I have an assortment of various machines with different tasks and purposes.

My internal LAN is protected by Rebecca, my firewall box. A modest machine, she has enough to get the job done. The previous box's hard disk finally died, my old Quantum Fireball 1.2GB 3.5" disk, in fact, so I finally retired that Baby AT box. She now runs on a Celeron 333MHz with 128MB of PC100 and a 4GB Seagate Ultra Wide SCSI disk. Three different Ethernet cards, all boasting the same RTL8139 chipset, connect to the Internet and two separate internal networks. One of those two plugs into a nice 802.11g access point. Rebecca's OS of choice is Debian GNU/Linux. Mine as well.

Nebula is my internal server. It runs IMAP, Apache, MySQL, Samba, NFS, BIND9, and NTPd, just to name a few services. The box is driven by an Athlon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred-B core AMD CPU running at 133FSB with 512MB of PC2700 RAM. The operating system resides on a AMI MegaRAID SCSI RAID controller with two Seagate 18GB SCSI drives running in a RAID 1 configuration. The box's primary storage array is a 3Ware 7410 ATA RAID card, with a RAID 5 configuration with four Western Digital 120GB 8MB/cache EIDE drives. Fast Ethernet is provided on-board by the SiS900 chipset. Nebula runs Debian GNU/Linux, of course.

Sarah is my backup server and wireless gateway. It literally handles snapshot backups using Dirvish. It's also on stand-by running backup DNS, firewall, and NTPd duties. It's powered by a Pentium III 600MHz slot 1 CPU and 256MB of RAM. It's running an Adaptec 2940UW with a 17GB IBM Ultrastar 50-pin SCSI drive as the OS disk and Linux software RAID with two Maxtor 120GB drives in a RAID 0 (stripe) configuration as the backup storage array. Sarah boots the Sid distribution of Debian GNU/Linux.

Rachael is my Microsoft Windows (tm) 2000 laptop. I employ it for critical mobile applications, like sitting out by the pool and surfing the Web. I also use it to play whatever games it will run. It has an Intel Celeron 1.4GHz CPU. It has a mere 256MB of RAM and a 20GB ultra quiet disk. The 14.1" TFT display and 32MB on-board Intel shared RAM video card are enough to get the job done. Ethernet is achieved via an on-board 100Mbps network adapter.

My workstation, Faith, is currently an Athlon 1800 XP+ on a SiS 735 chipset board, the ECS K7S5A. I have outfitted it with 1GB of PC2700 DDR. The board has an AC97 audio chipset and on board 100Mbps Fast Ethernet. I am currently booting it with a Sapphire repackage of an ATI's 9600 SE, AGP 4x, and 128MB on the card. The operating system resides on a 9.4GB Quantum Atlas 10K2 Ultra2 SCSI disk on an OEM Adaptec 2940U2 SCSI adapter. The box has a modest 40GB Western Digital disk for storage. The secondary IDE channel holds a NEC 4x DVD-/+RW burner. She currently boots Debian GNU/Linux and dual boots Windows 2000 Professional until I acquire a new dedicated Windows desktop.

Robyn was my Windows 2000 Professional gaming box. This box was originally my file server. Then it was a file server again. Now it is finally retired. The box is driven by an Intel P(iii) 600MHz Slot 1 CPU, 384MB of RAM, and an Ultra ATA 66 equipped IDE controller with a 40GB Western Digital EIDE OS disk and a trusty 24X Lite-On CDRW. The new Robyn might be a P4 2.4GHz machine that may be acquired at some point in the near future. Time will tell.