Welcome to the Tech Show Picture Pages. Marvel at our get up; stare in awe at our beautiful mugs. Treasure these images for years to come. Invite all your friends and relatives to check us out. Feel free to download any of these classic images to set as your window manager background as you listen to the next Tech Show. Even better! Grab them all and write a script to cycle through the images as you listen. To get an even fuller effect, check out Linc's images over at his page. Download those too!

For starters, we should point out the hardware we are using. This image shows the rigs in my office as you walk into the room. Straight on, to the right, is my main work area. You can see my wonderful monitor in all its glory. Had I captured the screen also, you would either see xscreensaver or may favorite Window Manger: Window Maker in all its awesomeness.

Just behind the monitor you can see the TLLTS streamer/mixer and my main workstation. The TLLTS streamer/mixer is a PIII 450 with a modest 160mb or ram. I scammed this from work where we disposed of a number of these machines which were replaced by Dell Optiplex 260's. Anyway, there is another 17 inch monitor hooked to the streamer/mixer which remains off unless we are actually broadcasting or I am checking something out (like how much ram is in the machine).

Notice the Apple Airport Base Station and (if you look very closely) the zip drive on top of the workstations. Oh, and speaking of workstations, My mains workstation is an AMD K6-3 400 with 362 mb or ram and about 40gb total hard drive space. Again, another modest machine. I do have a Nvidia TNT2 card in there which only makes me about 4 years out of date. But the machine has held up admirably. It's running Slackware 9.1 right now, and has been running slackware all along.

The table jutting out perpendicular to my main work area is our broadcasting table. Take note that it is pretty much in shambles. Allan referred to it as the "backyard brawl" table. It may be shabby, but it is holding up. I used to use this table as a workbench area, but not much was ever done there. So far it has gotten far more use with the TLLTS show.

Note our cheap, Radio Shack micro-phones. They cost under $25.00, but really get the job done. We also invested in tabletop microphone stands. These make a significant difference when compared to our first choice of mics which were those cheap-o mics you can buy at stables for something like $5.00 and are about two inches long, come with a base, and work only with sound cards.

The second pictures gets you a little closer to the hardware. You can see the dilapidated table corner. Also down in the right-hand corner of the picture you can see a laptop. This is not my laptop, it is Allan's Sony Vaio; but I wish it was mine.

Squint a bit to the white boxes behind the TLLTS and my main workstation, and you can see the Linux Link server back against the wall. This powerhouse was recently converted from a P233mmx to another PIII 450 box from work. Since it's install, the server has been running slackware. Currently at version 8.1 with all the patches; I would say in it's entire 5 year history, the machine has been down about 10 times. Never a crash, just for hardware additions and upgrades; and once for the upgrade from 7.0 to 8.1. That is some nice up-time.

In addition to streaming TLLTS via Icecast, the server hosts both Dann's personal websites, and the LVLUG website. It used to host a website geared for elementary students at Solehi developed by a Solehi Librarian, but that has been moved to Solehi's webserver (finally). The server also acts as our chat server, and an email server for a number of people. Webmail is provided via Squirrel Mail and spam filtering via spam assassin. The email server of choice is qmail. Oh happy day! Let us not forget to mention that mailman hosts a number of lists and Dann uses the server as his main dns server for himself and his father.

Rounding out our pictures for this page is the Mix-Master himself, Allan Metzler. While not originally considered a part of the show during development, Allan showed up to bail us out the first broadcast with a mixer and has been there ever since (well, sans the day he had a head cold). Allan is an invaluable asset to the Tech Show. We would not be as far as we are today without his assistance, no matter what Linc may say.