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For some reason I've decided to borrow most my machine names from Douglas Adam's
Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. I guess I needed some sort of naming convention,
that's all.
Vogon
vogon is a biggie: I meant it to be pretty strong. I also meant it for
experiments and, maybe, a bit of gaming (although I have not played much games for the
past 2-3 years). I guess that all shows in the specs:
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CPU
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Dual Intel Celleron-533
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Mother board
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A-Bit BP6
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Memory
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256Mb ECC 100MHz
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Hard drive(s)
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30GB IBM Deskstar UDMA-66
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Video
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Matrox G400 dual-headed with 32MB VRAM
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Monitor
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Still pending, using old LG 56T
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Other
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ZyXeL Modem
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Internal Zip-100 drive
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Operating System(s)
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Currently it runs FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE -- it was the only system to provide UDMA-66
hard drive support out-of-the-box
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Zaphod
zaphod is my trusted ThinkPad. It is a bit old now: over 2
years (close to 2 and a half, really). So, it cannot be called a "super" now, but I
still think it is in a pretty good shape, quite adequate for its tasks. In fact, I do
not find it significantly slower than trillian,
despite the fact that its CPU clock more than twice slower than that of a Toshiba.
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Model
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IBM ThinkPad 770E (9548)
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CPU
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Mobile Intel Pentium II 200
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Memory
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128Mb
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Hard drive
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5GB
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Video
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Cyber 9397 4Mb
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LCD
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14.1" XGA (1024x768, 24bit)
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Other
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2 PCMCIA ports
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DVD ROM
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3-hour battery
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Operating system(s)
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Dual-boot WinNT4/Debian GNU/Linux
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Trillian
trillian is another laptop. It is the newest of all boxen (though it may be
wrong to call this slew little beauty a `box'), and (clock/RAM-wise) the most powerful.
Have not had much time to try it out yet. We'll see in a month or so how cool it is (and
if).
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Model
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Toshiba Portégé 7200CT
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CPU
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Mobile Intel Pentium III 600
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Memory
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320Mb
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Hard drive
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12GB
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Video
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Trident Cyber9540 4Mb
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LCD
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13.3" XGA (1024x768, 32bit)
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Other
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2 PCMCIA ports
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DVD ROM and other expansions are available through Network/DVD docking station
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3-hour 9-cell battery
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Operating system(s)
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NT as a primary: I use it in the office. But Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is sitting in a
spare 2Gb partition. Here's the story on that.
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The thing I really like about this one is its ability to send a higher frequency signal
onto SVGA port for external monitor. So, at the same 1024x768/32bit you get 60Hz on LCD
and 85Hz on CRT -- much less strain on the eyes!
Otherwise, as I said before I do not see it being such a breakthrough compared to TP.
Sure, it maybe faster, but not three times faster as the clock
(theoretically) suggests. Oh, yeah, obviously it is much lighter. And less
bulky. But that's without a CD/DVD-ROM, only 1 speaker... Frankly, I'd expected a lot
more, not just a different sticker with yet another stick added under a blot
logo.
The real test is coming, however. I'll have a page on the Linux experience with this
baby.
Hill
hill is one of Trilogies hosts. It's
nothing sexy, just an old Pentium 133 with 32Mb memory serving pages, sending mail and
doing a bunch of other stuff.
As well as most other my boxes, it runs Debian -- it's a breeze to administer a Debian
box from afar. It also is a nice place to experiment with the serious stuff, like
bind, real mail system, etc. -- unlike the rest of the boxen (except m) it sits there in the wild open of the Net, not hiding behind
safety of a firewall.
M
Don't ask me why m -- I did not give it its name... Compared to the rest of
the crew, it is a weakling: a mere 486 with just 16Mb (man, just think 5 years back...)
RAM. Unlike any of the rest of the crew, it runs
A-Bit's Gentus, which is an RPM (==RedHat) distro. I have not had much time to mess with this one,
it just went on-line 2 weeks ago. Gotta put it into a g00d shape, man.
Enterprize
...used to be the name I was giving to all my boxes ever since I first tried Linux.
Yeah, I am a Trekkie. Except its been pretty tough to stay in touch with Rodenberry's
creation over in Russia, but true love will defeat anything, right? So I was callin'em
all `enterprize'. Nice name, until I got a second box on the network. Should
have I called it a `warbird' or `birdofprey'? That's when I
started off devising a new naming convention (see above).
Anyway, this is more like a tribute to the enterprize, as it is no more.
Gone. Given away for a good cause, to help out getting our environment cleaner and
safer. What it used to sport was:
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CPU
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Intel Pentium-Pro 200
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Mother board
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ASUSTek
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Memory
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96Mb EDO
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Hard drive(s)
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2 WesternDigital Caviars: 5 and 10GB UDMA33
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Video
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ATI Xpert@Work with 8Mb VRAM
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Monitor
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LG 56T
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Other
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ZyXeL Modem
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Internal Zip-100 drive (vogon inherited it)
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Operating System(s)
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At various times it ran from 1 to 4 operating systems all together: Windows
95/98/NT, BeOS, a few Linuxes (Caldera, Debian, RedHat, Slackware). In the end it
had Linux and BeOS R4 installed.
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