If all goes well, nobody will notice that this server’s getting a new IP address and that DNS changes are already being propogated.

It should “just work,” dammit. My fingers will probably be crossed for the next 48 hours solid. Wish me luck.

Having two network ports was the best thing ever to happen to this machine, I tell you. Okay, maybe second-best right behind having two CPUs…

(UPDATE: Okay, so Karel’s a moron. Unless you tell the multi-homed box how to route traffic, Very Bad Things happen when you try to talk to the new interface. Idjut.)

Hot diggity damn. The Oscar broadcast led off with the Feature Animation category, and wouldn’t you know it…

Spirited Away won.

Oddly enough, I was right all along. Unless I’m mistaken, that’s one of the signs of the impending Apocalypse.

So many evil, bizarre and generally inexplicable things start making sense when you realize that…

Frodo failed.

My main workstation at the office, Ryoko, is slowly dying. Because the IDE chain has completely failed, replacing the motherboard has become necessary. You can’t get a motherboard without also picking up a processor and RAM, so that’s exactly what I did.

After some shopping at CDW (we have a corporate account, thanks) I found an Asus motherboard, some RAM and an Intel processor. I was fairly certain all the pieces matched.

I was wrong. I ordered a 400MHz FSB motherboard and a 533MHz FSB processor. Just frelling great. I’m an idiot, and even better than that I’m an idiot who’s at least a week away from getting his computer working properly again.

So now I get to contact CDW and figure out what kind of hoops I have to jump through to change out for the correct processor. Grrrrr. I hate being an idiot. I hate waiting for corporate wheels to grind as my stupid goddamned mistakes are repaired.

Brain for sale, barely used. Will let go cheap. Grrrrr.

(update: CDW’s customer service has been outstanding since the first day we started doing business with them, and today is no exception. My “correct” processor should arrive in a day or two, and I’ll be returning the other one later today. Thank you, Roya!)