Greivous - main workstation/virtualisation box.
Hydra - backup workstation/virtualisation box.
Vader - fileserver.
Solo - backup fileserver.
Yoda - media centre.
- CPU: Intel Core2Duo 'Merom' T5600 1.83GHz
- OS: Apple Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.8
- 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, irDA, Bluetooth2
- KB/Mouse: Wireless RF keyboard and trackerball
- Other: Remote control, DVI to SVHS/composite/VGA/HDMI adaptors
Voyager - Dad's PC.
- CPU: AMD Duron 750MHz
- Cooling: Shuttle heatpipe
- OS: WinXP Pro
- Hard disk: 80Gb Maxtor DiamondMax+9
- Optical: NEC ND-3550 16x DVD-RW
- RAM: 768Mb Kingston ValueRAM PC2700
- Graphics: 32Mb Gigabyte ATI Xpert2000
- Sound: Onboard Realtek ALC650 5.1
- Motherboard: Shuttle XPC SK41G
- Monitor: Acer 19" widescreen @ 1440x900
- Case: Shuttle
- PSU: 250W auto-sensing
- Network: Onboard Realtek 8100B 100BaseT
- KB/Mouse: Microsoft Wheelmouse Optical
- Other: D-Link DUB-H7 7-port powered USB2 hub
Misc hardware - shared peripherals.
- Philips PCVC680K (Vesta Pro), PCVC690K (Vesta Scan) and PCVC840K (Toucam Pro II) USB WebCams
- Epson RX425 all-in-one photo printer/scanner/card reader
- Samsung ML-2510 1200x600dpi @ 24ppm laser printer
- Epson EPL-6200 Postcript3 laser printer
- Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server
- Linksys WPS54G wireless print server
- 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 and a Netgear GS605 5-port gigabit switch
- 160Gb Hitachi CinemaStar C5K160 laptop hard disk in a Sumvision eSATA/USB2 enclosure
- 20Gb 2.5" laptop hard disk in a Bytecc ME-930U2 USB2 enclosure
- 80Gb Maxtor DiamondMax+9 in a Bytecc ME-320U2F Prolific USB2+Firewire enclosure
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, TotalNIC are not much better.
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!
