Home Office

[Chris]

Basically I've been away for a while now and am starting to come back to all this computer chaos. My brain felt like it froze last summer, I had that many N:N relations looping through my mind from a project I was working on, my brain and eyes started seeing and understanding the ripple effect caused by real life relationships and events, it put me through turmoil (a rather weird experience), and I forced myself to give up my hobby.

I'm not joking when I tell you, I started thinking of people as JavaScript instances. I felt like I was an instance in the cloud walking around and interacting with other instances. The only difference between me and someone else was, I actually understood that I was one of those instances when they didn't. I realized that everyone only has certain options, and once you realize their options, you can of course misuse them. Some people feel like they are simply a form on a computer, all they do their whole lives is try to fill in the boxes before they die (sad really). The boxes of course are their only options, they cannot imagine anything outside of those boundaries.

When I spoke to someone I saw them as an object, in my mind I could visualize their properties, their boundaries, I could talk to someone, ask a few questions and basically tell them exactly who they were, before they went any further. I could feel someones emotion, understand it, and basically hack their mind. I figured I could cheat and steal from people without them even realizing before I figured that there are still rules. I was hacking them in conversations, I was working purely out of my head and did nothing from my heart. I had people doing what I wanted them to, without them even knowing. I went through a phase of pure ruthlessness and couldn't force myself to bring that dickhead attitude to this community.

A few months down the line and I feel quite normal again, found some love in my life and the heart is pumping some blood around my little head again.

So, after a rather weird life experience, I came back to the computer to put my skills to the test. And I don't mean to try seem smart or anything, but I finally get it. A computer does nothing more than put boxes around boxes, it's there to make theory more theoretical. People don't like thinking outside of their box, that's why we make more boxes, so we can keep thinking of more and more new boxes to put our boxes in. It's like a hoarder. Computer programmers hoard their code, split it into millions of little boxes, so they can spend more time thinking up new ones. Then try to organize it by thinking outside of the box, just so they box around their old boxes.

So anyway, I'm going to start up a business plan for a Web Design Studio, I'm going to start up with an old computer I have at home, but I need some new equipment.

I want a huge screen. I'm going to start this on my own, so I want traffic statistics on one screen, and IDE on the other, a web browser on another, maybe a tablet and a smartphone simulator, incomming emails, messages and incidents on another screen.

Basically an all in one station (I do the lot, design, normalization, development, writting, SEO, advertising, hosting and maintanance).

Finally the question: What's the best way to get four to six 22" screens to run from one box? Three video cards? Or an expensive USB adapter?

[Jackolantern]

Wow, that is quite a journey from perhaps being near a mental break-down to starting a new business Although I have to admit I sometimes see people and world objects as programming elements lol. Although never as Javascript (usually more like Java). Prototype chains and the constructor attribute would play havoc with my head if I did!

As far as all of the monitors, I don't think USB will cut it. Each unique monitor display has to have its own video frame buffer, and that only exists in the video card. So unless there is something I am missing, you will need a new dual-output compatible video card for each set of 2 monitors. From what I have seen, most people get low-cost, low-power video cards for each set of 2 more monitors. There is no reason to spend $400 on a brand new nVidia when you really just need it for 2 DVI plugs and video buffers.

EDIT: Oh, and the video cards need to be Crossfire or SLI compatible, as does your motherboard, or only one set of DVI connectors will be active.

[hallsofvallhalla]

We had 4 24" monitors on our stations at work.



Basically a video card with dual output then another board that ran with it for the other 2.

[Chris]

I was thinking of putting something together more like this:



Only without the price tag..