2006/08/28 My computers are a big part of my life. Photographs illustrating them can be found in this gallery.
20060818 Some photos taken on August 18, 2006 of the inside of my PC, chryseis, to illustrate a post on a technical forum. Ribbon cables == airflow disaster. Even from this angle, you can see that one of the side panels has been removed.
20060813 My server, nyx, required a DIMM transplant after I discovered that its memory was faulty. I took photos illustrating the procedure, which was carried out on August 13, 2006. Radio Times magazines, on a table.]]> 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. But perfectly formed. The CPU and northbridge are cooled passively, connected to the large heatsink via heat pipes. 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. The DIMM is installed and securely pushed into place. So it's time to put the lid back on and test the new memory.... 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.
Miscellaneous computer pictures. 2006/11/24

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.

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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!) ]]> 2005/07/09 nyx with the lights out, demonstrating the glowing front panel. 2005/07/09 Grainy, slightly overexposed shot of my computer desk in low light.