If you noticed a brief outage this afternoon, it is because I replaced my hardware. Because this system is smaller then my Sparc, my total operational costs remain the same month to month, but this system is a lot more powerful. Financing rules.

1gig p3 with 512M ram... I have a few design & service criticisms, but they are minor. Biggest problem: Fan is loud as hell. Only buy one if you plan to colocate it. Happiest about: They picked a bios that supports serial consoles.

There are many penguin computing machines in my datacenter (inflow) so I've adorned this one with a Pumpkin sticker so I can find it later.

They sent me a plush penguin. :) Its going right next to the plastic yellow blow-fish I'm getting from work.