What do you use your computer for?

[DSwain]

Eh we already had two porn responces you might as well inform us. Unless it's CIA business, then I guess it's different.

[Dark Ninja]

Originally posted by Hellcat
Hi,
I just wandered what sort of things you guys get up to on your computers apart from gaming? eg 3D modelling, Imaging, Music, Movies etc etc?
Thanks.

Hacking Yours




...and then I look at the porn I get from it.

[Chess007]

I use my computer for:

Web development

Surfing the net

Sending instant messages/chatting

Photo editing

Modding (currently modding for Age of Kings The Conquers. The best rts ever! We've recently found a way to hack the stats.)

Audio recording

Video editing

Hex editing

Downloading linux iso's

Gaming

Chess

I love learning new things so I do a lot of research on the net; history, tech, science, whatever interests me.

[Zyglow]

Web surfing
email
IM
newsgroups
slumming around on forums
games
research
script testing for work
general debotchery

[drummerboy195]

I end up using my computer for just about everything I do. I use it quite a bit for my IT courses, (Java and HTML/Unix, the Unix is really easy for me, I dont know why), serving files for said classes from across campus, starting to get into some web development stuff for other people, I use it to register for classes, buy books from the campus bookstore. And those are just the useful things!

Web, Gaim, email, and that is just about the sum of it.

[duncanbojangles]

Originally posted by beerman
Porn

You mean you don't have a seperate server for that?

I use my main computer for the following:

• Listening to music
• Web browsing
• Email and usenet
• Programming (C and asm)
• OS development under emulation
• Sometimes games (Doom3, Enemy Territory, Cube)

I have a server that stores the following:

• Music and CD rips
• Sister's pictures
• Backups
• Porn

[H2O-linux]

Generating backgrounds
Serving my website from home
FTP for files
Listening to music Digitallyimported.com
Selling on ebay
Learning about slackware

[CoffeeMan]

Ripping CDs to mp3 >> Grip (cdparanoia + lame)

Downloading mp3s >> Limewire

Listening to mp3s >> xmms

Nomad mp3 player transfer >> Gnomad2

Burning iso, data and audio CDs >> k3b

Web Browsing >> Firefox

IRC Chat >> irssi

IM Chat >> Gaim

Watching videos (DVDs, Porn...) >> libxine + kaffiene

3D Modeling >> Blender

Image Editing >> The GIMP

Text Editing >> vim & emacs

Homework >> OpenOffice ( and gpdf for the answers I stole from the algebra teacher's laptop )

Web Development >> emacs + firefox

Your Mother

[raz0rblade]

Everything.

[EnigmaOne]

Originally posted by duncanbojangles

• Music and CD rips
• Sister's pictures
• Backups
• Porn

We, of course, can assume that there's no cross-over in those categories???

[cybertron]

Originally posted by EnigmaOne
We, of course, can assume that there's no cross-over in those categories???

Backups of the porn pictures of his sister in a slideshow set to music ripped from his CD's? Yes, for all our sakes, let's assume no crossover.

Edit: Oh, and I use mine for a little of everything. About the only thing I don't use it for is video editing because I don't have a camera that does decent video (My still camera takes videos, but they're not worth editing).

[duncanbojangles]

Originally posted by EnigmaOne
We, of course, can assume that there's no cross-over in those categories???

No! No crossover whatsoever! My sister got a digital camera and likes to take a ton of pictures, so my file server seemed like a logical place to store them. My stuff and her stuff are on completely seperate partitions, and the file permissions allow only myself into my porno partition.

My sister and I collectively store our music on the file server in the same partition so we can listen to each other's music.

[leonpmu]

Originally posted by duncanbojangles
No! No crossover whatsoever! My sister got a digital camera and likes to take a ton of pictures, so my file server seemed like a logical place to store them. My stuff and her stuff are on completely seperate partitions, and the file permissions allow only myself into my porno partition.

My sister and I collectively store our music on the file server in the same partition so we can listen to each other's music.

Thanks for clearing that one up

I use it for R & D, because I run a company that provides Linux solutions...

Watching DVD's, although I just bought a DVD player, it is useful, when we go down to the coast....

Trying out new things, new apps, etc for clients.

E-mail, word processing, contract making, listening to music, copying CD's, etc, etc...

edit : Oh yes, and no porn....

[deathadder]

Music, Game, Uni work, Learning to Programming/Scripts, Movies, Web, Email, Chatting, Reading, pretty much everything else above

[TheCatMan]

Most of the above, aside from porn. Oh, and surfing - it doesn't float too well.

Storing top secret files
Scanning (Sane & Gimp)
Telephone (Skype)
Instant messaging (AMSN)
E-mail (Evolution)
Music (Xmms, Timidity, Rosegarden)
Playing DVDs (Ogle)
Web (Firefox, Opera, ssh, sftp)
Games (including the old favourite "which distro will work first?")
Molecular modelling/rendering (Rasmol, Garlic)
Reading (Firefox, MC, Infobase under Dosemu)


I used to use it for upstaging smarty-pantses (as in, "Your new box takes how long to start up? My Pentium 1 could have booted, burned a CD, booked a ticket to Prague and poured you a drink in that time!") but it's not so much fun since I upgraded my box.