Greivous - main workstation/virtualisation box.
Hydra - backup workstation/virtualisation box.
Vader - fileserver.
- CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300 SLGTL 2.6GHz
- Cooling: Intel Retail Core2Quad HSF, 3x 120mm case fans
- OS: Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop 'Karmic Koala'
- Hard disks: A 2Tb and 2x 1.5Tb Western Digital Caviar Greens, plus a 250Gb WD Caviar SE16 WD2500AAKS
- Optical: NEC ND-3500 16x DVD-RW
- RAM: 4Gb Corsair PC2-6400
- Graphics: Onboard Intel GMA X4500
- Sound: Onboard Realtek 5.1, 200W Nicole speakers
- Motherboard: Intel DG43NB
- Monitor: AG Neovo F-419 19" TFT with DVI+VGA @ 1280x1024
- Case: Aerocool Magic 3D
- PSU: Axxyon Legend P520S 520W with 120mm fan
- Network: Onboard Intel e1000e gigabit
- KB/Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical, Logitech Deluxe 250 keyboard
- Other: eSATA blanking plate
Solo - backup box.
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
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
Voyager - Mum's PC.
- CPU: AMD Athlon XPM 2600+ @ 1.5GHz
- Cooling: Shuttle heatpipe and 80mm UV LED fan
- OS: WinXP Pro SP1a
- Hard disk: 80Gb Maxtor DiamondMax+9 IDE
- Optical: NEC ND-3550 16x DVD-RW
- RAM: 1Gb OCZ EL PC3200
- Graphics: Asus V9520-X/TD 128Mb 8x AGP NVidia FX5200 with DVI+VGA and TV-out
- Sound: Onboard Realtek ALC650 5.1
- Motherboard: Shuttle XPC SK41G
- Monitor: Packard Bell Slimview 517 15" LCD with USB2 hub and speakers
- Case: Shuttle
- PSU: 250W auto-sensing
- Network: Onboard Realtek 8100B 100BaseT, Netgear WG111v2 wireless USB adaptor
- KB/Mouse: Microsoft Wheelmouse Optical, Logitech Deluxe 250 keyboard
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
- Netgeat WGPS606 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
- A spare 1Tb Samsung Spinpoint F3, 2x 500Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.9's and various other 80-250Gb hard disks in the below enclosures:
- Sumvision eSATA/USB2 enclosure
- Bytecc ME-930U2 USB2 enclosure
- Bytecc ME-320U2F Prolific USB2+Firewire enclosure
- Vantec NexStar 3 USB2+eSATA enclosure
- Medion HDD2Go USB2+eSATA enclosure and 1Tb 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!
