Jun 30 2004
The Devil Makes Work For Idle Thumbs…
Well, it’s been 4 weeks to the day since I finished my last exam and I still have no job. I hate looking for summer jobs, they’re always a pain in the ass for me to find, since I’ve more experience than most people so companies could offer me a permanent position, but not a temporary position. :-/
I’ve gotten so fed up looking for a tech job I’m going to start looking for a job in video shops, pubs, etc… In the meantime, at least I have a nixer or two, but I won’t be seeing any cash from them for a number of weeks. 
In other news, my precious is working quite nicely. It has pointed out to me just how bad a state my mp3 collection is in, especially the ID3 tags. At least that’s something to keep me occupied.
I also finally got my two Intergraph TD-310 workstations yesterday. They may have been made in 1997, but they currently have 2 x 200MHz Pentium Pro CPUs each, SCSI disks and (floppy + CD-ROM) drives. Unfortulately, this means I can’t seem to make a SCSI supporting boot disk for Knoppix to spec the hardware. Their graphics cards are interesting, Intergrah Intense 3D PCI cards with dual monitor outputs and a wide SCSI connector on them. Not to mention they’re the length of a normal computer and have 3 beefy heatsinks on them…
My plan for the two workstations is to install Gentoo and make them into a cluster with Linux Virtual Server and perhaps even UML once I see about upgrading the CPUs and sticking in more RAM and bigger SCSI disks.