Sun Sep 20 00:17:24 CEST 2020

Welcome, hubert!

Welcome hubert.marshlabs.gaertner.de!

And now for something completely different:

hubert

The newest addition to the labs is not 7+ years old but spanking new gear: i5-9400, 32GB RAM, 500GB SSD, ... and very, very quiet.

I usually don't put stickers to my machines. The Abteilung-fuer-Redundanz-Abteilung deserves an exception to this rule: their sticker not only matches the colour scheme of the mini-tower/shoebox enclosure perfectly but the six wings also hint at the six cores in the i5-9400.

The machine comes with a big monitor (2560x1440 on 27") and is my new home office workplace.

desk

This replaces the the prior work setup of my Lenovo X220 laptop + 1280x1024 external monitor. (Which is way too noisy when used the whole day long.)

I had to shoot the pictures right away because such a clean desk is very rare with me. It was only possible because I shifted all of the entropy to the neighbouring desk:

hubert

Both desks feature a row of 2cm holes in the back. These were originally used as air vents for the heating elements the desks covered in the 70ies. Now they are great for much of the cabling.

hubert

The cables will be tied up nicely once things have settled.

I still need to learn how to route the audio via the DisplayPort instead of the analog LineOut/Headphone jacks. Also, having the keyboard USB-hubbed off the monitor means that I have to re-run my xmodmap ~/,Xmodmap every time after switching the monitor off/on. (Probably a job for udev; for now, I let the screensaver do the work.)

I intend to run hubert as a 24/7 server+workstation. I decided on Proxmox-VE/Debian as OS, extended with the desktop services and applications I need at the hypervisor level.

Hubert should inherit many tasks from alexis, the Olinuxino ARM board which provided the 24/7 services for the last years. (XDMCP, bootp/tftp, X11 xfs, DNS, NTP, lpd). Once fz, the NCD X Terminal in the kitchen can boot/work from hubert, I can give alexis its badly needed system upgrade.


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