How geeky is that?

[mdlbear]

I'm posting this on my XO in the living room of the Starport: there are five laptops (all but one runnng Linux) and two smartphones visible. I have my XO in tablet mode sitting on the music stand, with my thinkpad keyboard in my lap.

I love our parties!

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Computers are large and expensive, so we must make each one do as much as possible--NOT!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Computers should be like English papers. Small enough to be interesting, large enough to do what we want them to.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

See the late and much missed Mark Weiser, Ubiquitous Computing, passim. Mandelbear, did you know him when you were at PARC?

[mdlbear]

Don't recall him -- I think he came in after I left.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Yes, but is Laptop Number Five running Windows, or something else? Lessee... MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, BeOS, Minix.... I've seen laptops running all of those, and my personal laptop has run them all (off LiveCD) except Mac and BeOS...

/me wonders if you knew Minix was still alive and kicking? :)

[mdlbear]

Windows -- it was johno's work machine.

[johno.livejournal.com]

Yep, I "talk" to linux and solaris boxes, yet the corporate requirement is windoze.

I have entirely too much fun

[capplor.livejournal.com]

with the XO in the "view neighborhood" mode, where it shows all the network signals it can see (and their names, and whether they're encrypted, and how strong they are.

[madtom-o-bedlam.livejournal.com]

I'm on one of thesmart phones and it runs Danger OS though unfortunately they were just bought by Microsoft.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

I think I can say that's pretty darn geeky. Have a cookie.

[mdlbear]

Thanks. I'll feed it to my browser.