Stuff From JP's Virtual Attic

[gore]

JP, what type of hardware did you run AO on when you first started running it yourself? AO isn't a small site anymore by any means so I imagine it's changed a lot, but what types of hardware and software were you using AO on? Just wondering. That's one thing I have no clue about with AO and I think it would be cool to know what was used.

[JP]

Greetings:

At the time that the site was sold, AntiOnline was run off of a LOT of computers, mainly because of how we tied all of the hack attempts into our other research areas.

The database we ran, along with several other things, on a Sun Enterprise 450. All of the computers in the office were Dells, with the exception of 2 racks that were full of home-grown servers.

We ran some stuff off of Win2k server, and some off of OpenBSD boxes, then of course Solaris. Most of the workstations ran XP and Redhat. Webservers were all Apache.

Of course we used Catalyst switches, Pix Firewalls, Cisco Routers, etc. etc. For primary IDS we were using ISS' RealSecure.

We had a mac that we ran Photoshop on for a while, but that was the only one we had.

Then we had our research networks (1 connected to the internet, one totally enclosed), which was totally separate from the AntiOnline public network. I'm thinking my NDA with the Gov. still prohibits me from talking about what most of that was made up of, but if you take a look of the pictures, you can see a group of 11 dells lined up that were used for the wargaming network that we had Red Teams attack and that we surreptitiously routed some hackers into for data collection. (yay a run on sentence!)

[gore]

Man, that sounds like a nice set up. A friend of mine (The guy I met the week I got a computer, which by the way, September marked my 5th year owning a computer Anyway, I met a dude on IRC and he was the one who got me into Linux and security) He has a couple Sun stations which are NICE.

It's kind of cool seeing what hardware AO was ran on. I've seen a pic you posted where it showed inside the office and I was like man, it must have been so fun working in there with all those toys.

Heh, this thread, no one is asking jack ass tech support questions, no one is complaining about anything, and everyone is getting along. VERY good thread. And awesome to see the things AO did and how it's changed over the years. *Applauds JP*. We haven't got along this good since that day in IRC where you gave me points for Remy Martin L13

[hexadecimal]

this place and TSS was the soul reason i am inlove with linux....and gore your the one who got me interested in slackware ...this place has been my home since december 2001...of course under differnet names....*yes i have had my share of flame wars*....i can account most of what ive learned about software and security to the community of AO....i thank you all....your my extended family

[VictorKaum]

Originally posted here by gore
Man, that sounds like a nice set up. A friend of mine (The guy I met the week I got a computer, which by the way, September marked my 5th year owning a computer Anyway, I met a dude on IRC and he was the one who got me into Linux and security) He has a couple Sun stations which are NICE.

Indeed those Sun stations are nice, the same goes for the beautifull SGI stuff... still, more impressive are the IBM Z-servers or the Storagetek bots.

september markes your 5th year owing a computer, If you count in a TI 94/A then I think I'm going to celebrate my 20th computer year soon, I got the TI from my dad after he bought a 8088. I still have the box.