Show us your battle station.

[Turbinator]

Show us your battle station.

Here is my primary one:

And here is my gaming one:
(Because I don't like turning my head when reading text on web pages)

 

[Lucy]

Ooo, you have the same speakers as I do.

 

[Turbinator]

Wow, this is the 2nd time in a 2 weeks that I ran in to someone with the same speakers.

 

[Lucy]

Here be mine:

Notable landmarks: Coffee cup on left. Caps lock keys detatched and on upper shelf. Huge old CRT monitor I keep meaning to replace in centre.

One of those PCs is a server, one is my gaming rig. You get to guess which is which.

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Isn't there already a thread like this?

Darren

 

[Lucy]

I searched for ten minutes and didn't find one, was there a specific thread you were talking about?

 

[jedidia]

Huge old CRT monitor I keep meaning to replace in centre.

If I'd had that little space on my desk to begin with, I would replace that antique yesteryear... Can't stand if I don't have the place for a few notebooks (the ones you write in it, not computers), some other books, a calculator and a midi-keyboard.

 

[Lucy]

I keep spending my money on silly things like children instead. ><

 

[Turbinator]

Since you still have a CRT monitor (haven't seen one of those in a while) you can do something amazing with it. It can be used to generate FM radio signals that your radio can pick up. So you can stream your MP3 music, or any other audio, trough your monitor; into your radio. To do this you need Linux, it can be one of those that run off a Live CD. Then you need a program called Tempest for Eliza.

TEMPEST is a codename referring to investigations and studies done on compromising emission espionage.
They could see your screen, based on the frequency it is emitting.

Website right here (with pics):
http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/

 

[tblaxland]

It can be used to generate FM radio signals that your radio can pick up

AM, not FM, and only mono. Also the better your monitor is (from an EMC point of view), the worse it works. Still kind of cool though.

 

[Lucy]

That's just... nuts and yet awesome at the same time. Perhaps something I'll try with it once I've bought a replacement.

 

[Turbinator]

 

[jedidia]

Tempest for Elisa

...

I guess there is a freak for everything... :lol:

I keep spending my money on silly things like children instead. ><

Oh well, I have that coming for me. On the other hand, I buy almost all of my hardware used, so I'm usually running a pretty cheap buisness. My 21 monitor cost me somewhere around 150 dollars, and I expect it to hold for a while...

 

[Izack]

Well, considering my only camera is attached to my battle-station (more of a single CIWS than a base, IIDSSMS :lol:,) let it suffice to say that it's a black Dell Inspiron 1545 with some dings and smudges. I have an external numpad and a Sidewinder.

Yes, that is my arm and foot off to the side. :facepalm:

My external mouse died an epic death last weekend (involving birthday candles and gas torches :focus so it's not in the picture.

 

[Moach]

as the seagulls made famous by Pixar would say: MINE, MINE, MINE....

 

[T.Neo]

I'm pretty fortunate to have gotten rid of that utterly horrible electron gun thingy a few years ago, when it started to flicker and broke. There's a point at which percussive maintainance just doesn't work...

I have an external numpad and a Sidewinder.

You have the same joystick as I do. :lol:

Does yours have yaw control?

 

[Moach]

percussive maintainance

:lol: :compbash2::compbash:

i had one of those too! - now that i've gone LCD, i always wounder how on this earth did we ever live with those things flickering against our eyes? - nowadays, i even make a point to minimize the use of white backgrounds as it hurts my eyes after a while :blink:

 

[Lucy]

Hence why I use Dark Nights here on OF and rage against people posting in black text.

 

[Pilot7893]

Yes, that's an Ace Combat X wallpaper :Y

 

[eveningsky339]

Let's just say that mine is a battered ASUS laptop whose location varies. Family of four in a two-bedroom apartment, you know...