Onefish
The first iteration of the Onefish server (originally named Charybdis. Look it up.) was built from the scavanged body of a military surplus, water damaged 386SX25. The mainboard was scrubbed free of corrosion, RAM and a 250M Conner hard drive was attached, as well as a Trident 9440 video card, and the system was pressed into service as a 56k modem -> 10baseT network router using NetBSD.
The name Onefish, as one might suspect, comes from the Dr Seuss story, "Onefish, Twofish, Redfish, Bluefish". These were the 4 computers on my home network at the time, named somewhat appropriately to fit the scheme.
- Onefish: The gateway. The first system any data came through that entered the network.
- Twofish: The second computer on the network once onefish was set up. Sean's general purpose machine, usually running Windows or a Windows/Linux dual boot.
- Redfish: Sean's Mother's computer, generally overclocked to make the scavenged hardware run at a usable speed, generating excess heat. Red hot.
- Bluefish: Sean's IBM Thinkpad used during his time at Acadia University. IBM's logo color was always blue, as well as having the "Deep Blue" chess playing system in their fleet.
The next upgrade of the system was to a 486 system, similarly scavenged from somewhere, but that system had problems with chewing up a 3G Quantum drive several times (replaced each time under warranty). Around this time, the 56k modem connection was upgraded to Aliant High Speed (then "Mpowered", from MT&T).
Currently, Onefish is based upon an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with a total of 1G of RAM and around 70G of storage spread across 3 drives, two of which are concatenated through the onboard RAID device. Onefish is no longer the network gateway, that job having been passed on to a commodity, off the shelf Netgear router, these being easier to configure, and having built in wireless access point capability. Onefish serves Sean personal weblog (seldom updated) as well as his Photo Gallery, recently redesigned to have a cleaner, more professional look, somewhat resembling an Apple interface. Onefish has run the following operating systems: NetBSD, FreeBSD, Slackware Linux, and most recently, Ubuntu Linux (Breezy, followed by Dapper).
