This list is monstrously out of date. I may get round to updating it eventually. Suffice it to say I'm spending nearly no time with BeOS any more, and much more time with modern Macs.
I use a number of computers routinely.
They're all named after booze, since I'm seeking to keep the pub in Web publishing (and Web publishing in the pub):
- porter (since it can be carried)
- Sony Vaio PCG-C1VFK a 667MHz Crusoe with 128MB RAM
- Came installed with Windows 2000 Professional, which has been suitably blown away. It now runs Gentoo and BeOS.
- pride
- Acquired 1700MHz Pentium 4 box, with 768MB RAM
- The main test-bed for videdot, recently upgraded to Zeta, so it spends most of the time moving large media files over the network.
- Outputs to the Tv over S/Video (awaiting some driver support since a graphic card died)
- Lacking infra-red input for futon-control, to follow over RS232.
- Recently added a DVB card, which awaits drivers.
- aspall
- Mid-range Mac Mini
- The main general purpose machine while pride undergoes a bit of an overhaul.
- stout (given away)
- Acquired 266MHz Pentium 2 Dell box, with 64MB RAM
- Just runs BeOS Pro, and is soon to be has just been shipped out.
- tiger (deceased)
- Home-built machine with an Abit BP6, dual 466MHz Celerons, 384MB RAM
- Just runs BeOS Pro, although I often threaten I'll install Linux on it too.
- peroni (deceased)
- Home-built machine with an Intel motherboard and a Pentium II 233MHz / another BP6 with dual 433MHz Celerons
- Peroni's really just the remnants of my old desktop machine, cobbled together in a cheap case. It runs FreeBSD and provides useful services to the rest of the flat (talks to the ADSL line, runs NAT, DHCP and so forth).
- The dismembered parts of tiger still litter the flat, much to my wife's annoyance. I'll make a couple of real boxes out of them soon and ship them out. As of April 2004, though, the peronis have at least moved out.
- undubbed Qube2 (sleeping)
- Acquired Cobalt Qube2 with a WMP11 wireless PCI card
- Intended to be the main router and wireless access point for the flat, offering restricted access to all and sundry. Currently sleeping awaiting a NetBSD/Debian/Gentoo brain implant, along similar lines to the gigaQube project, but without the crazy double hard drive.
- Will only earn the name
beamish once it is sucessfully running the flat's wireless network.
I also have a few bits of technology that are computers if you squint. They all get booze-not-beer names.
- tequila (shots, get it?)
- Sony DSC-F707 digital camera
- midleton
- Palm Tungsten T3
- vodka
- Sony Ericsson T610 Mobile Phone
Pictures of all this gear will follow in due course