Reality Systems and Servers

So this is a description of my hardware, I enjoy building systems with older server hardware.  I am currently running the following systems.

Sense/NET
  • i5-8400 6 core 4Ghz
  • Debian 12
  • Plex, streaming services.
  • 16G DDR4
  • 22 TB of storage.

Sense/NET (sensenet) is my plex streaming server. Sense/NET was the multinational broadcasting and entertainment conglomerate that the crew invaded with the help of the Panther Modern’s  to steal the Dixie Flatline’s construct in Neuromancer.

Continuity
  • Intel Xeon e5-2697A v4 – 16 core 32 thread 3.6Ghz
  • Debian 12
  • KVM, Podman Containers
  • 160G Ram
  • 6 TB of storage

Continuity is my KVM virtual machine server. It’s named after Angie Mitchel’s AI in Mona Lisa Overdrive. Continuity has more than enough juice to run most things i can think of. There are usually 5-8 different VMs running on Continuity. Aggregate usage is low so i can over provision a bit, and i certainly did, haha. All the VMs and other physical systems are named after characters in William Gibson’s novels Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Hideo
  • Intel Xeon e5-2697A v4 – 16 core 32 thread 3.6Ghz
  • Apache 2.4.x, WordPress, Webmin, MariaDB, Guacamole
  • Debian 12
  • 16 cores 32 threads
  • 32g of ram

This is this very web server, named after the ninja who guarded Lady 3Jane, the one that killed Peter after Peter holographically lasered his eyes. The software used to build this site consists of:

  • WordPress
  • Apache Guacamole
  • Nextcloud
  • SearxNG
  • Cockpit

Most of these services are for logged in users only, I like that the whole stack, right down to the hardware is FOSS. Full stack. I love it.

  • Debian 12
  • Apache 2
  • MariaDB
  • Python8

Virtual Systems

The Dixie Flatline
  • Remote desktop, general applications
  • Debian Sid
  • 4 cores
  • 16G Ram

The Dixie Flatline is named after McCoy Pauley, a mentor of Case who ended up dead and resurrected as an AI construct, he (it?) ended up helping Case run the virus program against TA.

Mona Lisa
  • Sketchy stuff
  • Debian 12 Bookworm
  • 4 cores
  • 8 G ram

Named after the titular character from Mona Lisa Overdrive, she’s a torrent box and downloader.

Molly
  • Database server
  • MS SQL Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022
  • 4 Cores
  • 16 Gb Ram

Molly is my favourite character from all Gibson’s novels, tough, deadly, beautiful, and complex. I don’t know why she hasn’t starred in a movie yet.

Wintermute
  • Workstation, development
  • Windows 10 Education
  • KVM Virtual Machine
  • 8 cores
  • 16G Ram

Wintermute is always my main windows box. Now relegated to a vm running on Continuum

Neuromancer
  • Workstation, development, General usage
  • I5-8400
  • 6 cores
  • 32G Ram
  • Debian 13

One of the two AI’s at the center of Neuromancer, It’s always my my main Linux box.

Cherry Chesterfield
  • Dell 5040 SFF
  • 8G Ram
  • i5-6500T
  • Pi Hole DNS and DHCP
  • Debian 13