deskthority

Oh, I have a globe too. (For fondling in quiet moments of world-dominating desire.) And a frickin' G4, baby! This is my unintentionally retro standing desk. Not the fastest beast around, but good for my back and for playing podcasts. The SSK is, of course, worth more than the 17" iMac. Which I picked up for free a few years ago! Note the PowerPC port of Firefox…

Too much sitting is becoming a pain in the arse - so I made a standing dock for my new notebook:
(ignore the cheap junk dresser - it was the only thing tall enough I could use)

Muirium wrote:Oh, I have a globe too. (For fondling in quiet moments of world-dominating desire.)

I saw this before seeing your picture and I thought you were fondling an old globe of the world in a sinister way... like a James Bond villain. (...as I have done oh so many times before...)

A beamspring practically converts anything into a standing desk all by itself. I was reading through an IBM brochure yesterday which described the Model Fs as "low profile". Then it showed a beamspring and said "typewriter style keyboard", while moving swiftly on!

My globe is old enough to be thoroughly confused about the world. It shows the full British, French, German and Japanese Empires; but has the Soviet Union in place of the Tsar. I'm sure it's post 1945 though.

I'd like to see Apple come out with beam spring notebooks. I can imagine the traditional marketing nonsense, with a Jonathan Ive quote:

"We decided to rethink everything we ever knew about keyboards. Design isn't just about being thin, but about enhancing the entire user experience. With the new MacBeam Pro, the keyboard response is just incredible. It brings a whole new level of engineering excellence. At 5.5 inches thick and 23 lbs, we believe this is the most substantial notebook we've ever made."

At least it would still be far lighter and smaller than my other "portables" - the Kaypros and IBM Portable Personal Computer (5155).

Ssh! It's alone time with the globe again.

I do that... only classier:

mr_a500 wrote:Too much sitting is becoming a pain in the arse - so I made a standing dock for my new notebook:

Spoiler:

docking.jpg

(ignore the cheap junk dresser - it was the only thing tall enough I could use)

What's the hub? Look chunky for just a USB lump.

It's this thing. Two USB ports isn't enough when you want to connect a keyboard, trackball, numpad, music player, external disks and numerous flash thingies. 16 ports is a bit overkill, but it's better than... uh... underkill.

mr_a500 wrote:Too much sitting is becoming a pain in the arse - so I made a standing dock for my new notebook:

docking.jpg

(ignore the cheap junk dresser - it was the only thing tall enough I could use)

isn't it uncomfortable to type on that board cause of that missing front piece?

Wrist rests are decadent and depraved!

snoopy wrote:isn't it uncomfortable to type on that board cause of that missing front piece?

A bit... but I plan on replacing the piece after I paint it. (black or silver)

I can type... as webwit puts it.. like I'm "scratching a window" - so I don't always need to rest my wrists.

be careful with those globes lest they take over:

mr_a500 wrote:It's this thing. Two USB ports isn't enough when you want to connect a keyboard, trackball, numpad, music player, external disks and numerous flash thingies. 16 ports is a bit overkill, but it's better than... uh... underkill.

Ha! Excellent. Makes my 7-port look like a toy.

And that's why you should buy a 49 port hub.

http://www.amazon.com/iPads-iPhones-iPo ... B00803GVNE

Holy shit - over $1000 for a hub?? No thanks.

nourathar wrote:ok,
certainly not as hifi as the latest pictures, but here the two setups I'm currently vacillating between:

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and:

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Seems like a lot of folks on deskthority mess with arch. Which is kinda what inspired me to check it out.

One set of Cherry profile doubleshots:
My home Filco has the same doubleshots but with blue and green reversed. Neither scheme really does anything for me, not like I imagined it would, and the wrong profile caps are a bit incongruous, which is why I posted a request for similar profile black modifiers to help reduce the mismatch. (No reply, though.)

I also requested several times for green/blue F keys for Topre — no reply to any post, but 002 was kind enough to send over some spares.

(I don't know what's happened to the two group buys I'm waiting on — one day I'll see if Taiwan Tai-Hao's green works any better.)

phyrne wrote:So, I figured I'd finally post my setup, as I feel it's just about worthy to run with some of the masterpieces here!

Click the image to see the full album

I have the same coca-cola mirror. I think I bought it on Portobello Road, London.

aaron wrote:Another Arch Linux user here

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A lot of multi-monitor setups here... and Arch linux Nice setup, how's the noppoo?

Crappy photo of my setup, I have misplaced the flash for my Sony NEX5, soooo... it's not really as dark as it looks, stupid camera!
3x27" BenQs, I have a 4th one that will be on top of the centre screen, need to find a decent wallmount-bracket first.
Preparing my Ergodox-case to be milled out of carbon fibre

I decided to try my hand at a wood wrist-rest for my Realforce 87u55g. The Realforce's are very low profile and most rests are way too thick. I made this from Cocobolo wood with a low profile to fit my preference, it also sets off a plain black RF.

Aleksander wrote:Crappy photo of my setup, I have misplaced the flash for my Sony NEX5, soooo... it's not really as dark as it looks, stupid camera!
3x27" BenQs, I have a 4th one that will be on top of the centre screen, need to find a decent wallmount-bracket first.
Preparing my Ergodox-case to be milled out of carbon fibre

Spoiler:

Verry nice desk! I like how clean it is.

What Keyboard is it?

@MJ45: The wooden wrist rest looks great!

cookie wrote:

Aleksander wrote:Crappy photo of my setup, I have misplaced the flash for my Sony NEX5, soooo... it's not really as dark as it looks, stupid camera!
3x27" BenQs, I have a 4th one that will be on top of the centre screen, need to find a decent wallmount-bracket first.
Preparing my Ergodox-case to be milled out of carbon fibre

Spoiler:

Verry nice desk! I like how clean it is.

What Keyboard is it?

@MJ45: The wooden wrist rest looks great!

Looks like one of those duckmini

cookie wrote:
Verry nice desk! I like how clean it is.

What Keyboard is it?

Thanks! Its not that clean all the time thou :p

I bought the keyboard from Matt3o a week or two ago, and as Mike...... pointed out, it is a Duckmini v2.

Verry nice keyboard Like the caps too!

The professor's work looks intriguing. That white on black look is exactly how I like to do things, too. Blueprints? Blackprints!

Oh and the HiPro is nice, naturally.

I'm usually too lazy to do desktop wall papers...but these are a bunch of keyboard patents.
Each monitor is a different patent, any guesses?