The Gist of Things

When not on a bike, you can often find me sitting in front of the computer pictured above. My job has be doing remote operations work for a substantial part of the day; running ithought and working on Gallery has me typing away; my photography is all digital; and communication for things like FM:Race are mostly online. Currently, this page is mostly just a list of hardware but eventually it might be a little more interesting.

My 1/2 Cabinet colo space downtown

Networking hardware

• jafar, a 16 port metered APC PDU at my colo. (Sept 2009)
• kaa, a 24 port Dell GigE PowerConnect 5424 at my colo. (Dec 2008)
• scuttle, a Cisco 2621 router at my house. (Dec 2008)
• shifty, a Cisco 3660 switch at my house (2007)
• pushy, a Cisco 2620 router at my house (2007)
• A Cisco ASA 5510 on loan from work at my house (Oct 2009)
• frosty, an Apple Airport Extreme router at my house (Jan 2008)
• switchy, a 16 Port Linksys layer-3 managed GigE switch FOR SALE (Jan 2008)

Timeline

gideon.ithought.org (September 2009)

Primary desktop machine. Music listening, work doing, web browsing, e-mailing, instant messaging, gpsing, photographing, etc.

• Apple Mac Mini, 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR3, Drobo DAS with several terabytes of drives, Klipsch ProMedia 4.1 Speakers, 2 24" Dell UltraSharp Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD, Apple Pro Keyboard, Logitech MX 510 Mouse
• Mac OS X 10.6, Adium, Viscosity, Things, Dropbox, Safari, Adobe Lightroom, Garmin BaseCamp

mini9 (July 2009)

Netbook for computing on the go.

• Dell Mini 9, 1.6Ghz Dual Core Atom N27, 1GB Ram, 9" LCD, 802.11g
• Ubuntu Linux, Firefox, gnome-terminal

pongo.ithought.org (December 2008)

Production web/db server.

• Dell Powerdedge 1950 1U server, 1x Intel Quad Core Xeon L5420 2.50Ghz, 16GB 667Mhz DRFB DIMMs, 2x73GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI hard drives in RAID 1, PERC 6E card attached to Dell MD1000 storage chassis with 2x1TB SAS drives in RAID-1 and 4x1TB SATA drives in RAID-5.
• Gentoo Linux, 2.6 Kernel, Apache2, PHP5, MySQL 5

baloo.ithought.org (February 2008)

Production mail/ssl/app server

• Dell Poweredge 1950 1U server, 2x Intel Quad Core Xeon E5410 2.33Ghz, 8GB 667Mhz DRFB DIMMs, 2x146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI hard drives in RAID 1, 2x Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Nics
• Gentoo Linux, 2.6 Kernel, Apache2, PHP5, MySQL 5
• phpsysinfo

thumper.ithought.org (December 2007)

Laptop for work for access on the road and debugging weird windows problems with our servers. And for playing Team Fortress 2.

• 15" Apple MacBook Pro, 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, GigE, 802.11n, DVD-RW
• Mac OS X 10.6, Windows 7.

coral.ithought.org (June 2007)

My previous desktop machine. I need to figure out what to do with this as it's still a nice computer but I don't need it.

• Dell Precision 290 Workstation, 1.86Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM, NVidia Quadro FX 3450, GigE, 2 16x DVD-RW Drives,
• Gentoo Linux 2.6, X.org, Gnome, bash, vim, XChat, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, F-Spot, Firefox

zeke.ithought.org (June 2006) - SOLD

• Apple MacBook, 2Ghz Intel Core Duo, 1GB DDR2 SDRAM,GigE, DVD-RW, 802.11a/b/g
• Mac OS X, Apple Mail, Firefox, Adium, iCal, iTerm, Vim.app, VMWare Fusion

aurora.ithought.org (December 2006)

Folding@home, TOR relay, backup mail spool for for baloo, MySQL slave to pongo

• SuperMicro 1U rackmount chasis, 2x AMD Opteron 246, 2x70GB Seagate Ultra320 15k RPM SCSI drives in Raid 1, AMD K8 Motherboard Chipsets, 4GB PC3200 ECC DDR SDRAM, 2x Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet controllers
• Gentoo Linux, 2.6 Kernel, Postfix, MySQL5, Apache2, PHP5
• phpsysinfo | MRTG

pudge.ithought.org (October 2005)

stats, logging, reporting, ssh access, MySQL slave to baloo, Gentoo Portage server,

• BoldData 1U rackmount chasis, 2x AMD Opteron 246, 2x120GB Maxtor SATA HDD in Raid 1, nVidia nForce Pro 2200/AMD-8k motherboard chipsets, 2GB PC3200 ECC DDR SDRAM, 2x Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet controllers
• Gentoo Linux, 2.6 Kernel, Postfix, Courier-IMAP, Amavis, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Apache2, MySQL4, PHP5
• phpsysinfo | MRTG

tigger.ithought.org (August 2004)

hosted at the colo for a friend

• BoldData 1U rackmount chasis, AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 2x80GB Maxtor HDD in Raid 1, nVidia nForce2 Motherboard, 512 MB PC2600 ram
• Gentoo Linux, 2.6 Kernel, Postfix, MySQL5, Apache2, PHP5
• Postfix+Courier-IMAP

mono.ithought.org (August 2004) - SOLD

Old "Monorail" computer from 1995 with a small LCD in an All-in-one form factor. This was a project computer that I never had time for so it got sold to someone that would use it.

sonic.ithought.org (May 2004) - SOLD

Hardware:

• 150MHZ Pentium I, 32MB Ram, 1GB HDD, 3x 3Com NICs
• NetBSD

nemo.ithought.org (November 2003)

Backup and development server at home.

• 2GHz AMD Athlon XP 2600+, Asus A7V8X-X motherboard, Coolermaster Mystique 631 Case, Real Power 450W Super Silent power supply, 1.5GB PC2600 DDR RAM, 2x300GB HDD in Raid 0, Sony DVD/24x CD burner, NVidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB DDR, Promise SATA300 TX4 SATA controller
• CentOS

stitch.ithought.org (October 2003)

This was my first rackmount server. It was in a colo, then moved into my garage acting as a home mail gateway, SNMP poller for my switch and router, and SSH gateway, and is now back in the Colo as a dedicated web/mail server for a friend.

• 800MHz Pentium 3, 384MB RAM, 2x 60GB Maxtor Hard Drives in a Raid-1 on an ATA/133 card,Intel 10/100 NIC
• Gentoo Linux 2.6, Postfix, Apache2, PHP5, SNMP

zion.ithought.org (March 2003) - DEAD

This is a desktop machine that was given to me by one of my residents (thanks 14!) when I was a Peer Leader at Georgia Tech. It brought me into the world of Linux in the summer of 2003 with my first installation of Gentoo. It was a desktop for a while, and then became a file/web server when I moved into "The Lair" in 2003. It had it's share of hardware problems recently, so everything was transitioned over to stitch. It then had some time as a Visual Studio test box, and while setting it up for part of the Faster Mustache 24 hour race tracking system, the motherboard died.

• 450MHz Pentium 2, 384MB RAM, 30GB HDD, Realtec 10/100 NIC
• Windows XP, Visual Studio 2003

mercury.ithought.org (March 2001) - DEAD

The computer I had and used actively for the longest, It has run OS 9, Gentoo, and all versions of OSX. It got a 330$ repair job to make the speakers work again, the display work again, and eliminate the random turning off problem. Apple took care of it and I dragged this around with me pretty much wherever I went. I had it since they came out in early 2001 and it should have lasted for years to come but a SUV ran into me when I was biking home one day and it got pretty much destroyed. Doh.

• Apple Titanium Powerbook G4 500 Mhz, 512MB RAM, 30GB Hard Drive