Strog's Journal: February '03

Main System:
Upgraded to a Geforce4 MX 440 and put 1Gb of PC2100 DDR ram in it. I'm down to FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and XP Pro for OSes. FreeBSD is now my OS of choice and I rarely boot to windows since I have UT and UT2k3 running on FreeBSD.

Wife's Computer
Threw in a Socket 370 mb in there. Celeron 900Mhz, 512Mb ram, 40Gb hd, Geforce2 MX. She's running XP pro on it so it gives me even less reasons to boot into windows on my main system.

SGI O2:
Finally arrived yesterday after months of waiting for it. R5k 180Mhz, 64mb ram and 2Gb hd. I got it up on the network and running yesterday. It is a nice little box and I need to get IRIX 6.5 for it now so I can really play with it.

File Server
Upgraded the data drive to 80Gb on a Promise ATA133 controller and 640mb ram. Much improved performance. I need to put in a 10/100 switch to really give it a workout.

R&D #1:
P4 1.6Ghz, 512mb ram, Geforce2 MX, 30Gb hd. This is my play box right now. I used it to do some testing with FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE before I put it on my main system. Seems like a lot of system for just playing around with but I was given the board/cpu so we will see where it goes from here.

R&D #2:
It has my wife's old motherboard setup in it. K6-2 450Mhz, Matrox G200 Marvel, 192Mb ram, 20Gb hd, Sound Blaster Live!. It's running Mandrake 9.0 and I wanted to play with MythTV on it before I invested in a faster/permanent setup. I was able to get the tuner and tv out working great and compiled and installed everything for MythTV but have pushed it to the back burner for now. It's nice to have a tv at my computer area and I want to work with capture and playback soon. I'll move this to a faster setup if this works. I have another socket 370 mb and I bought a 1.1Ghz Celeron but the board rev needs a 1.75v core. I guess I'll buy a FCPGA2 adapter if MythTV works like I want on this box.