angband
HW: i468DX2/66 IBM compatible
SW: GNU/Linux
The former mail and news server (both UUCP) is currently obsolete
for these services. It occationally handles UUCP-traffic in special
cases and thereby waits until doomsday. It primarily serves as
hardware test platform in recent days.
baator
HW: Customized Mini-BAT
SW: GNU/Linux
As the external firewall router baator channels incoming and
outgoing traffic and collects abnormal behaviour by remote logging
facilities. (The bulky case in the upper halve is not a part of
baator, but a HP LaserJet.)
bagend
HW: SUN SPARCstation 1+
SW: SunOS
Former NNTP-server, which is currently out of duty.
carrock
HW: SUN SPARCclassic
SW: GNU/Linux
External primary DNS-, mail- and NNTP-server the latter of which is
used less and less while changing this service to external news
providers. Shares the duty for POP and IMAP-services together with
lorien.
elysium
HW: Apple Macintosh SE
SW: MacOS
Since it is only connected by its serial interface elysium
rather serves as a terminal than a adequate network entity. It is
also used as a target platform for the Macintosh MC68000 GNU/Linux
port.
eyrie
HW: Apple PowerBook G3
SW: GNU/Linux, MacOS
When bought into advertisement this 31 × 25 cm laptop is an
extraordinary perforcemance bristling dwarven giant - which,
indeed, it is! It outperforms most of the standard desktops and
offers equipment which most IBM compatible PCs do not dare dreaming
of. It excels in both - mobile and stationary daily use.
fangorn
HW: Apple PowerMacintosh G4
SW: GNU/Linux, MacOS, Rhapsody, OpenBSD
Replacing its predecessor, the legendary PowerMacintosh 7500
(604e/200), fangorn is responsible for the multimedial
happenings, in particular non-linear A/V-editing, cluster animation
rendering management, typography, and photo painting.
gehenna
HW: SUN SPARCstation IPX
SW: OpenBSD
gehenna serves as a place of refuge for mobile and external
users who insist on homey feelings even in the most remote parts of
the world.
jade
HW: Apple Macintosh SE/30
SW: MacOS, GNU/Linux
jade has been the first Portable Personal Computer
fulfilling its duty outside the sanctuary as well. This is what
DTP-capable Portable Computers looked like eight years ago.
lorien
HW: IBM PowerSeries 850
SW: GNU/Linux
lorien's duty is to provide most externally available
services, that is HTTP/S, FTP and LDAP. It also serves as DNS and
SMTP backup. The IBM PowerServies is probably one of the few
PowerPC-workstations, which has no SCSI-interface included on its
mainboard. Even worse, its Firmware uses special nasty mappings for
connected IDE-drives the latter of which, of course, may not grow
too big when being used as booting device, since the conservative
mapping would not support it. If managers wanted a machine to
sicken system administrators they would most probably choose IBM
PowerSeries 850. On the other hand, the hardware is built around a
PowerPC. - What else could you demand?
marannon
HW: Customized Mini-BAT
SW: Adapted GNU/Linux for routing
Central core router. Provides internet connectivity for three
routed network segments, as well as a ISDN-dialup backup for the
worst case. marannon keeps on pushing bits from one side of
the network to the other, never grumbling. Data and accounting have
always been right, came never too late and have never been
delivered to the wrong place.
orthanc
HW: P55/586, IBM compatible
SW: GNU/Linux
Primary internal file- and terminal server. Although just being an
ordinary IBM compatible Impersonal Computer orthanc has
always been a workhorse serving the network. It stopped serving as
a workstation a while ago leaving this more personal task to
comrades who have their hearts at the right place. Besides file-
and AppleTalk-service, orthanc also serves the following
services: internal mail, DNS, HTTP, printing, (My)SQL and
MP3-streaming.
typo
HW: HP Vectra, IBM compatible
SW: GNU/Linux (ancient: 1.2.9)
Former PostScript-print- and fax server. Currently out of duty.
Used to provide CPU-cycles (given you call x86 a CPU) in the old
10base2 network to do background calculations like translations
from PostScript to PCL5 or G3 to GIF/PBM and sometimes even
participated in POVray sessions.
yin & yang
HW: Apple Macintosh IIci
SW: GNU/Linux
This twin pair (roughly the same interior) serve as GNU/Linux M68k
development systems. The siblings, yin & yang,
alternate in exploring and discovering new software and features.
However, yang is always a bit faster in trying out new
things leaving yin a little behind. This is, all in all, not
too bad, since yin therefore can be regarded as a less
rapidly growing backup system.
ysgard
HW: Apple Macintosh Quadra 650
SW: MacOS, GNU/Linux, NetBSD
Scan and test platform. Being one of the faster M68k machines (33
MHz) this pal serves well for even GUI-driven applications like
X11, GTK, WindowMaker and the like. This machine also happily grabs
static images using its serially connected QuickCam.