Machines I Have Known and Loved: Difference between revisions
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[[File:Rolling-war-machine.jpg|right|thumb|a rolling war machine]] | |||
[[File:Skynet.jpg|right|thumb|skynet.qemfd.net, exterior]] | [[File:Skynet.jpg|right|thumb|skynet.qemfd.net, exterior]] | ||
There were definitely also a Compaq Alpha SMP SCSI full tower and a [[Transmeta]] laptop in there somewhere, but for the life of me I can't recall their names. | There were definitely also a Compaq Alpha SMP SCSI full tower and a [[Transmeta]] laptop in there somewhere, but for the life of me I can't recall their names. For a few months, I owned a collection of old UNIX workstations covering IRIX, HPUX, AIX, and Solaris, but I donated these to the Georgia Tech Computing Museum, and never did enough with them to consider them truly known or loved. | ||
==home machines== | ==home machines== | ||
===qgp (2023--)=== | |||
* Aorus Elite X670 | |||
===[[Strangelet|strangelet]] (2022--)=== | |||
* Purchased largely as a unit off ebay for $999 | |||
* [https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/4U/8048/SYS-8048B-TRFT.cfm Supermicro SYS-8048B-TRFT] 24-bay 4U chassis | |||
* 4x Intel Xeon [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/75248/intel-xeon-processor-e74850-v2-24m-cache-2-30-ghz/specifications.html E7-4850v2] Ivy Bridge CPUs | |||
* 4x 1620W [https://store.supermicro.com/1620w-1u-pws-1k62p-1r.html Supermicro PWS-1K62P-1R] PSUs | |||
* [https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10QBI Supermicro X10QBi] motherboard with 8x memory risers | |||
===[[Lenovo T580|grimes]] (2018--)=== | ===[[Lenovo T580|grimes]] (2018--)=== | ||
[[File:T580-opened-prem2.jpg|right|thumb|uptowngirl, before she became uptowngrimes and finally just grimes, 2019-03-09]] | [[File:T580-opened-prem2.jpg|right|thumb|uptowngirl, before she became uptowngrimes and finally just grimes, 2019-03-09]] | ||
* Lenovo T580 laptop | * [[Lenovo]] T580 laptop | ||
* Intel Core i7 8550U Skylake CPU | * Intel Core i7 8550U Skylake CPU | ||
* Samsung EVO 850 512GB SATA SSD (drive bay) | * Samsung EVO 850 512GB SATA SSD (drive bay) | ||
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* <b>first owned machine to run something but [[Debian|debian unstable]] in at least 15 years</b> | * <b>first owned machine to run something but [[Debian|debian unstable]] in at least 15 years</b> | ||
===[[ | ===[[Schwarzgerät_III|schwarzgerät]] (2016--)=== | ||
* [http://www.caselabs-store.com/magnum-t10-case/ CaseLabs T10] case ($490) | * [http://www.caselabs-store.com/magnum-t10-case/ CaseLabs T10] case ($490) | ||
* EVGA SuperNOVA 850 T2 220-T2-0850-X1 80+ Titanium PSU ($200) | * EVGA SuperNOVA 850 T2 220-T2-0850-X1 80+ Titanium PSU ($200) | ||
* Asus X99 Deluxe II ATX motherboard ($420) | * Asus X99 Deluxe II ATX motherboard ($420) | ||
** Replaced with Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Master ($500) | |||
* Intel Core i7 6950X Broadwell-E CPU ($1650) | * Intel Core i7 6950X Broadwell-E CPU ($1650) | ||
** Replaced with AMD Threadripper 3970X ($1950) | |||
* 12x Seagate EXOS 12TB ST12000NM0007-2A drives ($340 per) | * 12x Seagate EXOS 12TB ST12000NM0007-2A drives ($340 per) | ||
** Replaced with 14x Seagate EXOS 18TB drives ($330 per) | |||
* 10x various 4TB drives <b>(sold as a group for $250)</b> | * 10x various 4TB drives <b>(sold as a group for $250)</b> | ||
* [[ | * [[Schwarzgerät_III#Bill_of_materials|full bill of materials]]... | ||
* <b>a truly ostentatious machine. a vulgar display of power.</b> | * <b>a truly ostentatious machine. a vulgar display of power.</b> | ||
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==work machines (highly incomplete)== | ==work machines (highly incomplete)== | ||
===DSSCAW: killermike (2019--)=== | |||
* [https://www.corsair.com/us/en/carbide-275r-case Corsair Carbide] 275R mid-tower case ($70, Amazon) | |||
* [https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-3-2200g AMD Ryzen 3] 2200G APU ($85, Amazon) | |||
* [https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-X570-P/ ASUS Prime X570-p] motherboard ($170, Amazon) | |||
* [https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Memory/vengeance-lpx-black/p/CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 Corsair Vengeance] LPX DDR4 3000 16GB (2x8GB DIMMs) ($63, Amazon) | |||
* [https://www.rosewill.com/product/rosewill-lepton-500-modular-500-w-power-supply-80-plus-gold-certified/ Rosewill Lepton] 500 80+Gold PSU (Newegg, $60) | |||
* <b>my first AMD machine since 2004 or so. welcome back, Red Team.</b> | |||
===Luma/Newell: dankcanyon (2016--2018)=== | ===Luma/Newell: dankcanyon (2016--2018)=== | ||
* [http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html Intel Skull Canyon] NUC | * [http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html Intel Skull Canyon] NUC | ||
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* Quad-core [[Nehalem|Nehalem Core i7]] | * Quad-core [[Nehalem|Nehalem Core i7]] | ||
* NVIDIA 560ti, NVIDIA 480 GTX, NVIDIA 285 GTX | * NVIDIA 560ti, NVIDIA 480 GTX, NVIDIA 285 GTX | ||
* <b>you would not believe how hard I had to fight for these GPUs working at NVidia, ugh</b> | |||
===NVIDIA: eschatomatic (2011)=== | ===NVIDIA: eschatomatic (2011)=== | ||
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===CipherTrust: providence (2006--2009)=== | ===CipherTrust: providence (2006--2009)=== | ||
* <b>this repurposed 1U half-depth machine ended up replacing most of three racks run by IT, heh</b> | |||
===CipherTrust: knuth (2005--2009)=== | ===CipherTrust: knuth (2005--2009)=== | ||
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* Sun Ultra 10 | * Sun Ultra 10 | ||
* 6GB SCSI | * 6GB SCSI | ||
<b>Sun workstations will be forever pimp. press f for respects</b> | |||
===CNN: lemont (20 minutes in 1999)=== | ===CNN: lemont (20 minutes in 1999)=== | ||
One day I showed up at CNN, played some Tecmo Bowl in NESticle, hit on a few girls in the non-techy areas of the floor, and saw what I assumed to be furniture being wheeled into my office. It turned out to be one of our production Sun Enterprise 4500's, a machine costing well over a hundred thousand dollars in 1999 money. I assumed that respect was finally being properly paid, and accepted the gift in tribute. Very upset people reclaimed it less than half an hour later, and yea verily, this was not the most ridiculous horseshit I witnessed in a few months at the Cable News Network. | One day I showed up at CNN, played some Tecmo Bowl in NESticle, hit on a few girls in the non-techy areas of the floor, and saw what I assumed to be furniture being wheeled into my office. It turned out to be one of our production Sun Enterprise 4500's, a machine costing well over a hundred thousand dollars in 1999 money. I assumed that respect was finally being properly paid, and accepted the gift in tribute. Very upset people reclaimed it less than half an hour later, and yea verily, this was not the most ridiculous (nor the most discombobulated) horseshit I witnessed in a few months at the Cable News Network. | ||
Fun(?) story: that machine was one of the two valiant frontline webservers that delivered the stripped-down CNN front page of 2001-09-11. | Fun(?) story: that machine was one of the two valiant frontline webservers that delivered the stripped-down CNN front page of 2001-09-11. | ||
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* 1U Supermicro, AMD Athlon K7, 2GB | * 1U Supermicro, AMD Athlon K7, 2GB | ||
* 2x300GB PATA | * 2x300GB PATA | ||
* <b>lived next to gehennom.net in what turned out to be an unauthorized setup, causing much angst :(</b> | |||
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