I have alot of computers here.. it's rediculous. I'll give a brief
rundown of my toys. Some of this is overlaps my Home Automation Section
Cable Modem
Motorola SB5100
- Provider: Comcast
- Speed: 8 Mbps Down / 768 Kbps Up
- I've consitantly pushed it over the 1MBps mark and even uploaded at
1 Mbps. Gotta love comcast on their good days
Cable Tuner
- Motorola DCT-3416
- Connected to Pundit Via Firewire
Cable Tuner
- Motorola DCP501
- Huge, Bulky Case with a Motorola DCT2000 Tuner inside, DVD/MP3
Player, AM/FM Radio. I modulate the Cable TV and DVD Signals on a
unused cable channel
Cell Phones
It's Dead
Motorola SLVR L6
- Provider: Tmobile
- I broke my 5 year Sony-Ericsson Streak.. sorry :-(
Yes I love My Sony-E's
BTW I have a Sony-Ericsson T608 for Sprint for sell. Comes with 2
Batteries, and a wall charger. Let me know if you want it. We can make
a deal
Brief Cell Phone history.
Alltel 5/1997 - 12/2000
- Nokia 252
- Nokia 5165
ATT Wireless 1/2001 - 8/2002
- Ericsson T19LX - I went through 2 of those
- Ericsson R300LX - 2 As well
- Nokia 5165 - 1 of these and a slightly different model with a
different keypad
MetroPCS 9/2002 - 1/2004
- Sony Ericsson T206
Sprint PCS 1/2004 - 1/2006
- Sony Ericsson T608 - 2x
Tmobile 12/2004 - Present
- Sony Ericsson T68i - It's on death's doorstep
- Motorola SLVR L6
Cingular 1/2006 - Present
Sony Ericsson W600i It's Died A White Screen of Death
You Get The Sony Ericsson Motif
Computers
Mothra
- Has the body of the original 2nd reincarnation/3rd Birth of Shiksa.
The
original is sitting in a box in my closet
- AMD Duron 1.3 GHz overclocked to
1.9~ 1.6 GHz
- 1 GB Ram
- Ubuntu 7.10
- 80 GB Maxtor HD
- Addons: 9 in-1 Card Reader, 3
Port Firewire Card, 56k PCI Modem,
IOGear
Bluetooth Dongle, KWorld Global Terminator Tuner
- Components Purchased: September 2005
Mediapc
- Ran backup duty for Shiksa II when she had "issues"
- Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
- 512 MB Ram
- Windows Media Center 2005(XP Pro)
- 300 GB Western Digital HD
- Addons: USB Hub, X10 ActiveHome Computer Interface (CM15A), USB 56k
Modem, USB Video Capture Adapter (VA11A) Captures Video and Pictures
from my Security Cameras
- Date of Purchase: March 2003
Shiksa
- Actually it's Shiksa V(Updated from IV). Shiksa I was my AST Advantage Adventure
486 DX2/66 MHz. Shiksa II was my
eMachines eOne 433
MHZ Celeron 64 MB RAM. It was my college computer that I purchased. It
was quick but had a noisy hard drive. Very buggy but had some neat
features. I'll start a new section on computer history now that I think
of it. Shiksa III was my AMD Athlon 600 that replaced Shiksa II because
I was fed up with it. I had the fastest and hottest PC in the dorm
until dell came out with their Intel733 MHz computers. Anywho I used
Shiksa
2 from October 1999 until June 2005 when I could no longer bear the
mysterious halts and reboots. It proved to be a bad power supply that I
replaced the original power supply with because I believed the the
original power supply had problems. It died in July 2007. One of three
that had to be replaced.
I kept the Processor, but had had to get DDR2 RAM and a new mobo. I missed out on the onboard firewire.
I runs lots faster with the RAM and new motherboard.
- Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz Hyperthreaded. Runs like I have 2 processors.
- 2 GB Ram
- 300 GB Hard Drive
- Redhat Fedora 7 OS(Will be going to Ubuntu 7.10 in October)
- Addons: WinTV
PVR-350 TV Tuner, X10
CM-11A Interface, Digium
X100P
Telephony Card Clone, Ugot
Call Netcallerid (Records all my caller
id on the
unit and pushes it to my homeautomation software), IoGear
Bluetooth Dongle,
W800RF Wireless X10
Receiver, Silicon Dust
HDHomerun Dual QAM/OTA Networked Tuner (I love this thing) I may get another so I can record OTA HD Channels
- Component Purchase: July 19, 2005, August 8, 2007
- Special Software: Hotwayd
(Sends and receives my Hotmail Mail... never have to touch the yucky
site), Net-Check
Simple Perl Script that monitors and makes reports on my internet
connectivity (Get credits for when your service is down). It can get me
back online by powering down it's interfaces and the cable modem thru my
automation software and bring it back up when the connection goes down.
And in a worse case scenario connect thru my cell phone thru bluetooth
using the cellular network. It's a little bit faster than a 56k modem.
Granted I have to be in range of the Bluetooth Dongle. Spamassassin and Clamav for email spam and virus detection.
Sucrose
- 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 Hyperthreaded, 1GB Ram, 300 GB HD, LG 16x Double Layer
DVD+/RW/DVD-RAM IDE Drive
- Will probably be my primary PC because my Mini is not as powerful as I need it to be. At
least until the Intel iBook comes out. Or I decide to go into the poorhouse and get a Macbook
Pro.
- I've played around with it and it's pretty powerful. It has a fan
on its right side that is internally lit and increases in brightness as
the temperature increases on the motherboard. With this motherboard
linux is able to adjust the cpu and then the system fans when processor
usage and temperature goes up. The hyperthreaded P4 works like 2
processors so no need for the dual core... just yet
- Possible OSes:
Latest BeOS, XP Pro, Fedora Core 6,Ubuntu 7.04
- Components Purchased: February/March 2006
Dead... replaced with Orion
Acer
Aspire 3623
- 1.5 GHz Intel Celeron M 370(Processor Throttles Itself,
Raises/Lowers Screen Brightness, and Turns on/off LAN/Wifi/Cardbus with
changing power and battery states.
- 1GB DDR2 Ram.. upgraded from 256 MB :-(
- 14.1 WXGA Widescreen TFT LCD
- 40GB HD
- DVD/CR-RW
- 802.11 a/b/g Wireless Lan, 100Mb Lan, 56K Modem, Iogear Bluetooth
Dongle For Cellular Connectivity
- OSes: Fedora Core 6 and Windows XP ProXP Home :-( thanks Acer
- Date of Purchase: March 2006
Gogo
- Pentium 200 MHz Processor
- 64MB Ram. My cell has more ram that this :-)
- 2 GB HD
- Ubuntu 7.04
- Runs Special Stuff that I can't tell you about :-)
Pundit (Asus
P1-AH2 Barebone Kit)
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
- 2GB Ram (I ordered some Super Talent and one was bad the
price I pay for being frugal..First bad stick of memory for me ..... ever)
- 160 GB Hitachi Desktar SATA HD
- Liteon 20x DVD+/- Sata Lightscribe Burner
- Bluetooth Dongle, CM15A from Mediapc, Leftovers from Mediapc: USB Modem, X10 VA11A Capture Dongle
- OS: Ubuntu 7.10
Orion (Asus
P1-AH2 Barebone Kit)
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
- Corsair 2GB Ram PC25300
- Maxtor Diamond Max 300GB Sata HD(taken from sucrose)
- Liteon 20x DVD+/- Sata Lightscribe Burner
- OS: Ubuntu 7.10
- Runs special stuff: Mythtv Frontend/Backend controlled by a
USB-UIRT (Universal Infrared
Receiver Transmitter, and a Hauppage Gray Remote that came with my
PRV-350 on Shiksa V
Network Storage
Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage
Device
- Custom firmware that uses the embedded Linux OS for $89
- Attached 300GB USB HD
- Storage for all my movies, music, and backups
- Major Features: iTunes Server, Slimserver, NFS/Samba File Storage,
Backups, Backup for Shiksa if things get bad (Webserver, Telephony
Server,MySQL Database, FTP Server,Backup Mail(SMTP, POP, IMAP), DNS,
Syslog)
- This little puppy can do alot with a 133 MHz processor. It was $89
at walmart and it's the size of maybe 2 Packs of playing cards.
PDAs
HP Ipaq Rx3715
- 400MHz Samsung S3C 2440 processor.
- 64 MB built-in RAM (~56 megs available). 96 megs available in File Store for your use
- Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition Professional operating system
- 1.2 MP Camera
- Integrated WiFi 802.11b and Bluetooth 1.1
- It Went ByeBye
Palm Zire 72
- 312 Mhz - Intel Xscale. Processor (ARM v.5TE)
- Palm OS 5.2.8
- 1.2 MP Camera
- 32MB Ram/25 MB Free
- Integrated Bluetooth 1.1
Apple Emate 300
- Neat little green machine.
- 25 MHz ARM 710a processor
- 8 MB of ROM, 3 MB of RAM (1MB of DRAM, 2 MB of Flash Memory for user
storage)
- Newton OS 2.1
- PCMCIA slot, IrDA-beaming capabilities, and a Newton InterConnect
port for multiple connectivity options
- Translucent aquamarine and black "clamshell" portable case with a
480x320 16-shade grayscale backlit LCD display for use with either a
provided stylus or the built-in keyboard.
- This puppy can go wireless with an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA Card. I have
a PC Network card for it as well for rj-45 connectios. Way ahead of
it's time, but Apple Killed it.. like everything good.
Photo/Video
Cannon
Powershot A410
- 3.2 Megapixel
- Quick, Fast, Light
- Takes better pictures than cameras twice or thrice the cost. One of my best purchases
Panasonic
PV GS-19
- My First Camcorder
- MiniDV
- Firewire Connector
- Video imports into iMovie in a snap
Future
- Apple Xserv w/ Leopard Server 10.5 Or atlest mimic it using
linux
Leopard Server Components
- Quicktime Streaming Server. Got it
- Openldap for everything like Active Directory. Getting there
- Openvpn. Got it
- Xgrid. Working on it
- iChat/Jabber Server. Got it
- Kerberos Server. Working on it
- Cyrus for pop and imap. I'll stick with Dovecot
- Postfix for mail. I'll stick with Sendmail
- Squirrelmail for Webmail. Got it and been had it
- Clamav for antivirus scanning. Got it
- Spamassassin for Spam Detection. Got it
- Samba for Primary/Backup Domain Controller, Printing, File Sharing.
Got it
- FTP, Web. Got it and been had it for almost 8 years now :-)
- Backup/Timemachine. Errrr working on it.
- Spaces/Virtual Desktop. Been had it for eons
- Dashboard. I'm not a widget fan. Well I guess that's what applets
are kinda.
- Spotlight. That's what locate does right?
- 64 Bit. I'll pop in a Memron and update to the 64 bit kernel.
- Netboot and Network install. That's what PXE is for. Working on
it.
- Software Update. Windows Update and Yum. 'Nuff said.
- iCal Server. Got a nice little calender setup now but looking at
the Opensource Ical Server
- Wiki Server. Got it don't use it. I have a blog.
- Podcast Producer. That's what garage band is for. I like to know
what's being done to my Podcasts.
- Openradius. Got it
- 1 - 2 TB Raid Cluster
- Dedicated Telephony Server
- Dedicated PVR 4-6 Simultaneous Simulateneous Show Recording. Beat
that Tivo. Possible 2 HD Feeds
- Security DVR
- HTC TyTn or the Cingular Variant
- Cybiko Handheld Integration to Misterhouse
