My home computers
Last modified: September 24th, 2007
I have a local network with several computers. Three of them are located at my home office on the second floor, while the other computers are located in the basement. They are connected through a linux-based firewall to the Internett through an ADSL line. The computers are located on three internal networks, one secure zone, one "not so secure" zone and one DMZ zone.
Here are some facts about my computers.
yoda
- Athlon XP 2800+ CPU.
- 1024 Mbyte memory.
- Matrox G 400 32-Mbyte memory, dual ported.
- Maxtor IDE ATA-133 80 Gb (7200 prm) disk.
- Plextor IDC-CD writer, DVD reader (20x/10x/40x/12x).
- Sony 52x CD reader.
- eMagic USB combo card-reader, internal.
- Agfa e50 scanner (USB).
- Software installed:
- Windows 2000, english version.
- Office 2000, english version.
- MS Visual C++ 6.0.
- Almanac 3.5 from Eclipsit (previous known as Impact Software).
- Micrographx Designer 7.0.
- Velocipede training log program.
- Paint Shop Pro 7.
- Programmers File Editor.
- BR's PhotoArchiver.
- IrfanView.
Primary used for programming and image processing.
jedi
Linux server running Fedora Core 4.
- Chiefteck Mesh Big Tower Blue
- Hiper ATX 580 W power supply.
- Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe, nForce4 SLI
- 2048 Mb memory.
- AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0 Ghz
- Gainward GeForce 6200.
- Tekram SCSI 68-pins DC-390U2B Ultra2LVD interface with:
- 12/24 Gb DDS 3 DAT streamer.
- Quantum DLT VS80 streamer.
- IDE CD-ROM (52x).
- 2x Western Digital Caviar SE 16 500 Gb SATA disk (S.M.A.R.T).
- 1x Western Digital Caviar 320 Gb SATA disks.
- 1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300 Gb SATA disk (S.M.A.R.T).
- Installed software
The machine is the storage for all important files for users on the local network. User-data is backed up regulary every weekend. It is also used for sending and receiving e-mails and as an internal DNS server. It also host the original files for the web-server. The files on the web-server are updated from this machine using rdist through a ssh-tunnel.
The Chiefteck cabinet is able to hold 8 disks without problem. The motherbord have 8 SATA connectors. I still have several free slots for more disks.
I also use this for automatic streaming of misc radio programs.
Current status (updated every 15 minutes).
obi-wan
- AMD dual-core 2.4 Ghz
- 4 Gb memory
- A DVD player
- 320 Gb SATA disk
- Installed software
This is a dedicated SQL server.
Current status (updated every 15 minutes).
c3p0
- Pentium II, 250 Mhz.
- 256 Mb memory.
- Some low-end CD reader.
- Installed software
- Windows 2000, english version
- Office 2000, english version
- MSN Messanger
This machine is used for MSN and to browse all kinds of web-sites. Security is not an issue for this computer. If it gets infected, I reinstall everything by ghosting an image from the file-server.
The yoda, jedi and c3p0 computers are all located at my home office share the same monitor, keyboard and mouse through a BlackBox ServerSwitch Jr.
firewall
The linux-based firewall:
- Pentium II, 450 Mhz.
- 384 Mb memory.
- 4 3Com ethernet cards:
- Interface 1: Internet.
- Interface 2: DMZ zone for the web-server and the mail-server.
- Interface 3: Protected area.
- Interface 4: Second DMZ zone for surfing etc.
- 4 Gb IDE disk.
spiderman
An AMD based machine running Fedora Core 4:
- ADM Athlon 800 Mhz
- 512 Mb memory
- Adaptec SCSI controller with one 36 Gb IBM disks.
- Installed software:
Current status
The old spiderman web-server, a linux based web-server with RedHat 7.3:
Powerfull stuff!!! ;-)
This machine died Saturday, October the 15th2005 at 01:00:00. May the hardware rest in peace.
Last recorded status.
skywalker
A linux based mail-server running RedHat 7.3. It also work as a backup web-server for the spiderman computer.
Current status (updated every 15 minutes).
r2d2
A linux based web-server running RedHat 7.3:
- Pentium II, 300 Mhz.
- 192 Mb memory.
- Apache web-server.
- PHP module.
- MySQL
- 6 Gb SCSI disk.
- 2/4 Gb DDS1 DAT streamer.
This computer is used when developing new web-pages. It works as an internal web-server.
Current status (updated every 15 minutes).
I made this! Jørn Dahl-Stamnes