Ah, Computers and the Web!
I like them.
I use them even more than I like them.
And the Web.
And Linux.
Links
Everybody loves links.
Where would the internet be if all sites actually featured content!
So here below are a few sites I like, in no particular order.
Like books? Others might too. This site is about sharing, hiding and hunting them.
Favorite humourous site on the web.
German Webcomic. Hilarious if you like it, boring if you don't. "Nicht lustig" means "not funny".
Those people like watching tits and have pictures of them.
Unfortunalety that site died, you may try with
the wayback machine.
For more adult fun, try the next link!
A lot of dirty, dirty pictures.
Watch classical optical illusions in 3D. Mind-boggling.
The free encyclopedia of politically incorrect non-information.
It is probably non-existant and likely not what you think it is.
is the best web browser in the world and has a good email client as well.
Works on several platforms, including MacOSX, Linux and other Unices.
A File Manager for Win32 I can not work without.
An excellent tool to bring Unix-like window handling and mousing to Windows.
Last but not least the best Linux as of yet.
Click
here to see what a famous person has to say about it.
You might want to head over to the project section too, there are some more links,
some of which actually have something to do with myself!
Shell and other scripts
These are some handy shell scripts I use. They WorkForMe™, but might i
or might not break on your systems.
Consider these scripts
BSD-licensed
should you care for legal things. Most of it is rather basic, text-book class stuff though.
More programming work can be found under the project section in the Navbar.
symlink link this script to use.sh, mask.sh and unmask.sh to easily manage your /etc/portage files.
Example: use.sh dev-libs/openssl bindist
mask.sh =dev-db/mysql-5.0.15
run from your linux source dir installs all files relevant for kernel updates.
throw a string at it and it will launch a google search presented in an automatically
selected browser choosinf the right one for console, framebuffer or X.
tar -x, tar -xJ, tar -xz, unzip etc All-in-One. Multimedia-enabled through Blackslash-A Technology.
useful for mp3s to get rid of those pesky filenames with spaces.
lowercase everything - I use it for my mp3 dirs.
Boxes
Here some tidbits of information on my current main computer. I maintain and/or
use a couple of other systems as well, but this is my home desktop box. The other
hardware is lited below.
There is some information on how to
configure this hardware below for use with Linux.
Screenshots of my desktop.
Peole seem to like to know how other peoples desktops look like. So for you here are a few.
Those are clickable by the way.
running KDE 4.3
running XFCE4
running KDE 3.3
running OpenBox3
Specs and Configuration
Other computers and computer-like hardware:
Hostname: hecatomb
OpSys: Gentoo Linux 10.0
Main Use: Desktop
Type: HP xw8200 Workstation
CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz
CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz
RAM: 16GB ECC PC3200 DDRAM
Disk: Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB SATA
Video: nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Hostname: chalice
OpSys: Gentoo Linux 2007.0
Main Use: Router, MythTV box, Fileserver, Webserver
Type: mATX Silent PC
CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ @ 800MHz
RAM: 768MB PC400 DDRAM
Disk: 2x 300GB Samsung SATA
Video: nVidia GeForce3 Ti200
Hostname: hemlock
OpSys: Gentoo Linux 2007.0
Main Use: Mobile Desktop
Type: HP Compaq nx6125
CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3100 @ 1800MHz
RAM: 512MB DDRAM
Disk: ST9402113A ATA-100 drive
Video: ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M (PCIE)
Hostname: hydralisk
OpSys: HP/UX 10, Gentoo Linux 2005
Main Use: misc server, Gentoo HPPA testing, HP/UX training
Type: HP Visualize C160
CPU: HP PA-RISC PA-8000 @ 180MHz
RAM: 2GB DDRAM
Video: 3-D Visualize-48XP
Hostname: zaurus
OpSys: OpenZaurus 3.4
Main Use: PDA
Type: Sharp Zaurus SL5500
CPU: Intel SA-1110 StrongARM @ 206MHz
RAM: 64MB + 16MB Flash
Video: 240 x 320 ref. TFT 65,536 color LCD
OpSys: Kickstart 1.2, WorkBench 1.3D
Main Use: Subject of Nostalgia
Type: Commodore Amiga 500
CPU: Motorola MC 68000 @7.14MHz
RAM: 512KB+512KB
Video: Composite Video Output
Type: Nintendo Entertainment System
Main Use: Subject of Nostalgia,
Dust Receptacle AND Gaming ;)
CPU: MOS Custom 6502 @1.79MHz
RAM: 2K
Video: Composite Video Output 256 x 240
Decomissioned systems:
Hostname: scourge
OpSys: Gentoo Linux
Main Use: Desktop
Type Custom
Motherboard: Asus A7M266-D
CPU0: AMD AthlonXP 1800+
CPU1: AMD AthlonXP 1800+
RAM: 2560MB PC2100 DDR RAM (reg. ECC)
Video: nVidia GeForce 7600GT 512MB
Audio: Creative Live! 5.1 Digital
C-Media I8738
IDE Contoller: Silicon Image CMD 680 Ultra ATA-133 RAID Controller
NIC: Realtek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
Optical Drives: LITE-ON LTR-52246S CD Recorder
JLMS XJ-HD165H, DVD-ROM drive
ASUS CD-S500/A, CD-ROM drive
Magnetic Drives:
Maxtor 6Y060L0, 60GB ATA DISK drive
Maxtor 6Y080P0, 80GB ATA DISK drive
Printers: Xerox DocuPrint 4510PS
HP DeskJet 650C
Other Hardware: Logitech QuickCam Pro2000
Saitek Cyborg 3D Digital
Gravis GamePad Pro
Competition PRO USB
(yes, that's the one from Amiga times!)
Hostname: grzusuwsc082.sft
OpSys: Sun Solaris 8
Main Use: Dayjob Workstation
Type: Sun Blade 2500
CPU: 2 x UltraSPARC IIIi @ 1.6GHz
RAM: 2GB DDRAM
Video: Sun XVR1200, 1920x1200 on 24.1in LCD
Hostname: uxsun021
OpSys: Sun Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10)
Main Use: Home Workstation, Solaris training
Type: Sun Blade 1000
CPU: 2 x UltraSPARC III @ 750MHz
RAM: 1.5GB DDRAM
Disk: 75GB FibreChannel SCSI drive 10000RPM
Video: Sun XVR1000, 1152x900
Main Use: Gaming
Type: Nintendo GameCube
CPU: IBM PowerPC 750CXe 'Gekko' @ 485MHz
RAM: 24MB + 16MB
Video: ArtX 'Flipper' 24bit; TV-out
Hostname: drone
OpSys: OpenBSD 3.4 STABLE
Main Use: Firewall/Router/Terminal
Type: IBM Personal Computer 300GL Model 6282830
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX @ 200MHz (133MHz*1.5)
RAM: 64MB + 32MB = 96MB = 98304KB = 640KB + 97664KB
Video: Cirrus CL GD5446 2MB (expanded to 4MB)
NIC: 3com Etherlink XL/3c900B rev. A (PCI)
D-Link DE530-CT+ rev b4 (digital 21041PB) (PCI)
Hostname: cheops
OpSys: Debian GNU/Linux stable
Main Use: Firewall/Router
Type: HP, model unknown
CPU: Intel Pentium @166MHz
RAM: 64MB EDO-RAM
Video: Tseng Labs Inc ET4000
NIC: Intel Ethernet Pro 100
Realtek RTL-8029
Hostname: knecht
OpSys: Gentoo Linux
Main Use: Firewall/Router
Type: Custom
CPU: Intel Pentium II @350MHz
RAM: 256MB
Video: Voodoo Banshee
NIC: RealTek RTL-8029
RealTek RTL8139
OpSys: Woz Integer BASIC in ROM, DOS3.3
Main Use: Dust Receptacle
Type: Apple //e (gave it away to a Grazian Apple fan)
CPU: MOS 65c02 @1.02MHz
RAM: 64K
Video: Composite Video Output
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