Another diversion ..... Woohoo! Got a ``new'' machine to play with. It is a dual cpu PII Dell PowerEdge. Best of all it was free, which was good since I was planning to pick up something at the tender to install NetBSD anyway. I'd pay for power, it's got a 700W PSU ... A diversion is both good news and bad news since I want to play around with my new toy, but I know fully that I don't have the time to do so but I'd do it anyway.

I installed NetBSD on it. Have to go to CVS to grab the source since the current release does not support SMP. When I turned it on it was pretty loud. My room is pretty noisy with everything turned on, it's got an eerie hum even at night.

The university tender will be on soon again, I hope I can (yet again) get some cheap boxes ...