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-===== Configuration ===== 
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-  *  Intel Celeron Processor (700MHz/128KB cache) 
-  *  512MB PC133 DIMM RAM 
-  *  Intel i810 based motherboard 
-  *  2 x 200GB RAID1 (Mirrored) 
-  *  Dual ethernet card on PCI bus 
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-====== Notes ====== 
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-This physical machine has been retired. Its data/OS install etc have been moved to a new box for ease of transition. See [[piper]] 
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-Piper.tardis.ed.ac.uk (originally kerouac.weegie.net, then kerouac.projectcolo.org.uk, then fante.weegie.net) 
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-This machine was bought in around 2000 (I'll get the original date later, I still have the original 
-receipt somewhere). It was hosted initially by [[ednet]] (now [[lumison]]) in a rack in their  
-assembly street datacentre, whilst I was being employed by them. Having left ednet in (date), it  
-was moved to [[caladan]] where it became the main hosting machine for [[projectcolo]]. After growing 
-more and more unhappy with Caladan's service, and following the stagnation of [[projectcolo]], the 
-machine was moved up to [[scolocate]] where it was hosted by [[sowood_and_co_ltd]] (date). There it  
-continued to run the same setup it previously had, but running as a [[uml]] instance. The disks were 
-replaced at this point as the previous disks had started showing signs of age (occasional IDE resets). 
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-The system was replaced Jan 2006 with a [[supermicro]] which could cope far better with the load from 
-the number of UML instances. The UML instances were also slowly replaced with XEN instances for  
-improved performance.  
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-The system has been surprisingly stable throughout its lifetime for a budget system. Various other 
-broadberry systems purchased by edNET at the same time suffered faults, mainly due to dying fans or 
-hard disks. It has never locked up due to a hardware failure to my knowledge.  
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-This system was the main node for the imaginarynet irc network since 2000. 
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-I'll clean these notes/placeholders up later 
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-One [[http://www.broadberry.com|link broadberry]] server 
-1u in height, could do with some measurements on here for depth 
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-Oh, and I'll get some photos up! 
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-Motherboard schematic is shown on the inside of the case 
-Case is missing quite a few screws. 
-Looks like a 150W PSU 
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-Two x 200GB disks 
-Western Digital WD2000BB-22GUC0 (WD2000) 
-7200 RPM 8GB cache 
-These will still have a 3 year warranty. I think they may be from silicon group. 
-I'll dig out the receipt later and file it in case it is needed. 
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-Max 512MB Ram is installed on the system (1 PC133 DIMM) 
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-Motherboard is an i810 based D815EEA 
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-Dual ethernet card on PCI bus 
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-Fans are in a bad way, but they system does work. They should be replaced if possible. 
-CPU fan blows up (no shit) through a grate at the top. Machine will still function  
-with this covered. 
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