New box arrives, old boxes die
I'm been scrambling to wrap up Roller 0.9.9.5 and Chapter 4 of my book (more about that later), so when my new box arrived I had mixed feelings. The new machine is awesome, a new Sun w2100z machine, a dual processor AMD Opteron with a 24" LCD flat screen, so I'm excited about setting up and seeing what it can do, but setting up a new machine takes time and I don't have a whole lot of that.
Anyhow, I decided to set up the new box and do all the moving around of machines and wires and junk that a new box always requires. I do that, get everything re-hooked up, turn the power on, and find that poor old Snoopdave, my homebuilt Debian box, has died and won't even emit a beep code. Arg. Now I'm in the market for a low-end Linux box.
That's what the Sun w2100z looks like. I would have posted a picture of mine, but Snoopdave was not the only casualty. My Kodak DX3600 camera also decided to die. It has frozen up and is now flashing the E13 error code, which apparently is the Kodak equivalent of the blue screen of death, except that it is permanent. So I'm also in the market for a new digital camera. Happy day.
Setting up the new Sun workstation was pretty easy. The Solaris 9 OS install was smooth and I found all of the software I need at blastwave.org (even Eclipse, but don't tell anybody). More about that later, it's time to get to work.