I'm starting to think about my next computer. The recent demise of my old Pentium Pro 180, wanker (1996-2001), has left my room sadly deficient in the fan noise department.

It's starting to seem likely that I'll be moving somewhere this fall; probably something resembling a warehouse or at least a regular house - certainly somewhere with more space than my current tiny room. This will eventually lead to the construction of the MAME arcade machine I've been designing for the past few months. And that means a dedicated computer. Not really dedicated, but it can't be a desktop and it needs to be Windows (sorry, that's what all the good emulators are written for). But it can certainly be networked and can certainly have loads of harddrive for whatever evil purposes we deem necessary.

So. Sometime in the next 6-8 months, I'm going to build a networked file/mp3/game server. I can't believe how cheap hardware is right now. 1.33GHz Athlon processor & 266 FSB motherboard - $280. 256MB of PC2-100 DRAM - $100. 80GB HDD - $200. That is so cheap. And that's all high-end stuff. For this box I won't even need that level of hardware, and can probably throw together something awesome for under $400. Insane. I guess it helps that I already have a spare case, power supply, monitor, mouse, keyboard, soundcard, video card, and netcard from my old box...

Aaah... gear.

Has anyone else noticed that Dennis Tito looks exactly like Dr. Evil?