| Greg's computer systems in October 2000 |
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The photo shows me in my office in Echunga in front of five computers and an X terminal. It was taken in October 2000 in the new office in the house extension we built in 1999. Previously I had most of this hardware in a tiny little office in the existing part of the house. Since these photos were taken, I have changed the hardware configuration significantly; this is what it was like in February 2002.
There are a number of machines in this picture:
echunga.lemis.com, barely visible under the desk at the extreme bottom left of the picture above. It is an AMD K6-2/333 based machine with 160 MB memory running FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The motherboard is a RISE Mustang-AGP R581A, which uses the SiS 5591/5595 chipset.
On the other side of the desk, just behind my hands, is wantadilla.lemis.com, a 750 MHz AMD Athlon with 256 MB memory, running FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The motherboard is an Epox 7KXA.
Underneath the left-hand monitor is flame.lemis.com, a SPARCStation 5 running OpenBSD 2.5.
Underneath the centre monitor is iskra.lemis.com, a SPARCStation 2 which sometimes runs SunOS 4.1.3_U2 or Solaris 2.2, but which is mostly just a prop for the monitor.
x-rated.lemis.com, a Labtam X terminal, under the right-hand monitor. The box is the same size as the SPARCStations, so it props up the monitor.
To the right is sydney.lemis.com, a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with a 1400x1050 display, the only reason why I bought it. It runs the FreeBSD SMPng development kernel which I helped develop.
Behind the right-hand monitor, almost completely obscured is a shoebox with the Quantum DLT drive, the AIWA DDS-2 drive and the Exabyte 8500XL.
Further right again, behind my head, you can see a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 6MP printer (with PostScript), which is connected to echunga.
The left hand monitor is a 21" iiyama VisionMaster, which I can heartily recommend. It is connected to are both connected to two machines: a BNC connection to flame and a D-Sub connection to echunga. The other two monitors are Hitachi SuperScan 813s, with which I'm quite happy. They're connected to wantadilla
The X setup is interesting. I have finally stopped using my ancient version of the XI Graphics X server, and instead am running three copies of Xfree86 4.0.1 over the three monitors and the laptop. I use x2x to connect them together.
The keyboard is a Northgate OmniKey/Plus. It was the best keyboard I ever had, but after 8 years of constant pounding it wore out. I briefly replaced it with an Avant Stellar, but it's not quite the same, and it had some issues with the CapsLock key turning on by itself which made it very difficult to use with x2x, so I had to go back to the OmniKey. If you know where I can get a new OmniKey/Plus, please contact me.
panic.lemis.com and daemon.lemis.com, a single machine I use for developing and testing Vinum:
It's a 133 MHz original Pentium with 64 MB of memory (far too much, it takes too long to dump) and lots of disks. panic runs FreeBSD 4.0, and daemon runs FreeBSD 3.3. I choose the system by booting from a different partition (/dev/da0a for panic, /dev/da0b for daemon). The keyboard is propped up on top of the drawer of four old, slow SCSI disks which I use to test vinum, and there are also a few others loose between the drawer and the machine.
If you've seen my previous office, you'll miss raptor.lemis.com, an SGI IRIS 4D/25 running IRIX 5.3, but with covers which claim it's a Control Data Cyber 910. I have moved it to the Mike Smith Memorial Room, which is still in the process of being set up.
To the left of my head you can see two external modems on top of a UPS. The UPS supplies echunga.lemis.com and iskra.lemis.com.
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