R2D2
Right is a picture my beasty computer R2D2
My
computer's stats are as follows (these WILL be updated
frequently.)
-One 17" Sun monitor, my NEC 19" died (18.1" viewable area) got
rid of dual monitor too many problems with games.
-Two 4ru rackmount Server cases joined together for extra
space with 3 5.5" useable drive bays, and three 550w power supplies
(each switched on by the main one) and 8 case fans.
-Tyan Tiger MPX
s466n
-one 266mhz DDRAM Registered ECC corsair 512mb (damn
this stuff ain't cheap)
-Dual YES I SAID DUAL Athlon MP
1.33GHZ
-Asus TNT2.
-16/48 speed DVD/CD rom.
-IBM glass platter 61gb
7200rpm with 2mb cache for Operating system.
-Raid array one: 8 (thats right count em)
72000rpm 120gb seagate/western digital drives with 2mb cache each, two
in raid1 for precious files, 5 in raid5 for scratch space, and one hot
spare, I learnt my lesson when the other array died late in 2006.
-32bit pci Highpoint xxx 8 chanel/4 port IDE raid controller
-Raid array two: 4 7200rpm 8mb cache 300gb seagate drives with NCQ, in raid5, for a whopping 830gb drive.
- 64bit pcix Highpoint RocketRaid 1820a 8-port sata controller.
-Onboard base 10/100 network.
-Intel 10/100/1000 gige network card.
-24 port Alloy 10/100 switch for testing network.
-16 port Netgear 10/100 switch
-4 port Netgear rp114
cable router
-Logitech Optical Mouse(My Microshaft Mouse died,
learn the lesson kids)
-Microsoft intelli-keyboard
-Speakers
all gone this is a server my friends, no sound card.
-I was on cyberone, but they decided to move from a modus of service to a modus of perpetual outage, see "they sucked". I moved to WildIT which has given exemplery service.
-Win 2k server, soon to be ubuntu server.
-KVM
switch to share monitor keyboard and mouse with Spidey
-45ru server rack, rescued from the trash.
Coming soon:
-8-24 port Gigabit
Switch, and Gigabit cards all around get more speed....heheh
-12ru mobile rack.
-500gb drives to create a new array at 1.5TB unformatted...... droool
-Dual sledgehammer processors
with 16GB ddr ram.
-16 port Highpoint sata raid with 16 1TB hard drives in raid 5.
-Multiple
redundant OC-48 connections.
New Pictures of my
case mod here......
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Spidey
(has its own page here)
My New Beast and LAN Party Box is Spidey.(New
Completed piccy coming soon)
I built Spidey from the ground up
as I did with R2D2 but the paint job was more involved, still
haven't finished though as the paint is peeling... :(
Here are
the specs:
-AMD XP2600.
-512mb PC2700 DDR ram.
-GeforceMX
5200, with 128mb of ddr.
-Epox 8RGA+ with onboard 6.1 sound,
and onboard 10/100 NIC.
-Netgear 10/100/1000 nic.
-80GB Western Digital hard drive with
8mb of cache.
-Spidey paint job.
-Spidey fan grill.
-LANing
case with handle, compact and light design, with 5 case fans, and
a 400w power supply, got the fan controller installed and
running.
-Crappy optowrite
8x dvd+/-rw burner, only burns on like two dvd brands in the universe.
-Logitech headphone/mic for sound.
-Shares adsl and network with the plethora of
PC's.
-Shares Keyboard, Monitor and mouse with R2D2, Daisy,
C3P0 through my 4-port KVM.
-Now Switched to Linux Full time,
tried Suse 9.1 for a bit, it was good, but couldn't get samba to
work,settled on fedora core 2, nice seeing as it has an integrate
office suit with built in gui web editor that I am using right
now, ps I found out it was zonealarm on the file server causing
the problems with samba.
Coming soon:
-More ram.
-Another
80gb Western Digital Hard drive with 8mb of cache for stripping speed and space.
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Alfa
(has its own page here)
Alfa is Fiona's New PC, built at the same time as
Spidey with the same components, the paint worked a lot better. I
made the window myself, completely custom.
Here are the stats
anyway:
-AMD XP2600.
-512mb PC2700 DDR ram.
-GeforceMX
5200, with 128mb of ddr.
-Asus neforce2 board, old epox died. Has onboard gige,
-80GB Western Digital hard drive with
8mb of cache.
-Got Fiona on to linux so Ubuntu Breezy, with gnome and apt-get sexyness
-Alfa Red paint job.
-Funky fan
grill.
-Official Alfa Badge, and 4 switch fan
controller.
-LANing case with handle, compact and light
design, with 3 case fans(one is awseome though; a Vantec
Tornado), and a 350w antec true power, power supply.
-LiteON 16 speed DVD-drive,
and LiteON 52x CDRW.
-Logitech wireless keyboard and
mouse.
-17' LG monitor that I picked up...for a
bargain...nothing.
-Shares adsl and network with all the
PC's.
-Blue LED's for internal light.
Coming Soon:
-Blue Cold Cathode for more
light.
-19" tft monitor.
-Another hard drive for more space.
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Gandalf
(has its own page here)
My old hand-me-down laptop decided to give up its screen (I may fix it)
so I was laptop-less. Fiona agreed that I should get a decent laptop,
so I started to look around at my wholesalers, I almost bought retail,
but ended up cost to performance MSI seemed the best. It also suited my
want for light, small and powerful.
Named Gandalf after one of my favourite books come movies, (if you
didn't know already) Lord of the Rings, as it is a white laptop, and
certainly very powerful, and I did move from a grey laptop. So enter Gandalf
the white.
I think to be pretentious and quote myself I can say this is faster than a lot of the servers that I work on.
That is not to say it didn't have teething problems, see the page for those.
Specs: MSI s271
-AMD Turion 64bit TL-56 1.8ghz dual core.
-1gb of ddr 667 ram
-ATI Radeon Xpress 200
-12.1" display
-80gb 7200rpm pata drive
-Dual layer dvd-burner
-Built-in 802.11g, bluetooth and Gig-e
-Built-in SD/mmc/ms slot
-Running Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy
-All this weighing in at under 1.9kg
Coming soon:
-1gb more ram so I can run more Virtual Machines.
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MrHankey
(has its own page here)
Mr Hankey should really be moved the RIP page, but I have plans to fix the screen and maybe turn it into a picture frame pc.
Stats below.
-Toshiba Portege 7200
-Pentium III 600mhz
-256mb of ram
-15gb hard drive
-14" screen
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Kitt
(has its own page here)
Our laptop called KittMarkII (The original
Kitt has left us this is its replacement), stats are as
follows:
-It is a HP ze4201e (eek name brand)
-Celeron
2ghz.
-30gb Hard drive
-512mb of ram
-10x dvd
drive
-Floppy disc drive
-A4Tech optical mouse
-2 Nice
Altec Lansing internal speakers
-Internal 56k modem
-Internal
10/100 NIC
-Pcmcia to compact flach card.
-ATI Imogen,
which isn't too bad, can play lots of stuff, and does software
dvd decoding.
-15" Active matrix display
-netgear MA401 802.11b wireless card
-Win XPpro (yuk)
Coming soon:
-Maybe a remote so we can use it
as an entertainment box till we get Stu.
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Wiggum
(has its own page here)
A new addition to the pc family, Wiggum,
going to be just a security Laptop see here.
Here are it's stats:
-Pentium III 700
-256mb Ram
-Netcomm 802.11g WiFi card
-Nokia gsm900 card
-Haven't decided on an os, probably go ubuntu as well.
Comin
soon:
-Gonna build
a program to detect when a specific signal comes in via usb from
a home-built controller box that connects to multiple motion
sensors and door switches, that will then run a macro sending an
sms to specified phone numbers, as well as send photo's from
webcams to email addresses etc, and sound an external alarm, a
good old home security system on the cheap, it will be open
source and available from gnu.anytech.com.au
when the site is put up.
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Picture coming soon
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Daisy
Ah a new PC that wasn't even planned, they're
always the best, everyone meet Daisy, the data backup server.
Stats below:
-Pentium III 733
-384MB pc133 Ram
-15gb
Drive
-40gb Drive for backups
-WinXP pro.
-Gateway weird mini-tower
-LG 16x DVD-DL+/-RW
-Zip
250mb drive
-250w psu
-Shares KVM (keyboard and mouse with
R2D2, Spidey and C3P0), usually remote desktoped into
Coming soon: -Possibly a
big ass tape drive for real good data backup.
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C3P0
(has its own page here)
This one was planned a new web and email server,not yet deployed, I am over the whole case modding, only want it
to work :P. Here is C3P0, stats below: - Dual Pentium 3 550mhz
-512mb
of ecc ram
-Two 36gb 10,000rpm scsi drives in raid 1
-Compaq 5ru rack mount case
-Compaq 350w psu, Basic 24x cdrom,
basic 1.44mb floppy.
-Shares KVM (keyboard and mouse
with
R2D2, Spidey, and Daisy)
-Ubuntu Server, with apache web and email.
Coming soon: - Quad dual core opterons and 4gb of ram :)
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Pic coming soon, on loan to a client
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Frink
Here is Fiona's Palm called Frink, This has become
Fiona's PDA after its owner, a collegue of hers no longer needed it,stats
follow.
-27mhz dragonball processor.
-8mb of memory.
-Colour screen
-Palm os 4
-Fiona has a Sony-Ericsson
Z1010 as well, that could theoretically be used for internet
connectivity with this PDA.
Coming Soon:
-Either a OQO or Flipstart.
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Pic coming soon.
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Stu
(has its own page here)
Here is Stu, our first entertainment pc. This was an
old pc donated by work, and the capture card and remote cost me a
pittance. Because it was low specced I had to go linux, the project has
been a long time running but is nice to have it finally up, then as I
do I wanted to make changes and back to the drawing board we go,
hopefully finished soon. Specs below.
-Pentium IV 1.6ghz
-1GB 133mhz sdram
-Maxtor 7200rpm 120gb drive
-AverMedia dvb-t 771 Digital Tv card, with on board MPEG encoding/decoding
-Geforce 4 with tv out.
-Ibm deskop case and power supply.
-Pioneer 12x dvd rom.
-Running Linux; Ubuntu Edgy.
-Mythtv to watch, record, timeshift television, and to play dvd's, and music locally and across the network.
Coming Soon: -A beefier rackmount case and dual processor pc, with
tvout going into some kind of transmitter for my own in house
television network.
-More of above for seperate channels.
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