Computer Wise


  Current Situation is:
  1. Linux Box (giles)

    • Pentium 133
    • 64MBytes
    • 2.5gig HDD
    • Global IPv4 and IPv6 static addresses
    • 33.6 Fax/Modem
    • Some WSS Compatible 16bit Sound Card
    • Edimax PCI NE2000 Compat. NIC
    • ISA NE2000 Compat. NIC
    • 8x CD-Rom Drive
    • 2MB Alliance Video Card (AT3D or something like that, cheapest PCI card I could get at the time)
    • 14in Monitor (Digital Control, NI upto 1024x768)
    • Running
      • Debian GNU/Linux Unstable
      • INN NNTP Server
      • MySQL Database server
      • Apache Web Server with PHP
      • Exim SMTP Server (with ClamAV Antivirus)
      • Samba SMB/CIF Server
      • Hylafax Fax Send/Receive Software
      • Bind Named
      • Jabber IM server
      • Centericq (Jabber and ICQ)
      • etc..


  2. Linux Box (xander)

    • Intel Celeron 2.66Ghz (motherboard/ram/cpu recently upgraded because old computer blew up :-( )
    • 512MBytes RAM
    • 6.4GBytes, 40GByte, 80GByte, 160GByte, 200GByte, and 200GByte (Yes two 200GB drives) HDDs
    • Global IPv6 static address
    • 3Com 3C95X PCI Network Card
    • 32x CDROM Drive
    • Hewlett Packard Deskjet 840C (USB)
    • Onboard sound/video
    • Pinnacle DC10+ MJPEG Video In/Out Card
    • DSE USB Speakers
    • USB2.0 Card for printer, USB speakers and the 2 larger HDDs
    • No monitor (I use dru's if I really have to, I usually just ssh in)
    • Running
      • Debian GNU/Linux Unstable
      • Samba SMB Server
      • Bind9 Named
      • Squid WWW Caching Proxy
      • Apache Web Server with PHP
      • MJPEGTools for video capture and
      • Transcode and avidemux for video compression (with XVID video compression)
  3. Windows XP Machine dual Boot with Debian Linux Unstable (dru)

    • Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz
    • 512MB RAM
    • 40GByte HDD
    • Global IPv6 static address when in Linux
    • Onboard sound and 10/100 network
    • Sony DVD+/-RW
    • Sony 32/10/40 CDRW
    • Onboard Graphics
    • SigmaDesigns Hollywood+ MPEG2 Decoder Card.
    • DSE SAA7134 TV Tuner Card (works fine in Linux (except for the sound which doesn't tune very well), but not in Windows)
    • 19in Monitor
    • Running Windows XP and as little other Microsoft software as possible unless it was freeware. (ie no MS-Office or Works) Dual booting to Debian Linux Unstable
  4. G4 12" iBook (dawn)

    • 800Mhz 12" G4
    • Standard except for the 802.11g card and TV-Out extra
    • Dual boots MacOS X Panther and Debian Linux
  5. Mini-ITX 600Mhz Gentoo Linux(anya)

    • 600Mhz VIA Eden
    • 128M RAM
    • 6.4GByte HDD
    • Clone X100P FXO interface
    • Running
      • Gentoo Linux (although I'm thinking of changing to Debian)
      • Asterisk the Open Source PBX

They are of course networked. The printer on Xander is shared to other computers. Only giles has a real Internet IP address (on a 128/128 Cable connection from TelstraClear) but the other machines can access the web, mail, news etc via the servers on the Linux Boxes and NAT. We use Mozilla for Web stuff and Pegasus Mail for mail (although I use pine on giles). Web traffic all goes through Squid which logs, when, how long it took, how much data it was, which machine it came from.

I've also had a go at IPv6. I have a /64 tunnel from he.net. This means that when Dru is booted into Linux all of the computers have a globally routable address. Otherwise just giles and xander (with IPv6, just Giles with IPv4). Giles is running an IPv6 capable MTA so my domain is IPv6 capable for email (usually).


This page last updated Fri Jul 22 18:59:34 2005