Picture of my computer

[xns]

I wish I could post pics of my comp, but its an embarassing sight. Total sleeper as we would put it...

[elbles]

Don't have any great computers on this desk, but it gets the job done. Lots of UNIX development stuff, lots of high-bandwidth, high disk IO applications. Speedy 10/100 completely switched network, with 802.11b and 802.11g wireless too. My personal computer is now an Apple PowerBook G4 (1.5 GHz, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, 80 gig HD, SuperDrive) running Mac OS X 10.3.4 (BSD underlying system is great), XCode, GCC, etc.

Primary server (the one serving the images) is a IBM Dual Pentium Pro 200 MHz processor unit, 256 megs of RAM, 40 gig hard drive (to be expanded to a few 120 GB hard drives in a RAID array, eventually). Might not be the fastest machine on the block, but plenty fast enough. Heavily customized install of Red Hat 7.3, updated Glibc, updated kernel (no 2.6 yet), gcc, Samba 3.0.4, Apache w/ SSL support, BIND, etc.

Secondary server (SQL database server) is the Sun SPARCstation 5. Nothing great, just very reliable, which is what I needed. I switch between Linux and Solaris on a regular basis. :-)

SGI Indigo2: 150 MHz MIPS R4400 processor (I think), 96 MB RAM, not sure what hard drive size, etc . . . IRIX 6.5.18? It works for web site development/testing/et cetra

Asante IntraSwitch 6224: 24 port 10/100 managed switch. When the little brother pisses me off, I turn his port off from a web browser. :-) Also have a 8 port Netgear 10/100 switch for smaller items. Linksys BEFSR11 router (I want a dedicated computer to serve as an OpenBSD or FreeBSD router, but I haven't gotten it yet, it's on the very long TODO list), Linksys WAP54G access point. All taken care of by 3 uninterruptible power supplies right now. HP LaserJet 5000N printer (fast, networked, and has PostScript, great UNIX printer). Also have a Gateway G6-450 Windows 2000 SP4 machine on the network, IBM ThinkPad 390, Compaq Armada 7400 (both running Windows 2000 SP4). Dell Inspiron of some sort running XP Pro is also around from time to time. Plus an old Mac SE/30, the original IBM PC as pictured by 240SXedup above (neither being used, just sitting around, waiting to be tossed or eBayed, heh). Lots of fun toys for my computer/car geek self. :-) Pics below . . .

[elbles]

Oh, and Charter Communications Cable Internet service . . . ~3 megabits/second downstream, 256 kilobits/second upstream . . . divide by 8 for appropriate megabyte/kilobyte / second ratings. Way too many blocked incoming ports though . . . :-)

[hybrid_flyer]

LMAO It seems a bunch of us have the superalien tower cases. I have the same case as you, probably not the same internals though.

SK8n motherboardAMD FX 53 (the new 64 bit chip)1g ram2x 72gig 10k hard drives set in Raid 0Radeon 9800Audigy 2 sound blasterPioneer RW-DVD

and yes it downloads p0rn at the speed of light thanks to the DSl Connection

[Oatmealman]

i'm running AMD 64 fx-53(1600mhz fsb)Chaintech mbsamsung 52x52x48x52 cd rom/burner/dvd player19" flatpanel model2 gig crucial ramRadeon 98002x120gb western digital hd's

[240SXer]

I got Adelphia cable for a day, there were soooo many ports restricted. I didnt know at first, I set up my webserver on it, only a few things worked. I was troubleshooting it for about 10 minutes when I realized that port 80 would just not work. I thought about redirecting the web services to an open port, but that's lame. Blocked ports are lame. I just stick with my DSL. 100% open and free.

[elbles]

Blocked ports always vary; DSL has no blocked ports around here, but the bandwidth is awful (only 128 kbps upstream, which would sort of defeat the purpose of not having any blocked ports for me). Charter blocks pretty much everything (I have a web server running on 8800 and 8801), but for a few months late last year, they weren't blocking anything. Running my own mail server was great, other than for the fact that since I was on a dynamic IP block (though my address almost never changes), AOL and many other ISPs would block e-mail sent through my mail server, until I configured it to relay through my ISP's mail server. Then they shut my fun off. :-( Oh well . . . I'll have decent access down at school. :-)

[Chingon]

got roadrunner and have not had problems w/ ports. Earthlink sucked btw.

[s13EastTN]

Here's mine:

Intel p4 2.6 Oc'd to 2.91 gig of DDR Ram1 40gig hd1 80gig hd3 120gig hd's1 dvd R/RW+-19" flatscreen monitornice fancy case w/ the counter strike window on the sideGeforce FX5200 128 meg DDR

but here is my friends computers (he has 4 of these)

dual 3.06 processorsbrand new FX5950's in all of em4 250gig HD's2 gig of ram each2 DVD burners in each

I wish I was completely freakin rich...

[elbles]

Wish I had Road Runner then. ;-)

[Kaioshin1982]

Um doesnt earthlink use Road Runner cable... or something like that? I know that if you have any billing question or u need to setup an appointment, you have to call roadrunner.

[Chingon]

No, both companies are under the same big company (time warner), and yes if you have problems w/earthlink, you have to call roadrunner (it being the biggest of the two). However, they use completely different servers and bandwidth..

[Kaioshin1982]

ahh i see.... I had both road runner and earth link and from what I felt, the earthlink had better speed.

[Kaioshin1982]

Oh and how did it the earthlink sucked for you? Becoz Im thinking of reconnecting my cable, either RR or Earthlink and just want some input.

[Chingon]

oddly enough earthlink was slower (verified using cable modem speed testers) and the connection kept falling for days some times. I then switched back to roadrunner, requested the sb5100 modem and have not had any problems. They also updated their bandwidth to 3-3.5 mb/s on download and something like 300-500 upload about 6 months ago.