Pants Full of Unix

[Tried posting this through email+PGP, didn't show up, which either means it'll show up eventually or never.]

Around clicking “submit” on jobcircle a lot and speaking with recruiters yesterday, I cleaned up the eclipsed.net “datacenter” (read, spare bedroom in my apartment) a bit. In the process, I discovered three computers I'd forgotten I owned: a PowerMac 6500 from who-knows-where that I trucked up to Wasabi when I interned there to use as a workstation; a 1 RU box from freeme.com (don't bother; they
went out of business, which is why their 1 RU systems are running around), and a PowerMac G3.

So I guess I'll be offloading some services from grappa, the firewall/workstation box, (like, say, DNS) in preparation for its being the firewall/file server box (with a couple of 750 GB RAID 5 LUNs of SATA disk). Maybe setting up my Postfix (amavisd SpamAssassin clamav) SMTP filter here at home too to take some load off the mail/web server. That accounts for the G3 and the 6500. The colo box will be a mirror of the SMTP filter and the web stuff and actually get colo'ed. The massive disk and paying for colo comes, obviously, after I'm employed again. Oh, that and getting a serverclass motherboard for grappa and a case for grappa's motherboard (for the replacement workstation).

Anyway, pictures:

uriel (PowerMac 7200 turned 7500 turned G3, with the Duality (the official site is long dead) sticker and Tanqueray logo, mail and web), grappa (AMD Athlon whatever, firewall, DNS, file server, workstation), APC SmartUPS 1100s (top one's the dead one, ).

NeXT turbocube, dlk's (if you don't know who I'm talking about, it doesn't matter) iMac, 6500, and fossilized PC, my 6500, G3, 1 RU slab, pair of DECStation 3000s (six boxes because four of them are 1 GB-each disks), 7600 (to be used with the 7200 motherboard in the closet for PPC 601 support under NetBSD), Performa 636CD (might actually be a 6300, inside, don't recall), SGI Indigo.

“HVAC system”, monitors (notably, one for the SGI, a 21″ Dell this desk probably can't suppor the weight of, and a page-view b&w Apple), whiteboard, some Swarthmore kid's desk chair stored here for the summer.