Quadraplex

Quadraplex is the machine you're connected to right now. It started life as a base config G4/400 doing QuickTime encoding for the now-defunct CooLink Broadcast Network (CLBN). My buddy Sam bought a bunch of their stuff after they went down the tubes, including two Marathon G*Racks and this G4/400/128MB/20GB. I promptly swapped processors between this machine and my G4/350 desktop machine, and shortly upgraded the paltry 128MB to a respectable 512MB. The machine sits headless in a rack in the basement of my building, hooked up to a 100bT Cisco, running OS X Server 10.1. Someday I'll move it over to Debian for a kinder CLI expirience, since some things on OSX just can't be done (or at least not without mucking that shouldn't need to be mucked) without the GUI.

I expect that this G4 will serve out it's days until I either loose my rack allocation if CIF ever goes away or until parts start falling out of it. I've never had any problems with it aside from a failed attempt to upgrade it to 10.2 server last spring - I couldn't get my mail server happy, so I restored from the backup I was using and it's been happy since.