I still have to see if I can recover anything more from the old drive, but I'm back in business.

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Finally.

For the last 18 months I've been running on an old PC I bought in 2001... because it was better than what I had before. Even after half the memory died.

Specs:

Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz)
4GB memory
320GB disk
Radeon 1600XT

This will replace not only my Windows PC*, but three Linux development boxes** as well. Hence the 4GB of memory. VMWare server is neat, and it's free, but it goes through memory like a starving honeybadger through a bag of Maltesers.

Now all it needs is a name. And for the CPU to arrive...

SpecIntRate Figures

Current Thingy: 6.05
Sun E450: 10.9
RS/6000 M80: 25.1 (8-way RS64-III)
AlphaServer GS80 Model 6/731: 36.0 (8-way Alpha)
Unisys ES7000: 44.3 (16-way Xeon)
Sun E4800: 51.3 (12-way UltraSparc III)
New Toy: 53.9
SGI Altix 4700 Density System: 4236

* Tara
** Fred, Willow, and Xander

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"When Hizbullah violates the cease-fire, the world will see who the aggressor is and will understand us," a source close to Olmert said.

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They were supposed to go in my new media center PC, but that kind of didn't work - the motherboard seems to be faulty and I haven't had a chance to get it replaced. So they get reporpoised.

Actually, I am afraid to use them. If I pull the wrong plug, I'll trash my 600GB spanned volume. Which has Magipoka and Haruhi on it. And some other stuff. But I'm going to do it anyway.

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Fortunately for me, it resets tonight, because 64k really sucks. At least the forum version of my site comes up quickly enough...

* Downloaded one too many episodes of Bullshit!, I guess.

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Not quite a forum, but I'll fix that tomorr... later today.

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But I will say, if you're going to attack anyone over what they've written, it might be a good idea to read what they've written. You know? Basic courtesy. Also helps if you don't want to look like an idiot.

Also, threats? Comments or email. Not cool.

* Even the morons are smart morons.

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What we want to do is to bring into the schools the scientific evidence that supports a theistic supernatural origin as opposed to the Theory of Evolution.

These (the creationists) are the guys who convinced me until a few short years ago that my natural American political allies were the Democrats. They still make my teeth itch.

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Works just fine (after fixing a couple of bugs; one with error-checking in the smilifier, and the other... I've forgotten what the other one was).

Now I can start doing some serious testing and tweaking.

Also, it's working via a PHP wrapper, which is, um, one line of code. But that means you can (if you wish) use PHP through Minx.

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