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Rocko was a experiment of John Spade and myself back in 1991'-92'. We used old spare parts laying round to see what this new thing called Linux was really about. We originally just wanted to play around with Unix administration and learn networking on a higher level.

As time passed, people started to hear about Rocko and begun requesting accounts. So we started adding accounts and people started using Rocko as their primary Unix account for Email, WWW services, News, etc. Back then, the machine didn't really have a name so I named the machine "Rocko" after the cartoon series 'Rockos Modern Life' from Nickelodeon. Later with the help from Nathan Ramella, Brett Baptista, and Kathleen Donohue, Rocko became a full fledged Unix server offering all major Internet services to its users.

Today, Ken Kellam is the on-site administrator with both myself and Douglas Kraus helping Ken as remote co-administrators. It should also be noted that Rocko wouldn't have been able to weather various hardware failures, upgrades, etc without the financial support of John Spade and both the political and financial support of Fredrica Shockley.

With Rocko, BSS/Econ offers one of Chico States's only Internet specific classes for students to learn and use the Internet to its fullest potential. Rocko is also one of the ONLY UNIX machines not controlled by the College of ECT.

In other news, we also run another machine named "Spunky". Spunky is an experimental machine that we test new features, software, etc and such for Rocko. Ultimately, we hope to move Rocko's WWW services to Spunky and possibly implement a LISTSERV on this server some day. Until then, Spunky is officially Rocko's hardware backup if anything fails.

Check out Rocko's Web page with links to all of Rocko's users and their WWW pages!

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• Rocko's hardware:
  • Redhat Linux 5.2 with a 2.0.36 kernel
  • Intel PCI/ISA MB (i430HX chipset) with a Intel 133Mhz Pentium MMX CPU
  • 64MB DRAM
  • (2)IBM 10GM UDMA hard drives
  • (1)Western Digital 3Gig EIDE hard drive
  • (1)Western Digital 4Gig EIDE hard drive
  • (1)Toshiba IDE CD-Rom
  • 3Com 3C905 10/100mb/s FastEthernet card (running at 10Mb/s) - Internet connection
  • 3Com 3C509 10mb/s Ethernet card - NFS connection to Spunky
  • Adaptec 1542c ISA SCSI controller
  • Tandberg NS20 10/20GB Travan tape drive
  • ATI Mach64 GT (Rage II) PCI Video card
  • Gateway CrystalScan 14in. monitor
  • APC SmartUPS 1400 UPS - For Rocko and Spunky
  • Gateway Tower case

• Spunky's hardware:
  • Redhat Linux 5.2 with a 2.2.4 kernel
  • Micronics EISA/VLB MB (iNeptune chipset) with Dual Intel Pentium 90MHz CPUs (non-MMX)
  • 64MB DRAM
  • Adaptec 2742 EISA SCSI controller
  • Seagate 4.5GB SCSI hd
  • Quantum 2.1GB SCSI hd
  • ATI PCI video card w/ 2MB of DRAM
  • 3Com 3c509b ISA Ethernet card - Internet connection
  • 3Com 3c509b ISA Ethernet card - NFS connection to Rocko
  • Gateway CrystalScan 14in. monitor
  • Gateway Tower case (old Stat1 server)

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Last Updated: 08/28/99

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