Ouch. I seem to have given myself a typing injury (RSI/Carpal Tunnel/etc.). Not good. It's probably due to doing too much typing on my laptop in odd positions, and I probably aggravated it further with too much Gameboy playing. So I've been attempting to stay away from keyboards and mice as much as possible the last 4-5 days. My hands and wrists are feeling much better now, but not as good as I'd like. As a diversion, I've been reading Asimov's Foundation novels, which I'm quite enjoying.

I tried to get the server swap accomplished before Christmas holidays, but I ran into a snag. Apparently, the racks at the non-profit colo I'm using are already maxed out for power. They're not really well set up for more power-hungry servers - the rack I'm currently in only has a 15A circuit. I bought a neato Seasonic Power Angel power meter from Fry's for $40, and measured the power usage of the server. Idling, it draws 220W, or 1.96A. Fully loaded, it draw 278W, or 2.51A, according to the meter. In 22 hours of idling, the meter says the server drew 4.89 KWH of power.

Anyways, since the power draw on the new server is probably about 1-1.5 amps higher than the old server, the colo people can't let me stick the server in the same place as the current one, and since they have stopped expanding, they have no new racks where I can put it. I'll probably have to go in search of a new colo in the new year.