Astarte 

Astarte is Christina's PC, primarily dual booting between Windows 2000 and 98, but also wearing an installation of Debian GNU/Linux. Right now, Astarte has an 1.2 GHz AMD Duron with 384 Mb of RAM and 23.5 Gb of HDD space. This machine is one of the LAN's two printer servers, printing on a Canon 4300 bubblejet printer (which also doubles as a scanner) and plays host to a cute little Philips webcam that we use for teleconferencing. Astarte also has a brand new 20x CD-RW drive and a retrofitted Sun/Sony GDM-17E20 17-inch Trinitron monitor. Lovely.

Astarte is a remarkable goddess. Her origins are probably Sumerian, though she was worshiped from the Middle East to the edges of the (later) Roman Empire. She's known as Inanna, Ashtaroth, Belial, Belili, and (to name but a few) Ishtar, from which was derived the Greek version Astarte. In most aspects, Astarte is a moon goddess though she was also connected to the planet Venus, also known as the evening and morning star, Lucifer, et cetera. She's a fertility goddess, though (as Inanna) she was also a goddess of war, just like Athena. It's believed that Aphrodite was based on an early version of Astarte.

Change Log

2003-01-15

Upgraded with a new motherboard and a new, faster CPU. The old motherboard is dead, unfortunately.

2002-06-08

Christina's birthday present arrived: a new ATI Radeon 7500 dual-head card with TV Output, to replace the older ATI graphics card. This card is fast.

2002-07-02

Astarte has bequeathed most of Vennëa's SDRAM, after her memory upgrade.