GnuGuy didn't make it to 2005. He's been replaced by Tanman.
Scrappy retired in August 2002 during the office move. He's now been replaced by GnuGuy. Scrappy was made from scraps of computer laying around the office. All that was bought new was a monitor and an Iomega Zip drive - everything else was scrounged or reconditioned. GnuGuy is much the same, only a bit bigger and faster.
Tanman vital statistics:
Yet another homebrew system, Tanman is built on the Intel 440LX platform, sporting dual Pentium-II 266Mhz processors, 384 MB RAM. Tanman gets its name from the cheesy minitower case, theoretically "bronze" in color, but really more towards the tan.
At this writing (Jan 2005) Tanman contains a pair of 4.3GB SCSI-3 drives, an IDE CDROM drive scrounged from a junked Compaq, a 3.5 inch diskette drive, the last working 5.25-inch diskette drive, a [mostly non-working] SCSI Zip drive, 10/100 integrated NIC, and some other bits.
For software, we're Apache 1.3.x and other applications, including mod-perl, mod-tcl, and php. Among the sites hosted here are our weather server, the photoserver and New Jersey Churchscape.
For email server we continue to use SLMailNT which has been quite reliable and stable for eight years now!! I recommend a look at this product for anyone who is otherwise contemplating Microsoft SmallBusiness Server.SLMAilNT now supports some reasonable anti-spam technology. Local policy is to reject anonymous connections, reject known dialup and dynamic cable pools, reject known open proxies and utilize various DNSBL blocklists including our own locally maintained list.
FTP is handled by the old reliable WAR-FTPD.
Among the current research projects is converting a surplus Cisco 806 Ethernet Router into a comprehensive firewall, hopefully one we can reprogram on the fly!
Our connection to the world is via SDSL on Speakeasy. At present we consider Speakeasy to be "best of breed" in DSL suppliers (we have direct experience with nine different broadband suppliers thus far!!).
For the true insomniac, follow this link for some more technobabble (about our link to the world), or press here to go back to the start.