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I really do have a problem with computer hardware. I'm a collector of funky stuff, and random things that run Linux. Next thing on the list is a Squeezebox, fo sho'. Its still very much work in progress. I know, its pretty sad to have a list of my own wares, but hey, blame Lc.

	Dunebuggy (3) Apple Powerbook G4 12" Rev C I love my laptop. Its fast, got a nice keyboard, small, light, and has a long battery life. The only thing that could really be better is the quality of the screen, but hey, apart from that its totally perfect. I'm growing to really like MacOS X as well. Motorola PowerPC 7450 @ 1.33GHz w/512KB L2 Cache 167MHz System Bus 768MB PC2700 (333MHz) DDR SDRAM 60GB Toshiba MK6025GAS 4200rpm 8x24x16x24 Matshita CW-8123 DVD/CDRW Combo Slot Drive 12.1" XGA TFT nVidia GeForce FX5200 Go 64MB Graphics Built-in Airport Extreme (802.11g), Bluetooth, 10/100, 56k 6 pin Firewire 400, USB2, SVGA, DVI-D, Audio Line-In! MacOS X 10.3
	Peaches The Quiet Fileserver at home. It was once a PIII 600MHz EB, and then it was an Abit BP6 with 2x500MHz Celerons, and now it is this badboy: Abit KV8 Pro Motherboard AMD Sempron 2600+ (1.63GHz), 128KB L1, 128KB L2 Thermalright SI-120 Heatsink 1GB Samsung Original DDR400/PC3200 CL3 RAM Promise 20269 Ultra TX2 2x ATA133 PCI Controller 2x 120GB Seagate Barracuda V 7200rpm 2MB ATA100 in RAID 1 1x 160GB Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 7200rpm 8MB ATA133 1x 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE 7200rpm 8MB SATA150 1x 300GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 7200rpm 16MB SATA150 NEC ND-3500 +DL/+R9 DVD Writer Matrox G400 8MB Single Head AGP Quad Port 10/100 DEC 21143 Ethernet PCI 2x Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T PCI TV Tuners Digium-Clone X100P 1 port FXO PCI HP Deskjet 5550 USB 2.0 Printer (IPP, CUPS) Gentoo Linux, MythTV, Asterisk, and a hell of a lot more
	Famous The Lovely Desktop PC at home AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83GHz, 166MHz Bus) overclocked to 3200+ (2.20GHz, 200MHz Bus), 128KB L1, 512KB L2 Thermalright SLK-800U Heatsink Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard 1GB TwinMOS DDR400/PC3200 CL2.5 RAM Seagate Barracuda V 80GB 7200rpm 2MB ATA100 Sony DDU1621 16x DVD 40x CDROM Sony CRX210 48x12x28 CD Writer @ 52x24x52 with LiteOn LTR-52246S firmware hack ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB Front hacked together IrDA module (1337 m0dd1ng sk1llz) Canon CanoScan N650U USB Flatbed Scanner Logitech Mouseman Dual Optical USB Logitech Elite Keyboard USB Philips PCVC675K USB Webcam 17" Dell Badged (Nokia Manufactured) D1025HE Trinaton Monitor Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 and FreeBSD
	Stranger (2) Linksys WRT54G v2.0 Little box that runs Linux, it can do anything! Mine is a wireless access point with some extra on the side. No true geek should be without one of these little things. 200MHz MIPS Processor 16MB RAM, 4MB Flash 5 Port 10/100 Switch Broadcom 802.11g radio OpenWRT
	Lunatic Empeg Mk2a The ultimate car stereo. 220MHz StrongARM Processor 16MB RAM Toshiba MK4025GAS 40GB IDE Drive (and a spare bay if I want more) IrDA, USB Slave, 10Mb Ethernet, Serial Greenlights Black Stealth Buttons Mark Lord Dock PCATS AM/FM Tuner My entire music collection at my fingertips Find out more about this badboy at RioCar.org
	Dmesg Our rackmount colo box I co-own and admin this machine with a bunch of good mates. It runs our mail, web, domains, VPNs and other crazy stuff on printk.net - its at dmesg.printk.net Aluminium 1U Case Intel Northwood P4 2.0GHz (512K L2) Crucial 512MB PC2100 DDR Abit BG71 Micro-ATX Intel 845GL / Intel ICH4 Motherboard 3Com 905B-Cyclone 100-base PCI, and onboard RTL-8100B (dual ethernet) 2x WD600 WD Caviar 60GB 5400rpm 2MB Cache U/ATA100 IDE Disks in Software RAID 1 Sitting on a 100Mb internet connection on Jump Networks in the TFM4 rack at Telehouse, London. Its on a Cisco based network with direct connectivity to over 40 peers at LoNAP, and one hop access to LINX via the BBC. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody
	Panic Another colo machine We 0wn this machine too. Dmesg was a broke student machine (a clobbered together desktop in a cheap 1U case), and this baby is the real deal - a proper server. We are slowly moving stuff over to Panic for regular use, so all the important stuff (email basically) is on a reliable machine with a more controlled administration protocol. That can leave Dmesg for more "experimental" mucking about with untested broken stuff. Yay :) - its at panic.printk.net Intel SR1200 1U Chassis Intel SCB2 ServerWorks ServerSet III HE-SL Motherboard with a Hot Swap SCSI Backplane Dual Intel 1.266GHz Tualatin (512KB L2) FCPGA2 Processors 512MB PC133 Registered ECC Low Profile Memory 2x Fujitsu MAP3735NC 73.5GB 10,000rpm U320 SCSI Drives Hosted by Black Cat Networks at Redbus Interhouse in London.
	Bumblebee Function: Espionage Transforms from Supercharged VW Beetle into totally functional robot Autobot Spy The smallest of all Autobots Makes a cool keyring

	Weevil - 6th November 2002 to erm, I guess I still have it Sun Sparcstation IPC. Not a particularly useful machine! It is propping the door open. Fujitsu MB86901A or LSI L64801 25MHz RISC Processor Weitek 3172 FPU 12MB Non-Parity RAM ~150MB SCSI Disk Onboard AUI Ethernet AUI to 10base-T Cabletron Systems TPT-4 Ethernet Transciever AMD AM79C30A Telephone-Quality audio with mono speaker Floppy Drive w/soft eject Onboard Mono Framebuffer Modified NVRAM chip with battery attatchment (phear) Debian/GNU Linux Woody
	Kitty - 28th July 2002 to March-ish 2005 or so This box used to do DHCP, NAT, DNS, IPSec, etc box on the ADSL at home. Then I started wondering why there are so many computers on in this house, and Peaches now does what this used to do. Cyrix M1 6x86 P150+ (120MHz) 24MB EDO RAM 10GB Maxtor 910206B IDE Disk Pioneer DR-A14S Slot IDE CDROM 3Com Etherlink XL (900B) 10-base PCI Ethernet (External Link) Generic RTL8139C 10/100 PCI Ethernet cards (Internal Link) Gemlight GMB-P565PC Motherboard Onboard SiS SG86C205 Graphics Onboard ESS 1868 Sound Sitting on a 512/256 ADSL Connection (20:1) Samsung AHT-E300 Ethernet ADSL Modem Debian Linux, and then OpenBSD 3.3
	Stranger (1) - 1st December 2001 to 27th June 2005 Lucent AP1000 This was my wireless access point. It was great, but not so good for streaming TV over MythTV. Or from a security point of view with just 802.11b. But the range was outstanding, much better than my WRT54G. 2x Lucent Gold 128-bit WEP 802.11b Wireless Cards Auto Load-Balancing 10/100 AMD PCINet Wired Interface Configuration over SNMP RADIUS Support
	Dunebuggy (2) - 3rd August 2002 to 24th May 2004 Sony Vaio PCG-R600MX This laptop was sweet. Small, light, great screen, metal casing. It was durable and looked awesome. With Gentoo installed, it was very usable, but there came a time when the Celeron 800 was simply not good enough anymore. Intel Coppermine Celeron 800MHz 256MB PC100 RAM 20GB Toshiba MK2018GAP 12.1" XGA TFT i810 Graphics Sitecom Prism2 PCMCIA WiFi Card Onboard Intel 10/100 PRO 82801BAM LAN & 56k Winmodem MagicGate MemoryStick Slot Jogdial 4-pin FireWire Logitech USB Cordless Trackman Wheel (Optical) Gentoo Linux - Howto
	Lump - 24th October 2001 to 28th June 2003 This little machine used to do DHCP, NAT, Nameserving and other junk for my house in Nottingham. Then it was doing those things at our shop. Now it sits under a desk collecting dust, having been replaced by a ridiculously noisy Sun Sparcstation 20. Intel Pentium 133MHz 16MB Panasonic Non-Parity 30pin FP RAM 1.2GB Seagate ST31276A IDE 850MB Seagate ST5850A 2 Speed CDA26803I IDE CDROM Drive (broken, I think) 2x Generic RTL8139C 10/100 PCI Ethernet Sitting on a 512/256 ADSL connection (20:1) Conexant AMX-CA61E Ethernet ADSL Modem Debian Linux, and then OpenBSD 3.3
	Candy (2) - July 2002 to July 2003 Shuttle SV25 SFF PC This is my little machine that I used for storage, CD-Writing, my Project and as a little Jukebox of fun ;) - but after uni I didn't really need it once I was using Peaches for storage. So, I installed Windows 2000 and gave it to my cousin who needed a computer. Intel Tualatin PIII 1266MHz 384MB PC133 RAM 80GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD Drive SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Philips PCVC675K USB Webcam Debian/GNU Linux Sid
	Candy (1) - 6th March 2002 to July 2002 Shuttle SV24 SFF PC I got an early SV24, I just had to have it once I saw one online. It was cheap and great, the only reason I upgraded to the current Candy SV25 is because I did the math and managed to do it for free (actually, I think I made a profit). It was a sweet deal! The disk is a straight image to the current candy which is why the name has stuck. Intel Coppermine Smelleron 600MHz 256MB RAM 60GB IBM Deskstar 60GXP SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 LiteOn 32x12x40 IDE CDRW Drive Debian/GNU Linux Woody
	Chunky (aka Dunebuggy 1) - 13th August 2001 to 30th July 2002 Dell Latitude CPx J650GT This laptop was fast. It was big, and I liked it like that for a while. After a few months I realised that big, fat, heavy plastic laptops is not the way forward. It might have been fast, but damn, it was really badly made. It went faulty on me in July/August 2002 in a big way, and I just had to get rid of the thing quick once it was back in a working state. Intel Coppermine Mobile PIII 650MHz 256MB RAM 30GB IBM Travelstar 14.1" XGA TFT Floppy Bay Module CDROM Bay Module DVD Bay Module 2x Batteries Xircom RealPort CardBus 56K+10/100 Sony CRX75A Cardbus CDRW (smaller than a Discman!) Debian/GNU Linux Potato (and then Woody) & Windows XP Pro
	Slinky - July 2000 to 12th August 2001 Sony Vaio PCG-505E This was a seriously cool little machine, but it got too slow, the screen was only 800x600 and there was only one PCMCIA slot (not normally a problem, but there was no LAN onboard). But, it was wafer thin, tiny, light, had a great battery and was totally fanless. I couldn't afford to buy a new one unless I sold it (it was a big mistake, I should have waited and kept this too). Intel Mobile Pentium 300MHz 128MB RAM 6.4GB Disk 10.4" SVGA TFT USB, Firewire and IR Port Rep with Serial, Parallel, SVGA and PS/2 PCMCIA 56k Modem PCMCIA D-Link 10-base LAN Card (sucky, but needed one with the specific MAC for hall, and couldn't be bothered to spoof it) PCMCIA CDROM PCMCIA Zip 100 Drive PCMCIA Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460B Big phat LaCie external 8 speed SCSI CDR PCGA-BP51 Standard battery PCGA-BP54 Monster 8-hour battery ;) PCGA-CCS5 Wetsuit-Style Slipcase Logitech early optical USB mouse Windows 98 SE & Progeny Debian 1.0 (later Debian/GNU Linux Potato)