That Fleming Gent...

This page is fairly simple, won't take up much of your time.
It simply outlines the machines that bring you this site (if you're a visitor) my RPM packages and code (if you're a hacker / Fedora user) and mail/FTP/IM etc. etc. (if I host your website here)

All server machines are currently running Fedora, usually the current version or current -1 in the case of qbert and pong, whom I don't tinker with in a major way if I can help it. My personal PC dual boots Windows XP as well as 64bit Fedora - I used to work with Windows for my bread and butter (now mostly gaming) but prefer the right tool for the job.

Origins of the server's names

Naming conventions come from "classic" arcade games.

Service Statii and Host Trivia
Mail statistics for my domains courtesy of Qbert's Mail Graph. Graphs provided by the Mailgraph software from David Schwiekert.
Qbert is also a Stratum Two timeserver in the worldwide NTP pool (also within au.pool.ntp.org and oceania.pool.ntp.org). You can also see how my server is performing.

General Home Gear
The gear I use is by no means unusual or complex for a home network - a simple 8-port gigabit switch (Linksys SD2008) and an RS500 UPS from APC. Cabling is generic CAT-5E/CAT-6
Home Internet connectivity is provided by a Linksys WAG200G Router/ADSL2 modem connected to an Internode SOHO ADSL2+ service.

qbert.thatfleminggent.com, Jack of All Trades
The tower in this pic is the "new" iteration of qbert.thatfleminggent.com, the server you're now talking to. It's an Athlon XP 2500 with 1.5G RAM, running off an ABIT KV7 motherboard and a Western Digital 200G SATA II Drive. It runs Fedora Core Linux and handles all of the "wildside" facing services. It now lives at the HostingShop Datacentre in central Brisbane. The new qbert

Defender, my desktop PC
DefenderThis is defender, my personal PC. It's a Athlon64 X2 5200+ (x86_64) w/2G RAM running Fedora / Windows XP - it's usually the first to be updated. As well as acting as my workstation it also handles building of RPM packages for Fedora Core Linux (x86_64 branches and currently i386). Work and gaming purposes dictate the addition of the Microsoft OS, they do coexist OK though. :-)

pong (aka "Qbert the Elder"), general dogsbody
This old 2RU rackmount used to be qbert.enlartenment.com back when demands on my site (disk and CPU wise) were lower. It's a very old but reliable Pentium II 233 with 512mb of scrounged up SDRAM and an older 30G ATA33 drive (It used to have a whopping 4G pre-ATA drive - slow and primitive, hence the hostname). It also has a 120G removable HDD hanging off it's USB port as a cheap backup solution.
However it has worked well work perfectly well as a monitoring / facility / network router box - It still has 2 network cards and a CD drive in it after all. 		Ye Olde Racke Mounte

Sinistar, the machine without hardware
BEWARE, COWARD!This is sinistar, a virtual machine previously running within Qbert courtesy of VMWare Server. It runs OpenBSD 4.3 (tracking -stable) and was intended to provide me something a little different as well as security tools and other goodies.

Outrun, my internal fileserver
This is Outrun, a 64bit Sempron box running CentOS - it used to be my desktop, now recycled to manage some builds, monitoring, general file storage and other experiements I choose.OutRun

Contact
Email: Michael Fleming
Jabber: mfleming@thatfleminggent.com
ICQ / MSN / AIM details: on request
PGP/GnuPG keys: Diffie-Hellmann; RSA

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