Well.. Everyone's gotta have a hobby.

This is more or less my current (as of about January of 2009) home office / work area. My interests in include Electronics, Robotics, Embedded Systems, and Distributed Computing Environments such as OpenMPI.
Well this is kinda the wide angle view of the home office / work area.
This is the left side of the room from the doorway entrance.
This large blue parts rack stores electronic components for building projects, and is built from four 64 drawer part cabinets. The top cabinet is for linear ICs, the second cabinet continues with Linear ICs then progresses to Transistors, then Diodes, then finishes up with LEDs. The third cabinet is for digital ICs starting with a full range of the 74XXX series, and progressing to the CMOS 40xx series. The forth (bottom) cabinet finishes the 40xx series then moves into the special ICs such as a number of models of Atmel AVR Micro Controllers, EEPROMs, and other misc. items such as switches.
This is a close up of my Linux workstation. It has a total of four LCD flat panel displays, the three main displays are 20" 1680x1050, the fourth display above the third display is a little 15" 1024x768 display that is my system monitor. The four displays are driven by two nVidia GeForce 9500 GT with Dual DVI output. The system itself is an Intel Core i7 Quad CPU Ci7 960 w/ 8M Cache at 3.2Ghz and 12G system RAM. Quite the nice box for just about anything.
This is a close up of the electronics work area. The four instruments on the shelf that look almost alike are, from the top left, a UniSource C3100, 2.4GHz Programmable Universal Counter, Top right is a UniSource G5100 Programmable Function Generator, lower left a UniSource P6100 Triple Output Programmable Power Supply, and next to it is a UniSource B 4100 5 1/2 Digits True RMS Programmable Bench Multimeter. Also on the bench next to the Function Generator is my Bitscope 100 A Dual trace 100Mhz Mixed Mode Oscilloscope with DSP Waveform Generator (and it works under Linux!). On top of the Bitscope is a home made LC Meter based on this project called An Even Better LC Meter Based on the AVR ATTINY861 Microcontroller.
This was my configuration as of July of 2003 and I was working at AT&T Wireless as an Engineer III. I had been with AWS (AT&T Wireless Services) for about three years and would stay on another two years or so.

This latest in the evolutionary tract of my home computing and development environment (as of 2003 or so). I have "upgreaded" my server farm in the basement and have had to move the servers from a little room in the basement to the main open area to help dissipate the heat. (That $310 per month electric bill to power these systems is also heating my basement as a side effect). The little white bricks on the floor are APC 1250 VAC Line Conditioners. These are a must in my area inthat the electricity may be very expensive but its not very clean and it will kill your systems over time.

This is a standard 19 inch rack. On top of the rack is a small blue Linksys 8 port 100MB switch used for a secondary 100MB subnet for all the systems. Below that is a FlowPoint 144KB iDSL bridge to Speakeasy (my ISP) via Covad . This is iDSL due to the fact that I am 3.7 miles from the CO (Central Office) and as such can't get the ADSL that most others do. The iDSL is a mix of ISDN and DSL. It basicly takes the two 64K CCC (Clear Channel Capability) channels and the 16K channel to the switch of the old standard ISDN BRI (Integrated Services Digital Network - Basic Rate Interface) and rolls it all into one 144K DSL like channel. It runs me $89/month plus all the fees and taxes then bump it up to about $103/month but it is much more reliable than my cable modem and I have two static IP addresses. Next to that is an RCA Cable modem from ATTBI/ ComCast and below that is my main 100MB 24 port Linksys switch.

Inside the rack Starting from the top in the 4U form case is a Wintel box running FreeBSD . This is my router sporting a Soekris Engineering vpn1401 hardware crypto and compression accelerator, 3 x Dual Port 100MB PCI Intel Pro Ethernet cards for a total of 6 x 100MB Ethernet ports, and 2 x Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI Controllers. Second is another 4U Wintel box running FreeBSD . This is my DNS and NFS server exporting 2 x 80GB NFS volumes with 2 x 3COM 3c905 Ethernet cards and 2 x Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI Controllers. The third from the top, in the 2U form case, is a Sun UltraSPARC AXi with a 333 MHz UltraSPARC IIi /w 2M Cache CPU, 1GB RAM, 1 x 9G SCSI, 1 x 18G SCSI, and 2 x HME Ethernet cards. This is my Web Server. The fourth, also in the 2U form case, is another Sun UltraSPARC AXi with a 440MHz UltraSPARC IIi /w 2M Cache CPU, 1GB RAM, 2 x 18G SCSI, and 2 x HME ethernet cards, and is running as a Jakarta/Tomcat Java Servlet engine. And the unit on the bottom in the 4U form factor case is a Sun UltraSPARC AXmp with 2 x HME Ethernet cards and 4 x 64Bit UltraSPARC-II CPUs, 2GB RAM, 5 x 18.2GB SCA SCSI drives and is my Oracle Database Server.

A short note about the Sun AXi and AXmp systemboards. They are built by Sun as an OEM product and Sun does NOT support these to the end user. Whats more is that although they are built by Sun they are NOT as compatible as Sun would have you to believe. I have found that these systems do not support the Sun PCI FDDI addapters. One would have thought that a Sun systemboard would at the very least support Sun addapter cards but that is not the case with the Sun OEM boards. The only comment I could get from Sun support is that they did not "Document" the FDDI boards would work with these systems. Unfortuantly they don't "Document" that any of the Sun boards will work with these systems, just that a "Wide range of compatible products exists".

This is my 19 inch rack and my Sun Ultra E3500 together. The rack looks larger but its closer in the photo. The rack is realy only about 2 inches in width larger than the E3500.

This little unit is my pride and joy. It is a Sun Ultra Enterprise E3500. This sleek and fashionable baby is equipped with 8 x 400Mhz 64Bit UltraSPARC II CPUs /w 8MB of cache each (501-5762) and 8GB of RAM not to mention 8 x 9.1GB FC-AL (Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop) Drives. This system also has an SBUS QFE (Quad Fast Ethernet) and 2 x SBUS FDDI network cards. Quite a nice box!

This is my Sun Ultra E3500 and my SGI Challenge L together.

This is my Big Bad Tandem labeled SGI Challenge L. This box has 12 x MIPS R10K 64 Bit CPUs (Yes that is twelve CPUs, 3 CPU cards with 4 CPUs each) , 2GB of RAM, 2 x FDDI network interfaces, 2 x VME Fast Ethernet (vfe) interfaces, and 4 x 4.5GB HVD SCSI Drives. It is running Irix (Unix) 6.5.19m and I have built all the current GNU tools for it. This system also has a current Java 1.4.1 environment. The cooling fans are a bit loud but it is still quite a usable and productive system.

This is a photo of my home office. Three Sun GDM20 monitors and an SGI GDM17 add up to four displays. I have a Matrox G450 (dual display) card in the AGP slot and two Matrox Millennium II PCI cards. Under Linux with XFree86 this works quite well and gives quite the real estate. It does get a bit hot in the Summer and unfortunately when I open the window I am reminded my neighbor across the street thinks he can play eletric guitar... (he cant..)

This was my configureation as of about 07/1999. I was working for Courtlink as Core Systems Coordinator which seems to be a less than impressive way of saying Senior Software Engineer. The title makes me sound more like an admin than anything else. Anyway at home I have a server room in the basement and an office on the main floor. This arrangement seems to work well inthat the basement room seems to stay cool and I run my servers headless anyway as such I just ssh into them when needed. And it means my office only has one box with three heads and alot less clutter.
After about three years of trying to push Unix at Attachmate I finally gave up and went to work across the street form the Attachmate building at a good sized ISP (Internet Service Provider) called Spry in Bellevue WA. At that time Spry had just been bought by Compuserve. Spry was then split into Sprynet and Sprysoft. Sprysoft kinda just died off. After a few years Compuserve got bought by AOL (America On Line). AOL didn't even know that Sprynet exsisted or what we were with our lowly 380,000 users so they put us on the block. Shortly there after Sprynets "ASSETS" were bought by Mindspring and developement must have been a liability because we in development all lost our jobs.. But they did give us a VERY cool severance package so no hard feelings!
Then I took a position with a company in Seattle Washington called CTS (Cellular Technical Services) and moved to Mountlake Terrace outside of Seattle Washington. After about six months with CTS I took a position with Attachmate in Bellevue WA.
This dates back to 1989 in Scarborough Maine. Damn I was one ugly geek! At this time I was working for a company called Hannaford Bros. Co..