Andy has self-built two “Philosopher’s Desktops” (an allusion the the philosopher’s broom, in the sense they are built at a certain time but tend to have bits added or replaced over the years. Somewhat arbitrarily, it’s a new machine if the case is replaced.
PD1 (unnamed), built inside an aluminum case bought in 2003 and initially using a Pentium 4 processor, ended up as a Core 2 Quad machine. It had a least a couple of different graphics cards, too, and hard drive upgrades. It was repurposed as a Linux server in 2012, and was finally scrapped in 2020.
PD2 was built in December 2017, and named “isaac”.
Specifications for isaac
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Ryzen 5 1600X (12 threads, 3.6 GHz)
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GTX 1060 (1280 CUDA cores, 3 GB)
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40GB DDR4 RAM (originally 8GB)
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2TB SSD (originally 240GB SSD)
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4TB Iron Wolf HDD
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2 x DVD-RW
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Micro-Star B350 motherboard
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Corsair 850W PSU
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White, LED-lit windowed case from maplin.co.uk
Logging on
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You’ll need an OpenVPN client. plus a bunch of info about Andy’s OpenVPN server to be able to log on(request via email). Once you have that…
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Log on via SSH:
user@192.168.1.172
. If you want to be able to e.g. view images, you canssh -X
and use theeog
command.