so i have 3 computers in my cube, a windows machine, a linux machine(my regular desktop) and a solaris server. sometimes i get so into whatever i’m doing that i forget what machine i’m on, and since i derive my physical location in space from where i’m sitting, if i incorrectly know what machine i’m on, then i get really freaked out when things in my cube make a spatial jump. as a for instance, i was surfing this morning, reading through some stuff, really in the zone, and realized it was almost time for lunch, so i went to pull up a windows share on one of our local servers, which i usually do on my windows machine (which i incorrectly thought i was on) and i spent literally a couple seconds staring at my gnome icons wondering where the start menu had gone, then turned around to where i thought the door to my cube should have been, and got freaked when i saw the wall. i closed my eyes and re-focused, then realized what had happened. then i realized that it has happened before, and although isn’t a frequent occurance, it happens enough to get freaked out about it. i’m thinking that maybe a kvm switch might be necessary to keep me from going nuts.

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