Eric's Home Machine

The I/O system is fast wide SCSI-2 run by a NC53c895; two Quantum Viking II 4.5gig drives, a Pioneer DRU06S 32x CD-ROM, and an HP35470A DSS drive. Other peripherals include a Soundblaster-compatible sound card and a generic 3.5-inch floppy.

My display subsystem is the standout part of the hardware. It's an Matrox AGP card driving a Viewsonic 21PS at 1600x1280. That's a lot of monitor, especially given the ultra-fine 0.25 dot pitch. I use it all.

The Red Hat folks have an enlightened policy about sending free copies to Linux contributors, and I like their product, so I'm generally running their latest version.

Most of my tube time is spent in GNU Emacs and Netscape Navigator. The nicest thing about having a monster monitor is that my Emacs window is 78x80 and still doesn't overlap with my shell or 25x80 xterm windows.

I use GNOME + Enlightenment now, but you can look at the carefully tuned fvwm2 configuration I used to use to exploit all that screen space.

I collect my mail using the fetchmail utility I wrote, of course. Your guarantee of quality...I use it every day, so it has to work. I read it using mutt

My net connection is PPP via a U.S. Robotics v90 modem to Netaxs in Philadelphia. My web pages live on tuxedo.org, which is actually a Netaxs machine.