RE: What kind of computer do you use? 08-01-2018, 09:59 PM
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Two main workhorses that, despite their numbers, do everything I ask them to... I think partly because I don't ask much more than a text editor, browser, XFCE desktop, and Metasploit. My main workbook runs 1.66GHz Intel Atom CPU with 2GB PC2 RAM (don't remember the exact speed as I never have to open this reliable fucker up, ever) and that's about it. It's a Toshiba NB 305, so if you look up a picture you can see it literally cannot hold more than what's currently in there.
The second workhorse is a little more of a fun oddity. An HP 311-Mini 2.1GHz Intel Atom CPU (custom BIOS allows overclock), with 3GB PC2 RAM and an nVidia ION GPU. This one is fun and, again, odd, because it has a gig of memory soldered straight on to the board. It'll boot with no stick of memory cracked in there at all. It also happens to have two wireless cards shoved in there along with its ethernet controller, so I can MITM any connection I'm near without hooking in any, even slightly, funny looking dongles into it when in public.
I just hate the keyboard and trackpad more than anything in this life and so it doesn't get used as much.
It was a really fun gimmick at first to go to a friend in the field and say, "Watch this," pulling the memory out, and watching them in confusion as the machine still booted.
Then there's the tower. Intel i3 @ 3.16GHz, 8GB PC3 RAM, no 3rd party GPU, and 2TB of HDD space. Used mostly for storage and virtual machines.
All systems that get put in my hands get named too; A throwback to a time when I had less human contact, and so talked to the only things around that could "think".
-Forgot the "public" tower anyone can hop on without hurting anything. i7 3.6GHz, 8GB PC3 RAM, AMD Vision GPU, 1TB HDD. For friends wanting to touch facebook and other garbage sites. The thing is clean as a whistle but I still cut it off from the rest of the network almost completely.
The second workhorse is a little more of a fun oddity. An HP 311-Mini 2.1GHz Intel Atom CPU (custom BIOS allows overclock), with 3GB PC2 RAM and an nVidia ION GPU. This one is fun and, again, odd, because it has a gig of memory soldered straight on to the board. It'll boot with no stick of memory cracked in there at all. It also happens to have two wireless cards shoved in there along with its ethernet controller, so I can MITM any connection I'm near without hooking in any, even slightly, funny looking dongles into it when in public.
I just hate the keyboard and trackpad more than anything in this life and so it doesn't get used as much.
It was a really fun gimmick at first to go to a friend in the field and say, "Watch this," pulling the memory out, and watching them in confusion as the machine still booted.
Then there's the tower. Intel i3 @ 3.16GHz, 8GB PC3 RAM, no 3rd party GPU, and 2TB of HDD space. Used mostly for storage and virtual machines.
All systems that get put in my hands get named too; A throwback to a time when I had less human contact, and so talked to the only things around that could "think".
-Forgot the "public" tower anyone can hop on without hurting anything. i7 3.6GHz, 8GB PC3 RAM, AMD Vision GPU, 1TB HDD. For friends wanting to touch facebook and other garbage sites. The thing is clean as a whistle but I still cut it off from the rest of the network almost completely.
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2018, 10:01 PM by chesterbeatdeath.)
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