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badge: bastard and demonic's gaming extravaganza... |
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This is the story of the evolution of the machine known as badge.dhs.org. Badge is currently a PowerMac G4 450 that I bought on craigslist for $300! A great machine, check out the specs! The previous incarnation of badge.dhs.org was a lovely Blue & White PowerMac G3 400, with 384 MB of memory and decent hard drive space. It ran MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar) - and never crashed on me! Many moons ago, Badge was a home-built PC (PIII-600E w/256M RAM) running
FreeBSD 4.5. That was a wonderful machine but, alas, my younger brother
needed a computer (he wanted a Windows PC.) Badge was transferred over
to a refurbished PowerMac G3 (Blue & White) running at 400 Mhz. Instead
of FreeBSD, I'm runing MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar) - still built off the BSD
core, but with a brand-new interface. Sweet! However, in May of 2000 I was using the machine more and more, and, with Visa card in hand, set out to completely rebuild the machine. I upgraded every part of the machine to a 6 Gig hard drive, a 433 Mhz Celeron, an Abit BM6 motherboard, and one 64 meg stick of SDRAM. I also then switched to FreeBSD from Linux, a move I've yet to regret. Later upgrades happened one at a time: I added another 64 megs of RAM, I was given another 128 Megs by "Corfur", a CS player, and I'd like to thank CS clan [Be6] (especially Killjoy and Fie-Toe) for the donation of a PIII-600E. (Note: The BM6 supports this only with an adapter.) The last change was an upgrade to a newer 13 gig IBM hard driver and a complete re-install of FreeBSD, up to 4.2. In early 2002 I "switched" and moved the site to a very used Blue and White PowerMac G3 400Mhz. I loaded Mac OS X 10.2 "Panther" on it and it ran quite well. I was pretty happy with this move, as I'm fond of the Mac platform. In 2004, with the G3 being 5 years old, I found (on craigslist) a PowerMac G4 450, which I put a gigabyte of memory and an additional hard drive into. I also loaded Mac OS X 10.3 "Jaguar" on it. This machine is a true workhorse, as I do a *lot* on it, including video editing, mp3 playing, and more. The only times it's ever "down" are when I reboot it after applying updates and when PGE has an uplanned outage. badge stands for "bastard and demonic's gaming extravaganza". At the time the machine was commissioned, my roommate (and co-administrator) went by the gaming handle "DemonicBunny". I go by Bastard. And the gaming extravaganza provided a convenient acronym. :) |
System: Macintosh PowerMac G4 (AGP) |
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