gwax's rumblings

I have, just recently, got­ten a spiffy Speakeasy DSL con­nec­tion installed at my home for my per­sonal use. The DSL con­nec­tion pro­vides me with 3.0Mbps/768kbps (up/down) speeds and a num­ber of sta­tic IP addresses, which means that I can finally move my server out of an MIT closet. This move will take a few hours dur­ing which time my server will be com­pletely down and then there will be a lag time as the DNS servers are updated to reflect the change. So, what I’m say­ing is, expect a day or so of down­time for all of gwax.[com,net,org], includ­ing mail ser­vices, some­time in the near future.

After the migra­tion, there’ll be another fun server hap­pen­ing, namely a rather big upgrade. I’ve been think­ing of upgrad­ing my server since I got a prop­erly pay­ing job and I hap­pened to be brows­ing the Dell web­site when I noticed that they were sell­ing rather fancy equip­ment at rather large dis­counts. Long story short, in a cou­ple weeks, I should have a brand-spanking new Dell PowerEdge SC430 server with a 2.8GHz Dual Core Pentium D, 1GB DDR2 RAM and 160GB SATA Hard Drive space, which was dis­counted from $976 to $499. This machine is going to be an absolute beast, totally blow­ing all of my other com­put­ers out of the water (there’s Moore’s Law for you). So, after that beast arrives, I’ll get it set up with all of the ser­vices that my cur­rent server pro­vides, slowly migrate serv­ing respon­si­bil­i­ties over (which ought to be trans­par­ent to all of you) and then retire my cur­rent server to some other menial task.

There is, of course, one ques­tion left to answer: what should I name my new machine?

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