February 23, 2007

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Calendar

February 23, 2007 in Changes, Music | No comments

The calendar is now at the bottom, out of the way, and letter abbreviations are now full words.

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    If this isn’t the cutest shit.

Not on a related note, but while I’m here, I’m considering making some sort of weekly contest to draw readers in (and for fun, of course). Haven’t thought about it very much, suggestions are welcome.

Also, note related, The Stills latest album “Without Feathers” is purdy gewd.

My Computers

February 23, 2007 in Archive, Hardware | No comments

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A work in progress but it’s been sitting too long as a draft, so I’ll publish it and update it periodically. I’ll also add some pictures.

  • Hostname: RUSTY
    Role: Gaming / Daily Driver
    OS: XP SP2
    Case: Powmax ???
    Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI Premium
    Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 4
    CPU: Athlon 64 3700+; 1 MB cache
    RAM: Corsair TwinX – 2 GB (4 sticks)
    Video: XFX GeForce 7600 GT XXX Edition – 256 MB DDR3, PCI Express
    HDD: WD Raptor – 37 GB, SATA, 10k RPM
    Power Supply: Antec TruePower 2.0 550W
    Audio: Onboard; considering a Creative X-Fi once the prices drop
    Mouse: Logitech MX-???
    Accessories: Nostromo Speedpad n50
    Monitor: 21″ Dell (Sony Trinitron) – bought used for $40!
    Display resolution: 1600×1200 @ 85Hz (desktop and BF2/CS:S)
    Average FPS: BF2 = 80; CS:S = ???

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      Old 6600 GT cards with Zalman coolers. I miss the blue LEDs.
  • Hostname: GEEXBOX
    Role: Media Player (mainly video, can also stream Shoutcast audio/video)
    OS: GeeXboX v1.1 rc1 (custom .iso with support for Packard Bell remote + IR receiver)
    Case: Shuttle XPC
    Mobo: ???
    CPU: Athlon XP 1500+
    RAM: 512 MB DDR400 (running at 333 due to mobo)
    Video: MSI Radeon 9250 – 128 MB, AGP (Fanless GPU cooler was a must for this media PC), S-Video out
    HDD: No hard drive! GeeXboX runs in memory
    Power Supply: Shuttle proprietary (? watts)
    Audio: Creative Soundblaster Live! PCI

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  • Hostname: N/A
    Role: Retro Gaming (Windows 9x and DOS games)
    OS: W98 SE w/ Unofficial Service Pack 2.1a
    Chipset: Intel 440BX
    CPU: PII 450 MHz; ??? L1 Cache, ??? L2 Cache
    RAM: 384 MB (3 x 128 MB); PC100 ECC
    Video: 3dfx Voodoo3 3500, 16 MB (AGP)
    HDD: Maxtor – 4 GB, IDE
    Floppy: Single 5 1/4″ enclosure accepts both 3.5″ and 5 1/4″ disks, thanks to Goodwill Computer Works
    Audio: Creative Soundblaster AWE64 (ISA)
    Accessories: Labtec LCS-3010 shielded speakers
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    Monitor: 19″ MAG 986FS

  • Hostname: AUDREY
    Role: Hardware Firewall (between cable modem and LAN)
    OS: IPCop v1.4.11
    HDD: Using a 512 MB Kingston CF card for the hard drive, via a IDE-CF adapter (less noise)

  • Hostname: INSPIRON
    Role: Digital Recording Studio (my laptop, my brother’s project)
    OS: XP SP2
    Dell Inspiron 8500
    CPU: P4 @ 2 GHz
    RAM: 1 GB (2 sticks)

  • Hostname: JIM
    Role: peetwopee
    OS: W2K SP4
    Case/Mobo: Gateway Select 1200CS
    Chipset: VIA KT133/KT133A
    CPU: Athlon (0.18 core) 1.2 GHz; 128K L1 Cache; 256K L2 Cache
    RAM: 512 MB (PC100, although mobo accepts PC133)
    HDD1: Seagate – 20 GB (OS, Program Files)
    HDD2: Maxtor – 60 GB (peetwopee data)
    Power Supply: Antec SmartPower 350W

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  • Hostname: NASLITE
    Role: File Server
    OS: NASLite+ with files from the CD copied to a USB flash drive. Booting to kicker/config floppies.

    Mobo: Asus K7V (UDMA66)

    CPU:
    AMD Athlon 800 MHz
    cache size : 512 KB
    bogomips : 1595.80

    RAM: 768 MB (PC133)

    IDE Disk Drives (all 8 MB cache):
    160 GB Samsung SP1614N
    160 GB Western Digital WD1600JB-00GVA0
    250 GB Western Digital WD2500JB-00GVC0
    200 GB Western Digital WD2000JB-00EVA0
    Total of 704 Gibibytes (GiB = useable space)

    Misc:
    Video adapter: Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM T PCI (2 MB!)
    NIC: Fast EtherLink XL PCI (3C905B-TX)
    Power Supply: ENlight 300W (HPC-300-101)
    And black Asus 80-conductor IDE cables

    Performance:
    About 9.7 MB/s read, 11.1 MB/s write
    (Transferred a 775 MB .wav file to/from NASLite+ using FileZilla as a quick/dirty test through a Linksys 10/100 switch)

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