Over a year ago I created a monster…

It was a 4 processor 3.0Ghz Linux box. Strung unto its many available ports were over 12 terabytes of mounted data. I struggled with what exactly to call the beast until finally turning it on for the first time.

While the hum of all those drives and all that cooling equipment left me somewhat hypnotized, I was immediately aware that all the lights in the house flickered into that dim, please-give-me-more-power, state.

Thus was born, “darken.infophobia.net.”

For the last year “darken” served its 12 TB, also providing a nice extra desktop through VNC. Last night though, I came in to the smell of electric fire. It seems ole’ “darken” just couldn’t handle the heat (and being a computer obviously could not get out of the kitchen; err bedroom). Sad.

And so, I must explore an alternative solution to serving my 12 terabytes, as “darken”’s processor melted down at 5:10pm, January 16th, 2008. Perhaps I’ll buy the latest XPS from Dell that uses the new liquid cooled H2C system.

Until then…all now a moment of silence for my once mighty Core 2 Quad that overheated last evening, creating with its death, the worst smell of electric fire I’ve come across.

Darken… you will be missed!