I think I need a cleanup. I have just counted seven (7) powered off PCs, four (4) powered on PCs and one (1) powered on laptop and one (1) powered off laptop. I’m not counting the work laptop I have to cart around as well.
I just don’t have enough power points in this house.
Powered off is cluttering the living room.
Spare room = server room !. In here we have
- Linux: my main VM host with 8core x 8Gb running the webserver, vpnserver and nagios attached to a UPS, and lots of external disk as its my backup server also
- Linux: a dual core with 756Mb of memory used as a dedicated network print server and file server
- UPS of course
- and a powered off physical server that gets powered up occasionally to get the VM website mirrored to it in the unlikely event the backup VMhost machine fails at the same time as the primary VMhost machine
- Linux-Powered Off: A backup VM host (and desktop) of 4core x 6Gb as a hot backup for my webserver VM and a minimal openstack play environment. Powered off as it should live in my main work area but had to be slotted out temporarily as below
In my main work area we have
- Linux: a 4core x 3Gb desktop. My main desktop for normal work, games and video editing; plus the sky decoder video output cables go into it should there be something I want to record (yes people, you do not need expensive TV media systems with hard drives to record programs, if it has a set of output plugs to a television you can just as easily cable it to a media center or a PC for recording)
- Linux: Theres an 8core x 32Gb I had to buy as a minimum spec for a work required training course, licensed for VMWare workstation as the training course is a multiple VMWare image envirponment. This is temporary, when the course is done it will go to the workroom, but as VMWare Workstation really requires a local keyboard it has to be in my main work area for now
- the screen on the left is connected to the 32Gb machine with the HDMI cable plus the VGA cable is connected and can be plugged into either my personal laptop or the work laptop if I am oncall. I have configured all three to me controlled by synergy so my main desktop keyboard and mouse can manage all three… although obviously only one of those three can be active at any one time (normally the 32Gb machine, swapped with the work laptop if I am oncall… in the pic it is my personal laptop sitting around waiting for Win10 (doing the upgrade manually instead while typing this)
And my main laptop is a Linux+Win7 dual boot, 4core x 6Gb used when I want to play with openstack or do some programming while sitting in the sun somewhere. The dual boot is simply so I still have a Windoze system somewhere for playing games that won’t run under wine :-).
My second personal laptop is a collectors item. A really old Toshiba with an orange CGA screen, no hard drive, two low density 3.5inch drives… battery is obviously long dead but it still boots into DOS off the first drive and can still run old games (star quest) off the second. They were built to last !. When it stops working it will be because the low density floppy dies, sigh just cannot get replacements for those.
And I need more UPS equiptment :-)
But I will have to have a cleanup to find somewhere to put new UPS gear as I’ve run out of table space (and floor space).
Oh, the messy tables in the background. I have a couple of thousand DVDs now and all bookcases are full so they get stacked on the tables; as well as 500+ cook books I have learned nothing from that are filling up tables as well. And at least 50 PC games I have never opened because I just don’t have the time.
Have managed to find a second hand book store which ws happy to take over 400 sci-fi books I really didn’t need (keeping about 200 favorites I haven’t found the courage to get rid of yet); and they will grudgingly take some cook books. Shame they don’t sell DVDs.
