MemoryAlpha

MemoryAlpha is my old Packard Bell notebook. Since I got myself a MacBook in February 2007, the latter has become my notebook as wel as my primary workstation (hooked to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers). As this PB notebook came in disuse, I decided to make it my private server.

These are its technical specifications:

CPU	AMD Turion64 ML30 (1.6 GHz)
Memory	2× 256 MiB DDR 333 MHz
Graphics	ATI Radeon Xpress 200M (on-board)
Monitor*	15.4" widescreen TFT panel (1280×800)
Sound*	Speakers and mic, line in and line out
LAN	On-board chip (100 Mbit)
WLAN*	Billionton Mini-PCI Wireless LAN adapter (Ralink RT2560, 802.11b/g)
Hard disk drive	Hitachi IC25N060ATMR04 80 GB (5400 RPM, 2 MB)
Optical drive*	NEC ND6500A (Dual Layer DVD+/-R(W))

Components marked with * are hardly ever used but present anyway. It's a notebook, so not easily stripped of useless components.

Maintenance is performed mainly over SSH, since there is no graphical subsystem installed anyway. On average, it draws about 30-35 Watts of power, so it doesn't even come close to a common light bulb. And, being a notebook, it will survive a power outage for at least an hour or two.

It runs Debian Etch as its operating system. This web site is generated by PHP and served by Apache. There are also some scripts that monitor some things for me and log to a MySQL database, which other scripts use to analyze and summarize the information. Then, there's also an IRC server (ircu) running which is part of the MetaD IRC network.

All by all, this server doesn't really have a lot of work on its hands. Therefore, it's donating 10% of its CPU time to both Folding@home and SETI@home.