New Monitor

I've been having a little trouble with my 21" Sun CRT over the past few months, and this weekend I'd had enough. So, I went out and got an Apple 23" Cinema HD Display at MicroCenter. Actually, the story is longer than that. I bought a 23" first. But when I was paying, the cashier made a huge deal about the size of the monitor, and made the mistake of planting doubt: "hey, just keep in mind that if this doesn't fit in your setup, you'll have to pay a restocking fee to return it". So, within 10 minutes I'd convinced myself that I didn't actually have room on my desk for the 23". So I traded it out for a 20".

But once I got the 20" set up I realized two things: I actually had plenty of room for the 23", and I was disappointed in the overall resolution of the 20". It felt a little cramped after having run my Sun at 1600x1200 for so long. So, today I went back to MicroCenter and traded back for the 23". They were excellent about waiving the restocking fee, given that I'd just bought the monitor yesterday, and it was perfectly re-packed.

My crib, rockin the 23"

New Cube Webserver Deployed

I installed the 512M stick of memory in the Cube ('ice') this weekend, then set to work decomissioning my Sun boxes and putting the Cube in their place. It was kind of sad shutting 'buzz', my Sun Ultra 1 down. He's been running the site for years, and he was regularly up for very long, trouble-free intervals. RIP buzz, let's hope that ice works as well as you have.

Having no fan, the Cube is relatively silent (except for a bit of hard-drive noise) compared to the old Sun iron. It fits quite nicely into my "server rack". As a matter of fact, there's room for another. A cube-cluster, perhaps? :-)

The Cube, Racked-up