Shopping for Geeks
Hit a dotcom death sale today (second trip in
the past few months), and actually sprung for a few items:
an old Ultra 1/160 (dubbed "theseus"; nice step up from the
Sparc 2 (minos) I'm using to prop the new one up right now),
a quad-head Matrox G200 ($700 card, picked it up for $75; I
love liquidation sales), and an old VT510 terminal. I was
expecting much distress from my partner in
crime, but she was unconcerned. Of course, she passed
her second MCSE test today, so that may have contributed to
the lack of concern. :-)
By the way, if you're looking for cheap Linux
games, swing past EBgames.
All of their titles are selling for $10 each (Quake III,
Soldier of Fortune, Myth II, Heretic II, Heavy Gear II,
etc). I finally broke down and ordered Quake III
and Soldier of Fortune (Quake III is the tin box version
too, nice and shiny ;-).
Work
Way behind schedule on everything, due to
constantly changing requirements. Deployed QA FreeBSD system
today, will be deploying three development FreeBSD systems
tomorrow morning, along with cloning yet another webserver
for the co-lo facility. Brewing in the background is the
need to finish off the Red Hat Linux systems, and get the
hardware ordered for the Solaris boxen (can you hear those
requirements changing as I type this?). Then, maybe, I'll be
able to spend a little time hardening the Oracle system
before the service rolls out. :-P
Work-related
Received an extremely interesting invitation to
talk to Compaq
regarding a position in Singapore as a senior consultant
(Tru64 and VMS shops, no surprise there). Strangely enough,
I'm seriously considering talking to them; a little paid
travel would be just what the doctor ordered, and after
speaking with my girlfriend, it appears that she would be
fine with a temporary change of locale (emphasis on
temporary, of course).