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Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Ripsnort on October 03, 2003, 07:34:26 PM

A31p Thinkpad.  I can do my job from home now, virtually. (though just one day a week) :D

(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Geek.jpg)

Title: I can do my job from home now, virtually.
Post by: Eagler on October 03, 2003, 08:06:12 PM

wassat? post on this bbs? :)

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: jonnyb on October 03, 2003, 08:08:13 PM

Nah, it's designing the latest way to improve the sweet spot on a 9 iron... ;)

Title: Re: I can do my job from home now, virtually.
Post by: Ripsnort on October 03, 2003, 08:45:37 PM

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Originally posted by Eagler
wassat? post on this bbs? :)

THats the beauty of a multiple PC environment and multi-tasking. :D

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: BB Gun on October 03, 2003, 09:35:48 PM

Rip, that V5?

Man, I'd love to be working something that required the use of V5, but stuck here on the Tanker throught the shipside support phase - all the way to JUNE!  Blech!

So, when ya gonna be in everett again, ya bastige!

BB

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Ripsnort on October 03, 2003, 10:52:08 PM

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Originally posted by BB Gun
Rip, that V5?

Man, I'd love to be working something that required the use of V5, but stuck here on the Tanker throught the shipside support phase - all the way to JUNE!  Blech!

So, when ya gonna be in everett again, ya bastige!

BB

Yes, thats V5,(Just a desktop pic of a screen shot I took, true geek!)  I just got back from COE in Seattle too! Not sure when I'll be back up, probably going to have a schedule soon, sounds like they want to rotate us there, so about once a month. I'll shoot ya an email when I come up.

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Staga on October 03, 2003, 11:11:46 PM

You're not a true laptop geek before you do This (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1311476)...

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Ripsnort on October 03, 2003, 11:31:26 PM

Hehe Staga.

Here's my home "Cubicle" :p

(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/home_cube.jpg)

And my "Play time" cubicle :)

(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Cockpit.jpg)

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Wanker on October 04, 2003, 09:18:03 AM

Aren't wireless LAN's great? I've also been working from home once in a while. The flexibility it gives me is tremendous. I can tunnel into IBM's interanet via VPN and it's almost like sitting there in my office.

When it was warmer, I would regularly on pack up my thinkpad on Friday afternoons and go home, then log into the intranet while sitting out on my back patio.

Gotta love that. :)

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Swoop on October 04, 2003, 11:33:04 AM

AAAAARGH!

banana's using 'netClient v5.05'.

(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: capt. apathy on October 04, 2003, 02:32:38 PM

so why'd you need the laptop instead of using the home pc?
I ask because I notice that on the left arm of your play cubical there is a spot just wide enough to hold a laptop.  I'm invisioning bombing runs where you turn to the left and get a little work done while the auto-pilot gets you some alt.

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Thorns on October 04, 2003, 06:57:26 PM

Rip,

My home office is my only office.  Lets see, should I wear my usual t-shirt and shorts, with my flip-flops, or maybe I'll sit on my deck and talk on my cordless phone, watching the young neighbor mommies do yard work?  I must admit watching the History Channel, or Baywatch, or the young mommies while on a conference call is most satisfying.  I use to hate conference calls, now I don't mind them a bit.   Home office....I like it.  And if I get bored, I forward my office phone to my cell, and take a trip down to the marina to check out the action :D

Thorns

P.S. I'm looking at your desk, and is that a bong behind the glass?

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Ripsnort on October 09, 2003, 01:25:55 PM

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Originally posted by Thorns
Thorns

P.S. I'm looking at your desk, and is that a bong behind the glass?

Uhh, no Thorns.  :)  Beer mug thats turned into a junk drawer of sorts. LOL, a bong! Hey, I could use one come to think  of it! :D

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Ripsnort on October 09, 2003, 01:27:15 PM

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Originally posted by capt. apathy
so why'd you need the laptop instead of using the home pc?
I ask because I notice that on the left arm of your play cubical there is a spot just wide enough to hold a laptop.  I'm invisioning bombing runs where you turn to the left and get a little work done while the auto-pilot gets you some alt.

Apathy,
The applications I run require a special license purchased from a vendor, they cost about $40,000 a piece per workstation. Therefore, I have to have my laptop for both work and virtual.  I can't bring my home PC to work everyday. ;)

Its also a corrupt environment if I were to remote into my work PC from home, as far as reproducing bugs that engineers encounter.

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Roscoroo on October 09, 2003, 02:01:27 PM

Our large PC at work never see's the internet ... It has way to many design's to let it be exposed.  Just look at what happened to the Half life coding ...

Title: New Laptop!
Post by: Nilsen on October 10, 2003, 11:05:06 AM

Im doing all my work from home to..

Using a Thinkpad T23 and logging into the work server via my DSL, works great. If im on holiday or at my cabin i log in using my cellphone (i only need to transfer small files and e-mails)

Been thinking of upgrading to the T40 but this one will do fine for another year. The thinkpads are truly great laptops and IBM has EXCELLENT support services.