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Parish |Peculiar |Pedantry |Personal |Photos |Plateways |Positronics |Post |Professional |Programme |Programming |Places |
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Blat | Cron Jobs | HouseMade | JMR | Photo Download |
Photos | Setup | Tardis | ViewTrains | Web |
Wine |
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I have a range of computers. Keeping track of them (andmaintaining them!) can be a headache. So I've compileda list of machines in use. There are also a number of webservers (such as the one you are reading right now onajh.co@spencer). The general principle used toname them is
Server Name | Use | Model | System | URL | DNS |
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albens | Off-site server | virtual linux box | leased from Digital Ocean, Ubuntu 14.04 | IP: 45.55.18.15 DN: albens.ajhurst.org | Afraid |
burnley | TV entertainment desktop system (rebranded from echuca) | Apple iMac 27" | Ubuntu 18.04 | IP: 10.0.0.8 | - |
gwuc-wiki | replacement for eregnans | virtual linux box | leased from Digital Ocean, Ubuntu 16.04 | IP: 104.131.87.34 DN: wiki.gwuc.org.au | (unknown) |
hamilton | current laptop | Apple MacBook Pro (Retina 13") | OSX 10.10.5 | IP: 10.0.0.7 (hamilton) 10.0.0.7 (hamilton-air) | - |
spencer | Main home server | Silverstone RM720 with ASUS Z170-AR motherboard | Ubuntu 16.04 | IP: 10.0.0.2 | - |
sophos | Network control (runs Sophos UTM9) | HP Compaq | Ubuntu 13.10 | IP: 10.0.0.101 DN: ajh.co IP: 203.221.113.153 | OzHosting |
Machines below are currently not in use. Some may beresurrected at a future date. | |||||
auteuil | chook house controller (not in use during renovations) | Beagle Bone Black | Ubuntu ? | IP: 10.0.0.117 | - |
bittern | laptop (available, not in regular use) | Apple MacBook Pro 15" | OSX 10.6.8 | IP: 10.0.0.109 | - |
echuca | Mac OSX desktop system(rebranded as burnley) | Apple iMac 21" | OSX 10.6.8 | IP: 10.0.0.9 | - |
fat-controller | train computer (not in use during renovations) | Pentium | Ubuntu ? | IP: 10.0.0.104 | - |
lilydale | spare laptop (has broken BIOS) | ACER Aspire S7 11" | Ubuntu 14.04 | IP: 10.0.0.112 | - |
A very nice Christmas present from my son was a Brother MFCL8600CDW colour laser printer, which is networked across thehouse, and provides the main printing facilty (although thereare other inkjet and laser printers around).
This list is maintained for archival purposes
This section has been moved to a separate page ondisks.
These web pages have gone through a number of interations.This Web Pagedocuments the story.
We previously rented a house while our primary residence wasbeing extensively renovated. While renovations were inprogress, along came NBN (wouldn't you know it?) This causessome inconvenience, as we had to change our ADSL line across toNBN, without immediately being able to access and test it. Theold connection used a 2.9Mbps download/0.74Mbps upload internetconnection (Internode ADSL2+), via a Billion 7800N modem, whichall worked fine throughout its lifetime, and I was loath tochange it.
However, Optus had other ideas. We had a land-line telephonesupplied through Optus, and had paid for the connection duringthe renovation (although unable to use it), because we wanted tokeep the number. With the advent of NBN, Mr. Optus told us thatthe phone would be disconnected only a few months after the NBNwas available, and in any case, well before the renovations wereto be finished. So we had to do something. I switched both thephone and the internet to NBN (with ISP Internode), and toldOptus to go jump. I since see that they are being prosecuted byACCC for fraudently telling customers they would be disconnectedby the statutory period had expired! My three separateexperiences with Optus have all been bad. I don't know why theysurvive. Perhaps because Telstra is so bad?
I took advantage of the fact that our rented house is only 2doors up the street from the renovations. With the permissionof the intermediate neighbour, I ran a cat5 cable along his backfence, connecting number 5 with number 7, and we ran ourinternet connection via this.
I mentioned Telstra. We paid for a premium cable connection ($140/month)into our rented house, and found it worked well enough. It runsat 113 Mbs download, but only 2 Mbs upload. Contrast this withthe Internode NBN connection which supplies 93 Mbs download and29 Mbs upload, a 6 Mbs improvement for $40 less! ($100/month)
Now! We are back in our extensively renovated house, andhave rationalized the systems somewhat. However, things arestill in a state of flux, and in particularly, the housecomputer is waiting to be restored, along with the irrigationsystems and the chook house door. The chook house door has beenre-instated, at least to the point of being able to control itremotely, although this does not mean by computer control asyet. Nor do we have any chooks to control. Our internetconnection is now via NBN and Internode, and works well enough,although it is no faster than the old Telstra cable we had inthe rented property. We still don't have a telephone fixed line!
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