In the kingdom of RTFM
Posted on June 27, 2007
Filed Under All, Technology, Dotcom Garden |
Yesterday I blogged about the frustration when a fella finds himself in ill-defined territory, at least from a RTFM perspective. So it’s nice to have spaces where you can be organized and more or less in control. Dotcom Garden is, pour moi, one such space, and ongoing tinkering with the systems and organization of my home office (aka gulker.com World HQ) is another.
Our father’s day gift - a 2nd Apple 20″ Cinema Display - is now fully integrated with 2 Minis, a G5 tower, 1.5 TB of storage (including a NAS array) secure WiFi and wired networks et al. A DVI KVM switch makes it easy to pop my cool MacBook Pro (thanks Adobe!) onto the system for WFH mornings, evenings, (and currently) Thursdays and Fridays. A home Polycom phone and Adobe Connect technology are the final work-from-home touches.
As soon as work is wrapped up, a click of the KVM and we can be editing photos (we’re using Lightroom to work through 600 snaps we brought back from our Paris and Sud Bourgogne trip) or learning how to do audio for podcasts. I can just leave a given log-in where it is until I have time to return, which is cool until Leopard ships, with it’s ‘Spaces’ feature. And we’ll still have some advantages by being able to dedicate a machine to things like media processing, where you need cabling, CPU horsepower etc….
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