No computer work today, but I did receive the 486 processors that I won on ebay. I put the 50 mhz 486DX2 in place of the 486DX-33 and when I booted I had expected it to say 33 mhz, but it said 66, so I did some tweaking and brought the clock speed down to 25mhz instead of 33 and it booted at 50 mhz. I had totally forgot about what DX2 meant, so I could have gotten a faster processor at 100 mhz which would have really maxed it out instead of 50. The only real difference between the two would be the amount of rc5 cracking I could do. It'll be a while before I use up all 50 mhz of what I have now, or even the 33 mhz I had before. I tried running it at 66 mhz anyway, but it wasn't stable, so I'll just clock it correctly. I can't help but wonder if the cyrix 120 I took out of Robert's compter would be ok running at 100 mhz, or if it just has too much overheating damage. I don't want to find out the hard way when I really start putting pressure on it and it becomes a critical machine in my network.

I have a marketing paper I have to write and turn in this week. I have to basically disect the marketing plan and strategies of expedia.com. I can also write another paper for extra points in the class (which I really need). I'm thinking about doing it over valinux, since I know something about it already. I asked Mariann if it was a good idea, and she said my prof would probably look at the paper and wonder who the heck valinux was, but I could at least say that it is publicly traded, so it's not a small no-name company. Perhaps I'll do RedHat instead since it might be a little more difficult to do valinux since their whole company strategy is twisted around from what it used to be. Mandrake would be more fun than RedHat, but it's traded in Europe would be harder to explain to her. Those would at least be companies that I know something about before starting so that I don't have to do a complete background search like I will for expedia. I haven't given one drop of piss worth of care about expedia, ever.

I dropped a dry spaghetti noodle on my electric stove coil and 1 cm burned up and got my whole apartment smokey. I was surprised so much came from just a little bit of pasta. I had to open the windows and take a shower to get rid of the smell.

I spent most of the day sleeping at Mariann's apartment. Most of last night I was either watching freshmen try to sneak out of their assigned bedspaces or I was getting OpenBSD NAT to work. NAT is working fine now with static IPs, but dhcpd won't start because I don't have something configured correctly. I read some mailing list archives I found on google that seemed to have the exact same problem I had, but the fixes didn't work. I'm thinking it's probably something I have to do at boot time just after the kernel turns on the NICs and before dhcpd is started instead of just one time in the shell. Next, I'll have to figure out more about boot time configuration so I can try that. If I can get dhcpd to start, and test port forwarding (which I've already configured) then I can call Cox and get my static IP bound to my new NIC as soon as I present my fake marketing website (which still needs lots of work).