Tilling the lower 40

A new member of my wee puter farm arrived the other day and I've been lavishing my attention on the now fastest computer of the 6 remaining live ones. I murdered an older computer the other day when I didn't notice its processor fan had stopped.

It was a Pentium 233MMX, and short of mouth to mouth, I tried my best to resuscitate it, but alas it remained, if not dead, decidedly skittish about functioning reliably.

The new addition to the farm arrived flash in black instead of beige and I've been playing with it since. It's crunching SETIs from Berkeley at the moment, helping out the older farm puters, while the other 2 fastest puters are crunching Stanford's folding at home. My heart is torn between the two distributed computing projects with my first love SETI winding down into BOINC and my new love folding@home performing perhaps a more immediate service to my fellow man.