Andrew Beresford's Blog

… how many computers do I use. They meant, at work and at a home, how many do I use on a day to day basis.

It took me a while to work out, but here’s a semi-detailed answer;

• monkey. monkey is my main home workstation. I use it when I am working from home, or for playing the odd game, although I’m not much of a gamer (though recently I’ve been playing Speedball 2 – a game from the early 90′s I used to play). I’ve had monkey, in various forms, for the past ten years, although I suspect the only original part is the floppy disk drive.
• coal. coal is my main home file server. It stores all my files, music, videos and all the other tat you keep. It also acts as a DNS server, LDAP replica and shares out music via DAAP (iTunes).
• diamond. diamond is my firewall and wireless access point.
• moon. moon is my test box. At the moment I am trying out Nexenta on it so I can run my home directory on ZFS (over NFS).
• gold. gold is a big machine that I have (14 CPUs and 4.5GB RAM). It is currently turned off as it uses quite a lot of electricity. I use it if I need a large SMP machine (which is rarely).
• rock. rock is my PVR machine for recording and watching TV. It is currently turned off.
• tintin. tintin is my Mac laptop. I use it when I am out and about – or lazing in bed!
• terrapin. terrapin is my main workstation at work
• tortoise. tortoise is my work NFS and test server. It has also been known to share music out via DAAP (iTunes).

That brings the number to 9. 6 at home, 1 laptop and 2 at work.

That’s not right.