After a lengthy stretch of service, theLocust II (a beefy Celeron 400Mhz machine) decided to take a dive on Wednesday night, whilst I was playing Day Of Defeat on my Linux machine using Wine. Not a happy man was I! But lo! From the ashes of that little holocaust arises it’s predecessor — gone from public view for 12 months, laying idle — the original theLocust (a Pentium 100Mhz machine). All I had to do was put the network cards and hard drive from theLocust II into theLocust, and she fired up no problemo!

Methinks that the motherboard went bad in it. It was only a spry 2 years old or so (I’m guessing!), and that Pentium 100 motherboard is easily 6 or 7. They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to!