I’ve just been far too busy to blog I guess. I dunno…

Yeah I have an agenda, a reason to post today out of the blue. I’m at work right now, wiping 8 identical Dell Optiplex small form factor desktops to get junked. We’re getting a new staging area desk in the IT lab room here and we need to get rid of these old computers. I was just wondering if anyone who reads this (anyone? lol) would want these for a computing cluster or something of that sort.

Here’s the specs:

gx100

(I didn’t take that picture; found it online)

8 Dell Optiplex GX100 Small Desktops. I believe they have a 566MHz Celeron (lolz) with 256MB of ram, onboard video/usb/network, pci sound card, and an open PCI slot. Most of the hard drives are the same, but some have been replaced. I would know the size, but none of them will be done wiping their hard drives (8 rounds, each with 3 passes of Mersenne Twister :P ) for at least another 2 hours, and I’ll be gone by then. They may not all have the same processor speed, I’m not sure.

Why am I not taking them for my own use at the house as a cluster? That’s a gross waste of electricity and I can’t be a part of that :P . That’s why I posted this here, so that maybe someone at RIT (with unmetered electrical usage and no conscience :P ) would like to take them off my hands. I could bring them to campus if you’d like, or you could pick them up here. My boss wants me to send them to the shipping and receiving department tomorrow and let them deal with recycling them, but they are perfectly functional machines so that is a bit wasteful.

Maybe I’ll actually make a real bloggy post again soon. Things have been a bit crazy and different lately, though in a good/wonderful way. :)

Have fun at class today walking around campus in the rain.. I’m going back to work :)