Journal TechnoLust's Journal: Work funnies OR Users say the darndest things. 7
As I mentioned before, I work for a hotel management company. The project I'm working on right now (well the highest priority of the 10 projects I have) is a purchasing system. We clone our production database to all the other environments, so we can play with real data and not accidental purchase something we already purchased. So... I'm looking at a request today and I read the title or the request: 4 Ton Hair Handler. (yes, that should be Air Handler, which is part of the heating and cooling system) I laughed for about 3 minutes solid. Most of the others are funny without being mistyped. I saw a request for a ``42" HD flat panel TV to go behind bar''. Perfectly reasonable but I laughed because I wondered what happens to the old ones. I know when they replaced our chairs they sold the old ones for $5. Hmm...
At my 1st contract in ATL, when I worked with eglamkowski, the owner of the company had a dual head Mac (with the cinema displays I believe) and a PC on his desk and maybe another screen. I just remember thinking that it was a lot of display area. (But this guy is unbelievably smart, and I'm sure put them all to use. I've seen him since I left there and I'm glad he doesn't have any hard feelings, because I really liked him.) Anyway, the Unix admin just brought over my SunRay 1G. So now I have a dual head PC with 19" LCDs, the SunRay with a 17" LCD, my laptop, and coming soon a 17" touchscreen IBM Anywhere running RedHat Linux. Now all I need is a Mac and I'll have most of the major bases covered.
Synergy (Score:2)
Go download Synergy [sf.net], it will let you use the same keyboard and mouse across multiple desktops ;) Hell, you could add your laptop too.
I used this at VT where I had two systems and three displays (one linux workstation and one windows workstation), and was using the keyboard and mouse seamlesly between both computers and all three screens.
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I'd like to second the recommendation of Synergy. It's freaking amazing.
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used it when i worked my last jorb where i had a linux box and a winders box. it rocks.
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A bad mental image (Score:2)
"Hotel chain" and "4 Ton Hair Handler" brings to mind this image of some huge guy who spends his days scraping out clogged sink and shower drains. (I'd rather just spend the money on a few bottles of Drano, actually.)
Obligatory envious post (Score:2)