Computers

We have too many computers – looked at one way; in other ways, we don't have enough.

See also: MAC addresses

In Service

This is a brief record of the specs of the various machines we use.

Beaker

• OS: Windows 98
• sysbd: Shuttle AK11 v3.2
• RAM: 768 MB (1.5 GB max) - 3 x 168-Pin PC100/PC133 SDRAM
• CPU: AMD Duron 1 GHz

Harena's Windows-addiction machine, now used only for Eudora and games

Bunsen 3

Former Gonzo 1.1

• RAM: 2 GB
• CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor - 1.2 GHz
• Sysbd: Ecs A740GM-M specs

possible solution for the "unreliable thermal sensor" issue here

Floyd

Harena's laptop

2 (FloydPepper)

• Hardware: Thinkpad R32
• CPU: "Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz" at 1.2 GHz
  • bogomips: 2399.92
• HD:
  • sector access velocity: 2,304,443 / burst: 38,650,085 / sustained: 60,408,977
  • SpinRite says HD is misconfigured in BIOS, but BIOS actually has no HD config feature that I can find...
• RAM: 1.25 GB --
  • 2 GB DDR SODIMM 266 MHz 200-pin
  • 256 MB PC2100S-25300 266 MHz DDR
  • 2012-01-31: ordering this, which has the right number of pins
    • success -- making a note here...
    • Newegg order #101016069
  • 2012-01-24: ordered this, which seems a more likely match
    • Newegg order #117223556
    • oops -- that was desktop memory...
  • 2012-01-08: ordered this -- but socket does not fit
    • Newegg order #149425238

1

• Hardware: Thinkpad A30-2652-DU1
• RAM: 514992 kB (PC133 SDRAM, max 1GB)
• CPU: "Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz" at 730 MHz
  • bogomips: 1465.47
• HD:
  • sector access velocity: 1,837,214; 1,846,122
  • burst xfer rate: 48,953,918; 48,753,275
  • sustained xfer rate: 41,764,732; 40,364,575
• OS: Kubuntu 7.10 8.04 9.something
• Links: Lenovo manual

Gonzo

Gonzo the Great

3

Purchased sysbd, CPU, RAM on 2011-08-13

• OS: Ubuntu 11.10 Linux Mint 5 currently trying to get to Xubuntu 11.10
• CPU: Intel Core i3 - dual core - 3.1 GHz Socket 1155
  • but system will see it as quad-core due to hyperthreading
• Sysbd: Intel DH61BEB3
  • this diagram has the audio inputs wrong:
    • M (pink) is mic in
    • L (green) is out
    • K (blue) is presumably line in, though I have not tested this
• RAM: 4GB (2x2)
• HD: 640 GB main drive 500 GB main drive, 2TB external backup

2

Died an untimely death -- kept rebooting. Seemed unfixable.

• OS: Kubuntu 8.04 9.04 9.10 Ubuntu 11.04
• sysbd: Biostar P4M900-M7FE v7.0 Socket 775 (invoice)
  • Supposedly uses a RealTek ALC662 for sound, but lspci detects "VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)"
• CPU: dual-core Intel Pentium D "3.20GHz" but actually running at 2.1 GHz - ??
• RAM: 3,050,268 kb
• HD: 2 x 500 GB 640 GB main drive, 2TB external backup

GuySmiley

This was a computer we found in someone's front yard on trash day, presumably sitting out for the bulky item pick up (you put bulky items out on trash day and they pick them up the day after). It had been rained on a little so I wasn't expecting anything much, but when I fired it up it seemed to be a perfectly good WinXP system... with a lot of spyware, which I killed using ClamAV, and Symantec malware, which I killed using RegEdit.

• Model: Dell OptiPlex GX300 - service tag GPYL201 - express service code 36398261089 - specs
• CPU: Pentium III, 927 MHz
• Memory: 512 MB (1 GB max, but memory type is not clear -- RDRAM, RIMM)
  • this may be what is needed
• Video: nVidia GeForce 256 6200
  • The 256 card developed some kind of minor electrical glitch which caused horizontal banding, so we replaced it

2009-12-29 Refuses to acknowledge USB keyboard or mouse running through KVM switch. Maybe it's a switch-compatibility issue, or maybe it's just too old to handle USB devices through the BIOS.

Rizzo

Rizzo in his nest

Location: breakfast nook: <listing> <description>

Waldorf was originally Rizzo, and lived in the basement. Pretty sure Waldorf is now running the final version of Crunchbang and doesn't do much except store email archives.

History

• 2016-11-07 Documented the fact that Rizzo was renamed to Waldorf (not sure exactly when it happened).

Rizzo

Rizzo's nest

More colorful detail shot of Rizzo

Rizzo's lair in the basement

• SysBd: MSI MS-7255
• OS: Xubuntu 7.10 9.10 10.04 LTS
• CPU: Celeron 1.6 GHz (64-bit? not sure; using 32-bit Xubuntu)
• RAM: 2 GB (max)
• HD: 2.90 TB (5 drives) as of 2010-05-24

This is the basement-rat server; runs Apache and MySQL for web site hosting/development, runs postfix/dovecot to handle our email; stores backups. He serves *.hypertwins.*, vbz.net, HTYP, and a few other experimental domains.

Scooter

Woozle's Sony Vaio laptop

• OS: Kubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10
  • ran Kubuntu ok up through v8.04, but 8.10 was very sluggish so had to downgrade to Ubuntu
• CPU: ~600 Mhz
• RAM: 256 MB (max)

Strangepork

HP laptop from JERS

• OS: dual-boot Win7-64bit (Home Prem OA - came with) and Linux Mint
• model: HP G60-530US
• serial #: 2CE934FN7H
• part #: VM084UA#ABA
• Product Key: HYRC6-BKMFT-R9KDT-B4J23-6CVJB
• This fix worked.

Off-Site Family Computers

Anna Nikola

• OS: WinXP, I think
• Model: HP Pavilion 511n
• CPU: Intel Celeron 1300 MHz
• RAM: 256 MB
• HD:

Not sure if she's using this anymore; she got a Mac sometime over the summer of 2009.

Brainwiped

Vincent 1.2

• OS: Win98
• Sysbd: Asus A7N266-VM (1 GB RAM max)
• CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+, 1529.384 MHz
• RAM: 743172 kB 992 MB
• History:
  • 2009-02-20 Replaced power supply; traded 256 MB memory module for another 512 MB from NewEgg
  • 2009-02-22 Updated BIOS from v1004/AA to v1008 beta; re-ran Windows setup to get it working again
  • 2009-?? I *think* this stopped being happy with Windows, so I gave it to Harena to become #Bunsen. This would have happened shortly after we found #GuySmiley.

Woozle's Windows-addiction machine; used for CoolEdit Pro, PaintShop Pro

Retired

Animal

• RAM: 0.5 GB (509400 kB)
• CPU: Pentium III 731.594 MHz, ~384 MB RAM, ~40 GB HD
• OS: Ubuntu 6.10 Kubuntu 9.04

This is officially Zander's Josh's machine (Zander now has Bert)

Bert 1

• Old Rizzo-Vincent1.1, with refurb HD and Ubuntu 8.10 9.04
• Zander's machine
• CPU: Intel P4 1.5 GHz
• RAM: ¹/2 GB as of 2012-03-20
  • uses 133 MHz SDRAM DIMM
  • max 1.5 GB
• HD: 152 GB

Bunsen 1.1

• Sysbd: Soyo K7VME
• OS: Fedora Core 6 Kubuntu 8.04
• RAM: 1/2 GB (483064 kB)
• CPU: 1.6 GHz AMD Sempron(tm) 2400+ (1664.574 MHz)

Developed problems in 1/2 of RAM, and wouldn't boot Kubuntu 9.10 liveCD even after RAM was fixed; set up new Bunsen on former-Gonzo, then installed Bunsen's original main HD and copied user files over.

Cookie

Renamed to Animal, presumably when I wiped it and installed Kubuntu 9.04

Ernie

Benjamin's desktop

• Was: Gonzo 1
• Sysbd: ASUS A7N266-VM
• CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+, 1529.384 MHz
• RAM: 1026456 kB (1 GB max)

Gonzo I

• OS: Kubuntu 7.10
• Sysbd: ASUS A7N266-VM (1 GB RAM max)
• CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+, 1529.384 MHz
• RAM: 743172 kB

Was woozle's main desktop; replaced by Gonzo 2. Hardware became Bunsen 2.

Josh's machine

Not on the network; very outdated Pentium-something running Windows 98.

Melorr

• OS: Windows XP (not by our choice...)

Mel's laptop -- currently out on a mission

Mokey

• Windows 98

Currently in retirement; needs new power supply. Slated to become Benjamin's PC (though at this rate it will be obsolete before we find a place to set it up).

Vincent 1.1

• CPU: "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz" at 1495.302 MHz
• Specs: Compaq Presario 5320US (HP Amazon)
• RAM: 512kb
• HD: 55.8 GB primary, also a ~20 GB secondary ("Nymineteen")
• OS: Windows 98

Sysboard became "Bert" (Z&B's machine) after refurb HD was added; the 55 & 20 GB drives were moved to Vincent 1.2

Deceased

Vincent 1.0

• Sysbd: Biostar U8668 (2 GB RAM max)
• CPU: Intel x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4, whatever that is
• RAM: 1022 MB RAM (1 GB)

Sysbd died suddenly; see Log below.

Log

• 2011-10-?? Current Gonzo died; got new sysbd, CPU, RAM.
• 2010? Turned Bunsen into Ernie. Gave Harena current Gonzo. New hardware for Woozle. (At least, I think that's what happened.)
• 2009-11-04 Set up new 500 GB HD on former Gonzo 1.1 (which wasn't really being used) with Kubuntu 9.10; became new Bunsen. Old Bunsen not in use. Moved Bunsen 1.1's main HD over to copy files from.
• 2009-02-03 Moved Vincent's HDs over to Gonzo I; video and most system drivers seem to work.
• 2009-01-19 Gonzo I got replaced by Gonzo II over the summer
• 2008-01-02 Vincent got fried by a dying power supply; it turns out Rizzo's only problem was an electrically-problematic HD, so old Rizzo is now taking Vincent's place. All it took was finding Win98 drivers for the video and onboard ethernet.