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Former primary computer (~2013-2023). Lived in a 4U Rack chassis, now parted out and stored in pieces. The system history (and last-known software state) can be found below.

2014 System State & Photos

Photo of the inside of a 4U rackmount chassis containing the parts outlined below
Photo of the front of a 4U rackmount chassis

Hardware

  • Chenbro RM42300 compact (short depth) 4U chassis
  • Silenx 120mm & Silenx 80mm fans
  • ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3 ATX motherboard
    • AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor, 95 watt
    • Mushkin PC3-10666 4x2GB modules, model 996586
    • ATI Radeon HD 4250 on the M4A88T-V motherboard
  • Antec Truepower TP-650, 650 watt.
  • Hauppage WinTV NTSC 44371 Rev D123 TV tuner; (see bktr(4))
  • Generic 5.25" internal IDE hard drive Mobile Rack
  • "Connectland" 5.25" SATA hard drive Mobile Rack (CL-HD-MROF)
  • LG Internal 5.25" DVD+RW Reader/Writer, unknown model
  • IDE Zip drive, unknown make/model, salvaged, not connected
  • Boot: Intel X25-M G2 SSD (MN SSDSA2M040G2GC)
  • Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB (MN ST3300622A)
  • Storage: WD Caviar SE WDC 300GB (MN WD3000JB-00KFA0)

2016 System State & Photos

Photo of the inside of a 4U rackmount chassis containing the parts listed below
Photo of the front of a 4U rack chassis

Hardware (Additions & Removals)

Added:

  • Chenbro left-side drive cage (MN 84H342310-003)
  • Akasa Cagestor C31 (MN AK-HDA-07), 4x3.5" HDD in 3x5.25" bays
  • Noctua NF-F12 120mm PWM fan
  • Noctua NF-A8 FLX fans (1? 2? Forget the exact amount)
  • Zotac GT 630 ZONE Edition (reports as NVIDIA GeForce GT 630)
  • 5.25" floppy drive, unknown make/model, salvaged, not connected
  • Storage2: WD RE4 WDC 1TB disk (MN WD1003FBYX-01Y7B1)
  • Storage2: Seagate ES.3 1TB disk (MN ST1000NM0033)

Removed:

  • Generic 5.25" internal IDE hard drive Mobile Rack (part now missing)

And the two 40pin IDE drives were disconnected (but remained in the chassis).

2021 System State & Photos

Photo of the inside of a 4U rack case, a little more cleaned up this time
Photo of the front of a 4U rack chassis, parts reflected in the list below

Hardware (Additions & Removals)

Added:

  • Boot Backup: Crucial MX500 250GB (MN CT250MX500SSD1 M3CR023)
  • Evercool Armor 2x5.25" drive cage (MN HD-AR-R-BK)
  • 3.5" floppy drive, unknown make/model, salvaged
  • LG Internal SATA BD/DVD/CD drive (HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH16NS40)
  • 2x internal 5.25" plastic sliding drawers (unknown make/model)

Removed:

  • Akasa Cagestor C31 (MN AK-HDA-07); moved to spare parts
  • "Connectland" 5.25" SATA drive rack; moved to Antonio
  • LG Internal 5.25" DVD+RW Reader/Writer; moved to Antonio
  • Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB (MN ST3300622A); moved to Antonio
  • Storage: WD Caviar SE WDC 300GB (MN WD3000JB-00KFA0); moved to Antonio

2023/2024 Final System State

TODO: photograph empty Chenbro chassis

Prospero was usurped by Antonio december 2023. (In other words: I removed all the parts from the Chenbro case and distributed them to Ferdinand and Antonio).

Hardware (Remaining & Removals)

Remaining Parts:

Removed:

  • Noctua NF-A8 FLX fans; moved to Antonio
  • ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3; moved to spare parts
    • AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor; moved to spare parts
    • Mushkin PC3-10666 4x2GB modules; moved to spare parts
  • Antec Truepower TP-650; moved to Ferdinand
  • Hauppage WinTV NTSC 44371 Rev D123 TV tuner; moved to spare parts
  • Zotac GT 630 ZONE Edition; moved to Ferdinand
  • Boot: Intel X25-M G2 SSD (MN SSDSA2M040G2GC); moved to Ferdinand
  • Boot Backup: Crucial MX500 250GB; moved to Ferdinand
  • Storage2: WD RE4 WDC 1TB disk; moved to Ferdinand
  • Storage2: Seagate ES.3 1TB disk; moved to Ferdinand
  • Evercool Armor 2x5.25" drive cage; moved to spare parts
  • LG Internal SATA BD/DVD/CD drive; moved to Ferdinand
  • IDE Zip drive, unknown make/model, salvaged; moved to Antonio
  • 5.25" floppy drive, unknown make/model; moved to Antonio
  • 3.5" floppy drive, unknown make/model, salvaged; moved to Antonio
  • 2x internal 5.25" plastic sliding drawers; moved to spare parts

Software

Last operational state: FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE; started life as (I think) 10.0-RELEASE. I checked: this install dates back to June 11th 2014.

Installing this list (and any requirements) will reproduce my former FreeBSD environment. I think.

  • adwaita-qt5 alacritty alsa-seq-server antimicro
  • barrier bash bchunk bind916 bind-tools bsdinfo bsdstats
  • cdparanoia cdrdao cdrtools cmake cmus conky cursor-dmz-theme
  • debootstrap dejavu dolphin dsbmixer dunst dvdisaster dvd+rw-tools
  • embree exif
  • falkon-qtonly fetchmail flac ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailer freerdp fusefs-sshfs
  • gallery-dl geeqie gimp git gmake gnome-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme-extras gnome-icons-faenza gnome-themes-extra gnupg gpgme groff gsed gtk-engines2 gtk-murrine-engine gtk2-qtcurve-theme
  • handbrake herbstluftwm hsetroot htop
  • icoutils inconsolata-ttf ioquake3 ioquake3-server irssi
  • ja-alias-fonts jgmenu jpegoptim jq
  • kristall
  • lagrange lame lha libbdplus libffi33 lftp libgdiplus libgit2 libopenmpt libsamplerate libxslt liferea links linux-c7 linux-nvidia-libs lynx
  • mednafen mesa-dri mesa-libs meson mono mp3gain mpv mutt nasm
  • netradiant netsurf newsboat nvidia-driver nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig
  • oath-toolkit obs-qtwebkit obs-studio openmw openrgb
  • p7zip password-store pcmanfm-gtk3 picom pinentry pinentry-qt5 pkgconf pngcrush procmail py-eyed3 py-mutagen py39-cryptography python3
  • qbittorrent qlipper qpdfview qt5-style-plugins qt5-style-qtcurve qt5-webengine qtcurve qtcurve-utils qterminal
  • redshift rsync rust
  • scrot shuf slim slim-freebsd-themes smartmontools sox sudo
  • thttpd tint2 tinyxml2 tmux todour trenchbroom
  • unadf unarj unrar unrpa
  • vim vimpager vnstat vobcopy
  • windowmaker wine wmctrl
  • xdms xdotool xorg xorg-vfbserver xscreensaver
  • yt-dlp
  • zbar, zip, zmusic

And multimedia/libdvdcss installed via portmaster.