Oh PLEASE can I join in??
DH is a self-employed software developer. Nice work if you can get it, but the boundaries between domestic and corporate life are very blurred in my front room
Younger Brother arrived from Oz last week. He's never seen our current home before, and was fascinated the mileage of cableage ("Cableness"?, "Cababilityness"? - insert correct adjective here ) snaking across our floorspace.
Walking across the living room is fraught with danger. There are huge rats nests of Heath Robinson-style 10-way adapters everywhere, connecting the PC, two lap-tops,TV, DVD, X-Box, routers,speakers etc ad infinitum, to our woefully indaequate power points. Attempts to hoover are met with cries of "Don't touch/move/unplug that! I'm downloading something important!"
I have at least six tasteful IKEA wicker boxes full of anonymous/unclaimed leads, chargers, motherboards and other widgets taking up vital chic-lit improving book- space on my shelves. This doesn't include the stuff on top of wardrobes and in the attic and garage.
At least the LINUX monster is banished to an old PC in the spare room. Trust me, NO-ONE is comfortable using LINUX unless they are IT professionals. And even then,it helps if you are a 45 yr old male with no RL mates and still live at home.
What I want to know is, if LINUX is so frigging amazing, how come we aren't all using it? It's bad enough coping with newly-installed Windows Vista - which won't let me revise my documents if DS is logged on playing "Warrior Ninja Orcs of Pthooui: The Final Hobgoblin".
DH is threatening to get a MAC soon for a new project. The only space left for new hardware is the loo. Which houses my valuable collection of old Private Eye magazines.
Is there a Cyber-Widows Support Thread on Musmnet?