This past weekend I upgraded my home firewall, wintermute, and one of my internal servers, aragorn, to OpenBSD 4.2. aragorn was running 4.1, and wintermute was kicking ass on 3.6!

wintermute is the first computer I ever owned; a Sony VAIO PCV-90. It’s a 90MHz Pentium with 64MB of RAM and an (upgraded) 3600 RPM 8GB PATA drive. aragorn is an ancient PowerEdge 1300 I bought for a contract many years ago; it’s a two-way Pentium II 400MHz box with something like 128MB of RAM and a couple of SCSI disks.

You can tell alot about a man by the technology he keeps. To that end:

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I just recently upgraded from Speakeasy.net 1.5/768 ADSL to Verizon FiOS, quite possibly the least-evil service to be offered by a evil telco in my lifetime. I loved Speakeasy’s service and their ‘do what you will’ philosophy, but they say every man has his price; turns out mine is 30Mbs/s.

Router - wintermute

Wintermute is my old Sony VAIO PCV-90, resurrected under OpenBSD 3.7 as the router/firewall/NAT. It’s a Pentium 200Mhz, with 64MB of RAM and a 14GB IDE hard drive with which I replaced the original 3GB drive.