TheKillerChicken
Canada
A sack of hydrogen and carbon with a spirit attached to it. Cloud computing for a better future since 1999 (started with SETI@Home on my celeron 400Mhz, 32MB EDO RAM, windows 98Se laptop) The cactus is my favourite plant due to it being resilliant, like I am. I am planning to re-create my "cactus garden" in my apartment that I once had before, but unfortunately, my dad cross-contaminated them when I was not living at home briefly with tropical plants, thus causing them to die of over-humidity.

Gaming rig:
1x Ryzen 9 7950x 16-cores/32-threads @4.50GHz with 64GB DDR5-5200, an ATi/AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB as Ati still has the 2d drivers, and an MSI MAG 670E TOMAHAWK WIFI. Windows 10 Enterprise x64. Main display is a 55-inch Panasonic 2012 Plasma TV and my secondary is a 40-inch Samsung 2014 LED TV, both at 1440 progressive.

Games\torrents\backup:
2x 8-cores/16-threads Xeons @3.60ghz with 256GB DDR3-1866 ECC LR-DIMMs (will be adding 1TB of DRAM at some point)
Windows Server 2022 Datacentre 21h2 LTS.

Cloud computer
Running a 4-core/8-thread SFF with Linux Mint on it.

Retro gaming computer (built on an industrial SBC/Backplane system):
1x Intel Pentium IV @3.60GHz LGA 775 (Will be getting a 3.80Ghz soon), 2GB DDR1-400 in dual-channel mode, Windows XP 32-bit, a Sound Blaster Exitgy USB, an Sound Blaster AWE 32 ISA using the windows NT 4.0 drivers, a Crystal ISA sound card with a Crystal FM synthesizer, a Sound Blaster Audio PCI 128, a Dynex DX SC-51, a Trident 4d-wave DX in WDM mode so I can keep the sanity-check at bay with the NT kernel, a Philips PSC703 PCI, an Aureal Vortex AU8830B2, a Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96, a Terratec DMX 1024 PCI, an Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro, and a GeForce GTX 275 1792MB using a PCI->PCIE converter/riser. Uses a 40-inch dual-planar LCD @4:3 aspect ratio as I moved the plasma display to my console gaming centre. (I had to abandon windows 98se due to the fact that my PCI address space was so massive due to having so many sound cards that 98se was hitting the vCache memory barrier.) I run my Disk Operating System (DOS) games off of DosBox as it actually works accurately off the Pentium 4 system due to it reconising my processor and memory, unlike my Ryzen setup.

Dedicated MIDI over LAN box:
Intel Celeron D 3.06Ghz with 1GB of DDR1-333 and Windows XP x32 with an SB Extigy, SB AWE 32 using the Windows NT 4.0 drivers, A Crystal Sound Card (I prefer its' FM over the OPL3), an SB PCI 128, a Terratec SixPack 5.1 with DLS midi, an Aureal Vortex AU8830B2, and an SBLive! with the digital extension. (This midi box is bridged with RTP-MIDI so I can use those legacy MIDI synthesizers on my current gamer)

Security OS/hardware and privacy.
1x 4-cores/4-threads with 24GB DDR3-1333 U-DIMMS for Sophos UTM (A propietary Linux kernel)
1x 8-cores/8-threads with 64GB DDR3-1600 R-DIMMS ECC for OPNSense and Zen-armour UTM (Built on the FreeBSD Unix kernel)
1x 4-cores-8-threads with 24GB DDR3-1600 U-DIMMS for Linux Mint with the kernel-level protection towards the NIC bridge. (Built on Debian Linux)
(I may add a fourth level of security into my network due to how much I do not trust the information highway).
DNS Sinkhole Raspberry Pi 4 with RaspianOS on it with Pi-Hole. (Debian Linux Kernel)

The compute unit uses the client is called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure For Network Computing)
A sack of hydrogen and carbon with a spirit attached to it. Cloud computing for a better future since 1999 (started with SETI@Home on my celeron 400Mhz, 32MB EDO RAM, windows 98Se laptop) The cactus is my favourite plant due to it being resilliant, like I am. I am planning to re-create my "cactus garden" in my apartment that I once had before, but unfortunately, my dad cross-contaminated them when I was not living at home briefly with tropical plants, thus causing them to die of over-humidity.

Gaming rig:
1x Ryzen 9 7950x 16-cores/32-threads @4.50GHz with 64GB DDR5-5200, an ATi/AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB as Ati still has the 2d drivers, and an MSI MAG 670E TOMAHAWK WIFI. Windows 10 Enterprise x64. Main display is a 55-inch Panasonic 2012 Plasma TV and my secondary is a 40-inch Samsung 2014 LED TV, both at 1440 progressive.

Games\torrents\backup:
2x 8-cores/16-threads Xeons @3.60ghz with 256GB DDR3-1866 ECC LR-DIMMs (will be adding 1TB of DRAM at some point)
Windows Server 2022 Datacentre 21h2 LTS.

Cloud computer
Running a 4-core/8-thread SFF with Linux Mint on it.

Retro gaming computer (built on an industrial SBC/Backplane system):
1x Intel Pentium IV @3.60GHz LGA 775 (Will be getting a 3.80Ghz soon), 2GB DDR1-400 in dual-channel mode, Windows XP 32-bit, a Sound Blaster Exitgy USB, an Sound Blaster AWE 32 ISA using the windows NT 4.0 drivers, a Crystal ISA sound card with a Crystal FM synthesizer, a Sound Blaster Audio PCI 128, a Dynex DX SC-51, a Trident 4d-wave DX in WDM mode so I can keep the sanity-check at bay with the NT kernel, a Philips PSC703 PCI, an Aureal Vortex AU8830B2, a Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96, a Terratec DMX 1024 PCI, an Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro, and a GeForce GTX 275 1792MB using a PCI->PCIE converter/riser. Uses a 40-inch dual-planar LCD @4:3 aspect ratio as I moved the plasma display to my console gaming centre. (I had to abandon windows 98se due to the fact that my PCI address space was so massive due to having so many sound cards that 98se was hitting the vCache memory barrier.) I run my Disk Operating System (DOS) games off of DosBox as it actually works accurately off the Pentium 4 system due to it reconising my processor and memory, unlike my Ryzen setup.

Dedicated MIDI over LAN box:
Intel Celeron D 3.06Ghz with 1GB of DDR1-333 and Windows XP x32 with an SB Extigy, SB AWE 32 using the Windows NT 4.0 drivers, A Crystal Sound Card (I prefer its' FM over the OPL3), an SB PCI 128, a Terratec SixPack 5.1 with DLS midi, an Aureal Vortex AU8830B2, and an SBLive! with the digital extension. (This midi box is bridged with RTP-MIDI so I can use those legacy MIDI synthesizers on my current gamer)

Security OS/hardware and privacy.
1x 4-cores/4-threads with 24GB DDR3-1333 U-DIMMS for Sophos UTM (A propietary Linux kernel)
1x 8-cores/8-threads with 64GB DDR3-1600 R-DIMMS ECC for OPNSense and Zen-armour UTM (Built on the FreeBSD Unix kernel)
1x 4-cores-8-threads with 24GB DDR3-1600 U-DIMMS for Linux Mint with the kernel-level protection towards the NIC bridge. (Built on Debian Linux)
(I may add a fourth level of security into my network due to how much I do not trust the information highway).
DNS Sinkhole Raspberry Pi 4 with RaspianOS on it with Pi-Hole. (Debian Linux Kernel)

The compute unit uses the client is called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure For Network Computing)
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TheKillerChicken 18 Jun @ 6:32am 
Steam achievements, the most useless thing introduced since the DVD rewinder.
TheKillerChicken 29 Jan @ 5:13pm 
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TheKillerChicken 14 Jan @ 7:25am 
My regards to California due to the apocalyptic inferno that is destroying everything it touches. I wish the best on a speedy and healthy recovery once this inferno is put down. This should not even be a thing in a 1st world country...
TheKillerChicken 1 Jan @ 12:10am 
Happy quarter of a century (2025) everyone!
TheKillerChicken 27 Sep, 2024 @ 5:20am 
Fart rock.....
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