TheRaven64's Journal: Aeron Chair!

Several years after the dot-bomb, I finally realise what all of the fuss was about with regard to Aeron chairs. I am currently visiting The University of Utah to collaborate with a researcher here and today I replaced the default chair I was using with an Aeron chair from an unused office. It is incredibly comfortable, and made even better by the fact that my supervisor doesn't have one.

On the more geeky side, there are a couple of large SGI SMP boxes (one 60 CPU, one 30) for me to play with and a Linux cluster.

Today we warned the technicians that we might need to use a big chunk of disk space. We were told that there might not be enough, since they only had about 200GB free on the RAID array we wanted to use (the one local to the 60 CPU box). Back home, our technicians complained when I dumped a 2GB DVD image in my home directory...