Welkom op Bambi.

This picture is the very first incarnation of Bambi, my personal server. It is a old big case with modded fans for additional cooling.
It is accompanied by Belle, my Voicefinder that is supplying me with VoIP Telephony. My very first switch was also honored with a name,
although I stopped that practice after a while. After this picture was taken, Bambi has since been replaced by a HUGE big/full tower that was
joined by our vacuum-cleaner, a UPS, a new switch and a butload of cables. After losing some serious weight, the new, improved and
much-smaller Bambi was housed in a Asus Pundit-R book-size mini barebone, a lovely little thing that has been fixed with spare parts multiple time.
This happend at the same time as the purchasing of our first appartment in Delft, where Bambi would end up doing some pretty great stuff, like
supplying the network with IPv6, functioning as a hellanzb-usenet-downloader and hosting email and web for my family.
When it finally gave up (with lots of burned plastic), is was migrated to a VPS in 'The cloud' (sponsored unknowingly by my employer, gnTel) for eternal life without hardware-problems.

The switches has long been replaced by 3 netgear gigabit switches. Love these a lot because they have a complete metal casing.
The UPS battery died a while ago
The voicefinder has been replaced by a Cisco SPA-941 and 2 Gigaset Dects, all capable of doing native SIP.

We still have the same vacuum-cleaner


My name is Rac-on, I am a geek and this is (some of) my hardware

(From left to right: Assepoester (Cinderella), Baloo and Simba)

For a while, Bambi enjoyed the company of Asspoester (Dutch for Cinderella). Assepoester was my (windows-) fileserver. Assepoester was never very stable or user-friendly,
so it has been replaced by Simba, a 2TB Western-digital mybook NAS.
Most of Assepoester had been reused (or should I say gender-changed) in building Baloo, who has served my sister for many years, until Baloo was finally replaced by the workstation
of my sisters' new boyfriend (now husband). Its parts has been scavanged by my father for reuse.
We will always remember Baloo for the fact that I fried something on the motherboard during the gender-change and its fans would only run full-speed making it sound like fighter-jet ready for takeoff.
Simba has had a catastrophic PSU or Mainboard failure and has left us some time ago. Its disks might be used again, someday, somehow, somewhere