Yesterday Michael drove to New Jersey to pick up a Sun E250 from a guy on the PLUG list. He’s wanted a Sparc for years and this is a nice machine, plus he deserved it after all the hard work he’s been doing these past few weeks.
Upon reflection, this now means that we have 8 computers up and running. So I thought this would be a good time to stop and document this moment in our computer-owning history – with pictures!
decade: The newest arrival, weighing in at 118 pounds, Michael’s new Sun E250 server. Right now he’s installing Gentoo on it, no concrete plans for what we’ll actually be using it for.
r2a6: My Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop, running Ubuntu Breezy Badger.
century: Michael’s HP laptop, running Windows XP.
minute: 733mhz Dell Optiplex, currently running Gentoo Unstable. This was our primary web/mail/dns/etc server, but is being phased out. No plans for what this machine will do next.
evening: 233mhz(?) PowerMac, monitor at the top of the picture belongs to this. It’s our firewall and runs Debian, probably the most well-behaved box in the whole house, runs like a tank :)
hour: My Dell workstation, runs Debian Etch.
r2d2: Our MythTV box and media server (using samba), runs Gentoo and used to be my workstation before I got hour.
r2q5: Audio server (yes, it’s face down on the floor) that Michael uses for his radio show, runs Windows XP.