RIP Zheer

It was a sad day yesterday as I turned off href=http://www.bennee.com/~alex/servers.jpg>Zheer

for the last time. Trustworthy to the end I was just a little

concerned by the rattling noises he had been making over the

last few months as well as a series of lock-ups when we had

particularly hot weather last month.Its not all bad, mainly because I never throw things away, bits of

him will live on transplanted into Jack. Jacks not that much more

powerful than Zheer was but he does have a load more memory and masses

of hard disk space. Hopefully he'll manage to survive the next 10

years.

In other news the Free-X group have found a

` software only <http://www.xboxstation.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22>`__ exploit for the XBox. Now I'm the sort of geek that

doesn't buy hardware that artificially locks you out of doing

interesting things with it (which is why I haven't succumbed to Sky

Plus yet, I don't like the idea of owning a piece of hardware that

can change its behavior without *your* say so). However the XBox is

not a bad piece of hardware and its cheap (thanks to the big

Microsoft subsidy). Now the possibility exists of running my own

software on it its actually quite tempting to buy one. We shall see

:-)