Holy moly!

With all this high powered hardware you could
head over to Distributed Net:
 
http://www.distributed.net/ 

and get the Linux client:

http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html#linux

and then join the "Linux users of Minnesota" team:

http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=6533

and shut off the "Optimal Golomb Rulers" project
(load-work precedence: RC5,DES,CSC,OGR=0)
until they decide to show individual measurements 
of progress (hehe).

That is, unless you already have a way to waste 
your extra cycles... ;-)

>>> thomas at stderr.net 11/08/01 03:46PM >>>
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:23:04PM -0600, jima wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I guess it is a little cool, but I don't see why we have to hide
> > computers away in awfull cabinets like the ones we can get right now.
> > Why aren't there more translucent cabinets out there? Something to hang
> > on the wall would be even more geeky!
> 
>  That problem (and solution) did occur to me, yes.  Another possible
> solution is to pop open your case at LAN parties.  I've known plenty of
> people to do that, even if their components aren't particularly
> fancy-looking.  (It was for some sort of cooling factor.  I hope.)

I just don't like dust coming in there, it's bad enough as it is with
my case standing on the carpet here.

> > So which one did you buy? Especially: does it have any nice colors!
> 
>  I bought a Soyo K7VTA-Pro with a Duron 800 processor from Tiger Direct,
> and two sticks of 512mb SDRAM from buy.com.  Nothing too fancy, but it's
> better than what that computer has now.

I'm really happy with my Abit VP6 and two pentium 3's at 1GHz yum..