[Raion]

It's a 1992 sedan. I'm going to withhold the details but I basically have the antique 1992 sedan from a Japanese company and a 2000 Nissan Xterra which has been a reliable daily but needs a lot of work as of right now. Unfortunately, the differential is trashed on it because the breather rusted out and leaked..

[johnnym]

It's a 1992 sedan. I'm going to withhold the details but I basically have the antique 1992 sedan from a Japanese company

My first car was a 1991 or 1992 station wagon from a Japanese company with a low hp for the displacement I4 engine. Basically this should have lasted forever (not charged) but I had to change it for something more sporty (still not charged) only a year or so later. Well, nowadays I'm back at station wagons, though not as conservative as my first car.

[commodorejohn]

I have fixed up some old BMWs 91 e30 325ix, 96 Z3, 2003 e46 325ci, but was looking at just your run of the mill classic vw Beetle. pre 70s though with the smaller tail lights etc.

I'm currently driving a '73 Super Beetle and previously had a '69 original model. Tons of fun, and simple enough that even I can more or less understand 'em ;)

[theinonen]

Rear wing for the Megane and some interior stuff, because I took the the backseat out.

   

   

[jwhat]

Hi SGI'er,

you can't do much nowadays without Internet connection...

I have been running CISCO 2901 for last 10 years to provide my internet connection, which includes having two Class C IPV4 address spaces.

It was Cisco 857 ASDL before that ...

CISCO have announced End-of-Life for ISR4000 series routers starting in November 2023, so what where only available for minimum of AUD $ 4000, are now popping up on ebay for a as low as AUD $100.

I could not resist, as I have have wanted to do refresh on 2901 for quite some time to get:
- 1. Better Bandwidth to ISP
- 2. Get off End of LIfe HW

Anyone who knows CISCO kit knows that getting the right SW version for 2nd hand Cisco's without service contract is a frustrating thing...

So as part of getting right SW and hardware setup I am now owner of 4 x ISR4300 Routers, from which I have cannibalised parts to create the setup I want:

1 x ISR4331 with builtin 3 x 1GbE + AXV (APP, SEC, VOICE & IP BASE + THRU-PUT Licenses) with 8 x 1GbE POE NIM, 2 x 1GbE NIM, 16 GB DRAM, 16 GB Flash, 200GB MSATA SSD & PVM4-64 Codec Processsor.

So box is now configured to desired state (I needed lots of interfaces as I have 7 subnets on my network)

The interesting thing about this router is that you can run LXC (Linux Container) on the Linux KVM (without need for additional Intel UCS Server Board in the the machine), for things like intrusion detection, SIP PROXY etc, as the router has multi-core Intel X86 CPU in it (we can't get away from Intel nowadays).

I have now copied my CISCO IOS config from the 2901 to the 4331 with updates to handle variation between the IOS & IOS XE versions (XE == linuX Edition , I think).

Only problem now is getting a more current version of IOS XE as the 16.6.4 version now installed has a serious security issue that can be readily exploited via public facing interface :-( .

Once this is addressed (need 16.6.9) I will do physical swap over and get rid of extra 3 x 4331 boxes, cost wise price is still way below new box of this spec from Cisco or reseller.

Building the desired machine configuration via eBay, reminded me of the old SGI days, of starting with low spec Octane and evolving it to full spec Octane2 (which I still use, 20 year on).

I saw that there are some other "got Cisco" box postings in this thread, so maybe IRIX Network should expand forum to include Networking Forum for Cisco, Juniper and other Enterprise networking equipment.

No pictures as routers are pretty boring pizza boxes ;-)

Cheers from Oz,

jwhat/John

[jpstewart]

A new daily-driver PC (some assembly required):
   

That photo was taken about six weeks ago, on the dining room table no less! The machine is assembled and running in my office now, which is not camera-ready. I'm loving the new machine! It has:

• Supermicro X13SAE motherboard
  
• Supermicro 732D4-903B case & PSU (largely because that's what was in stock)
  
• Core i7-13700K CPU (8P + 8E cores, 24 threads total)
  
• 2x16GB Micron DDR5-4800 ECC unbuffered RAM (for now)
  
• 2x256GB Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSDs in RAID-1
  
• Noctua NH-9US heatsink & fan
  

I'm just using the on-board graphics for now. So far it seems adequate for my rather minimal needs. (I don't need 3D performance.) It seems on the Core-series CPUs that the ones with onboard graphics support ECC while the ones without graphics do not support ECC. I find that odd, but it did save me the cost of a new graphics card.

Carried over from the old system is a dual-port 8Gb Fibre Channel card to connect to more storage.

It runs Debian/testing primarily. I also have VMs for various Windows versions.

I tend to replace my desktops every six or seven years, so the performance improvement on certain tasks (such as video transcoding or compiling large programs) is noticeable and greatly appreciated.

[defaultrouteuk]

A new daily-driver PC (some assembly required):


That photo was taken about six weeks ago, on the dining room table no less!  The machine is assembled and running in my office now, which is not camera-ready.  I'm loving the new machine!  It has:

• Supermicro X13SAE motherboard
  
• Supermicro 732D4-903B case & PSU (largely because that's what was in stock)
  
• Core i7-13700K CPU (8P + 8E cores, 24 threads total)
  
• 2x16GB Micron DDR5-4800 ECC unbuffered RAM (for now)
  
• 2x256GB Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSDs in RAID-1
  
• Noctua NH-9US heatsink & fan
  

I'm just using the on-board graphics for now.  So far it seems adequate for my rather minimal needs.  (I don't need 3D performance.)  It seems on the Core-series CPUs that the ones with onboard graphics support ECC while the ones without graphics do not support ECC.  I find that odd, but it did save me the cost of a new graphics card.

Carried over from the old system is a dual-port 8Gb Fibre Channel card to connect to more storage.

It runs Debian/testing primarily.  I also have VMs for various Windows versions.

I tend to replace my desktops every six or seven years, so the performance improvement on certain tasks (such as video transcoding or compiling large programs) is noticeable and greatly appreciated.

[Shiunbird]

I got two Arduino WAN 1310 with LoRa and spent the whole weekend (20 hours coding straight until my head hurt so much I couldn't keep ly eyes opened) building an encrypted protocol using the crypto chip included with it and dealing with radio collisions, CRC, packet signatures, ACK and retransmissions.

Now I have the foundation for a remote doorbell at my father's farm.

Truly great fun, I recommend!

[Shiunbird]

And yesterday I finally (after a few hours of pain) finished assembling my Prusa MK4 kit. It's the first time I own a 3D printer, already got to fix a few things that were broken around here, fried my brain a bit with 3D and now building a small box for my electronic components.

It's incredibly interesting.

[commodorejohn]

It was a couple months back now, but I finally picked up a Minimoog ('22 reissue.) Have wanted one of these beasts for decades, and it has not disappointed :)