Greivous - workstation/virtualisation box (France).
Hydra - workstation/virtualisation box (UK).
Vader - fileserver.
Solo - backup box.
Wookie - netbook.
- CPU: Intel Atom 'Pine Trail' N450 1.66GHz
- OS: WinXP Home and Fedora 14
- Hard disk: 160Gb
- RAM: 2Gb Kingston ValueRAM PC2-6400
- Graphics: Integrated Intel GMA3150 with VGA out
- Sound: Onboard, speaker, mic, audio in/out
- Motherboard: Asus EeePC 1001P
- Monitor: 10.1" LED @ 1024x600
- Network: Onboard 10/100, 802.11g wifi
- KB/Mouse: Touchpad
- Other: 11 hour 6 cells 4400mAh 48/h battery, 0.3mp webcam
Yoda - HTPC (France).
- CPU: Intel Core2Duo 'Merom' T5600 1.83GHz
- OS: Apple Mac OSX Lion 10.7.2
- Hard disk: 80Gb
- Optical: 24x8 CD-RW/DVD-ROM
- RAM: 2Gb PC2-5300
- Graphics: Integrated Intel GMA950 with DVI and VGA
- Sound: Onboard, speaker, 3.5mm optical in/out
- Motherboard: Mac Mini
- Monitor: 37" LCD TV via HDMI @ 1920x1080p
- Network: Onboard gigabit, 802.11g wifi, irDA, Bluetooth2
- KB/Mouse: Wireless RF keyboard and trackerball
- Other: Remote control, DVI to SVHS/composite/VGA/HDMI adaptors
Jabba - HTPC and guest PC (UK).
- CPU: Intel Atom N330 1.6GHz
- OS: Windows7 Home Premium and Fedora 14
- Hard disk: 250Gb
- RAM: 2Gb DDR2-800
- Graphics: Integrated Nvidia ION with HDMI and VGA
- Sound: Onboard with HDMI audio
- Motherboard: Acer Aspire Revo R3610-M
- Monitor: 37" Foehn & Hirsch (LG) Full-HD LCD TV @ 1920x1080
- Network: Onboard Nvidia Forcedeth gigabit, RT8090 802.11n wifi
- KB/Mouse: Wireless keyboard and mouse
Skywalker - Dad's PC.
- CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5GHz
- Cooling: Intel Retail HSF, 250mm case fan
- OS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop 'Lucid Lynx'
- Hard disks: 640Gb WD6400AARS
- Optical: LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD-RW
- RAM: 4Gb Crucial PC2-6400
- Graphics: Onboard Intel GMA X4500
- Sound: Onboard Realtek 7.1, 200W Nicole speakers
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L
- Monitor: Acer 19" widescreen @ 1440x900
- Case: Piano red with front LCD display
- PSU: 400W with 120mm fan
- Network: Onboard Intel e1000e gigabit
- KB/Mouse: Microsoft Wheelmouse Optical, Logitech Deluxe 250 keyboard
- Other: D-Link DUB-H7 7-port powered USB2 hub
Misc hardware - shared peripherals.
- Epson RX425 all-in-one photo printer/scanner/card reader
- Samsung ML-2510 1200x600dpi @ 24ppm laser printer
- Epson EPL-6200 1200dpi @ 20ppm PostScript laser printer
- Philips PCVC680K (Vesta Pro), PCVC690K (Vesta Scan) and PCVC840K (Toucam Pro II) USB WebCams
- Linksys WPS54G wireless print server
- Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server
- Fon Simpl wireless access point
- Netgear DG834G v3 ADSL2+ modem/54g wireless router/4-port switch
- Linksys
WRT54GL v1.1 54g wireless router/4-port switch, running OpenWRT WhiteRussian 0.9 firmware
- Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 125Mbps wireless router/4-port switch, running X-wrt WhiteRussian 0.9 firmware
- Two Netgear GS608 8-port gigabit switches, a Netgear GS605 5-port gigabit switch and a TP-Link TL-SG1005D 5-port gigabit switch.
- WD Elements 1Tb USB2 hard drive
I like to fool around with emulators, checking out different operating systems, I've got about a dozen versions of UNIX and Windows running under VirtualBox right now, I used to run about every version of RISC OS from Arthur to Select on RedSquirrel, I've also played with Xen, VMWare, Parallels and KVM; MS VirtualServer sucks of course.....
Here's a hint for people with computers - don't ship them using UPS! I shipped a computer from the UK to the US and it got trashed - new for old it would be worth over 500ukp, but they gave me 150ukp! I've sent some stuff to France via the USPS and most of it got stolen before leaving America, I'm pretty sure Customs or the post office open all packages.
Another hint, don't use TotalNIC (aka Capital Networks Pty aka Pacnames aka Domain Monkeys....) as your domain registrar, as they lock your domain to their service, so you can't transfer it away, you have no legal recourse either, thanks to the useless organisation know as ICANN. I've recently found that Godaddy are almost as bad, mainly due to restrictions put on them by ICANN.
I enjoy programming. I used to be into BBC BASIC and ARM assembler (and a little C/C++) but now I mostly code Python for pleasure and Perl/PHP/Bourne for work. I hate Java, C#'s not bad. I do like to laugh at people who call Javascript and HTML programming languages, especially when they implement them using Dreamweaver!
