| birthdate |
name |
first os |
first home |
explanation |
decommissioned |
| 1994 |
playdoh |
MacOS 7 |
Great Barrington, MA |
Parody of Plato, main Simon's Rock server. |
1995 |
| 1997 |
solace |
WinNT 4 |
Amherst, MA |
primary home machine |
1999 |
| 1997 |
eco |
Linux |
Cambridge, MA |
After the semiotician. Main web/mail server of the 3e.org
domain. |
1999 |
| 1999 |
neko |
Linux |
Plainsboro, NJ |
A play on eco, but also japanese for 'cat'. An AMD box used for
development work. Caught on fire when CPU fan failed. |
2000 |
| 1999 |
miso |
Win2K |
Plainsboro, NJ |
The machine itself was the color of miso soup, also the name of
a friend's cat, who happend to be miso-soup colored. Primary home machine. |
2003 (but see echo) |
| 2001 |
siam |
Win2K |
Piscataway, NJ |
Shares three letters with previous name, also vaguely in keeping with asian naming scheme.
Short-lived; bargain-box built from parts, failed within months. |
2001 |
| 2002 |
maki |
MacOS X 10.0 |
Piscataway, NJ |
A Japanese food, and a play on iMac. Primary home machine. Sold to Seth's wife Kirsty. |
2008 |
| 2002 |
eco |
Linux |
St. Louis, MO |
3e.org finally had a dedicated server again, so it was fitting
to call it eco again. |
2004 |
| 2003 |
udon |
WinXP |
Philadelphia, PA |
miso's replacement. Daniel's primary home computer. Sold to Aaron. |
2008 |
| 2004 |
neko |
Linux |
St. Louis, MO |
eco replaced with a Plesk-based system. The name neko recycled from the machine that failed before. This turns out to be a bad idea; the name neko is apparently cursed. After only a year of service neko was successfully penetrated by some nasty script-kiddies, and rather than deal with the damage, we closed up shop and moved all our domains to Dreamhost. |
2005 |
| 2004 |
overlook |
Linux |
Endicott, NY |
primary backup server for eco/neko; performs full backup every day via
rsync. is actually miso in disguise! |
2005 |
| 2004 |
echo |
Linux |
Philadelphia, PA |
secondary backup server for eco/neko; performs full backup every day via
rsync. Also media server for Daniel's apartment. |
2005 |
| 2005 |
bento |
MacOS X 10.4 |
Philadelphia, PA |
A Mac Mini. Emphasizing the Mini's small size. |
2007 |
| 2005 |
melete |
MacOS X 10.4 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Sarah's laptop. |
2009 |
| 2007 |
vista |
MacOS X 10.4 |
Narberth, PA |
Bento's replacement, an Aluminum iMac. |
|
| 2009 |
shine |
MacOS X 10.5 |
Bryn Mawr, PA |
Melete's replacement, a MacBook. |
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