I keep a veritable zoo of computing equipment around my apartment; here’s what’s in use and doing what.

• baumer. A black MacBook, sporting a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo. I won it by filling out a form (yay!), and it’s both my mobile and my main machine. It runs MacOS 10.5 Leopard, and tends to do a little bit of everything, including but not limited to Fortran. It’s named for the main character from All Quiet on the Western Front
• zaphod. A custom-built 1.8 GHz Athlon64, running OpenSolaris nv82 with 2 gigs of ram, and 1.6 TB of hard drive space in a RaidZ configuration. It’s my fileserver, and provides services that don’t want to run on my mac. It’s named for the President of the Universe from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• blackthorne. A 3800-series Compaq iPaq, with a 200 MHz StrongARM CPU, and 64 MB of ram. It’s currently being used as an ARM dev machine, hard-linked into my LAN. As I used to carry it around with me, it’s named for the lead character of Shogun, an Englishman who washes up on the Medieval Japanese shore.
• hagrid. A Sun Ultra 10, powered by a 333 MHz UltraSPARC IIi processor, running Solaris 10. It’s to be my VPN concentrator and my LDAP server. It’s name for the old, crusty, but stable and dependable groundskeeper from the Harry Potter series.