The hard part

Once upon a time I was a software engineer. My company made sure I do nothing else. There were people who would at minutes notice solve any hardware, network issues I encounter. Infact, if any hardware fails once, I would get a new one. They really wanted us software guys jappy. I think I used 2 different laptops and 2 different macbooks in just over a year :D. Here's how my x workstation looked like (Those toy looking creatures are mine).



In startupness life's much less boring. We had to setup our own network, first we didn't have a router and hence two people couldn't connect simultaneously, we setted up a proxy on one machine. Now we have a new linux machine and a new wifi-router so things are better.

I also assembled my own PC, from parts purchased from a place called lamington road (the secret place for getting cheap and likely pirated hardware in bombay ssssshhh). Its a lot less fun to do that now though, for instance, it worked the first time, no smokes, no weird beep sounds, and 0 debugging. Thanks to the integratedness of intel boards gurrrrrrr.

J.