]> name Vendor Model Aquisition Date Processor Memory Disk Network Operating System IP Address Comments bruce HP ? 20070402 Intel Core 2 1.86Ghz 2GB 300GB RealTek RTL8139 Slackware 11 10.10.20.14 65.75.24.121 Purchased at CompUSA to replace dying sean. wii Nintendo wii 20070504 wireless 10.10.30.14 Found a used one! and paid full price for it. tivo TiVo Series 2 20070110 TCP/IP 10baseT Linux 10.10.30.12 TiVo really revolutionizes the way one watches TV. I think the TiVo UI (that is displayed on the TV) is brilliant. The TiVo core is well thought out. Unfortunately, the Windows PC access program (TiVoToGo) sucks. It leaks like a pig, and is some wacky non-service service that can't be restarted, only rebooted. Sometimes, when installing, configuring or changing versions, it can't find the tivo, and that is the extent of the error message. Not even a "no route to host" or "10054" helpful hint. (Well, they are UDP broadcasts, so meaningful error messages are trickier.) I have resorted to using the built-in web server on the TiVo to download files to my PC. This is a bit clunky, and could be so much nicer. But at least i don't have to reboot my PC every two days. And why do i have to be at the TiVo console screen to delete files??? Why can't i delete from either TiVoToGo or the web server??? Argh. mae HP Pavillion 20060817 Pentium D 2.8Ghz 1GB 250GB RealTek RTL8139 LinkSys WMP54G Netgear WG311T Windows XP Media Edition 10.10.30.11 Purchased at Walmart for <$1000 including an ok 19" flat panel. The Linksys card sucks. It stutters. Once a minute or so it locks up for 3/4 of a second. This makes online gaming impossible. Replaced the teeny 19" 1280x1024 with a Dell 24" 1920x1200. Ahhh. Added a 23" LG 1680x1050. This is the first time i've had two monitors with different vertical resolutions. It's a little annoying. shirley TargetPC white box 20050813 P4/2.4Ghz 512MB 1GB 200GB Maxtor RealTek RTL8139 Linux (Slackware 10.1) 10.10.30.8 65.75.16.241 The server at Laurelbrook Drive. Added a 1GB stick of memory to the box which gets seen as only a 512MB stick. TargetPC was most unhelpful in trying to solve this problem. clint Compaq Presario X6000 20050527 P4/3Ghz 2GB 100GB Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN (internal) Realtek RTL8139/810x (internal) WinXP Pro 10.10.30.7 Dick's laptop
17" Widescreen 1680x1050. He's a nice WAMP machine. He's not very good with the battery; just over 1 hour, not extendable or hot swappable; about 4 hrs to recharge. Has a brick the size of Detroit. But it is a luggable full server. There is something wrong with the charging circuit. It often doesn't work. The battery will only half charge or "60%" which is a half hour. HP says that my battery is bad. I don't believe them. They sent me a new battery (under warranty yea!) and now it all works again! frank SAG Electronics 20020131 Dual Xeon/2Ghz 2GB 73GB SCSI 160 80GB SCSI 160 Intel PRO/100+ (PILA8470B) Win2K Pro 10.10.10.17 Dick's development workstation Jan 2002 - Dual head ATI Radeon on a Sony 24" 1920x1200 and ATI Rage 128 on a Princeton 21" 1600x1200. bing Yeeha Mall 20010825 P3/1Ghz 128MB 30GB IDE Linux (Slackware 7.2) 10.10.20.3 65.75.24.123 Linux desktop. Rex never worked out because he crashed every 3-4 weeks. So i replaced him with this $500 machine. Database server and backup at Chris' house. dead. thomas Yeeha Mall 20010825 P3/1Ghz 128MB 40GB IDE Netgear 108Mbps 802.11g (WG311T) Win98 10.10.30.6 Carl's machine. hugh Compaq Presario 20010503 P3/850Mhz 128MB 40GB IDE Win2k Pro 10.10.30.4 Marlene's machine. Although Spenser was still running reliably, she complained that it took 10 minutes to load QuickBooks barney Dell 20010315 P3/1Ghz 128MB 40GB IDE Netgear 108Mbps 802.11g (WG311T) WinME 10.10.30.5 Audrey's Machine. The three year old has the fastest computer in the house. sean SAG Electronics 20000818 Dual P3/933Mhz 512MB 73GB SCSI 160 40GB IDE 40GB IDE 60GB IDE Linux (Slackware 10.1) 10.10.20.2 65.75.24.122 --> Dick's Win2k Workstation; August 2000 - Jan 2002. Sean suffered a massive failure on the SCSI disk. Since i had to recreate my system, i thought i would do it on a new machine (frank). sean becomes the web server. Chris noticed in the logs that a Maxtor disk was failing. So a 60GB disk ($40! at Staples) was dropped in and the machine reformatted as SuSE. Chris noticed sean was hacked! grrrr. i reformatted the machine again as Slackware because i find it much easier to maintain from a shell prompt. Dead to me. sean still wheezes, but why bother... orson Dell Insprion 6500? 20000119 P3/550Mhz 256MB 18GB Xircom 10/100/56Kb Netgear 108Mbps 802.11g (WG511T) Win2k Pro 10.10.30.3 10.10.10.11 --> Bigum Laptop. 1280x1024 15.4" screen. Very nice, it's the most stable NT box i have. I wish i could figure out how to make it not suspend when i close the lid though; that is a very annoying habit. It's not enough to have a suspend key on the keyboard, a suspend Start menu option, and a suspend button in the mini-task tray. No, we still have to always auto-suspend. For extra fun, start a shutdown and then close the lid; it really confuses the poor devil. Oh, Dell's expert technical advise was to clip off the lid switch with a pair of fingernail clippers. Pictures of orson. The reason i don't look happy with my new expensive toy is because Dell wouldn't sell me the machine with a DVD player when i told them i was installing NT. "But M$ wants me to run NT and they want to ship me software on DVD. I don't care if it plays movies. Fine, put Win98 on it." (being a pawn of Bill, no operating system was not an option). I thought i would check out a "factory installation" and in the picture i am considering sending the piece o' crap back. Installing NT changed my mind. Orson spends most of his time in the closet. Since i can't close the lid, i leave him in there and use pcAnywhere to drive him. Installed Win2k. This was like a near orgasmic experience. Everything went *so* smoothly, and the installation figured out the optimum settings for *everything*. I liked Win2K on my desktop, but Win2K on a laptop absolutely rocks! I can close the lid! I can plug in strange devices (Sandisk Compact Flash Card Reader, Nikon Coolpix 995) and they just start working. And the coolest thing is i can suspend it at home, plug it into an alien network, resume it, and it re-DHCPs itself. No more bitch slapping the TCP/IP stack.
New battery. semi-retired by purchase of clint. Marlene occasionally uses orson wirelessly in the kitchen. hp4000 HP 4000 19981230 Internal 10.10.10.10 Really fast laser printer (well, faster than a HP550C deskjet :) katie London Computers 19981116 P2/450Mhz 64 MB 120Mhz SDRAM 8GB WS IDE 3C905BX Win98 Linux (SuSE 8.2) 10.10.20.1 65.75.24.121 192.168.1.121 --> Marlene's computer. this computer is still on the bench. It's been sent back once already. I am up to not being able to get the network to work. And just inserting certain CDs crashes the machine. Do i want to deploy and support this puppy? At what cost? The peasants are in arms about this machine and demand something that doesn't crash so much (Quickbooks; journaling; ummm.) Away with you, filthy machine. After a year of on-and-off piddling, i got a floppy to boot Win98. It runs well enough to be my 6 year old son's game machine (not on the network). So after 2 and a half years, this machine has a useful life. I felt too guilty having my son struggle with this machine, so he got thomas and now katie's primary duties are to hold drinks at the game table. Installed SuSE 8.2 and turned this machine into a solid rocker. Katie has now replaced hole as the network firewall. katie protects the buckosoft 10.10.20 network at Waterbury at my friend's 2MB/s 9 static IP DSL house. rex SAG Electronics 19980612 Dual P2/400Mhz 256MB 120Mhz SDRAM 9GB Ultra Wide 10K RPM 6.1GB WD IDE (2) 40GB Maxtor IDE 3C905BX Linux (Slackware 7.1) WinNT 4 204.249.240.108 Dick's NT Workstation Linux KDE (Kickass Desktop Environment) Another Western Digital hard disk failure. Dumpster spenser AMS Tech 19970925 P/233 48MB EDO 3.1GB Megahertz XJ10BT
Slow Windows 95 204.249.240.107 Laptop. At the time i bought this machine, AMS had the only 233Mhz laptop. The only problem is that nobody has aftermarket parts for this machine, like batteries, and AMS Tech charges top dollar for the aftermarket stuff. My next laptop will be one of the big brand names. Marlene's main machine. Slow, clunky, and runs Quicken and Quickbooks well. retired due to purchase of hugh duke Comtrade PC 19970209 Dual PPro/200Mhz 128MB EDO 3.0GB SCSI 2.4GB WD 6.1GB WD 8GB Seagate 3C905-TX 10/100T Linux WinNT 4 204.249.240.106 Dick's Primary development machine from 2/97 to 6/98 Now he is one kickass Linux box. Duties include: primary Web server; mail server for xpilot.org; MySQL server. The 2.4GB Western Digital disk died a noisy death. Fortunately, this disk was just swap space and scratch area. Dropped in an 8GB. Ya know, the case on duke is still one of the best i've used. A nice 3 piece panel case instead of that stupid one piece "U" shape molded steel thing that needs 3 hands to attach. dumpster cary Tiger Direct 19970101 Cyrix C6/120 (no fan!) 64MB EDO 1.2GB WD IDE 3.1GB WD IDE Junk NE2000 compatible (works good) Linux 2.0.33 204.249.240.105 Mailling list server. Backup Web server. I bought this machine with 64MB RAM and wanted to drop in 64MB that i had laying around. Unfortunately the motherboard doesn't support 4 32MB modules! It supports 4 of 8, 4 of 16, 2 of 32, or 2 of 64. I complained to Tiger, since i specifically mentioned i wanted to this, but they claimed the machine wasn't broken and refused to do anything. Then i complained to the Florida Attorney General. I guess a lot of other people complained too, because they've changed their name to PC Connection or some such. cary is on loan to a friend who's sparc died. Although basically a private server, he can be seen at www.objex.com. this machine is still running strong at www.objex.com. kate Ohio? 19960820 AMD K6/233Mhz 32MB EDO 1.6GB WD IDE 3C590 Windows 95 204.249.240.104 Marlene's machine. carash CA? 19960426 P166 32 MB EDO 3.1GB WD IDE 3C509 Windows 95 204.249.240.103 Dick's Primary development machine from Jun '96 to Feb '97. Now he is used to burn CDs. (No drivers for Philips CDD2600 for NT) Dumpster sarah Jade Electronics? 19930910 AMD K5/120 24MB EDO RAM 160MB WD IDE 1.2GB Quantum IDE 3C509? Linux 2.0.13 204.249.240.101 Comments Mail and name server. sarah started life as a late blooming 386 which you can read about here sarah has also spent a year routing our PPP traffic to the Internet. bucko JBC Systems 19930112 i486/33Mhz 8MB EDO RAM 340MB WD IDE 1.2GB Quantum IDE 3C509? coax Win 3.11 204.249.240.102 Test machine. Bucko was dick's main machine from Jan '93 - Jun '95. Bucko came to live with us in London. (I can't pay bills without a computer) Now, he is the only computer to spend the bulk of his time turned off. hole Livingston/Lucent Portmaster PM3 19970215 none 10baseT ComOS 204.249.240.97 Internet Router. Hole, as in hole in the wall. Hole connects the BuckoSoft office to the Internet via a 64Kb Frame Relay Line.