So I’m not working today, for some odd reason. It kind of bothers me in a way, but at the same time, I welcome the opportunity of a day off. Still, I do need the money a hell of allot more, so I really hope my work is needed for the next couple of days. I know I’m working Friday, but that’s about it.

So what have I done today, well I had this urge about getting a server up and running, so I tore apart my own computer, threw it all into my server cabinet along with 6 hard drives and some extra hardware and booted it up. Now usually I’m kind of used to having a computer running in the house, with the little extra noise it carries, but after booting up this monster, I’m seriously considering getting some noise killing hardware, because this sounds like a freaking jet plane taking off…
Biggest issue is the BIOS fan, which seems to be dented and thereby making a hell of allot of noise by itself. I know that without it, the noise is not as annoying (all tough still there mind you), but the graphics card is of course OVER the damn fan, and there’s not that many fan less coolers that actually will fit underneath it. Which means I’ll have to get a fan either way, and still have to live with some noise from it.
As for placing the thing, has also become and issue. Either I will place it in the hallway (as long as I can get it more or less noiseless, Alina is cool with it), or in the attic. Which means I’ll have to pull a power cord and a network cable up there from our apartment. I’m not sure if I’m allowed or can be bothered to do it to be honest, but I’ll try to figure something out.

For now I’m at my laptop and I’m probably going to use that until I get myself some new hardware so I can throw together a new computer. It’s of course just as noisy, but at least I have something to use for now.

The rest of this day is basically unplanned. I’m heading into town shortly to meet up with MartinH and get a ScummVM collection I made some years ago, seeing as I managed to break my own. Then I’ll check out the library, and probably head back home. I might also go visit Elin at her new place later, but that depends on if Alina wants to eat dinner when she gets back or not. We’ll see what happens =)

Me out!