Office FAQ

Unfortunately I've been busy and haven't had time to update the office page since early August of 2009.

I've taken some new pictures of the current set-up, which is approximately similar to the 2009 setup. Why did I reduce monitors? My job is a little different now, and I don't need as much screen--and I needed more wide screens, so I shifted to 3 x 30" screens on my desktop. The old 20" monitors are still great monitors and I plan to donate them to a local library. I also did some upgrades: 24 GB of RAM, a SAS card + enclosure, a Blu-Ray burner on the desk, and replaced an ATI 2600 video card that died with a Radeon 4870. I've also added a Mac Mini Server and 32" TV that I previously had in my other house. I've also removed a lot of equipment by shipping it to my office in California and moving some gear into the basement, where less thermal control is needed.

As always, you are welcome to email me at mitch.haile@gmail.com (please limit your email to 3-6 sentences, 1-2 questions) or leave me a message on flickr.

The 2009 office faq documents a lot of the thought process, construction, furniture, etc. Please check there and send me new questions not found there.

I'd love to see your office tour pages and blog posts. Feel free to send them along. I hope to get more info posted here eventually, perhaps in a few months, with some of the new things I've learned about optimizing my setup. Until then...

Looking across the desk.	This is my office in Silicon Valley the day we moved in.
Looking across the room. The lamp in the background is a Tolomeo Mega with 14" shade.	Silicon Valley again. It's actually pretty nice, just a really bad picture. A single 30" Cinema here. Behind the desk is a Core i7 920 desktop.
My Mac Pro with 24 GB of RAM, 16 hard drives (20 TB physical--8 drives here, 8 drives in the Drobo Pro on the desk), 8 cores, 3 UPSes. No internal storage.	Rear shot. The SAS card is an Areca 1680x; highly recommend this card.
Mac Mini Server + 32" TV for video conferencing, dedicated calendaring / to-do list.