In mid-2001, notably before 9/11, I had to quickly move a 4U Sun Netra server from San Jose to Washington DC. I just carried it on. It was enormous - 4U and full length - and weighed a ton. No packaging, no box - just carrying a huge server down the aisle of the plane ...
Did you just buy a seat for it? I read about an overnight courier service for weird items that would send a person on plane with the item.
> For the powering one thing to take into account is that cable are somewhat heavy and if you have 3 screen + your laptop you will need 4 electrical sockets. You could use the same socket for the screens by doing something like that. Please DON'T DO THAT! Shortcuts / fire start with things like this. You can find C13 splitter power cords on the net for like 20~30 euros.
With disassembling it like he does, he also lost every insurance.
If something happens and they figure out that he had some custom rig with open panels laying around he has to pay.
I'm surprised that it's so expensive -- would you mind giving some pointers to the companies you looked into if you remember any of them?
I don't have names. This was at CVPR 2017 in Honolulu. The convention center had some recommended A/V rental company that quoted $350 for a simple 28" display or something of the sort. They clearly didn't understand basic economics because it cost me 4*$10=$40 Uber rides to get a display from Walmart and return it for a full refund, so the rental company would have needed to be cheaper than $40 to make sense to a cus…
I’m in the conference and events business. I had the exact same mentality as you when I started, but after a couple broken monitors and stuff that doesn’t work and so on I started to understand the logic of paying an AV vendor to just make sure there’s a working monitor on the table.
I've learned to enjoy working on small screens. I did it because I traveled and didn't want anything I can't put in a backpack. For a long time I also used old low-res netbooks, because I didn't want to worry about a pricier laptop getting damaged (and because there was always one around). At one time switching to 1280x800 was a step-up; can't remember what resolution I used before then. I know that there are way mor…
There is for sure a sweetspot. I don't think 1280x800 is it.
When you have to scroll around on your screen to read text properly or sourcecode etc. then the screen is just not big enough.
With the 13,X" Inch display from a macbook pro i don't have the feeling of constraint. Its quite a nice size.
"I don't really need to be close to my friends or be in a place that I know but I need ... three 24 inches monitors an external GPU and an ergonomic keyboard." Does anyone else have a hard time coming to grips with this prioritization? Even looking at this objectively with something like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, yes we do need friends, though 3 24" monitors don't seem to appear.
> For the powering one thing to take into account is that cable are somewhat heavy and if you have 3 screen + your laptop you will need 4 electrical sockets. You could use the same socket for the screens by doing something like that. Please DON'T DO THAT! Shortcuts / fire start with things like this. You can find C13 splitter power cords on the net for like 20~30 euros.
His job, his livelihood depends on a single terminal block/bad soldering & ducttape hackjob. I'm all for DIY solutions to unique problems, but this is just plain stupid. It's only a matter of time before that thing sets on fire.
> For the powering one thing to take into account is that cable are somewhat heavy and if you have 3 screen + your laptop you will need 4 electrical sockets. You could use the same socket for the screens by doing something like that. Please DON'T DO THAT! Shortcuts / fire start with things like this. You can find C13 splitter power cords on the net for like 20~30 euros.
Author here: there is a screw terminal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_terminal) inside. Thats exactly what is used in every houses in the world also the current is so low that there can't be any issue.
But I didn't know about C13 slitter, that sounds like a good improvement
Working in VR allows you to travel with an infinite number of monitors, of any size you prefer. For example here is what it's like to work in a Linux VR Desktop on the HTC Vive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLuwG91HnI The problem is that plug-in headsets like the Vive are not very portable. The next evolution of something like this is to put the Linux VR Desktop on a standalone headset. If anyone is interested in…
Have you ever actually tried to work with a VR headset?
VR tech is nauseating at best and normal screens can be tiresome for the eyes alone...
There is absolutely no upside of using a VR headset for work. Please grow up.
Working in VR allows you to travel with an infinite number of monitors, of any size you prefer. For example here is what it's like to work in a Linux VR Desktop on the HTC Vive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLuwG91HnI The problem is that plug-in headsets like the Vive are not very portable. The next evolution of something like this is to put the Linux VR Desktop on a standalone headset. If anyone is interested in…
Have you ever actually tried to work with a VR headset? VR tech is nauseating at best and normal screens can be tiresome for the eyes alone... There is absolutely no upside of using a VR headset for work. Please grow up.
Maybe it's just you who gets nausea? Not everyone gets motion sickness so stop extrapolating your issues onto others. Also YOU please grow up and stop being lazy, it takes all of two seconds to see how wrong your lazy opinion is on Google and how many places are actively developing workplace and training and simulation vr, ar, xr solutions