Is your flag HOT or NOT
Sometimes I code up silly things. Sometimes other people spend too much time playing with them.

RPG - Roleplaying Perl Geeks
It's with some delight that I notice how many Perlish people have a few tidbits of roleplaying information on their websites. Abigail has a MERP campaign, and Dan has a what is sidhe.org page stating the website originally existed to provide RPG resources, particularly for GURPS.

Updated Website
For the new financial year, Perl Training Australia has a new special offer. Customers who book and pay for their course before the early bird special date will receive free perl books.

Many thanks to Jacinta who spend a good part of the day stuffing book information into the XML files that are used to generate our website.

B.....o......c......h.......s
Bochs is too slow for what I need to use it for. Despite that, I'm hugely impressed by its capabilities. It's awesome.

I've managed to find a solution without having to resort to commercial software. It's called picking up one of the many old machines that I have lying around, figuring out what's inside it, and installing my new system onto that.

Today's find is a 1GHz Celeron with 512Mb of RAM, and 20Gb of disk drive space. Amazing what I have lying in the spare room.

Unfortunately, it appears that the reason this machine was lying in the spare room is that it's made from the parts of a machine that died a particulary gruesome death, with much smoke and heat. It's rebooting at random intervals, so it doesn't look particularly stable. Hopefully it's something simple like a heat problem (it's got the itty bittiest fan), and I can fix it just by whacking a larger heat-sink on it, or underclocking the whole rig.

Update
After installing Windows on a real machine, I'm not that sure that Bochs was that slow after all.

Bochs
It works! I've got Windows running inside Bochs, network and all. I still don't know how fast it is for the things that I want to use, as I've got a bazillion critical security patches to install.