show us your iron

[wuxmedia]

HP proliant DL140 - I found 'lying around' at my mums house (thanks half-bro!)

got couple of cpu's for £14, 2Gb of mem for £5 - just need 2 heatsinks and to 'find' a couple of sata HDD's and we're cooking!
(heatsinks are temporary ones)

[bones]

New toy to play with, 1998 Power Mac PPC G3 tower, 300MHz, 384MB/RAM, no hard drive at the moment. Actually, I have two machines like this at my disposal. Possible BeOS machine (original, not Haiku), or OpenBSD, or Debian. Pictured in my man-shed, which I cleaned up and pimped-out this weekend! ;)

[GekkoP]

^ pretty cool!

[wuxmedia]

Mmmmhm orginal series G3, yummy, When the art college I went to finally got round (in our last term of our final year) to buying some new hardware, it was just 2 of these. Beforehand the work machines were Quadra 610's
We had to time shared those G3 badboys, I put 3d renders on all night.
Did they have the internal IDE's or were they still SCSI?

[bones]

^ IDE, with the option to add SCSI. Pretty sweet machines, really.

[wuxmedia]

right, I had a 4400, a few before the G3, it had IDE inside and PC style RAM!.
I got it cheap and refurbished, had SCSI problems, couldn't connect to my 1Gb HDD...
ended up taking it apart and the damn ribbon cable wasn't attached.

[rust collector]

This is my eeepc, where I spend most of my time.
It is called the BEAST, because...I forgot why.

[ivanovnegro]

^ Nice.

[rust collector]

Not really... lol since yesterday, it has been running off a sd card...

[wuxmedia]

Workload has got bigger, so has the setup:

Colleagues being on hols help too 8)

[rust collector]

Yea, I see there are many new posts on reddit.....

[wuxmedia]

busy day at work 8P
(i'd finished...)

[wuxmedia]

...and slightly more messy at home:

playing with the Pi at last... hooked up and dangling on the right... displayed on the screen (composite only)

[simgin]

Tsk tsk a pint glass with water in it, or was is empty? :)

And whats happened to the corner of your chair, was it dinner ? :p

simon

ps : I wish I had a little spot of my own, instead of our fucking dinner table :(

[wuxmedia]

yeah, water... beer is expensive mate 8)
chair is a throw out from work.
This is just our whole room dedicated to tech, and drying clothes (all those computers make it like a dryer)

[simgin]

^ Aaah its one of those super allround rooms aka The Bat Cave. You must be Bruce then :D

[Subsentient]

Here are my machines. The servers, netbook, oldest functioning laptop, and my toughbook which despite it's slowness, still gets use from me. The main machine is a Dell Optiplex 755 with a Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz and 4GB of RAM, but I don't know how to get a good pic of that, so have a crappy one instead.

The Satellite Pro is my first x86 machine. It's covered in black duct tape on the top. It can run Linux fine, I just can't get anything modern to start X, and without networking that's a pretty dull ride. I'd rather play space invaders in FreeDOS.

The Toughbook is a capable machine that uses a Wireless N micro dongle in its only USB port for networking. I use it for IRC a lot, because the keyboard is comfortable and it's mobile.

The netbook is probably my secondary machine. I use that thing a LOT. It's got so much wear from me. if I am going somewhere, I take the netbook. It's really liberating to have a full PC that fits in your jeans pocket.

The main server (the tower) was my first POWERFUL x86 machine. I kept it all these years and it's been my server in some form since 2009. I'd upgrade the RAM, but RAMBUS costs more than $12 with free shipping and I'm a broke bastard.

The secondary server is either a cash register or Barnes and Noble kiosk that arrived in my possession with a leaking, busted screen. I did surgery to remove the screen and realized I could relieve a lot of the memory load of my main server by pushing it over to this one. So, it got a new life and has been going since early 2011 as primarily my proxy, which most of my traffic goes through.

The Optiplex 755 is the replacement powerful machine to my beloved laptop before it, some cheap Compaq. I worked that Compaq so hard with massive compile jobs etc that the plastic inside turned brittle from the extended heat stress and turns to dust when I push on it with a tiny amount of force. Not exaggerating. The optiplex has been a good workhorse. So was the Compaq. RIP.

[simgin]

^ Nice, and is that your cat on the screens ? +1 fot the Toughbook, not often I come across one of those .

simon

[Subsentient]

The late Fuzzy. Yes, he was an old crotchitty cat, but damn, sweetest thing that ever lived. Was older than me when he died. I was 16.
Kinda cat that was so sweet, you forgave him for pissing all over your shoes whenever you turned your back.

[ivanovnegro]

Nice nice Wux.