While my family is gone for the next several days, I finally took the liberty of setting up all the computers where I can easily access them, without having to climb over some to get to others and then have to sit on the floor. I’m currently working on panoramic photos, so I have my PowerBook’s external where the main files are stored, and I’m pumping them over to the Windows machine (I can’t get Hugin running on Linux due to dependency issues… believe me, I’m trying…), where they are being crunched on and saved, and then I drag the files back. The whole setup is running through a small little Linksys Wireless-G router, which is holding up miraculously well.
I was doing some internet surfing on the iMac, but I decided it would be best to save power and shut it down. The eMac is currently uploading a video to YouTube, and will continue with any downloads when it’s done. I’ll only be able to keep this setup like this until Saturday, so I hope it works while I have it.
I also hope I don’t blow a fuse. (Although, it wouldn’t be a fuse it would be a circuit breaker.) The interesting thing though, is that my laptop and hard drives are being powered from a different room in the house via an extension cable, and the other computers are all from different power outlets, so outlet wise, it’s pretty spread out. With the iMac off and the Printer off, I don’t think I’ll be having any issues at all. Although, it would be great fun to pull up the old PowerBook Duo… if only I had a place to plug it in…
This reminds me of the way we have some monitors set up in the computer lab at my college. During the summer, there are very few people who come in here (usually just me and my research partner), so we were able to swing arranging three monitors to face one central point, resultingin a very nice work station. Yours is probably better, since they’re all your machines, but ours are all widescreen monitors.
I envy those with larger monitors. I haven’t been using the machines as heavily since I set them up, I’m going to have to take them down soon and clean up before the weekend.