Updated: Mon Jun 9 15:05:30 EDT 2008
darklair resides in my home in Maryland. It was established in 1992 in College Park (UMD dorms) and moved five times since, along with me and all my other stuff. It started out as a single Linux box (a 486 33MHz converted from the evil M$ empire) first without a name, then calling itself darklair.digex.net (where I was working at the time). The domain, darklair.com, came in December 1994 as more machines were added (domains were free back then, but you actually had to justify getting one, and there was only one place to register. and come to think of it, back then there was still some distinction between '.net' '.org' & '.com' - now they actually encourage you to "get them all!" - what the hell is... oh nevermind.) I've thought of much better names for the domain since then, but this one stuck... oh well.
And so, the list of stuff as it stands today... quite a bit thinner than it was years ago. Amazing how much space you can reclaim when you shed your sun3 hardware and SMD drives. I've also become much better about saying "no" when stray hardware comes looking for a home - knowing full well that I don't have the time to mess with it like I used to. Finally, the average age of my running hardware is dropping. I now try to at least break even, if something "new" shows up, something old has to go.
To keep all this gear fired up, I'm running 7 APC UPSs. (3) SU1000NETs, (2) SU1000RM2Us and (2) SU1400RMNETs. 7800 volt-amps!
I run an ADDS 4000 General Purpose Terminal to talk to all the headless gear.
Network gear:
| What | Why | Notes |
| Actiontec MI424WR | FIOS router | wireless |
| Cisco 2509 | serial console server | priceless |
| Netgear DS106 hubs | make packets go | 6-port 10/100 |
Machines:
| OS | System | Vintage | CPU(s) | Memory | Disk | Display | Why | Notes |
| IRIX 6.5.30 | SGI Octane2 | 2000 | (1) MIPS R12000 400MHz (IP30) | 1024MB | 18.2G | GDM-20D11 | powered off | hinv / gfxinfo |
| IRIX 6.5.30 | SGI Origin 200 | 1997 | (2) MIPS R10000 180MHz (IP27/29) | 1024MB | 29.3G | headless | powered off | hinv |
| IRIX 6.5.30 | SGI O2 | 1997 | (1) MIPS R10000 225MHz (IP32) | 192MB | 17.0G | SyncMaster 930B | workstation | hinv / gfxinfo |
| IRIX 6.5.22 | SGI Indigo2 | 1995 | (1) MIPS R4400 250Mhz (IP22) | 192MB | 4.1G | GDM-20D11 | powered off | hinv / gfxinfo |
| Mac OS X 10.4.11 | iMac MA876LL/A | 2007 | (1) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz | 1024MB | 250G | built-in 20" wide | workstation | 250G external |
| Mac OS X 10.3.9 | PowerBook M7572 Pismo | 2000 | (1) G3 400MHz (PPC 750) | 576MB | 5.6G | built-in | workstation | |
| FreeBSD 6.3 | generic PC | 2000 | (1) Pentium III 550MHz (686) | 128MB | 20.0G | headless | smtp,http,dns | |
| FreeBSD 2.2.8 | generic PC | 1994 | (1) Pentium 100MHz (586) | 64MB | 1.4G | headless | x10 | to be retired |
Gear collecting dust:
Hiding somewhere around here are a pair of Amigas, a 1000 and a 500. Perhaps one day something cool will be done with them. I also have a pair of Sparc20s and a Sparc5 lying around. Never know when you might need to build a headless workhorse for some reason. There's also a another Pentium III 800 sitting broken (why do I keep this shit?). The biggest paperweight I have taking up space is a Sun 3/470. I can't seem to bring myself to get rid of it for some reason. Good old Pegasus. There are quite a few Cisco routers of various types left over from the pre-FIOS days of 56k Frame Relay and ISDN home connections. I need to recycle this stuff, I really do.
