Moving from the first to the second year of M.Tech. means you get a chance to upgrade PCs. My old PC, named nogzone, was a Compaq D380m, with a ViewSonic E70 monitor. This monitor is the biggest and heaviest amongst all 17" monitors in the department, the main reason I took it.
Nogzone Mk I, had the following specs:
Intel P4 1.6GHz
256MB RAM
NVIDIA Riva TNT 2 (NV5M64) with 64MB of RAM
Maxtor HDD 4D040H2 (40 GB capacity)
BTC (Some Chinese company) F563E CD-ROM
That's all that I could extract from /proc! It has been running Ubuntu Dapper Drake since I first got it.
Fortunately, it's run rather well as long as I've had it. The graphics card even made for passable gaming when I tried it. Now it's time to move on to Nogzone Mk II. More on this later.
It's been fun having Nogzone Mk I around, and if only it had more memory, I wouldn't have given it up. Installation and configuration does take ages! Now, I've realized that data transfer taken an equivalent amount of time, especially when you're as haphazard as I am.