Well a lot of upgrading has been done since this page was last updated... NEW PC's ALL ROUND, and some have left us, none willingly.
I have a new network section as I have become somewhat obsessed with networking in the last couple of years I thought I would have to add this section... :P
Click on the pictures for more pictures.

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......

 

New Pic coming soon

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.




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.



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.
Picture coming soon

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

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.



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.

Picture coming soon

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.



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 :)

Pic coming soon, on loan to a client

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.


Pic coming soon.

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.

Pic coming soon

Also new section added RIP all the PCs that have been lost

 

 

 

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