25.05.2003
Raining again?
The rain never seems to stop at the moment - well, at least it doesn’t down the South Coast of NSW which is where I am having a rather nice relaxing weekend. Given up doing my Chemistry assignment for a bit and am reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. A very very good book by one of the new wave of British sci-fi/fantasy authors that I am enjoying greatly. I know he has written a second book and I’m eagerly looking forward to it.
The rebuilt machine seems to be behaving well (well, at least my Seti stats are showing a rather nice increase at the moment). After my Tyan TigerMP board died, I decided to get another ASUS board and couldn’t get a athlon MP/MPX board for love nor money (and didn’t want to get another Tyan frankly).
The Asus a7v8x-x is a very very nice board and with builtin via-rhineII lan and a lot of space around the cpu (including mounting holes although I am not using them) is working well. I’ve dual-booted XP and my old Debian install (from the smp days) and it is behaving itself. The Vantex HSF is performing very well indeed with the best temps I have ever seen from a air-cooled AMD chip (including my own AMD Duron900).
Time to start looking at rrdtoold and what else I can graph with mrtg 
You can never have too many statistics and graphs are always nice to look at. This site is rather good: http://www.campin.net/DNS/graph.html - talking about graphing DNS server information using rrdtool - very nice looking indeed.
Now for some more chemistry…..