Computers

Cable mess (427 x 640)

Ribbon cables == airflow disaster.

Removing the PSU (640 x 427)

Inside, at a distance (427 x 640)

Inside, closeup (640 x 427)

Inside, rear angle (427 x 640)

The depth of the PSU (640 x 427)

The height of the PSU (640 x 427)

Rear view (427 x 640)

Even from this angle, you can see that one of the side panels has been removed.

Prepped for surgery (640 x 427)

nyx, on two Radio Times magazines, on a table.

Inside the machine (640 x 427)

Look, ma, no fans! Notice the enormous heatsink on the right, and the heatsinks surrounding the HDD at the bottom left. There's no power supply unit; instead, DC power is supplied from an external PSU.

Tiny motherboard (640 x 427)

But perfectly formed.

Heatsink (640 x 427)

The CPU and northbridge are cooled passively, connected to the large heatsink via heat pipes.

Bad and good (640 x 427)

At the top is the faulty MemoryMaxx DIMM. At the bottom, lying on its anti-static bag, is the replacement, a Crucial-branded Samsung module.

Locked and loaded (640 x 427)

The DIMM is installed and securely pushed into place. So it's time to put the lid back on and test the new memory....

Good to go (640 x 427)

memtest86+ took a little over two hours to complete a single pass. No errors! See that nyx's CPU is a VIA Samuel; all VIA's recent-ish CPUs have had Biblical names.

chryseis' desktop (1024 x 768)
Added: 2006-11-24

chryseis' desktop on November 24, 2006.

Still running Debian, only now with the GNOME desktop environment. The orange theme is one I cooked up myself by modifying the theme used by default in the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Though chryseis doesn't run Ubuntu, I do like their artwork.

chryseis' previous desktop (1024 x 768)
Added: 2006-09-02

chryseis' desktop on September 2, 2006.

The operating system is Debian GNU/Linux. The window manager is a prerelease of Enlightenment DR17. As well as managing the windows, Enlightenment also handles most of the applets at the bottom of the screen, except for the mailbox applet; that's gnubiff. The chat client at the top left is Gaim; the media player at the top right is Audacious, the browser is Firefox, and the pseudo-translucent xterms are gnome-terminals.

(This is a rather large picture; you'll have to be a bit patient while nyx serves it to you!)

nyx at night (640 x 427)
Added: 2005-07-09

nyx with the lights out, demonstrating the glowing front panel.

Everything aglow (640 x 427)
Added: 2005-07-09

Grainy, slightly overexposed shot of my computer desk in low light.