About our boxes

Web Server

The OS on our web server is Slackware Linux. It's an old homegrown box, slow but steady. Here are the parts, in no particular order:

My four kids have new three computers I built back in 2003 (the two youngest have to share one):

Most of the parts came from newegg.com. They all have different cases, since my two oldest didn't want the case I picked out for the two yountest. Fairly cheap, too. The MB, CPU and RAM were about $84 each, give or take a few bucks. The wireless cards were about $35, which was a good deal too. All together, less than $2K for three computers. Back in the day, that would have cost .....oh, never mind.

My workhorse

I put together my box back in November 2007. It wasn't the fastest thing available at the time, but even today it still does a decent job:

The gamepad (joystick) uses the old MIDI/game port, and this motherboard was the only one that had it available. Strangely, though, the board didn't come with the bracket, and ASRock didn't sell it. I had to get an ASUS game/com bracket off eBay. Works fine, except for some reason Google Earth flight simulator doesn't recognize any of the buttons. The KDE joystick utility sees all the buttons and it works fine in SuperTuxKart and Extreme Tux Racer, so it isn't a Linux issue.