maxcelcat | Nerdy Stuff

Used the last day of my sick leave (although strictly speaking I could take up till next Wednesday off...) doing Nerdy Stuff.

First of all, I fished out a four-port KVM switch, which I bought at least 18 months ago, out of the box where I'd dumped it when I couldn't get it to work. Last time, all the machines I plugged it into complained that they didn't have a keyboard or a mouse... This time... It worked perfectly. Go figure.

So now I have only one monitor on my desk instead of the two I had before. I can switch between one of the four computers on my desk at easy.

All together now.... Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd!!!! :-)

Why the heck would anyone have four computers on his desk? Ok, I will tell you. One is an aging second hand IBM PC, which I use most of the time. It's the Main Machine. One is an ancient Macintosh which I only stopped using for my email about six months ago, which I have still for what are I guess only sentimental reasons now. Another is a server (of sorts), an old PIII I picked up from work which I plugged three large hard drives into I back stuff onto it, and play my MP3 collection from it through my stereo. And the last one is a dual processor PIII sever I spent MONTHS fiddling with to get it to work, in the end I just gave up and bought the IBM. Now I'm trying to turn it into a linux box. It cool look, at least, it's in a clear perspex case.

I also have

evildoom_bunny's old PC lying around. It's in a server case, one day I'm going turn it into my backup machince, since its fast than the one I'm using and has space for more drives. And another PC is lying around which was a present to

evildoom_bunny, but we don't have a desk to put it on. Maybe when we move.

Clear as mud?

I also have most of the parts for a power Mac lying about. Today I actually sat down with them - having had most of them for more than two years now - to see if they'd fit together. They do, but I need a couple of spacers for it all to work...

I ALSO have a HUGE pile of crappy old computer equipment taking up space - including something like SIX CD-ROM drives. Time for a trip to freecycle me thinks.