We're not alone in this, but we have a room called "The Library". In theory, this is where we put the books we share with each other, as well as the boxes of software we're using. Remember when software came in a box with a manual? A community resource, so we don't need six copies of the O'Reilly Perl book. That kind of thing.
However, that's the theory...
However, that's the theory...
A selection of some of the interesting portions of this collection:
- Inside MS-DOS 6
- Windows 3.1 Secrets
- Windows 95 Resource Kit
- Windows NT4 Resource Kit
- Windows Server 2000 Deployment Planning
- BSD OS 4.2
- ATM Theory And Application
- O'Reilly Perl Resource Kit, 1997 version
- A complete Novell manual kit from 2000 (NetWare 4.2 and 5.0, GroupWise, Zen, ManageWise, and other greatest hits)
we have a similar shelf here, same book in fact, though I think my "Troubleshooting eDir" book from Novell will be around for the foreseeable future
We've had that shelf every single place I've worked. In some ways, it serves as an interesting historical piece, almost the way geologists talk about layers of dirt as strata, telling them a story about what's happened in the past.
These days, I've been trying hard to eliminate this, keeping only what we actually currently use. So far, despite the fears of various people, it's working. And the office feels much less cave-like, thereby.