So earlier today I managed to snag a preorder for the Limited Edition Metal Gear Solid 4 Bundle. I had attempted to preorder one yesterday, but the site was being exceptionally broken. In fact, in order to get one today, I had to go through bizarre gesticulations which involved tricking it into letting me put one in my cart (they used a cookie-based system that only let you add the bundle to your cart once, regardless of whether or not you actually had one in your card, have successfully ordered one, etc), then creating a new account on Konami's website in order to get around a bizarre error which told me that having one bundle in my cart meant that I had an invalid amount of bundles in the cart. Nevertheless, I have persevered and managed to preorder (with receipt!) one. Now I need to go to gamestop and cancel my preorder there.

In other news, I retired Eve and Claire and replaced them with a set of three low powered machines. The machines are actually just a low powered motherboard with an integrated processor (fanless) powered by Pico-PSUs and booting off of 4GiB compact flash cards. It turns out that all three machines can be successfully be driven by a single 12V/25A power supply (uses 310W peak). This means that I'm able to get essentially the same work out the machines in exchange for 2 moving parts: 1) one of the machines boots off of a hard drive for various reasons and 2) a small thermally controlled fan in the PSU. The whole aparatus is mounted into a 2U rackmount shelf. I'll take some pictures later on.

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