My Computers

This page contains a list of my computers and other computer hardware. For machine naming convention, I decided to name my machines after album names, and in some cases band names or even song names. But there are some exceptions.

disclaimer

  • Main use: Use it as a desktop in my bedroom. Mostly used for VLC and to play Portal.
  • Machine: LG E300 Laptop
  • Operating System: Edubuntu 12.04 LTS / Windows XP
  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2ghz
  • RAM: 2GB
  • Disk: 320GB
  • Display: 1280×800 Integrated LCD Panel

doggfather

  • Main Use: I’m considering using it for a Pirate Box.
  • Machine: Beagle Board
  • Operating System: Debian
  • CPU: TI ARM Cortex A8, 600MHz
  • RAM: 128MB
  • Disk: 8G Integrated Flash

hal9000

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  • Main use: Whatever I happen to be experimenting with at the moment
  • Operating System: Debian or Ubuntu, usually running some amount of LXC containers
  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz
  • Display Adaptor: Some Nvidia card
  • RAM: 5GB
  • Disk: 2x 1.5TB disks in RAID1, 1x 1TB disk
  • Display: None

meteora

  • Main use: Shell box at home. Stores emails, IRC session, newsbeuter session, etc.
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04 with Debian and Ubuntu LXC containers
  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 ghz
  • Display Adaptor: Intel integrated graphics
  • RAM: 2GB
  • Disk: 2.2TB

smash

  • Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad X200
  • Main use: Day to day laptop
  • Operating System: Debian Wheezy/Sid
  • CPU: Core 2 Duo 1.86ghz
  • Display Adaptors: Intel integrated graphics
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Disk: 128GB Intel SSD
  • Display: 1440×900 12.1″ Integrated LCD

sawdust

  • Machine: Apple Mac Mini
  • Main use: Dust collection these days, mainly
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04 .x/ OSX 10.7.x
  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83ghz
  • Display adaptor: Intel integrated graphics
  • RAM: 2GB
  • Disk: 80GB
  • Display: 19″ Proline LCD

onebyone

  • Machine: Zareason Zatab
  • Main use: Hardware enablement for Edubuntu project
  • Operating System: Edubuntu 12.10 / Android 4.04
  • CPU: ARM Allwinner A10
  • Display adaptor: Mali 400 GPU
  • RAM: 1GB
  • Disk: 8GB integrated flash, 16GB SD card
  • Display: 10″ Integrated LCD (1024×768)

motovoltage

  • Main Use: Pretty much everything you could do with it except phone calls.
  • Machine: Motorola Atrix 4G
  • Operating System: Android 2.3.7 / Ubuntu 9.10 chroot (shipped with phone for dock mode)
  • CPU: Nvidia Tegra 2 at 1GHz
  • RAM: 1GB
  • Disk: 16GB integrated flash, 16GB micro-sd
  • Display: RESOLUTION Integrated LCD

splinter

  • Machine: Linksys WRT54GL
  • Operating System: DD-WRT v24
  • CPU: Broadcom 200mhz
  • RAM: 16MB
  • Disk: 2.8MB (flash)
  • Display: None

splinky

  • Main Use: Thin client at LTSP hackfests or UDS, otherwise experimenting with Debian things on physical hardware
  • Machine: Acer Aspire 1
  • Operating System: Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)
  • CPU: Intel Atom 1.6ghz
  • RAM: 512MB
  • Disk: 8GB Integrated Flash, 4GB add-on SD card
  • Display: 1024×600 Integrated LCD Panel