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Machines I Have Known and Loved

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home machines

skynet (2011--)

  • Status: Not yet built
  • CoolerMaster HAF942 ATX full tower
  • Debian Unstable (2.6.x kernels)

hyperbox (2010)

  • Status: KIA (spilled a beer in it)
  • ASUS G60JX laptop
  • Quad-core Core i7 Nehalem with HyperThreading, 8G PC-1333 on 4xSODIMM, NVIDIA 360M
  • 500GB 7200RPM ST9500420AS Seagate Momentus 7200.4
  • 32GB SSD
  • Debian Unstable (2.6.x kernels)

recombinator (2006--)

  • Status: Active
  • ATX full tower, Intel DG965WH, 480W
  • Dual-core Core 2 Duo, 4G PC2-6400 on 4xUDIMM, Intel G965
  • NVIDIA GT210
  • 300GB 10000RPM WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U1 VelociRaptor
  • 9x2TB 7200RPM WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 Western Digital Caviar Green
  • Debian Unstable (2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels)

mothership (2003--2006)

  • Status: Retired
  • AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz, 1GB, Matrox G450
  • Debian Unstable (2.6.x kernels)

eris (2001--2003)

  • Status: KIA (caught fire)
  • AMD Athlon K7 1GHz, 1GB, Matrox G450
  • Debian Unstable (2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels)

junta (2000)

  • Status: Retired
  • Pentium 90, 16MB, S3 Virge
  • 4-port Intel Gigabit Ethernet
  • Slackware Linux 7.0 (2.4.x kernels)

hoist (1998--2001)

  • Status: Retired
  • HP Pavilion
  • Pentium II Celeron @ 300MHz, 32MB, Matrox G200
  • 6GB + 30GB PATA
  • RedHat Linux 5.2 (2.0.x kernels), Mandrake Linux (2.2.x kernels), Slackware Linux 7.0 (2.4.x kernels), Debian Testing (2.4.x kernels)

work machines

eschatomatic (2011--)

  • Dell Latitude E6510 laptop
  • Dual-core Core i7 Nehalem with HyperThreading, 8G PC-1333 on 4xSODIMM, NVIDIA NVS 3100M
  • 500GB 7200RPM ST9500420AS Seagate Momentus 7200.4
  • 80GB SSD INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC Intel X25-M SSD
  • Windows Enterprise 7, Debian Unstable (2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels)

marcello (2000)

  • Sun Ultra 10
  • 6GB SCSI

school machines