Buggnet Computers

Buggnet has existed since 1996 in various configurations. The heart of the original buggnet in Melbourne, Australia was a home-built Cyrix 6x86 machine named bugg (superstar). Bugg originally ran Slackware Linux but later became a Debian box which ran 24/7 for a number of years. After several CPU fan replacements, bugg died a gradual death sometime around the end of 2000.

Computers that have been part of buggnet at various times include:

• ahira (2001 - current)
  Ahira is my main Sydney server, handling mail, DNS, CVS, web etc.. Ahira has a single Pentium III processor running at 1GHz, and runs Debian Linux.
• akasha (c 1998 - current)
  A single processor 486 dx/25 running Debian Linux. This venerable workhorse has 16 Mb RAM and a 105 Mb hard disk, and with these meagre resources, manages to shoulder the bulk of the buggnet workload these days.
• bugg (1997 - 2000)
  Bugg is the namesake of buggnet, and was my main server for almost my entire time at university. He was the social centre of buggnet, with roughly 30 accounts for fellow CS geeks who used to login so we could ytalk together. Bugg ran first Slackware, then Debian Linux, and was my router, proxy, mail server etc. and my dial-up connection to the outside world. Through most of his life, Bugg was protected by 2 UPSs to ensure good uptimes ;-)
• cherub (1997 - current)
  Cherub is my Power Macintosh 7300/200. This was my main workstation for many years, running both MacOS8.x and MkLinux.
• czarina (c 1999 - current)
  An SGI Indy Workstation, with a single R4400 MIPS processor running at 200MHz. This machine runs IRIX 6.2, and is complete with its IndyCam and original packaging.
• god (2001 - 2004)
  My BayStack 28115 managed switch that was the primary switching fabric for buggnet (along with an unmanaged 8-port hub that never had an IP address or a name).
• jet (1994 - current)
  My sister's Intel-based machine (originally a 486 DX2/66, later upgraded to a Celeron 333MHz) used as her workstation.
• lily (1996 - 1998)
  Lily is a Macintosh LCIII, which at one time ran NetBSD as an experimental buggnet machine. In later years, Lily was reincarnated with MacOS 7.5 as a machine for my mum to use to check her email.
• luna (c 1998 - current)
  A single processor Pentium MMX 200MHz running Debian Linux. In previous incarnations it has also run WindowsNT for a number of years.
• machina (2000 - 2003)
  A dual processor Sun SparcStation 10 with dual Ross HyperSPARC processor board, SCSI/Ethernet board, 64Mb RAM, and CD-ROM, all encased in a *huge* third-party case with 11 half-height 5 1/4" bays, 2 redundant PSUs, 6 fans and a magnetic security card to open and close the drive bay/power switch access doors. Machina ran Solaris8.
• obelix (1998 - current)
  Obelix is my dual processor BeBox running BeOS R5.03! You can read more about him at The BeBox Zone.

Current Buggnet Uptimes

Melbourne
Akasha		Luna
Sydney
Buxton		Ahira

You can also see my uptime league for Buggnet.