My 20GB hard drive arrived! I opened the case, put it on the IDE bus in place of the CD-ROM, formatted it, copied over everything from the 4GB disk, unmounted the 4GB disk, mounted the 20GB disk, closed the case, and BAM! All done. Booted up into the same OS configuration with no problems. That's because this was done on a Mac, on which you don't have to jump through stupid hoops with disk geometry translation and boot blocks. Macs rule.

With the 20GB drive in place and working well, I've started encoding my CD collection into MP3. The goal is that all of my music will be right there on the hard drive, organized by composer and type of piece. I hate swapping CDs!

Made excellent headway on cleaning my room. I may get it done tomorrow. Then I can think about adding furniture items such as a beanbag chair, director's chairs, and other crazy stuff.

With most of the brothers away on retreat, those of us remaining expected the pledges to attempt their prank tonight. Most every entry to the house was locked in an attempt to prevent it. The idea behind the prank is that we try to stop the pledges from pranking, but they have to do it anyway. A test of their wits, if you will. Anyway, there was some suspicious activity after dinnertime, but as far as we can tell, no prank was pulled. Perhaps this is the prank.

I'm looking forward to giving a seminar on OpenBSD for the CWRU Linux Users Group in about a month. A lot of Linux folks take for granted that you have to deal with security problems when you install a Unix-like OS. Well, this is not true: the OpenBSD folks have worried about it for you. I just want people to have all the facts at their disposal, and not be intimidated by OpenBSD's smaller user base or differences from Linux.