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I work from home full time and live on a Pier in the Hudson River right across NYC. My home office has a large solid wood workbench and a Herman Miller Aeron chair. There’s an iPad mounted on the wall running Status Board app showing some vital stats. All work is done on my 27” iMac, while watching the curious life of liveaboards in the marina outside and looking at the Manhattan skyline… https://www.dropbox.com/s/nh…
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I'm on a N40L and found that FDE taxed the CPU too much underneath a RAID 6 array to be useful. I've heard that the more recent models are CPU upgradable to CPUs with AES-NI. What sort of FDE R/W speeds are you seeing?
I don't use encryption. I just checked my munin graphs and the CPU sits ~90% idle, and this is on a N36L, I guess the newer N56L would be better. It seems the newer generation has moved to Intel but still without AES-NI: https://ssl.www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/prod... It's not clear from what I've read if you can swap the processor out. Why do you run FDE? How do you boot it?
See http://b3n.org/installed-xeon-e3-1230v2-in-gen8-hp-microserv... for info on how to do the chip upgrades in the current model.
I live full-time in an Airstream travel trailer with my wife. This is my corner.. http://www.watsonswander.com/assets/2014/02/TAW55485.jpg
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I don't use encryption. I just checked my munin graphs and the CPU sits ~90% idle, and this is on a N36L, I guess the newer N56L would be better. It seems the newer generation has moved to Intel but still without AES-NI: https://ssl.www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/prod... It's not clear from what I've read if you can swap the processor out. Why do you run FDE? How do you boot it?
I don't run FDE, because it's too slow to do so (by around 1 order of magnitude IIRC). See http://b3n.org/installed-xeon-e3-1230v2-in-gen8-hp-microserv... for info on how to do the chip upgrades in the current model.
I work from my apartment in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood in Montreal. It's a small prewar apartment, and the living room has its original stucco walls. I work sometimes from my desk, sometimes from a standing standing at the other side of the room by the window, and sometimes from neighborhood cafes. I posted pictures of my setup to /r/minimalism a while ago. Note that I have since failed to keep up this syste…
Hi Graeme, we're in Le Plateau too, moved here from SF (previously Berlin and Sydney). We have a nice office on Blvd Saint Laurent looking directly out onto Mont Royal: high ceilings, 11 inch MBAs, 27in screens, Ikea trestle tables, etc. It's not a home office per se, but home for us nonetheless. You should drop by if you ever walk past. We're just above Code Black Coffee.
I work from home full time, and live across the road from the English Channel (St Leonards On Sea), in a Victorian Maisonette. My office is on the 3rd floor with bay windows overlooking the sea. The office room itself is largish, with 1.5 sofas, and a small table for tea. I have two desks - one sitting and one standing. My sitting desk is for writing code only. My standing desk is for everything else (meetings, email…
My envy knows no bounds.
My wife and I run what I would categorize as a micro-saas business and we both work at home. She works part time at a standup desk that I made from furniture parts, and she also uses a drafting style chair that I made from parts purchased on the internet. LOL @ her clocks, looks like one needs a battery. To her left is a small white board. My desk is also somewhat home made and doubles as my hobby project studio for…
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I'm using both mechanical and MacBook built-in, and I'm not sure if I like mechanical better. It's kinda cool to type on it, but the keys are just so huge, it feels like I'm using a typewriter. Using the Apple keyboard is the opposite, it's like I'm just slightly brushing the surface.
If you're pressing the keys on a mechanical keyboard all the way down, then you're not using it correctly. One big advantage of (most) mechanical keyboards is that there's a clear tactile and/or audible indication of actuation, at which point you can release the key.
I takes some getting used to, I have to consciously try to press the keys lightly, but it kinda feels nice! I'm definitely enjoying my mechanical keyboard much more this way.
Also, 10 keys typing is a must with a mechanical keyboard.
