The toybox originated as "the toy" or "the box", a nifty Ultra that I got after several months of driving everyone insane by talking about how I was going to get one very soon now. This needs to be differentiated from "my toy," a much smaller piece of equipment that stubbornly refuses to run UNIX, about which I also talked incessantly before I purchased, and use now with fair ubiquity.

The toybox is a place for us to have fun, to practice, and to do things that we don't do at work.

Internet Services

• WWW Pages: (Is that what these are?) via the Apache web server.
  • Browser stats via BrowserWatch
  • Daily stats via AccessWatch
  • Monthly stats via http-analyze

• Mailing Lists: For our friends, using Majordomo.

• USENET News: Still in the rumor and speculation stage.

Technical Foo

• Network: We're located on a 128 Kbps ISDN Centrex link provided by meernet, owned and operated by a few of our close neighbors.

• OS: We're running, surprise surprise, Solaris 2.5.1, and have added a fair amount of software enhancements. For instance, who could live without perl?

• Hardware: toybox is an Ultra 1 Model 140 with 32 MB of memory and 1 GB of disk space. The disk space is not quite enough, especially if we want to have a news feed, so we are due to expand at some point. The memory has been enough for our purposes, but it's always nice to have more.

The performance has on the whole been very speedy, and will probably be so for a while as we scale up.

The Toybox / Flick / © 1997 The Other Gretchen / Credits: Pixelsight
Last modified: March 23, 1998 / webmaster@flick.com