DC Update

(That's Distributed Computing, not District of Columbia. I try to avoid the latter.)

I'm continuing to fold @ home, now as part of the FreeRepublic team. I just hit #6 on the team, and I'm currently producing about 50K PPD or 1.5 million points per month with only three PCs. I'm also still helping the [H]ard DC Commandos, and I just set up my stats on Free-DC, so here's an overview:



If the image looks weird it's because I'm still playing around with the colors. The commandos are up to #12 on DC Vault, so hopefully we can reach the top 10 soon.

Bhavani is complete (almost)

The case finally arrived for my "slightly smaller" gaming PC, named Bhavani. Dave at PC Design Lab is a nice guy and builds good cases. I'm very happy despite the wait.



I still need to install some pimp UV case lighting, but after that it should be done.

This marks a milestone in that I don't want to spend anymore money on PCs this year. However, one of the hard drives in my main PC just died last night, so maybe I'll have to add a clause allowing replacement parts. Now that everything is pretty much built, I'll try to take some nice pictures and update the PC pages.

If you remember my previous post about every PC I own having a different operating system, Bhavani has Vista Ultimate 64-bit, which is different than my laptop which runs the 32-bit version. With Girija running 64-bit Windows 7 beta, I suddenly have a shortage of PCs able to run 32-bit BOINC projects. I need to upgrade to the RC of Windows 7 anyway, so maybe I'll install the 32-bit version this time.

Quote of the day

Mark Steyn, discussing gov't regulation of cars:

...and soon nanny-state regulation will require every American under 37 to be in a rear-facing child seat, which is a pretty good metaphor for where the country's going.

Read the whole thing.