These are the machines owned or part-owned, roughly speaking, by myself.
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Callisto
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- Intel Core2 Dual on an Asus P5LD2-VM DH motherboard
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
- 2 x Western Digital 1TB HDD
- Build-in Intel extreme graphics
- Built-in Intel HD audio soundcard
- Adaptec Ultra SCSI PCI controller
- TSSTcorp SATA CD/DVD writer
- Plextor 12/10/32 SCSI CDRW drive
- 17" LG TFT monitor
- GNU/Linux (Debian "lenny")
- Atheros PCI wireless card
- Built in Intel Pro/1000
- Microsoft natural ergonomic keyboard 4000 random Dell mouse
Callisto is my home workstation, and was my main machine at college.
Acquired: January 1999 onwards
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porcupine
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- Dell Poweredge R200 1U server
- Quad Xeon X3330 @ 2.66GHz
- 8192 MB RAM
- 2 x 750GB SATA disks
- Integrated Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "lenny")
- Collocated at Jump Networks in London.
Acquired: July 2009
Co-operated by myself, Ganesh,
Dave and
Art hosting, among
virtual machines, urchin.earth.li.
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Ickle
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- Palm T|X
- 128 MB RAM
- StrongARM
- PalmOS 5
Acquired: May 2007
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| eurydome |
- Dell Mini 9 netbook
- 8GB SSD
- 1GB RAM
- Ubuntu 10.04
Acquired: January 2009
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| thyone |
- FX5621 6 LAN Industrial Firewall/Router platform
- VIA Eden Processor 1000MHz
- 512MB RAM
- 2GB Transcend CF card
- 160GB Seagate 2.5" HDD
- Wistron CM9 miniPCI 802.11a/b/g adapter
- 4x RTL8139, 2x et131x
- Debian ("lenny")
This system acts as a Linux router/firewall connected to a Zyxel ADSL modem in bridging mode, and a wireless base station using hostapd.
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Amalthea
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- Sun Sparcstation 2
- Sun 4/75
- 32 MB RAM
- 300 MB and 150 MB (roughly) SCSI HDD
- Built-in AUI ethernet adaptor
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "sid")
Used as an occasional bedtime terminal at mum's home and breakable sparc box when needed.
Acquired: Autumn 2000
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Europa
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- Cyrix 120 MHz "Pentium"
- 36 MB RAM
- Maxtor 1.5 gig HDD, 1 gig HDD
- 15" noname monitor
- Soundblaster Pro
- 10/100 Mbit/s Realtek 8139 netcard
- Dualbooting Linux (Redhat 6.2) and Windows (98lite)
Europa is currently on holiday at my dad's house, running the Other OS
Acquired: Spring 2000
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Thebe (old)
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- Compaq Prolinea 575
- Intel Pentium 75
- 24 MB RAM
- 410 MB HDD
- 3Com 3C595-TX 10/100 Mbit/s NIC (RJ45)
- 3Com 3C509B-TP0 10Mbit/s NIC (RJ45)
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "woody")
This is a bit of an experimental box at the moment. It's in Oxford at
the moment, doing some VPN stuff.
Acquired: Summer 2000
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Adrastea
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IBM RS 6000 (7248-133)
- PowerPC PReP 133 MHz
- 32 MB RAM
- 2 GB Fast-5 SCSI disk
- Integrated 10Mbit ethernet (PCNet)
- Via Rhine 10/100 PCI NIC
- Motorola Surfboard Cable modem
- Running Debian woody
Adrastea is running IP masquerading, and DNS, DHCP and mail servers
at mum's home.
Acquired: July 2001
My page on installing linux on this machine
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Io
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- CyrixInstead 40Mhz (486-alike)
- 24 MB RAM
- 197 MB HDD, 121 MB HDD
- Realtek RTL8029 10 Mbit/s netcard
- NE2000 compatible 10 Mbit/s netcard
- Running Linux (Redhat 6.1)
Io is rather dead, now
Acquired: Spring 2000
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Metis
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- Compaq Contura 410 laptop
- 486 DX2 66
- 8 MB RAM
- 256 MB hdd
- D-link PCMCIA ethernet, Megahertz 14.4 modem
- Prism2 based 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card
- mono LCD
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "woody") with 2.4.19 (so I can do wireless
stuff easily)
metis is my living room text terminal.
Acquired: June 2001
metis is now failing to boot :(
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Thinstar
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- NCD Thinstar 200 thin client
- Running WinCE (yes, yes, I know)
- 8 MB memory
- 1 MB video RAM
- 100 MHz or so MIPS CPU
- 10/100 ethernet, vga, serial, ps2
- NCD ThinPath XWindows X server
Used as a thin client to callisto.
Here is a HOWTO
for setting up these boxes as an X server.
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Ganymede
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- 486 DX2/66
- 16 MB RAM
- 14" noname monitor
- 800(ish) MB HDD
- SoundBlaster 16 compatible
- Kingston 10 Mbit/s netcard
- Running 98lite
Ganymede is rather dead, now
Acquired: 1995
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Ickle (old)
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- Palm Vx
- 8 MB RAM
- 20 MHz Motorola Dragonball processor
- PalmOS 3.5
Acquired: Autumn 2000
You could try my Oxford Palm Archive (but it's
very out of date now).
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Pasiphae
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- SGI Indy
CPU: MIPS R4600 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
FPU: MIPS R4600 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 2.0
1 100 MHZ IP22 Processor
Main memory size: 64 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
Data cache size: 16 Kbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Graphics board: Indy 8-bit
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Integral ISDN: Basic Rate Interface unit 0, revision 1.0
Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 4.1.0
Vino video: unit 0, revision 0, IndyCam connected
- 2 GB SCSI disk
- 17" SGI branded Sony trinitron monitor
- Running Irix 6.5
Acquired: October 2001
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Urchin (mark 1)
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- DNUK 1U server
- Celeron 733
- 1024 MB RAM
- 40 GB UDMA 66 disk, 120 GB UDMA 100 disk running in UDMA 66
- Integrated SiS 10/100 ethernet and Intel Pro/100
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "woody")
- Was collocated at Black Cat Networks in London.
Acquired: April 2001
Co-operated by myself, Ganesh,
Dave and
Art.
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Urchin (mark 2)
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- Dell Poweredge 1850 1U server
- Dual Xeon 3GHz
- 2048 MB RAM
- 2 x 147GB 10kRPM SCSI disks with hardware Raid 1
- Integrated Intel Pro/1000
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "lenny")
- Collocated at Rapidswitch in Maidenhead.
Acquired: May 2005
Co-operated by myself, Ganesh,
Dave and
Art.
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Kalyke
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- IBM Thinkpad 760ED
- Pentium 133MHz
- 64 MB RAM
- 1 GB HDD
- 3com Realport 10/100 NIC/56k modem
- Prism2 based 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card
- 800x600 TFT LCD
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "sarge")
Acquired July 2003
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Elara
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- Sony Vaio Picturebook C1XD
- Pentium II 400MHz
- 64 MB RAM
- 40 GB HDD (upgraded)
- 8.9" TFT at 1024x480
- Prism2 based 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "etch")
Acquired May 2004
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Sinope
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- NeXTstation Turbo
- 33 MHz Motorola m68k processor
- 500MB SCSI disk
- Monochrome monitor
- NeXTstep 3.3
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Thebe
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- Via Epia 5000 in a Cubid 2688RV case
- 40GB disk
- 128MB ram
- Additional Sun QFE NIC
- Noname ADSL router
- Runs mail, webcache, DNS for my house, and routes and firewalls a /27 (and /64 of IPV6) via PPPOE from the ADSL router to a DMZ and internal network
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "etch")
Acquired September 2005
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