Rack Is Installed

Well, I've got my new rack assembled and installed. My computing gear looks a lot cleaner and more organized now. It's exciting stuff but my excitement is muted by the fact that I have lots of cleaning to do now. I also pulled out a lot of obsolete USB peripherals from my old piece of furniture. It's all stuff that was obsoleted over the many transitions from MacOS 8 to the current MacOS 10.3.

Rackmount Hardware Incoming

It has been my plan for a while to begin migrating to rackmount hardware for my lab since I plan to eventually run a couple of small servers and will also need a few more computers for this project and my android project. But, before I can buy rackmountable computers, I need a rack to put them in.

That rack is on its way! It's also coming with some shelves to hold the non-rackable stuff I have now. The whole rig should show up on Wednesday. I'm excited!

After I get my Mac mini in a few months, I'm going to build my first rackmount server to put in it.

Cyborg Search 0.15

I spent a little time working on it yesterday, so now my Javascript-based prototype of Cyborg Search has been updated to Version 0.15. The GUI has been reduced to an absolute minimum and it is beginning to resemble my initial goals. The help file explains enough to use it, although I'll probably re-write it for 0.16. I'm going to add search support for a few more sites in the next version. (Probably google maps and imdb.)