Ok, a website has been  added with acquisition of a new server "unique2".

1. dellazoid.homelinux.net = the Dell Inspiron 530, Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 2 GB ram, 320 GB SATA. This is my main desktop machine. It handles the Dave’s Arch Linux Adoration Page and the Dave’s Blog and gets the most use (rarely boots into XP). No big changes here.
2. unique2.homelinux.net = a "new to me" HP/Compaq Presario SR1030NX, AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 2.16 GHz, 512 MB ram, 160 GB PATA.  This is my secondary desktop machine.  This serves as a second desktop for the grandkids to play on or for watching videos.  It also has a duplicate of the Slackware Adoration Page website.
3. unique.homelinux.net = the HP Pavilion XE-743, Intel Pentium III Celeron, 600 MHz, 384 MB ram, 80 GB PATA. This now mostly handles backups but still hosts the Slackware Adoration Page website.  Currently operates headless.

2008-09-07

Ok, website has been rearranged a bit and I have the server "unique" setup again.

1. dellazoid.homelinux.net = the Dell Inspiron 530, Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 2 GB ram, 320 GB SATA This is my main desktop machine. It handles the Arch Linux Adoration Page and gets the most use (occasionally boots into XP).
2. unique.homelinux.net = the HP Pavilion XE-743, Intel Pentium III Celeron, 600 MHz, 384 MB ram, 80 GB PATA This uses dyndns.org to webhop to dellazoid.homelinux.net:8080, and then my router redirects port 81 to the HP machine. This is my secondary machine and mostly handles the Slackware Adoration Page website and backups.

2008-05-06

Ok, site still being hosted on Charter.
Gave the Gateway E-3400 to my Mom, since it had Windows XP Home on it and she desperately needed her Windows 98 replaced. She told me she was getting dialog boxes popping up saying something about “someone else is using your computer …”. Oh dear, some h4×0r rooted my Mom! So out with 98 and in with XP for her (she just wouldn’t be able to handle a linux box, she’s 87 for Christsake!)
I was saddened to discover that she only had a 26K modem, so it got replaced with an old 56K one I had laying around. She now surfs a bit faster, and tho I’ve tried I just can’t convince her to move up to 5 Mbps cable service. Also this Gateway now has 512M of ram whereas the old HP had 64M ram.
Her old HP Pavilion XE-743 got upgraded to 384M ram, replaced the cdrom and replaced the hard drive (20G up to 80G). It now has linux on it and is serving as my backups boxen.

2008-04-27

Site has been moved to my Charter site due to hardware failures.
Well, it all started with the need to do some in-case cleaning. The cpu heat sink was seriously clogged with household dust and needed cleaning badly.
But, when disassembled, some fragile plastic parts simply fell apart.
So, it was time to create a frakenmonster pc out of an old Gateway E-3400 machine (Intel P3 Coppermine, 933 MHz) that a friend gave me (the old one was an AMD 850 MHz Athlon K7).

2007-10-31

Bought a new PC – Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop:

• Intel Core2 Duo processor E6550 (2.33GHz 1333FSB) w/Dual Core Technology and 4MB cache
• 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
• Dell USB 4 Button Premium Optical Mouse with Scroll
• Dell USB Keyboard
• 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS
• 320GB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive (7200RPM)
• Dell 19-in-1 Media Card Reader
• Image Restore
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional,Service Pack 2, English
• Backup media for XP Pro Dimension C521
• Power DVD 7.0
• Integrated NIC card
• Roxio Creator Basic
• 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
• Integrated Audio

Of course, I immediately installed Linux on it 

2007-06-08

Charter Communications ISP is having troubles of late. Last weekend my 5 Mbps connection was only able to muster a mere 680 Kbps download rate and the upload was at times as low as 10 Kbps. This severely sux0rs. Reports are that they are having serious problems with their head end systems. (Problem resolved: nic failing, Resolution: $15 nic. This really pissed me off, because Charter blamed everything from their own servers to apartment wiring before I found this out myself by connecting my son’s laptop and finding out it worked just fine.)

2006-12-01

Purchased a Lite-On LH-18A1P-185 DVD Recorder/Player. Began using dvd format for Slackware installs.

2006-08-24

First day with Charter Cable Internet at 5 Mbps, nice.

2006-01-21

First day with Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop with XP, purchased for my son’s birthday.