What sort of kit do you have at home?

[Spacecadet]

Old desktop and 19" LCD monitor swiped from my last permie job as "insurance" when the company looked like it was about to go under.

[Fungus]

It's not too late to upgrade your hardware.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cray-SGI-Mainfra...QQcmdZViewItem

I see from the pictures that you can wall mount it too.

[DimPrawn]

It's not too late to upgrade your hardware.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cray-SGI-Mainfra...QQcmdZViewItem

[Fungus]

1 PC + Iiyama 19" CRT monitor bought used.
1 handheld PC for recording fungi.

Awe inspiring I know.

I donated my old Dell PC and monitor to Oxfam. I can't be done with more than one of these infernal machines.

[wc2]

1 File Server
6 Client PC's
2 Client Laptops
8 Epson R200's
4 Epson R220's
Minolta 2430 Laser
4 1 to 7 DVD Dupers

Keeps the house warm when everything is in full swing.

[vista]

kit list - no address

12 1U physical rack mounted servers in my garage (W2K3)
18 Vmware servers sitting on three servers (64bit x 4GB x 320GB x W2K3-R2)
1TB Dell NAS
1TB direct attached storage
Cat 5 downstairs
Wifi upstairs
Two routers
couple of Cisco switches
9 physical clients
2 notebooks
7-12 Vmware clients on two servers (64bit x 4GB x 320GB x W2K3-R2)
Action pack, Technet+ and Select from a bunch of clients

All split between PROD, DEV and the wild west.

Electric bill of around £200 per month but that includes wasting money on other house hold stuff as well.

[DimPrawn]

That's an Intel box no? Can tell by the heat it produces.

[Joe Black]

8 PCs?, and little me with just my laptop.

Actually the one thing I did at one point have lots of was printers, and cameras, since that's one of the few things I can quite happily spent hours sitting behind a PC and doing.

[TheMonkey]

So poll time, who has an entire small company IT centre running from underneath the stairs?

I do!

I'll post a photo when I finally become arsed enough to charge up the digicam.

[DimPrawn]

As I've posted before, if you are going to use the earth's resources to heat your home, why not use a hundred PC's all running http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/ or similar and save mankind in the process.

That's my excuse for having 8 PC's anyway......

[Joe Black]

Reading milans's thread about servers etc, and ladymuck's comment (http://forums.contractoruk.com/threadnav7867-2-10.html) about what she/he has at home, it reminded me of how often I've had discussions with other contractors about all the bits of IT they seemed to feel the need to have, while I've spent the last 8-10 years with nothing more than a laptop. Certainly these days the only type of work type stuff I have at home can be found running under VMWare or VirtualPC.

So poll time, who has an entire small company IT centre running from underneath the stairs?