TheRaven64's Journal: New Toys And More On The Mini

This week I got some new toys. I think my supervisor is feeling guilty (been seeing other students, or something), and practically forced me to spend some grant money on shiny things. These were:

• An Apple 23" Cinema HD. Very nice. I'm using it now. I have so much screen space that I can actually see my desktop in several places (unlike my physical desktop, which is covered with things).
• A LaCie 500GB disk (which is really 466GB). FireWire 800, with FW400 and USB2 as well (although you can only chain them with FW800). I have a 320GB (300GB) one at home, which I use for video editing. This one is for storing large data sets, and definitely not for video editing, oh no. Honest.
• An iSight. Officially so I can join video conferencing meetings with the other 3 sites we work with on my laptop.
• A BlueTooth Keyboard (Apple) and mouse (Kensington - 3 buttons!) so I don't need to plug in lots of wires when I plug in my laptop.

I suddenly have an incentive to stay at my desk (apart from the view of the sea).

In unrelated news, I mentioned previously that I was putting OpenBSD on a co-located Mac Mini, and would be writing about this. The first 4 of these are now online:

Macs in a rack - taking the mini to the masses
Why OpenBSD?
Setting up secure mail on OpenBSD
Filtering Spam with OpenBSD

The fifth one (Web and Webmail) is done, but will not be release until next Friday (it's my birthday next week, so I wrote it early). The sixth will cover setting up a Jabber server. I haven't yet decided what the seventh will cover - suggestions welcome...

Oh, and the hosting place has agreed to give a discount to Ping Wales readers, so don't forget to mention Ping to them if you do decide to use them (details in the first article).