What "environment" do you all compute in? Assuming you are at home, do you have the lights on or off? Who here has a deep tan from their Monitor? he he he, just kidding.

I was just walking into my computer room, I usually work with the lights off, and happen to notice all the LEDs from the different appliances. The HD light was on, my router was going, the screen was blanked but the light for the power button was on, the removable HD light is on, my speakers have an LED to let me know they are on, it was on, and the new fan I put in sounds like an Airplane. I thought I accidently walked onto a runway.

To my question (man I can ramble lately..):
Do you compute with the lights on or off (more often)?

Cool

lots of lights on when i'm inside. my setup is in the basement,half of which is an unfinished utility area-cinder block walls painted white and only one small window,12" X 12". i am next to the furnace,which is old and rumbles periodically rather than roars continuously like the newer models. i keep a small tv on to the news or startrek next to my monitor and i have the usual assortment of leds and power indicators all about. a kerosene heater is right behind me casting the glow of its flame and its heat onto my back-that's a holdover from my days in the mountains,where i came to crave the presence of a fire(contained and regulated,for sure). oddly,when i am out in the hills at night,i go in the dark through the woods and get a kick out of my city brethren, who are apprehensive over getting too far from the cabin-i guess i like light inside when i am working because i jump around and do several things whereas outside at night i am loathe to compromise the night sky with a light.

Dark and usually though have about 5 or 6 candles lit up around my room.

Why else would I have this Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard on my wish list?

Dark. but it sure does suck when I go to a console and can't see a damed thing. (Plus I can't touch type).

Dark for when im playing games (Especially Counter-Strike) and light when I'm doing work because I normally need to use loads of sheets of paper aswell.

Lookely I can touch type quiet fast when I am making up.

i compute in the dark but with three computers in the room the tv vcr satellite cable modem router hub 4 seperate sets of speakers (one of which always has about 4 leds on and has more when you turn up the volumes) a soundblaster extigy (usually 2 or 3 lights) and the answering machine plus everything else already mentioned in other posts it is almost never really dark...

Lights on. Not very light, but on. I hate when it's dark. I can't work with my machines when I don't have anythink to drink, so I go to make some tee/coffee every 20 min or something. That would be crazy turning lights on every 20min.... :-)

Has to be with lights on. Looking at a CRT in the dark is well bad for your eyes and gives me headache

Lights off in the computer room, but lights on in other parts of the appartment, so there's a gloom, but a well lighted one

My eyes get too tired in complete dark, and there's always soooo much junk around my computer desk and racks that if I can't see, I'll just make a bigger mess.

I second that. It's weird. The monitor hurts my head when the lights are on as it is.

well i have to spend most of my days in the dark. the girl 4 desks down from me continually whinges that she gets headaches from the lights, and is so bloody rude she turns the lights down, leaving me (who doesn't sit next to a window unlike her) in this depressing miserable half light... sucks.

Dark room,dark clothes,black chicken and a knive handy.
Oh.well - actually the lightbulb blew and I am too lazy to fix it.

One lamp on near the desk

Can't work in the dark b'cause I'm really really dumb still and have to check Running Linux or the Linux Cookbook every 15 minutes

Likewise recently got varifocal specs for the same reason, showing my age huh?

JD

Lights...on! I need them so I don't poke myself with all the wierd things on my desk. I wouldn't be surprised if I contracted some kind of wierd disease from a push-pin.