
Lars> ten meter monitor and keyboard cords over to the sofa way over
Lars> there.

Uhh...

Cheaper solution:  move the sofa...

Actually, someone else said it:  remote keyboards and mice have come a 
long way.  And you can get monitor cables as long as 50 feet or so.
I've actually helped setup a Gateway machine at a school.  They had a
wireless keyboard and mouse, as well as a 31" monitor (with a 50'
cord).  Way cool.  I could actually go *really* far away and keep
typing, so far I had go into a different room that prevented me from
even seeing the screen...  About 50 feet or so.

-- 
"Ninjas aren't dangerous.  They're more afraid of you than you are of them."

Re: I have a dream...

[Andrew J Cosgriff]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 05:06:06 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.u
>io.no> said:
>
>Lars> I want to lie on the couch while programming.
>
>Lars> This may seem like something that would be easy to achieve, but it
>Lars> isn't, really.  Machines nowadays make so much noise that having them
>Lars> nearby is painful.  I've solved this up 'till now by putting the
>Lars> machines into this nice closet here, but there's no way to stretch a
>Lars> ten meter monitor and keyboard cords over to the sofa way over
>Lars> there.
>
>Uhh...
>
>Cheaper solution:  move the sofa...
>
>Actually, someone else said it:  remote keyboards and mice have come a 
>long way.  And you can get monitor cables as long as 50 feet or so.
>I've actually helped setup a Gateway machine at a school.  They had a
>wireless keyboard and mouse, as well as a 31" monitor (with a 50'
>cord).  Way cool.  I could actually go *really* far away and keep
>typing, so far I had go into a different room that prevented me from
>even seeing the screen...  About 50 feet or so.

http://www.handykey.com/

I've been looking at these for ages now, and one of my cow orkers just
got one on friday (cost him an extra $100 in customs though...)


-- 
Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au> exterminate all rational thought !
                   pizza carbon biodiversity confined sequel

Re: I have a dream...

[Istvan Marko]

Here's my setup at work:

Little black box about the size of a mousepad and about 5cm thick
sitting on the desk. It's an X-terminal and it doesn't make any noise
at all, it doesn't have any moving parts. The machines I compute on
are locked away in a machine room in a different building on the other
side of the street. Sometimes I wonder if they really exist, or if
they are only in the imagination of my X-terminal.

-- 
	Istvan