It lives
Okay, after much teeth-gnashing the ASUS motherboard has been drilled,
heat blocks applied to CPUs, and my new water-cooled dual athlon has sprung
to life. Phew. It took way too long, but it is oh-so-quieter than the
Dell sitting in front of me right now. [Extraordinarily geeky aside: I've
named it 'CBR900RR' after the very very fast Honda motorcycle I've always
lusted after.] I had forgotten to connect a ground when I first fired it
up, and the athlons got too hot to touch very quickly. Oops. With ground
in place and coolant flowing, there's no discernable heat coming from the
blocks. Nice.
Anyway, one of my current projects is writing a mod_perl authenticating
reverse proxy, so the client can click back and forth between their CRM
application (IIS/ASP/SQL Server) and their KM application
(IIS/Servlets/Oracle) without having to log in twice.
I had different VMWare VMs set up for each application, and I was able to
redeploy both of them to my new machine by drag and drop. Since I had a
couple days invested in setting up these environments, I am soooo happy not
to have to do it twice.
10:11:40 AM 
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