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| category = Equipment <!-- Main category. Please leave alone to keep item in this category -->
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| subcat = Systems <!-- Sub-category if one exists. Please check main listing to see other categories contained within the main one -->
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| consumables = Unknown <!-- Any items used up in normal operation, such as; ink, paper, saw-blades, cutting disks, oil, etc.. -->
| consumables = Unknown <!-- Any items used up in normal operation, such as; ink, paper, saw-blades, cutting disks, oil, etc.. -->
| accessories = Unknown <!-- Any items associated with the equipment but not consumable, such as; drill bits, safety gloves, goggles, etc.. -->
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| origin = Unknown <!-- If via pledge, please link to the completed pledge page on the wiki -->
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| location = Basement, behind the Rack <!-- Floor, room/zone and location within that area -->
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==<span style="color: red;">Warning</span>==
==<span style="color: red;">Warning</span>==


''Babbage is in the process of being decommissioned. No new accounts are being created for it, and it will be shut down soon.''
Babbage has been recycled! The hard drives were erased using [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darik%27s_Boot_and_Nuke DBAN - an open-source hard drive wiping utility.]


The latest kernel (and possibly others) can't mount the root FS - they throw a kernel panic due to some XFS weirdness (the XFS volume was created manually).
The contents were been backed-up (but not in perpetuity) to [[Equipment/Colin| the file server known as Colin.]]
 
Kernel 2.6.32-46 works, but 2.6.32-47 up to 2.6.32-66 don't. Please try a newer kernel if one is installed; otherwise use -46.


==Purpose==
==Purpose==


Babbage is a general usage server that lives in the space. It has largely been deprecated by services offered through [[Lamarr#Chomsky| the VM 'chomsky']] and is due for full decommissioning soon.
Babbage was a general usage Linux server that lived in the space. It was largely been deprecated by services offered through [[Lamarr#Chomsky| the VM 'chomsky']] and is due for full decommissioning soon.
 
== Access ==
 
Hackspace members do not automatically receive a Babbage account.  To access Babbage, ask for an account on the IRC, and then connect via [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell SSH].  This system predates the [[LDAP]] infrastructure and will not be upgraded to support it.
 
== Security ==
 
Since many hackspace members have root access, and since very little effort (ok, no effort whatsoever) is put into securing Babbage you should assume that the likelyhood of someone breaking into it is quite high. Don't leave any files on there that you don't have a backup of, and don't assume any data on Babbage will remain confidential. Be careful about ssh forwarding and beware of thing like github passwords or passwords to other machines in the hackspace.
 
==Specs==
* OS: Ubuntu i686
* CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz (1 logical core)
* RAM: 3GB - 2 x 512 MB dimm DDR2 533mhz 1.9ns + 2 x 1Gb, note: all ECC.
* Disks: 2x500GB, 2x750Gb, all SATA
* Extras: video digitiser card, extra USB ports.
* GPU: Intel Corporation E7221 Integrated Graphics Controller


==Name==
==Name==