Col. Panic's Journal: Early Christmas!

I have cleaned up. Not in the "sorting things" way, but in the good way: getting stuff. My company - a large bank - has closed a site (sort of) and disposed of many, many computers. I managed to wrangle a 21" monitor for my friend, a 17" monitor (still in the box) for his dad, complete PC's with 17" viewsonic monitors for both my neices (2) and my nephews (again 2) ...

and for me:

an hp laserjet 4100 and a 19" switch rack - no more messy computer room (living room, actually)

today i got a belkin kvm switch (no power supply included - wtf?) and will soon have all my machines racked and neatly humming along at once :) now i can get back to running my own firewall 24/7 with snort to capture whatever nasties happen to come my way.

it looks a little strange to have a full 7' rack in the living room, but the wife didn't complain (in fact she liked it) - i guess it is an aesthetic improvement from before. it is most certainly a functional improvement.

yes, i was inspired by the "how looks your geekroom" story - and if i had a digital camera i would finally be able to contribute