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by **uroskn_redhat** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:10 pm

This is my box:

AMD Athlon 64, 3 GHz
300 GB Hard drive
1 GB DDR Ram
GeForce 7300GS
DVD/RW
802.11 G wireless card

by **davido** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:34 pm

My config:
Samsung 763MB monitor
Athlon XP 1800+
200GB + 80GB HDD (Samsung, Maxtor)
512MB 133MHz SDRAM

GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB
RT2500 WiFi card
SBLive 5.1, TV card ("Hauppauge"?)
+ a lot other USB stuff

WinXP MCE

Server:
without monitor
PII 333MHz
8GB HDD (Quantum Fireball)
256MB 133MHz SDRAM
RT2500 WiFi card
Ubuntu 6.06 Linux

--

And I'm 16 if you want to know

by **afonic** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:58 pm

Ubuntu rox!

by **hu8_debian** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:10 pm

Acer FP 558 monitor
Pentium III with 800mhz
1*512mb sdram + 2* 128mb sdram
ATI Rage Fury 64MB (graphics)
40gb + 30gb hdd

the pc is about half as old as me :oops:

and I'm 15...

by **Matej** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:18 pm

I did some funky stuff with my box.

Intel Core 2 Duo (2x2.4 Ghz)
Asus P5W DH Deluxe (http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?mode ... l2=11&l3=0 crazy stuff!)
2 GB GoodRam DDR2 6400 800 Mhz
Power LC6550 550W silent power supply
WD 320 SATA2 + 200 GB Samsung IDE + DVD burner
Creative SB Live! 24bit
Asus x1600XT Silent
CHIFTEC Dragon case
19'' Samsung SyncMaster 193p+
Running OSX Psst! :wink:

Really amazing performance.

by **afonic** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:31 pm

Wow nice mate!

Although getting a Mac would be cheaper I think.

by **Matej** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:00 am

Nope. It's 1/2 the price of the top model iMac (since I already had the LCD and some other stuff) an more that 1/3 faster acording to benchmark tests.

by **afonic** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:12 am

Actually I have quite changed my PC since the first post too.

AMD Athlon64 3000+
Chaintech VNF4 (nForce4 Ultra)
1GB Kingstone RAM (2x512)
nVidia Geforce6600GT PCI-E
LG Flatron L1915S [19" LCD]
2x Seagate ST3200826AS (200 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA) - Ubuntu and Data Storage
1x Western Digital WDC WD800JB-00FMA0 (80 GB, IDE) - Windows
A Plextor DVD-Reader and CD-Writer and a NEC DVD-Burner
Thermaltake Soprano Case
550watt Chieftech PSU

Dual boot WindowsXP SP2 and Ubuntu 6.06 of course! I need that Windows for stuff like Counter-Strike and Warcraft3, you feel me...

by **zoli** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:00 am

It was time to replace my kitty - a HP Omnibook 6100 - that I have used since 2001.

The new choice is:

Intel Pentium M Core Duo 1.66 GHz (T2300)
HDD ST9100824AS (SATA, 100.0 GByte)
224 MB Intel 950GMA graphic adapter
12.1" WXGA-Display
1024 MByte RAM
DVD+-RW Double Layer Slim-Line drive (external FireWire; 8x DVD-+R, 4x DVD-+RW, 3x DVD-RAM, 24x CD-R, 10x CD-RW, 12x DVD, 24x CD-ROM)
USB 2.0 (Intel)
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5789 Gigabit ethernet
Intel Pro Wireless 3945 WLAN (802.11a/b/g)
FIR-Chip (2nd serial interface)
Bluetooth 2.0
Firewire (IEEE 1394) Texas Instruments
Sound Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) HDA
PCMCIA (Texas Instruments)
5in1 Card Reader (Texas Instruments; for SD,MMC,MS,MS PRO and xD)
1.3 Megapixel Webcam (USB)

... yes, her name is Acer TravelMate 3012 WTMi

I'm missing the serial inteface and it is quite a hassle to make FC5 running on it - but I'll survive.

by **zoli** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:12 am

also... a curiosum - a new box in my home (not yet a polarhome box)

I offer a bottle of good wine (posted from sweden) to first poster who knows (or guess right) what is it.

Hints:

Code: Select all: ~ > uname -a Linux [DELETED] 2.6.9 #1 Wed Jun 14 18:10:32 CEST 2006 ppc unknown ~ > cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : STBx25xx clock : 252MHz revision : 9.80 (pvr 5151 0950) bogomips : 250.88 machine : [DELETED] plb bus clock : 63MHz ~ > cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 30152 kB MemFree: 3464 kB Buffers: 1264 kB Cached: 7376 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 18580 kB Inactive: 3144 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 30152 kB LowFree: 3464 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 17708 kB Slab: 2328 kB Committed_AS: 103096 kB PageTables: 252 kB VmallocTotal: 475136 kB VmallocUsed: 29796 kB VmallocChunk: 442860 kB ~ > df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 3520 3520 0 100% / /dev/mtdblock/1 1792 1408 384 79% /var

by **sjaz** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:39 am

Its an IBM Power PC ...

Triple Play Set top box ? (STB)

by **afonic** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:13 pm

zoli, try Ubuntu if you have hardware trouble!

It kicks (Mandriva's) ass. Seriously.

by **dillona_aix** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:26 pm

I'm going to guess that is is an HP iPaq or other small handheld.
If an iPaq, I would say the Familiar Project might be your distro of choice.

by **afonic** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:22 am

Runs on PPC kernel and uses this chip?

http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/te ... ontrollers

Is it a satelite / digital TV receiver? Using MontaVista linux?

by **sjaz** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:18 am

I so said set top box first!

by **afonic** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:17 pm

We don't know that "set top box" here in Greece.

by **zoli** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:26 pm

you are both right...

It is a set top box - a DVB satellite reciever.
Dream Multimedia's DM-500S - the "dreambox".

It is the cheapest model in its class, but it's a real dreambox, indeed.

telnetable, ftpable, firmware upgradable, connection to k* sharing networks etc.

I really enjoy to hack this box.

OK, well, who deserves the bottle of wine now?

by **sjaz** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:36 pm

I was so first!!!

by **afonic** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:16 pm

sjaz was first, although I honestly found out what it was without understanding what sjaz meant!

It was just Google though!

Just for the history, does it have the Linux I mentioned above pre-installed?

by **zoli** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:03 pm

... no. It runs a dream media own linux.

sjaz: please pm me your address (if you want to get a Rioja red wine from 2002) - otherwise I will be forced to open the bottle myself

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