That’s right, according to this they will pay me $111.00 to take a SL500 off their hands. Woohoo!

Upon further digging it became clear that someone just botched the config for that system and got it listed with no components at all. Every category said “NA” and had no specs at all. The price quickly jumped up to normal levels once you started customizing and added, you know, actual parts to the machine. Too bad, I was gonna order a baker’s dozen…

“This card should comfortably handle the latest games at intermediate resolutions like 1680×1050 with graphical detail turned up and perhaps a dash of antialiasing.”

The hell? When did 1680×1050 get to be an “intermediate” resolution for gaming? Or for damn near anything else, really? I mean, it’s not quite full-on “HD”, but it’s close! Calling that an “intermediate” resolution is like calling a Civic SI a “family car”. I mean, sure, it’s not exactly a dyed-in-wool sports car, but give it some credit!

Maybe this just means I’m getting old…

Had a good weekend. Spent most of it pottering around at home. Graham and I finally put in the time to get our home network into a decent state, which meant getting the home router / server / thing (known as Zinn) all setup. Well, it turns out that the motherboard we were going to use was in a questionable state. Questionable meaning that although it seemed to work, every single capacitor of a particular size on it had vented, a couple rather explosively. So, Zinn currently lives in Liz’s old desktop (actually a low-end server, but I digress…) until the parts we ordered today arrive. When all is said and done we will have one box hooking up to our DSL, running our private and public wireless, terminating our VPNs, and routing all the traffic amongst them. I’m expecting the power consumption on it to be somewhere around 50 watts. Not bad, if I say so myself. I guesstimate that our current consumption is around 120 or so, so this is a significant drop.

Gr also got a pretty bad-ass net-boot setup running on Zinn, so we can do netboot installs of Hardy and also run a number of diagnotics. It will be especially nice once our local Hardy mirror is complete. We’ll be able to do completely current installs at Gb speed. It’s pretty cool if you’re into that sort of thing.

I also got a random “Thank You” email from someone out on the Internet who found my Socialtext installation guide useful. That’s nice.