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NEW AND IMPROVED COMPUTERS PAGE (http://mindstab.net/wordpress/computers)
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| Nika |
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| Description: | Laptop |
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| OS: | Missing image
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Gentoo Linux |
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| CPU: | Celeron-M 1500 MHz |
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| Harddrive: | 40 GB |
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| RAM: | 768 MB |
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| Video: | i915 |
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| WiFi: | Atheros |
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| Model: | Toshiba Satellite M40x |
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| Inferno |
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| Description: | Desktop |
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| OS: | Missing image
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Gentoo Linux |
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| CPU: | Athlon 1800+ (1500 MHz) |
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| Harddrive: | 425 GB (LVM2) |
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| RAM: | 1 GB |
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| Video: | Geforce 5900 128MB |
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| Sound: | Sound Blast Live! 5.1 |
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| Kvasir |
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| Description: | Server (mindstab.net) |
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| OS: | Missing image
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Gentoo Linux |
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| CPU: | Pentium-4 2.8 GHz |
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| Harddrive: | 120 GB (RAID 1) |
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| RAM: | 512 MB |
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| Model: | SuperMicro 1U RackMount |
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| Janus |
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| Description: | Firewall |
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| OS: | Missing image
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OpenBSB |
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| CPU: | Pentium 166 MHz |
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| Harddrive: | 8.5 GB |
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| RAM: | 128 MB |
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| Bast |
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| Description: | PPC arch TestBox |
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| OS: | Missing image
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Gentoo Linux |
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| CPU: | PPC G3 350MHz |
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| Harddrive: | 20 GB |
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| RAM: | 256 MB |
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| Video: | ATi IRage 128 GL |
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| Crash |
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| Description: | Spare 1 |
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| OS: | Missing image
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Gentoo Linux |
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| CPU: | Pentium-3 450 MHz |
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| Harddrive: | 15 GB |
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| RAM: | 384 MB |
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| Video: | TNT2 |
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| Snow |
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| Description: | Spare 2 |
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| OS: | Missing image
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Gentoo Linux |
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| CPU: | Pentium-3 600 MHz |
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| Harddrive: | 15 GB |
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| RAM: | 256 MB |
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| Video: | ATi Rage 128 |
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| Frost |
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| Description: | Spare Firewall |
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| OS: | Missing image
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OpenBSD |
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| CPU: | Pentium 133 MHz |
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| Harddrive: | 4 GB |
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| RAM: | 128 MB |
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Retired / Past
| Maxine |
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| Description: | Laptop |
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| OS: | Missing image
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OpenBSD |
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| CPU: | Pentium 150 MHz |
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| Harddrive: | 4 GB |
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| RAM: | 80 MB |
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| Model: | HP Omnibook |
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| Holly |
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| Description: | Server / Firewall |
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| OS: | Missing image
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FreeBSD |
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| CPU: | Cyrix 486 133 MHz |
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| Harddrive: | 2 GB ? |
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| RAM: | 128 MB ? |
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History
First there was a black and yellow 286 with DOS. Then a CGA or EGA 286. I remember a computer that had to be upgraded from 2 megs of ram to 8 for a birthday so I could play Warcraft. I remember dos, windows 3.1, then windows 95.
In 1999 my family bought Crash which was the new family computer. They kept the windows 95 box around too for a while but it was old and rickety. By the summer of 2001 it was dead but I was also given a friend's dead computer and between the two of them I made Holly, the first computer that was ever wholly mine, and my first Linux/BSD box. It soon became the first host of mindstab.net. In the spring of 2002 a friend gave me Frost made from spare parts from his computer class at his school where he was an admin. It became my first real Linux desktop. In the summer of 2002 I bought Inferno for my main desktop computer which it still is. Frost was then retired to the position of mindstab.net server which lasted from fall 2002 - winter 2004. Holly then became a testbed of sorts. In the fall of 2002 I bought Maxine, a laptop, for school. In January 2004 I bought Janus from a friend at a networking company to be used as an OS testbed. Holly was harvested for spare parts and what was left was retired. In the summer of 2004 I bought my rackmount server Kvasir. During the winter of 2004 Frost turned into a firewall and in the spring Kvasir took over the job of mindstab.net host. In the spring of 2005 Janus was turned into my primary firewall and Frost was left as a backup for my family when I moved out. The rational for this was that qemu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) and other emulation software was advanced enough I could move all my OS playing onto Inferno. In the late spring of 2005 Crash was given to me by my family when they upgraded to Snow, a slightly superior windows XP box that was given to them. On July 30, 2005, I bought a new laptop, Nika, and retired the failing Maxine. In December 2005 my family finally bought a new computer so I then inherited Snow. On November 14, 2006, I bought a Mac G3 second hand to be my alternate arch test box (big endian!).
