[Scurry on]Hairball

Scurrying balls of hair



WHO is here:
[FDR Memorial]~rwa2
Rowin Andruscavage
The man behind the curtain.
[Shenandoah]~sofiamar
Sofia Marshak
[Penguin Man]~warren
Warren Andruscavage
Child Process
[Penguin Girl]~thaisa
Thaisa Andruscavage
And then there were two

WHAT is here:
Photo Gallery
of the best shots
Photo Index
of all photos


WHY I am:
My tale
Linux
Not just an OS, it's a way of life.

WHAT I am:
[PC Chassis]

Photos of my various incarnations:


(Click headings below to expand)

[Hardware]

[Operating System]


HERE be friends:
nairball
My old skin from before I was transplanted into a little ION shoebox. Dual core 2.2Ghz Athlon II 64 with some 6 GB of RAM and a Geforce 560Ti.
Sputnik
Sofia's AMD-based Toshiba Satellite desktop replacement laptop running 32-bit Windows Vista, because she couldn't get used to the EeePC for some reason. I need to remember to upgrade her to Windows 7 one of these days while she can still get the educational discount.
Thidarat
Mom's old Dell Inspiron 1150 entertains the kids these days. Upgraded to a top-of-the-line 2.6Ghz P4 with 1.5GB of DDR RAM. Unfortunately, its GPU is not upgradeable, so it's stuck with non-OpenGl-capable embedded intel graphics.
Eeek
Sofia's little EeePC 901 20GB running eeebuntu 3. I think I'll try Fuduntu on it someday.
PaperWt
2.2Ghz P4-M Dell Inspiron 8500, with a Geforce4 video card too old to really do anything useful. Used to be my gaming box back in the day... now the display is dead, time to scavenge it for parts.
devbusiness
PPro 200 Dell that lurks behind the sofa.

Dearly Departed:
Sonechka
Sofia's 700Mhz G3 iBook running MacOSX. Made a half-decent Ken Burns effect screensaver box (except for its limited color display). Had the highest resale value, sold it to some kid for $60 in 2010.
Ana
Nastija's old Sony Vaio desktop from her college days. I managed to scavenge a bit more SDR RAM for it as well as a 1.6Ghz P4, but its silly SiS chipset had some incompatibility with nVidia cards. I did stick an ancient ATi Rage 7500 All-in-Wonder in it before unloading it at a yard sale.
PC
Dual 2.2Ghz Athlon XP-M (unlocked to work in SMP on a Tyan Tiger MPX motherboard), it was a decent machine with a Geforce 6800GS. Sold it to a neighbor.
pgcps2
P.G. County IBM notebook, running Windows XP something. Alas, we hardly knew ye. Well, maybe enough to break into the Administrator account so we could actually install decent gradebook software.
pgcps
P.G. County Department of Education standard-issue Pentium 166 Gateway laptop, running Win98
[tosh]
tosh
33Mhz 486 Toshiba laptop running Debian that got Rowin through his last semester of college, and had taken to riding around in the trunk of his car for no apparent reason.

THERE be friends:
bumba.net
John & Greg's server
loki.ws
Josh's server

Hey, where'd all my friends go?
belly-button.net
Michael & Lori's server
spacebird.net
Dave's server
lick.myleft.net
Rob's server
WHERE am I?
hairball.mine.nu has address 96.240.135.225

25/15Mbps Verizon Business FiOS


HOW do I get in from the cold?
SSH
Mindterm
PuTTY
VNC java
e-mail
SquirrelMail

WHEN is it?
We'll always be happy to give you the time of day...

Sunday, 20-May-2012 06:06:34 EDT

uptime:
06:06:40 up 111 days, 13:20, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.13

UPS time ?


FROM where do you hail?
Webalizer
Analog
Munin

Thank you for visiting Hairball's domain.

Your fortune:
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Rowin Andruscavage
Last Modified: Thursday, 26-May-2011 01:17:35 EDT