Welcome to the EAGLE server in the Nancy Street Network.

It's a miracle of technology and physics that this vintage PC is still running 17 years after it was built in 2009. The original machine was used for software development for a few years before being replaced and demoted to be the office file server.

The main reason this ancient PC is still in use is because it runs Windows Server editions. A few attempts have been made in recent years to find a modern small, quiet and cheap replacement, but none of the candidates support running Windows Server. The ASUS NUC 15 range apparently supports Windows Server, but the starting price is about $1000 for a working configuration. Research is ongoing to find an affordable replacement.

EAGLE has been upgraded a few times over the years. It still has the original P55-UD3R motherboard and Intel i7 860 2.8GHz CPU. The RAM was recently upgraded from 4GB to 8GB after a struggle to find compatible RAM modules. The original metal hard drives were replaced with a single 2TB SSD a couple of years ago.

EAGLE's host operating system is Windows Server 2019 standard edition, which acts as the domain controller and file server for the Nancy Street Network. Hyper-V is enabled and runs a guest Windows Server 2025 named TOUCAN with IIS web server and SQL Server 2019. When you are looking at this website, you are actually looking at a web page served by IIS running in the TOUCAN VM.

Visit the following websites for more information:

https://www.orthogonal.com.au

The author's personal website full of curiosities, trivia and photos about science, maths, music, literature, news and computers. The domain is hosted in an Azure App Service.

https://www.orthogonal.net.au

An active domain used for software testing and preview. The domain is hosted in an Azure virtual machine running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter.

https://dev.azure.com/orthogonal

Azure DevOps repositories with free sample code, projects, utilities and applications. Many repositories are accompanied by detailed Wiki pages.

http://www.quintic.com.au

Hosted in an Azure Static website and reserved for future use. Currently rented by the Anarchist Communist Atheist Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society.

http://www.orthoprog.com.au

Reserved for future use. Hosted in an Azure static website.