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Mm glavin.

So today and yesterday, I've been pulling computers to bits and putting them back together in a better way. One of them was a scary old Pentium 166, which will be a fileserver for one of our smaller groups.. They will be getting some more money later this year, and hopefully they will buy a better machine then ;)

Also, we just got 4 new servers.. I had to put more hard drives in them. Mmm glavin. Nice boxes, except they weigh 17kgs (35lbs) each.. moving the four of them around is a bit of a pain. Ahh well. This is the busy time of the year, where things get.. well.. busy. Heh!

Oooh

One other thing, I've been asked to get a new PC for our Head of School for his official office and meeting room (he has two).. so this will be seen by bigwigs, so it "has to look good" .. it's going on a Jarrah (like mahogany I gues) desk, so beige is out.. and CRT monitors are de rigeur .. so he's getting a 17 inch black LCD monitor, black keyboard, optical mouse and a funky black case. The LCD monitor will be connected by DVI, which gives a much nicer signal, to a GeForce 4MX. It will only be 2ghz P4 with 512MB RAM, but as long as it LOOKS good ;)

And it looks like it'll only be about $3000 all up, which isn't very much considering :) Mmm it'll be fun to setup too.