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mdlbearMom's iMac, her holiday/birthday present from my brother and me, arrived safely this morning. The UPS tracking info said "left at front door", which had me greatly worried; turns out that means that they deliver to the concierge desk.
Just fired off a fairly substantial order to JanisIan.com -- she has a sale every December, with CDs at half price or less.
I'm in the process of swapping CPUs (with motherboards and memory, of course) between my recording box and my fileserver. The recording box currently has a 1MHz Via C7 board that's fanless, but apparently doesn't have enough compute power to play more than about 4 tracks while recording. Hopeless. And the server is a lot more powerful than it needs to be, so the swap should be a win all around.
The board swap solves a number of problems. I'd been thinking of replacing the server (which is currently an AMD Sempron) with a Mini-ITX board for quite a while now, but my 800MHz board -- the one that used to be my recording system -- doesn't recognize big disks. The new one even has SATA, which will eventually come in handy. It doesn't have GigE, but neither does the current server; I'll just move the board.
The current fileserver is in an Antec SLK3700BQE full-tower case; I'm going to leave the disks in the case and just move the MB. I have another quiet Antec case, a SLK2650-BQE, that's a couple of inches shorter and only has two hard drive slots; that will work better for the recording system. (It used to be my old gateway/router before I replaced that with yet another Mini-ITX system.) Because it has plenty of PCI slots, I'll be able to add a GigE card as well as the M-Audio Delta 66 that it needs for recording. Gigabit does make a difference when you're slinging 250MB Audacity projects around.
The fileserver is pretty lightly used these days, since I'm the main Linux user and the clients rarely share anything but the printer when they're running Windows. I'll probably do the swap tomorrow morning after taking the kids to their respective destinations. Moving the gateway to a 1U case and giving it a bigger disk will be more traumatic, but I don't have to do that now.