Show us your workstations!

[Aero_Rising]

I did a **** job on painting the speakers, but oh well :p

I have some cable/wire hide strip things. I should utilize them.

I love this tiny desk though. Was only $59 at walmart, and helps me be far more productive than my past desks which cost $xxx.

mine for now:

Nice monitor on my old desktop I have a similar one that is probably a bit of an older model and smaller but you gotta love hp quality. Actually that monitor is the nicest thing in the whole system lol. I'll take pictures of mine probably later today.

[Cloud Geek]

Thanks for that!

Two free e-books available in May

Our celebration of 25 years of publishing by Microsoft Press continues this month with two more free e-books available for the next week! These offers expire on May 27, 2009, so download the e-books today:

Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit, by Christa Anderson and Kristin L. Griffin with the Microsoft Presentation Hosted Desktop Virtualization Team (PDF, 38.0 MB). In-depth and comprehensive, this Resource Kit delivers the information you need to set up, deploy, and manage a Terminal Services farm using Windows Server 2008. For more information or to buy the print version of this title, visit the Microsoft Learning website.

The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention, by Marc McDonald, Robert Musson, and Ross Smith (PDF, 4.3 MB). This practical, hands-on guide captures, categorizes, and builds a process of best practices to help avoid creating defects during the development process?rather than fixing them after extensive analysis. For more information or to buy the print version of this title, visit the Microsoft Learning website.

Note: You will need to temporarily allow pop-ups in order to download the free e-books.

Published Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:16 AM by devonm

Filed under: Developers, IT Professionals, Virtualization, e-books, Windows Server, Microsoft Press, System administrators, Programming practices

http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/arch...ble-in-may.aspx

I hope you pass these free ebooks on to the schools you have attended in the past so they can provide a better course

Use the following url to access the free ebook Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 .

http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/5...622579eBook.pdf

First Look 2007 Microsoft Office System eBook

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat

The new release that is the focus of this book?2007 Microsoft Office ...... Excel, and Office PowerPoint can download a free file converter that enables ...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/5...fice-System.pdf

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4.../TCPIP_Fund.pdf

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008

http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urss1q2we6

http://blogs.technet.com/robcost/archive/2...stem-ebook.aspx

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/freeebo...ignin1.0#Page=1

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/freeebo...ignin1.0#Page=1

some more free books I only ask that you take a copy to your local school because we all know how old the resources and computers in your high school and elementary school are in the classroms

[Aero_Rising]

I was surprised by the quality of the monitor. It's much better than the 22" dell that I replaced.

I had HP and Compaq computers back in pre 2001, and they sucked so much and were so cheap. I never wanted to use HP products again, and didn't. Until i was looking for a larger monitor, and saw the video demo of this one on some tech site. Was still a bit weary since its HP, but was really surprised when i bought it and hooked it up. Quality is amazing and the colors are so beautiful. Way better than the dell monitor that i had.

I'm not using mine on a old system though. I got a new dell studio something... lol with a i7 core processor, and it all works good together.

HP must've really improved the quality of their products in the past decade

btw my monitor mode is hp w2408.

Ever since hp and compaq became the same company compaq has become the more lower end and hp is the higher end quality my laptop is an hp and the quality on it is great. My cousin has a compaq laptop (they only sell one kind lol) and it's ok but it's not great and it's things like keyboard flexing so build quality type of things.

[Mikeparkie]

Heres mine, just got a second screen!

[ROM3000]

Heres mine, just got a second screen!

How do you like that keyboard? I was thinking of getting it.

[Mikeparkie]

its quality, i tried plenty of others before and this simple little fellow does th job so very very well!!!!

[Srugie Veteran]

Heres mine, just got a second screen!

I've been thinking of getting another Dell E228WFP lately. Where did you purchase yours? I've found the lowest prices on eBay so far.

[HTF]

Lol geez doesn't anyone just have one monitor anymore? i feel left out with my single monitor setup.

[sw1tch..]

Heres mine, just got a second screen!

I like the added blur on the faces in the photo :p

[DigitalE]

My boring setup at college

[Raikou Tch]

Specs are in my signature. Using my second monitor as a utility/chat panel is one of the best things I've done.

Edited June 3, 2009 by Raikou Tch

[TAZMINATOR]

Please excuse the mess... :blink:

So, here you go: http://siteredirector.com/redirecting/?siteid=wsj09

I am in process of moving so the desk will look better... I hope!

By the way, I have included two pictures for this month in my gallery.

[kimsland]

That's great shozilla, but you don't need to PM me to see your new reply post !

I didn't click on your link either, as I'm not that all interested. You're lucky I'm not a Mod here (yet :p)

[mdf]

Home office

Edited June 3, 2009 by mdf

[The_Observer]

I like the added blur on the faces in the photo :p

reminds me of a movie, where if some person would see photo with the face blured out.. and that person would die! BTW why doesnt windows7 have support for dual screen taskbar!

[sw1tch..]

reminds me of a movie, where if some person would see photo with the face blured out.. and that person would die! BTW why doesnt windows7 have support for dual screen taskbar!

I know it sucks. I tried ultramon but that was fail... Maybe when the final is released it will work nicely.

[DrDrrae]

I know it sucks. I tried ultramon but that was fail... Maybe when the final is released it will work nicely.

Display Fusion works well.

[Raikou Tch]

Ultramon works for me. There was a way to get it to work on Windows 7 but now I forget. You still see the error message but the taskbar still pops up. That's the only thing that does work, though.

[Sophism]

And my office at work:

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

^ nice home desk setup...

[bob_c_b]

My greatly smiplified home office, the Studio Hybrid got dumped due to my exceedingly fickle nature...

And my wife's PC....

I don't game on the PC anymore so it's more about media management and streaming to the 360 and PS3 and the ability to work from home now and then. This gear handles it all quite well.

[ultimate99]

http://chris-kelly.net/Images/Desk/desk1.jpg

http://chris-kelly.net/Images/Desk/desk2.jpg

Nice!

what's the pc for?

[Sophism]

Nice!

what's the pc for?

6TB's of file storage and running VMWare Server.

[_bobcat_ Veteran]

The current set up:

At some point I will find a better way to position the draws/PC but it's not a big deal at the moment ..

[ultimate99]

^are those flower thingies speakers?