dobie ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for more than
seven years from deployment in 2001. It died the moment I retired it,
refusing to turn on again.
(In a prior life, dobie was
Hardware: Micron
Millennia powered by an Intel
Pentium classic 133MHz processor
duncan hides in a closet. It serves many roles for the rest
of the cluster, including storage and a slave MythTV backend for
bijou, and as the physical host for dobie.
rodin sits next to my bed to check the news each
morning. Although the newest addition, I bought it used; it is almost
exactly the same vintage as dobie's non-virtual incarnation.