A computer nutter on another forum ...

[kingwilly]

Whaddya make of this ? is there a simple explanation?

As I was searching all the posts regarding shipping, travel light or heavy.
I did not come up with situation that I have at front of me.
I have 9 laptops and 3 PC's 10 pda's. Plus 2 routers, hundreds of cables/wires
9 portable Hard Drives. Plus hubs, wireless keyboards and optical mouse, dongle's, scanners, printers, docking stations...I could go on and on.
How do I eat this???
I've spent too much time to manicure all that, to just let it go.
I am willing to part with my PC's which are home made but not laptops !
And they are all basically new (the oldest is 16 months old )
I am terrified when I am reading all the prices for laptops and pda's in Indonesia.
For my top laptop I've paid 2200$ It's Fujitsu (I've 3 Fujitsu's)
How much it will cost in Indonesia ?
It is like choose Your poison. What should I do.
Also the duty tax and what They will think ? that I am hustler with second hand gadgets ?
Can someone help me on this one, please.

[kingwilly]

So I asked him/her why he/she needs all that stuff and got this answer!

It is a long story, but I try to keep it short.
My life changed and I had no choice but to change my profession.

1. Synthesize new ideas all the time. No passive reading. Annotate, model,think and synthesize what you read.
2. Learn how to learn (rapidly).
3. Work backwards from the goal.
4. Have long-term plan. It might change but you should have it.
5. Make contingency maps. Draw dependencies on a big piece of paper, first finish things that don't depend on anything but on which other items depend.
6. Collaborate.
7. Make mistakes quickly.
8. As you learn, write up best-practices protocols.
9. Document obsessively.
10. Keep it simple.

I do different stuff on different laptop(s)..I have 4 IP addresses 1 via cable, 1 via phone line, 2 others I get via pda's (ever heard of "pdanet" ?)
Privacy is paramount to me. Plus I am involved in Linux development. especially in solving bugs.
Just so You know, I have 12 Linux OS's plus all the Windows OS's minus "Me" & "Win 1"
If You hire me in Indonesia along with KITAS, I will give them all away for free...
seriously

WTF?

Synthesis, Annotate, never read, make contingency plans means you need 19 computers!?!?!

IS this guy a crazy nutter, or do computer people really need all that? Frankie?

The bit about troubleshooting for LINUX might make some sense...

[kingwilly]

someone else told him to buy again ..

buy here and forget about importing. They will make you pay two arms and two legs for that much stuff and no use fdx to ship stuff


I think that Your way, Is my way to fly...
Pity...so much work. But life must go on.
Thanks for Your help.

[Thetyim]

I think it must be English Noodles

He needs 19 computers to keep 57 nicks running on three browsers

[The Fresh Prince]

I reckon he's got a dodgy spell checker...And he's nuts.

[Muadib]

He doesn't have the sense to aggregate all of the services onto one PC, simple as that... He's not a geek, just another dumb-ass user who thinks he knows what he's doing...

[Perota]

So I asked him/her why he/she needs all that stuff and got this answer!

It is a long story, but I try to keep it short.
My life changed and I had no choice but to change my profession.

1. Synthesize new ideas all the time. No passive reading. Annotate, model,think and synthesize what you read.
2. Learn how to learn (rapidly).
3. Work backwards from the goal.
4. Have long-term plan. It might change but you should have it.
5. Make contingency maps. Draw dependencies on a big piece of paper, first finish things that don't depend on anything but on which other items depend.
6. Collaborate.
7. Make mistakes quickly.
8. As you learn, write up best-practices protocols.
9. Document obsessively.
10. Keep it simple.

I do different stuff on different laptop(s)..I have 4 IP addresses 1 via cable, 1 via phone line, 2 others I get via pda's (ever heard of "pdanet" ?)
Privacy is paramount to me. Plus I am involved in Linux development. especially in solving bugs.
Just so You know, I have 12 Linux OS's plus all the Windows OS's minus "Me" & "Win 1"
If You hire me in Indonesia along with KITAS, I will give them all away for free...
seriously

WTF?

Synthesis, Annotate, never read, make contingency plans means you need 19 computers!?!?!

IS this guy a crazy nutter, or do computer people really need all that? Frankie?

The bit about troubleshooting for LINUX might make some sense...

My favorite on his list :

10. Keep it simple.

[DrAndy]

1. Synthesize new ideas all the time. No passive reading. Annotate, model,think and synthesize what you read. 2. Learn how to learn (rapidly). 3. Work backwards from the goal. 4. Have long-term plan. It might change but you should have it. 5. Make contingency maps. Draw dependencies on a big piece of paper, first finish things that don't depend on anything but on which other items depend. 6. Collaborate. 7. Make mistakes quickly. 8. As you learn, write up best-practices protocols. 9. Document obsessively. 10. Keep it simple.

new age loony

[dirtydog]

^^^Naaa, I reckon you do need 2 pcs, if your running something cpu intensive on one then you can use the other.

[baldrick]

He doesn't have the sense to aggregate all of the services onto one PC

12 os's on one machine ?

[Dan]

I had a mate like this. He had a fairly severe crack and smack habit and used to find shopping for IT gadgets irresistible when stoned.

[slackula]

Wait! I have an idea! Ask him how many macs he has ever owned and if he currently has a mini..

[chassamui]

Sounds a bit ocd to me.

[DaffyDuck]

He doesn't have the sense to aggregate all of the services onto one PC, simple as that... He's not a geek, just another dumb-ass user who thinks he knows what he's doing...

Pretty much -- though I would add 'complete crackpot' to the 'dumbass' portion.

Why?

It is a long story, but I try to keep it short.
My life changed and I had no choice but to change my profession.

Translation : "After I went clinically insane, and was fired from my prior job..."

"My life changed and I had no choice but to change my profession" is usually code (they all use the same script) from nutters to 'cover up' that they got fired. But, you know, it's public code -- kinda like "I want to spend more time with my family" when execs get fired...

12 os's on one machine ?

Why not? This isn't rocket science. On a Mac you could run them under Parallels (or any other VM - would work on Linux or Windows as well). On a PC I'd probably run Linux as the host OS, and then the other OS' under VMs.

Wait! I have an idea! Ask him how many macs he has ever owned and if he currently has a mini..

ROTFLOL!

Good one (chortle chortle!) good one!

[kingwilly]

sorry Ant..... :snigger:

erm, you must be a lawyer then.

cos you've said spewed 100 words that dont actually answer the question.

Mhm..Is this a bait?
If You do not see the answer to Your question. Then I cannot helped.
I guess We are like apples and oranges.
Thus it is for me to know and for You to find out.

_

[DrAndy]

a bit like that bloke on the "properties" section, trying to sell some hotel

he said his wife went crazy, so everything has to be sold

mind you, he also said that some French bloke had already expressed an interest and made a big offer

in another post, the guy changed into a Belgian

I did ask about that, but my post was deleted!

https://teakdoor.com/phuket-land-hous...ml#post1160049

[PlanK]

He could be a software coder/tester. His comments about modelling, planning, documenting, sounds like what's involved in coding. All the hardware for testing compatibilties, porting.

[baldrick]

Why not? This isn't rocket science

yes daffney - lucky you are not a rocket scientist.

how would you spec your machine if you wanted to run 12 OS's in VMs ? of course without worrying about small technicalities like direct hardware access.

[kingwilly]

I asked him about the mac, check this reponse!

Yes I did try Mac, years ago when Mac was beating Windows in graphics (and still is but difference is small these days)
But generally speaking I do not like neither Win or Mac, too much spyware & malware.
But as a M$ partner We are using each other. mac# spoofing does not work anymore, IP address and your hardware serial number counts. So by default I use different computers for different websites. I won't allowed to be another statistic tool for any website.

Plus one of the laptops is always on and the sole task for this laptop is to show me in real time video (full screen it look like a big spider-web full of worms) the whole network all the hosting places and all websites sending pings/packets to any of my computers.
If I do not like someone i do not ping them I scan all their ports, to let them know...beat it. Plus I keep logging most of the protocols about 30-50 of them. I do not violate any of the net rules and I expect the same. I am a private person and You just extracted from me personal information.
I was looking for shipping info and You drifted off the subject.
F0001

[Butterfly]

^ seems to be a paranoi IPSEC lunatic !!!

[slackula]

a bit like that bloke on the "properties" section, trying to sell some hotel

FWIW I know him (kind of), and I am sure he is on the level and a decent guy to boot. He stood by his wife through a *very* tough saga. He's always been open about it and never asked for sympathy or been bitter and yet he has every right to imho.

/now back to the topic

[DaffyDuck]

He could be a software coder/tester. His comments about modelling, planning, documenting, sounds like what's involved in coding. All the hardware for testing compatibilties, porting.

No, he's just a nut...

Hey kw, ask him about 911.

[DaffyDuck]

Why not? This isn't rocket science

yes daffney - lucky you are not a rocket scientist.

how would you spec your machine if you wanted to run 12 OS's in VMs ? of course without worrying about small technicalities like direct hardware access.

Mac Pro, 8-core, 3GHz
16GB of RAM (sweet spot in price/performance, though dump 32GB in it if you want)
RAIDed drive of 4-8TB. Partitioned into the various OS' you want to run.
BootCamp in order to boot into the OS when you need direct hardware access.
VMWare when you just need to run the OS as a VM instance.
30" display (or two) to display the various VM windows.
(you can also attach 12 individual screens, if you prefer).

This isn't rocket science, like I said.

[Butterfly]

Mac Pro, 8-core, 3GHz
16GB of RAM (sweet spot in price/performance, though dump 32GB in it if you want)
RAIDed drive of 4-8TB.

and you need all that to post on TeakDoor ? no wonder Macs are shit !!!

[kingwilly]

Hey kw, ask him about 911.

I need more info mate.... as in 9/11 the towers and terrorists thingy?

btw - I've cut n paste your post above in reply to him, hope you dont mind!

and you need all that to post on TeakDoor ? no wonder Macs are shit !!!

:snigger: