Computers

Today I got my new computer and figured I may as well brag about specs ;) Here's a list of all my networked devices, they join Carlo Angiuli's computers along with the other housemates' laptops, iPods and phones. We have a total of 14 devices on our network - egads!

UPDATE: 1/21/10 - OS upgrades for singularity and little-guy

• singularity - my new primary desktop. 8x as fast as sweetness and consumes half as much total power.
  
  

  CPU

  AMD Phenom II X4 905e - 2.5GHz, 65W energy efficient

  RAM

  4GB DDR3 1333

  Chipset

  AMD 785G

  Graphics

  AMD/ATi Radeon HD 4200 (integrated)

  Storage

  3x500GB SATA II

  Optical

  Samsung 22x DVD-RW

  Operating System

  Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" & Windows 7 Professional

  Year

  2009

  
  
  
  


• sweetness - my stalwart companion for 5 years. She's still an excellent single core system, but we live in an era of immense parallelization, so it's time to move on. Any new usage ideas?
  
  

  CPU

  AMD Athlon 64 2800+ - 1.8GHz, 89W, overclock to 2.4GHz for gaming

  RAM

  2GB DDR 400

  Chipset

  nVidia nForce 4 SLI

  Graphics

  nVidia 7900GS 256MB

  Storage

  160GB, 80GB SATA

  Optical

  18x DVD-RW, 20x DVD-ROM

  Operating System

  Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" & Windows XP Professional

  Year

  2004

  
  
  
  


• media-pc - generic name avoids over-attachment. This beautiful box drives our 37" panel upstairs and hosts our household media.
  
  

  CPU

  AMD Athlon X2 4850e - 2.4GHz, 45W energy efficient

  RAM

  4GB DDR2 800

  Chipset

  AMD 780G

  Graphics

  ATI Radeon HD 3450+3200 hybrid crossfire

  Storage

  2TB SATA II

  Optical

  22x DVD-RW

  Operating System

  Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope"

  Year

  2008

  
  
  
  


• little-guy - the netbook, a Dell Mini 9 [review]
  
  

  CPU

  Intel Atom N270 - 1.6GHz

  RAM

  1GB DDR2 800

  Chipset

  Intel 945G

  Graphics

  Intel GMA 950

  Storage

  4GB Solid State

  Optical

  none

  Operating System

  Jolicloud Pre-beta

  Year

  2009

  
  
  
  

Hymn #101

Yeah I've come to know the wishlist of my father.
I've come to know the shipwrecks where he wished.
I've come to wish aloud among the overdressed crowd.
Come to witness now the sinking of the ship.
Throwing pennies from the seatop next to it.

And I've come to roam the forest past the village
With a dozen lazy horses in my cart.
I've come here to get eyed
To do more than just get by
I've come to test the timber of my heart.
Oh I've come to test the timber of my heart.

And I've come to be untroubled in my seeking.
And I've come to see that nothing is for naught.
I've come to reach out blind
To reach forward and behind
For the more I seek the more I'm sought
Yeah, the more I seek the more I'm sought.

And I've come to meet the sheriff and his posse,
To offer him the broad side of my jaw.
I've come here to get broke,
Then maybe bum a smoke.
We'll go drinking two towns over after all.
Well, we'll go drinking two towns over after all.

And I've come to meet the legendary takers.
I've only come to ask them for a lot.
Oh they say I come with less than I should rightfully possess.
I say the more I buy the more I'm bought.
And the more I'm bought the less I cost.

And I've come to take their servants and their surplus.
And I've come to take their raincoats and their speed.
I've come to get my fill
To ransack and spill.
I've come to take the harvest for the seed.
I've come to take the harvest for the seed.

And I've come to know the manger that you sleep in.
I've come to be the stranger that you keep.
I've come from down the road,
And my footsteps never slowed.
Before we met I knew we'd meet.
Before we met I knew we'd meet.

And I've come here to ignore your cries and heartaches.
I've come to closely listen to you sing.
I've come here to insist
That I leave here with a kiss.
I've come to say exactly what I mean.
And I mean so many things.

And you've come to know me stubborn as a butcher.
And you've come to know me thankless as a guest.
But will you recognize my face
When God's awful grace
Strips me of my jacket and my vest,
And reveals all the treasure in my chest?

Joe Pug - Hymn #101
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Most Influential

What is your biggest influence?

It's an open question - the {noun} that most influenced your calling/work/studies/career/purpose/etc to date: book, article, movie, paper, film, photo, story, person, relative, musician, artist, website, event, gadget, activity, anything! What's the one thing that got you into what you're into?

For me it's the Towards 2020 Science Report (2.3MB PDF). The buzz I had after reading this report was incredible. We are standing literally on the precipice of scientific revolution - just as the discovery of algebra and calculus prompted the scientific revolutions of ages past, the development of computation is completely changing how we can look at the universe. Everything can be modeled. We can create "artificial scientists". This awesomeness is why I do artificial intelligence.

Right now - what is that thing? What is your biggest influence? What sparks your fire?



Edit: Had to republish and refocus on school/career/interests - in the grand scheme of things there are other influences of greater or equal stature. :)