This week we’ve been moving our offices out of Digital Library Initiatives and into the next room to make way for construction. We’re also packing at home for a move into our new house on Friday the 1st.

My computer started smoking this week so I finally bought a Cobalt Qube V3. I’ve wanted one for years. I picked it up at auction for $100. I plan to use it as a low-power home server for serving files via NFS and Samba, as a firewall, possibly as a mail and web server, and, well, anything really. I’m just working on replacing the original OS based on Red Hat 6.2 with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. It’s tiny, too, at 7.5 x 7.63 x 7.75 inches. See the datasheet
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