Foo - Post your computers

I searched... Didn't find anything quite like this yet (surprising). Maybe I didn't search for the right words. Let's see where you Foo.

Here's my setup.

http://www.focushacks.com/photo/desk.jpg

http://www.focushacks.com/photo/audio.jpg

http://www.focushacks.com/photo/suns.jpg

Shown:
MacBook - OS X Panther 10.4.8
2.0GHz C2D
1GB PC5300 Dual Channel
120GB SATA
M-Audio Keystation 49e
Dual-head (using monitor to the right)
Logitech Revolution VX

Stack (top to bottom):
Home-build 1U rackmount - OpenBSD 4.0
2.4GHz Prescott
1GB PC3200 Dual Channel
2x80GB

Sun Ultra 5 - Solaris 10 (displayed on screen in first photo)
400MHz UltraSPARC
256MB RAM
40GB

Sun SparcStation 20 - FreeBSD 6.2
2x125MHz HyperSPARC
128MB RAM
2x20GB

Sun SparcStation 5 - OpenBSD 3.9
170MHz MicroSPARC II
64MB RAM
20GB

That's all I have running right now. I have all sorts of other cool things, but they're packed up for the time being. I just added the M-Audio MIDI keyboard tonight.

Alright, I'll add mine. It's about 3 months old. I got the monitor last month (upgraded from a 15" CRT). I put quite a bit of research into building a reliable, capable system, and all the components are a pretty solid balance of cost/reliability/performance:

* 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (E6400 Conroe)
* ASUS P5B-E Motherboard with Intel 965P chipset
* 1 GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM (will add 2 GB when prices drop)
* 160 GB Western Digital Caviar RE (4 partitions)
* 250 GB Western Digital Caviar RE (4 partitions)
* eVGA nVidia GeForce 7900 GS
* CoolerMaster Centurion 5 case
* Rosewill 550 Watt Power Supply
* Samsung 18X DVD Burner
* Sony DVD ROM
* Windows XP Pro

* Dell E207WFP 20" Widescreen LCD monitor
* Logitech MX310 optical mouse
* Logitech Z-4 2.1 speakers

My 5+ year old Dell 8100 (P4, 1.3 GHz) isn't shown. As soon as I get the time, it's going to become a Debian learning box.

mine sucks too hard to take photos of right now (I need a new case, and a hardcore internal wire cleanup).

DFI NF4-SLI Inifinty motherboard
Coolermaster 850w PSU (Nvidia Certified for SLI)
athlon 64 x2 4600 (using arctic cooling freezer pro 64 heatsink)
2 x 1GB DDR 533 memory.
2x Geforce 7800GT videocards (both with arctic cooling accelero X1 coolers)
2x 400GB Seagate PATA hard drives (8mb cache)
200GB Samsung PATA hard drive (8mb cache)
Toshiba DVD-+RW 4x (PATA)
SB Audigy 2ZS
Netgear 802.11g PCI card w/ Hawking 6dB antenna


22" viewsonic display
microsoft comforcurve keyboard
logitech MX Revolution mouse
creek OBH-11 headphone amplifier (class A) with OBH-2 power supply
Sennheiser HD-580 headphones

Then there is my carptastic Dell Inspiron E1405....only upgrades is the glossy TFT display, and it has 1GB of ram instead of 512MB.....oh and a crank bros sticker on the back. I regret buying the thing since 2 months later I coudl have gotten one that actually had a real 3d accelerator in board instead of the "Intel extreme suckass graphics decelerator" that came with mine (read, software rendering is about as fast).

Don't have a camera, but my current craptastic PC is:

(Remember, this is about three years old)

2.4GhZ Pentium CPU
512MB RAM
60GB HDD
nVidia geForce MX440 (In an AGP slot!)

various other stuff I don't bother remembering.

As soon as I can, i'm gonna make a new PC, which is going to be:

2.4GhZ....Core 2 Duo CPU
2GB (2x 1GB) DDR2-800 (With room to add another 2GB later)
2x 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0GB/s HDD [500GB (Haven't decided weither to JBOD or RAID0 this]
eVGA geForce 7950GT 512MB PCIexpress x16 (With room to SLI in another one later if I feel like)

New PC is going to be around 1600$, add on about another 500$ for GPU and RAM upgrades (which will no doubt be cheaper by the time I get them) and about 375$ to fill it full of HDDs (5 extra ones, assuming the same 250GB model ^_^), which would eb 2400$ ish after upgrades.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a284/Taerom/AcerBeast.jpg

2.93Ghz Pentium 4
512Gb 400Mhz PC3200 DDR
80Gb harddrive
2x16oz Bud Light beer cans
1x12oz Miller Light beer bottle
...and a bunch of other stuff

It's a piece of crap, but it has to last me another few years till I have a good job and can afford a new one.

ax0n what recording software do you run?

Do you know anything about the Korg 1212IO sound card by any chance? I am thinking of switching my recording system to Linux. Currently runs on win98 since that is what the card supports. It's and oldie but a goodie.

My first rig
http://www.digicamhistory.com/UNIVAC%20first.jpg

My new rig
http://www.mynewoffice.com/pcmuseum/compu018.jpg

My dream rig
http://www.dean.usma.edu/ietd/hallfame/images/pc1999.jpg

Most boring thread of the year so far.

Most boring thread of the year so far.Boring is as boring does! Now go find some pictures of hot tattooed bikini clad ninjette zombie cheerleaders using computers and post them!:D Hint: Look in Explody Pups bedside table.

Hey, jsharr stole pictures of mine!

I stole everything that I hold dear!

Here is a rig that I built when I was in kindergarten.

http://shedletsky.com/jjshed/blog/pics/boston9.jpg

ax0n what recording software do you run?

Do you know anything about the Korg 1212IO sound card by any chance? I am thinking of switching my recording system to Linux. Currently runs on win98 since that is what the card supports. It's and oldie but a goodie.

Don't know anything about the card. I use Audacity for analog recording. I use GarageBand for midi recording, compiling analog and midi tracks, and downmixing/exporting to some useable form, and LAME to turn that stuff into MP3s if I want to post to the Interwebs.

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/1081/war6um1.jpg

"Get the president on the horn...we're taking it to DEFCON 1."

Huh? where is my post???
all i said was where is the tattoos and bikinis, what was bad about that?

Here is a rig that I built when I was in kindergarten.When I was in kindergarten, I was trying to compute the number of digits on my hands and feet.

Huh? where is my post???
all i said was where is the tattoos and bikinis, what was bad about that?

Was it in response to something bad ;)...

When I was in kindergarten, I was trying to compute the number of digits on my hands and feet.
I just ran that through the tinkertoy 2000 and it said 20.

Huh? where is my post???
all i said was where is the tattoos and bikinis, what was bad about that?

+1

all i did was post a pic with tattoos and bikinis.

Huh? where is my post???
all i said was where is the tattoos and bikinis, what was bad about that?

All I did was look at Botto's pics and a boxing glove sprang out the side of my computer and socked me in the mouth.

My Computer:

My laptop...

http://foraker.research.att.com/~davek/slide/dietzgen/gilsonr.jpg

All I did was look at Botto's pics and a boxing glove sprang out the side of my computer and socked me in the mouth.

I didn't realize that your computer was a Christian fundamentalist. Does it like getting massages too?

I use this computer to help me track the sun

http://www.knowth.com/wallpaper/stone-henge-1024.jpg

+1

all i did was post a pic with tattoos and bikinis.
there was NO tattoos and bikinis!:p
was one girl all dressed up and one with shiny objets for boobs...


ohhhh shiny objets..ohhhhhhh yes, some people cant handle shiny objets:p

there was NO tattoos and bikinis!:p
was one girl all dressed up and one with shiny objets for boobs...


ohhhh shiny objets..ohhhhhhh yes, some people cant handle shiny objets:p

those were compact discs.

Don't know anything about the card. I use Audacity for analog recording. I use GarageBand for midi recording, compiling analog and midi tracks, and downmixing/exporting to some useable form, and LAME to turn that stuff into MP3s if I want to post to the Interwebs.
Ok Audacity is what I have been looking at.

My decoder ring...

http://www.mwotrc.com/rrpix/ovltndcr.jpg

those were compact discs.
I know silly :lol::p

All I did was look at Botto's pics and a boxing glove sprang out the side of my computer and socked me in the mouth.

Man, I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read this or it would have ended up all over my keyboard! :roflmao:

desk top
lap top

My decoder ring...

http://www.mwotrc.com/rrpix/ovltndcr.jpg

Perfect target for histogram cryptanalysis a-la the article I wrote a few days ago.

http://h-i-r.blogspot.com/2007/02/cryptanalysis-and-histograms.html

Most boring thread of the year so far.

I suppose 50 pound sacks of rice, excel formulae and haikus are infinitely more exciting than some silly computers.

Shoot... My xbox360 has more processing power than every computing device in my house combined.
http://www.hfstival.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10148/normal_Internet-SeriousBusiness.jpg

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/3884/geforcescalebs4.pngMade an accurate comparison of GeForce GPUs.

My MacBook aside, the 8800's probably have more processing power than all my other computers (but not combined) - i have a lot of effing computers but only a few actually set up and running now.

I took apart a 5ish year old PC about a month ago and threw it out, for fun. looking at the parts was fun though, it was completely laughable. 10GB HD!

and ax0n, what do you have in a Macbook that's more powerful than an 8800GTX? It's the most powerful GPU on the market, last I checked...

No. I mean that thing's GPU is probably more powerful than any single CPU I have. :lol: Except the Core2Duo. Hell, most of my computers have 32MB of video RAM.

Oh. I did some looking up, and found that my current GPU is comparable to a dreamcast's, or a Voodoo 5 O_O freaking scary.

And I think GPUs are becoming much more powerful than CPUs, in FLOPS http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-highperformance.html

The PS3 is supposed to have over 2TFLOPS of processing power, and i'm sure a lot of that comes from the RSX "Reality Synthisizer" GPU- which is based off the GeForce 7800

both the laptop and the desktop are junk :D

Post your computers

you asked for it. but i'm going to have pity on you and not post everything, or every spec on what i do post. plus, it's going to take two posts due to the picture limit.

here goes:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/pc.jpg

the PC. Athlon XP 2700+, Win XP Pro.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/mbp.jpg

MacBookPro, Core2 Duo 2.33 ghz. can't wait for Leopard, hope it supports Vista in Boot Camp.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/ptp.jpg

PowerComputing PowerTowerPro (re-cased in a generic ATX case), 400 mhz G3.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/cclassic.jpg

Color Classic, 16 mhz 68030.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/s900.jpg

UMAX S900, currently no processor installed. not sure how i want to build it.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/mactv.jpg

MacTV, 32 mhz 68030, only black desktop Macintosh to ship in the USA. (the TAM was a dark grey, not black)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/IIsi1.jpg

IIsi. i have two of these. one is still a 20 mhz 68030, the other has a 80 mhz 68040.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/IIci.jpg

IIci, 25 mhz 68030.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/IIfx.jpg

this is not a pedestrian Mac II. it is a Mac II that has been upgraded to a IIfx - the computer that at one time was the fastest personal computer in the world. still super zippy. 40 mhz 68040, 64 mb ram. (the IIfx cost $10,000 in 1990. the ram in this one would have run another $2k on top of that.)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/compacts.jpg

pile of compact Macs. visible are a Plus, two SE's, two Classic II's and a Powerbook 165. one of the SE's has a SuperMac "SpeedCard," doubling its processor speed with an add-on 16 mhz 68000.

part two!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/6100.jpg

PowerMac 6100/60AV, 240 mhz G3.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/q650.jpg

Quadra 650, 33 mhz 68040.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/180.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/dock.jpg

PowerBook Duo 280 and DuoDock. 33 mhz 68LC040.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/5300cse.jpg

PowerBook 5300ce, 117 mhz 603e. this is the one that was infamous for bursting into flames.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/7300180.jpg

PowerMac 7300/180, 266 mhz G3.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/g3.jpg

PowerMac G3/233 and dead wintel box.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/jhota42/IIc.jpg

Apple //c, 1.023 mhz 65C02.

i'm not digging up the IIcx or any of the Newton Message Pads, or any more of the various dead (and not dead) DOS/Windows machines (though i do have an AT&T PC6300 kicking around somewhere). or the CatEye Micro Wireless.

wow^^^

thats a lot of stuff.

im also not going to post all the specs. just some pics. too much time is spent at this spot.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c58/liv_rong/Picture019.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c58/liv_rong/Picture020.jpg

If you wanna go there, I have the following stuff in addition to what I posted earlier. All of it works flawlessly:

five more 1u rackmounts just like the one shown in the top of my "pile"

a Dell PowerEdge 650 1U Rackmount

5 PowerPC 6100/7100's from 60MHz PPC to a 400Mhz G3 card in my 7100 A/V

An AppleServer 80

Axis Storpoint CD-E100

Network General Sniffer Server (running RedHat for my home automation server) - Pentium MMX 233Mhz

a pair of Mac SE/30's running OpenBSD

a 1.2GHz Athlon running win2K

about 6 dells from PII to P4 eras including a PowerEdge 1400SC

My wife built her gaming rig in a 4U rackmount case then I cut a window in it for her and she put some CCTs in it. It's a 3.8 Athlon64.

An IBM RS/6000 Model 250

An IBM RS/6000 F30

An IBM RS/6000 43P

A Compaq Armada 6500 Laptop

An Apple PowerBook G3 Series "Wallstreet Edition" that actually runs OS X pretty well

Two NEC Versa 4050C Laptops

HP 300, 320 LX, jornada 680e and Jornada 720 Palmtop PCs (with WiFi, network scanning tools, etc)

IBM PS/2 Model 25

Macintosh Performa 550 (beefed up, running NetBSD)

Two Zenith Data Systems SuperSport Portable computers (8086 and 8087 CPU, CGA, 10MB Hard drive) - I even have the acoustic coupler to go with it! (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/622/3474/1600/zwl1.jpg)

5 home-brew PCs in generic ATX cases (Pentium 3)

All that stuff is either racked and dormant (ready to fire up for lab testing) or it's in some closet in my apartment. I'm done playing with AIX for right now so all my RS6K's are put away, and there's no need for 25 PCs to be running right now. I usually only fire up that stuff when I want to test some new OS, test the effects of a virus or rootkit, or something like that.

If you wanna go there, I have the following stuff in addition to what I posted earlier. All of it works flawlessly:

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An AppleServer 80

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[apple geek]

you mean a WGS 80? nice machines, if basically just a Quadra 8** series.

my "holy grail" of old computers would have to be a Network Server 500 or 700...

[/apple geek]




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a pair of Mac SE/30's running OpenBSD

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best damn computer Apple ever made.

One SE/30 is painted a wonderful Gloss black, I call her the Blackintosh. I took her to DefCon and used that as my attack platform for Capture The Flag. This was back in '98 so the system was (only) 10 years old as opposed to damn near 20 now. The Compact Mac design stayed mostly unchanged for a very, very long time. The SE/30 isn't really the BEST thing they made, but it is one of those rare gems of days gone by that still remains a viable and useable computer to this day, if you know what to do with it.

I got them, but I definately let them play a small part in my life outside of work. I gave up on that lifestyle when I was 17 and Itook my 4 node bbs down and threw out all my computers of that generation. I purposefully walked away from that life while still embracing as much of it as I need to to make a living.

It was also at that time I decided I would never in my life enjoy work...my goal is a simple one, to retire. My passions cannot be my job.

I got them, but I definately let them play a small part in my life outside of work. I gave up on that lifestyle when I was 17 and Itook my 4 node bbs down and threw out all my computers of that generation. I purposefully walked away from that life while still embracing as much of it as I need to to make a living.

It was also at that time I decided I would never in my life enjoy work...my goal is a simple one, to retire. My passions cannot be my job.

The funny thing is that the actual industry I'm in (Information Security for a large financial services corporation that you've never heard of) is such a miniscule part of my passion. Corporate Info-Sec is interesting, but it's got very little do do with vintage computers, programming in obscure languages, or anything like that. What I do for a living is pretty mundane, but I'm very good at it and I get paid well.

I hear you, though. The most fun and enjoyable jobs I had didn't pay all that well. Working as a security consultant for an information security company (a.k.a. "Professional Ethical Hacker") basically earned me $13 an hour on salary, less if I worked overtime. The stuff I was doing was stuff no one else in the company could do, and it brought in a lot of cash. For them. The job I picked up right before where I'm at was also kind of crappy. It was a startup and I was getting paid a pittance to pull weeks that sometimes drew nearly 100 hours. Sure, I'd get rewarded with extra stock options in the company for going above and beyond... but they tanked and those were worth $0.00 after that. I got out 3 months or so before they tanked anyways, because I knew where it was going and exactly which handbasket they'd be in.

Besides, my other hobbies (Writing articles for journals and magazines, writing for my blogs, composing music, mixing music, bicycling, cooking, driving too fast for conditions, fixing stuff, improving stuff, breaking stuff, and photography) give me plenty of non-security related things to keep /dev/brain occupied.

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