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Somewhere in the photo archives is my setup (several years ago), six monitors spread across two desktops (two monitors each) and two laptops, all glued together with Synergy for single mouse/keyboard interaction. A bit unwieldy, now I just have three, but sometimes 4 if the laptop is in use on my desk too.
Slacker007 wrote: Question, if you still use one monitor, do you also code in notepad?
I use notepad for notes during coding, but I use notepad++ for editing things like config or PHP files when I don't already have the IDE open and I need to make a quick change.
Personally, I find nothing wrong with just one monitor. There are times I want a change of scene (and less noise from the fans on the desktop) and will spend the whole day working somewhere else in the house on the laptop.
Though, now that I've got my HOPE project set up such that there is a full-screen design surface and a full screen docking UI for the applet itself, it pretty much demands three monitors (the third being the IDE) for development. 
Marc
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I'm new at work, and haven't been assigned a proper desk or issued a laptop yet, so I'm still on one monitor, but the blazing fast machine, with 20GB ram, behind that monitor does help make up.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Brady Kelly wrote: 20GB ram
Nice!
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Code in notepad!?
Occasionally I will plug in an external but lately I just spit the screen. Debugger on one half and the application on the other half. It's a bit of an adventure to be sure, but portable.
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Two at work, one widescreen at home.
Considered getting a second at home, but these days all I do there is play games, so what's the point?
Ok, technically I have three screens at home, except one is a 55" TV, and one is an old VGA panel that's not compatible with my new video card (Only supports DVI-D/HDMI)... That one's usually hooked up to the Ubuntu box that I almost never turn on.
At work, though... I've always had two screens... And considering how much I multitask, I could really use a third...
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Ian Shlasko wrote: nd considering how much I multitask, I could really use a third
Exactly.
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I got my second monitor a few week before only, but stopped using notepad the day after I used it first 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Two largish flat panels at work and one largish flat panel at home(with a square flat panel monitor at home to swap over for when the large one goes kaboom, it's happened twice).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Got 3 at home and at work. Work is 1x19 1280x1024, 2x23" 1680x1050. Home[^] is 1x30" 2560x1600, 2x20@ 1200x1600.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I use a single monitor. The only time I ever used two was with Windows 3.x and the other was a monochrome, debug monitor.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I use two - 17" laptop screen, but primarily use my 46" Sony Bravia TV. Standard hidef screen (1920x1080?), but it supports 240 Hz vertical refresh. Picture quality is excellent, even at normal (programming) distance from the screen.
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The built-in speakers are pretty decent as well, whether for a Skype call or a bit of Xbox play...
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One at home, three at work. So I can work on one, monitor things on another, and ignore the conference call on the third.
Slacker007 wrote: do you also code in notepad?
No, I rolled my own.
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I resisted a second monitor for a long time, I identify with Bob.[^] But then I decided to get a second one. It's nice to have code on one screen and the application on the other while debugging.
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Slacker007 wrote: Question, if you still use one monitor, do you also code in notepad?
Technically, I may have 4 'monitors' going at once...2 laptops and 2 workstations. 
Usually though, it's just a laptop and a workstation with a single monitor when I'm at the office.
My main workstation can drive 3 monitors. I tried running two a long time ago...after every restart, windows would screw up the configuration, the end result being that my icons were rearranged.  Maybe the next build (coming soon) will work as it should. 
As for notepad, I may have several instances of it open (on my single monitor) but really only use if for scratch areas, or the occasional script, but not 'real' coding. Oh wait, you were being sarcastic right? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I use a 27" mac with a 2nd 24"
The 27" would be plenty - I rarely go full screen on it - but the 2nd monitor is a ice logical separation of concerns!
although, if I do try to work across both monitors, I end up with a headache due to looking back and forth between them - but that's because my desk layout is crap
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I wonder if biometric authentication is inherently flawed.
If a digital description of my thumb print is stored somewhere it is really no different than a password with the exception that if the thumb print definition is stolen I don't have a way to change my thumb print.
The nightmare scenario is someone stealing a thumb but the reality is any hacker interested in account access is going to be stealing the millions of digitized thumb prints stored in databases all over the world.
Also, unlike the password in my head I'm leaving thumb prints all over the place all day long. What is the implication of this sort of system in regard to people who've been finger printed because of an arrest? Are those paper records now a security hole? Could someone pull a finger painting out of the trash that you did in the 5th grade and have your password for your corporate account?
I don't know the answers to these questions which is why I'm asking.
On the surface, this looks to be a dead end in regard to security.
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Hence why I've been denouncing fingerprint authentication as insane since the 1st halfbaked scanners started showing up in laptops a half dozenish years ago.
Iris scanners at least don't have you leaving your identity laying around everywhere you go; even if the UX challenges mean they'll probably never become mainstream...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The silly part is that leaving your password all over the place via prints, as real of an exposure as that is, fails to be the biggest exposure. Consider credit cards: I leave my credit card with wait staff, cashiers, and other service personal every week. I've yet to be exposed by these people who actually handle my card. My exposure comes because of compromised databases - where the crooks don't have access to the physical card.
I don't see where thumb prints alleviate this vulnerability.
The crook isn't after your thumb any more than he's after your physical credit card.
In fact, either of those items missing causes them to become worthless as they'll be reported missing.
The crook want the sequence of bytes - the electronic representation of those items.
I have to think security experts are aware of this - to keep pushing biometrics they must have a solution to this problem of which I'm unaware.
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One advantage (of probably many) of biometric authentification is that you do not need to remember passwords.
I'd rather be phishing!
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That seems to be a very tiny advantage compared to the all the disadvantages.
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Trouble is, you can apply that logic to "having one single password for all systems" and making it "password"... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've followed the government advice, my password is now "3 short words" 
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