The first tottering steps
Hastily glossing over the misadventure that was my early retirement foray into the curious world of the Apple iMac (or, as the creator of "Dilbert" described Apple systems — every one was an overpriced crash-lemon) let's skip along to...
Today's systems
I present a perfect cure for boredom — my current internal network of devices and data storage. It's a snapshot of the digital bits and pieces hereabouts. Technology Towers is an all-Linux zone (with odd lumps of Android knocking around, plus whatever it is that lives inside the three Synology NAS boxes in addition to any spiders):
Notes on current stuff, and some nostalgia:
- Musings on the illusion of progress
- AWS and how to set up a static HTML web site hosted in "the cloud"
- Skylark (16 GB, quad-core Intel i7 6700K Skylake)
- i5 NUC (16 GB, dual-core Intel i5 Skylake)
- How to recover when BlackBeast (Mint 17.3 MATE) falls over in a heap
- SQLite Browser (a lightweight SQL DB tool)
- lighttppd (a lightweight web server) configuration
- Musings on digital audio woes
- Musings on crowd-sourced data
- BlackBeast Mark III (16 GB, quad-core Intel i7 4790K)
- Listing my DVD/Blu-ray films catalogue (Linux)
- Sorting my latest books catalogue (Linux)
- Linux Mint 17.1 (on being forced to make the move!)
- Android PC Mk II (nVIDIA SHIELD gaming tablet)
- Webserver Mk IIa (Raspberry Pi2 running Raspian and lighttpd)
- Synology DiskStation DS212j NAS
- Sorting a later books catalogue (ARM RISC-OS)
- My first ethical dilemma (ICL 1900 Series and IBM S/360)
- Initial home computing adventures (Z80 CP/M and ARM RISC-OS)
- Sorting an early books catalogue (Z80 CP/M)
- My first IBM book (the CICS 1.6 General Information manual... and its readability "problem")
- My freelance programming career (40 years ago)
- My first book (sunk without trace, like its subject — the ICL 1900 Series mainframe low-level language)
- My Buffon needle simulation, and the trouble it caused
- Musings on technical writing
Roadkill along the Information Superhighway:
- SSIs Molehole's use of SSIs (displaced by a return to static HTML)
- Laptop PC (replaced by Intel Skylake NUC i5 PC)
- How to recover when BlackBeast (Mint 17.1 Xfce) falls over in a heap
- BlackBeast Mark II (8 GB, quad-core Intel i7 2600K)
- Win8.1 Pro (first impressions)
- On moving to Win8 Pro (and a gotcha or two along the way)
- Android PC Mk I (replaced by nvidia SHIELD gaming tablet)
- Western Digital Live TV HD Media Streamer (replaced by Oppo BDP-103EU Blu-ray and media player)
- BlackBeast Mark I (8 GB, 6-core AMD)
- Buffalo Terastation NAS (replaced by Synology DS212j NAS)
- Netgear Media player... (replaced by Western Digital Live TV HD Media Streamer)
- Roku... (replaced by Netgear Media player)
- Webserver Mk I (Asus Eee PC, running Ubuntu 10.04 Server and Apache, retired, September 2012)
- Webserver Mk 0 (HP 64-bit AMD 5000+, running Ubuntu Server 10.04 and Apache, retired, May 2012)
- Gateway PC (Intel dual Core Pentium D, running XP and/or Ubuntu, retired, May 2012)