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I fully admit to being a geek when it comes to anything computers. I run Gentoo on both my server and desktop machines, but also have machines dedicated to Windows XP and Mac OS X.

about the site

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My current home setup:

jester - desktop machine
- Soltek EQ3705M SFF case
- Soltek nForce2 ultra based motherboard
- 1Gb Kingston PC3500 DDR RAM
  (128Mb shared for IGP)
- AMD Athlon XP2800+ Barton core
- 40Gb Seagate Baracuda UDMA disk drive
- Dual AG Neovo F417 17" TFTs
- Kensington Orbit Elite trackerball
- Gentoo with 2.6.15 kernel
- fluxbox skinned like OS X
- distcc clustering
viper - file server and router
- Antec Sonata case
- Gigabyte VT82xx based motherboard
- 384Mb PC133 SD RAM
- Intel Pentium III 1Ghz
- CMD 649 based IDE controller card
- 40Gb & 300Gb Seagate Baracuda UDMA disks
- 2 x 160Gb Seagate Baracuda UDMA disks in RAID 0
- Conexant CX2388x based TV tuner
- HP 940c printer
- Gentoo with 2.6.12 kernel
- DNS, NFS, Samba, CVS & Apache servers
- MythTV backend
- Firewall & routing for external VNC
- distcc clustering
- headless
slider - production / broadcast machine
- Antec Sonata case
- MSI KT266 based motherboard
- 768Mb PC2100 DDR RAM
- AMD Athlon XP1600+ Thoroughbred core
- 64Mb GeForce 2 MX graphics card
- 40Gb Seagate Baracuda UDMA disk drive
- Echo Mia Midi Soundcard
- Edirol PCR-30 Midi Keyboard
- Windows XP Pro
- Cubase and Simplecast
- UltraVNC with hook driver
- headless
maverick - laptop
currently disassembled
- Dual USB 12" square iBook
- 640Mb PC100 SD RAM
- 500MHz G3
- Integrated Airport
- 10Gb hard disk
- Mac OS X 10.3

You can probably spot the trend in the computer names - if you can't then you really need to rent Top Gun on DVD! My car stereo (see projects) was called merlin, but is currently out of service. My dual-boot desktop used to be called iceman until I seperated the operating system installs onto seperate disks and hardware to form jester and slider.

	shinny.co.uk
menu home gauge creator dj mixes downloads	geek I fully admit to being a geek when it comes to anything computers. I run Gentoo on both my server and desktop machines, but also have machines dedicated to Windows XP and Mac OS X. about the site The site is hand coded using HTML, CSS and PHP and is hosted by 1&1. Please send any feedback and reports dead links or other issues using the email form on the home page. This site is best viewed with Galeon, Mozilla or (if you really must) Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 with at least 800x600 screen resolution. boxes My current home setup: jester - desktop machine Soltek EQ3705M SFF case Soltek nForce2 ultra based motherboard 1Gb Kingston PC3500 DDR RAM (128Mb shared for IGP) AMD Athlon XP2800+ Barton core 40Gb Seagate Baracuda UDMA disk drive Dual AG Neovo F417 17" TFTs Kensington Orbit Elite trackerball Gentoo with 2.6.15 kernel fluxbox skinned like OS X distcc clustering viper - file server and router Antec Sonata case Gigabyte VT82xx based motherboard 384Mb PC133 SD RAM Intel Pentium III 1Ghz CMD 649 based IDE controller card 40Gb & 300Gb Seagate Baracuda UDMA disks 2 x 160Gb Seagate Baracuda UDMA disks in RAID 0 Conexant CX2388x based TV tuner HP 940c printer Gentoo with 2.6.12 kernel DNS, NFS, Samba, CVS & Apache servers MythTV backend Firewall & routing for external VNC distcc clustering headless slider - production / broadcast machine Antec Sonata case MSI KT266 based motherboard 768Mb PC2100 DDR RAM AMD Athlon XP1600+ Thoroughbred core 64Mb GeForce 2 MX graphics card 40Gb Seagate Baracuda UDMA disk drive Echo Mia Midi Soundcard Edirol PCR-30 Midi Keyboard Windows XP Pro Cubase and Simplecast UltraVNC with hook driver headless maverick - laptop currently disassembled Dual USB 12" square iBook 640Mb PC100 SD RAM 500MHz G3 Integrated Airport 10Gb hard disk Mac OS X 10.3 You can probably spot the trend in the computer names - if you can't then you really need to rent Top Gun on DVD! My car stereo (see projects) was called merlin, but is currently out of service. My dual-boot desktop used to be called iceman until I seperated the operating system installs onto seperate disks and hardware to form jester and slider.