Okay, so I'm feeling pretty good now about getting the RAM tomorrow. Once the new swamprat has that extra RAM in it, and I've switched operations over to it, things are going to be so much better.

• This blog is going to be a lot more responsive
• NFS on my home LAN is going to be faster (this would be improved more if I replace my old 10M hub with a 100M one
• My webcam will be back online, in my study at home - those night time LED shots are great, I miss them, and I want them back^*

^*The reason for this is that current swamprat will be renamed chipmunk, and have SuSE 9.1 installed, with the kernel of the day package so I have the pwc.ko kernel module to drive the cam. Obviously I don't want to use an experimental kernel build on a machine that does anything else.

So, as of tomorrow, once that's all done, an inventory of my computers at home will look like this (in no real order)

• swamprat PIII 550MHz, 192M web/mail/file/print/NIS server
• capybara Pentium MMX 166MHz, 128M DNS/squid/NTP server
• chipmunk Pentium 133MHz, 48M webcam attached
• weasel Athlon XP 1700+ 1474MHz, 768M desktop/build machine
• riggwelter PII 233MHz, 96M crappy old laptop^TM

And at some point, they'll be joined by this which I'll need to name at some point.