The number one, top tier, highest revenue producing application at the company I work for is single threaded. It was originally written about 15 years ago, and I guess they didn't think multi-threading was worth worrying about at the time.

It used to be OK - CPUs kept getting faster. As the work this application needed to do increased, so did CPU operations per second, so they'd just upgrade the RISC based servers.

But now the few CPU developers left are concentrating on more cores, rather than faster processing per core (Moore's law? I guess). Multiple cores doesn't really help a single threaded application.

The company has outsourced all of their development to India. They know they need to rewrite the whole application to be multi-threaded, but they've got a snowball's chance in hell of this happening with their current developers.

I'm not a programmer. I'm an architect / sysadmin type person.

First monitor - Putty, Word, Visio, or the admin GUI for whatever system I'm looking after at the moment.

Second monitor - either Outlook, or tail -f /var/log/messages. It depends what I'm working on.

Magic Eye posters...

Wow, it's a schooner!

Do you have VMware?

We've been looking at this Mediawiki appliance.

For 8-10 users, you could probably even get away with running it on a "desktop class" machine running VMware Player with a static IP address for the appliance VM.

I have seen one of those massive floppies in real life.
Until just recently, I saw one of these massive floppies almost every day. I had it pinned on the partition behind my monitor. It was right next to my 3380 disk platter, and my (much later) quote for 300GB of SCSI disk for about $USD500,000.

It was my own mini-museum of data storage.

Yeah, I'm nostalgic. *shrug*

Sidenote for anyone who knows what a 3380 was (or is interested) : I once new a guy who used a 3380 HDA as a base for a glass coffee table.