Build Log: 100,000 PPD by 1/23/2011

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You can still use su if you want to. The Ubuntu forums gods will try to rain thunder, torment and bannage on me for mentioning this (blow me, Ubuntu mods), as it's not "the Ubuntu way", but you can type "sudo su" and you're there. No need for root password.
You also don't HAVE to install everything from the repos, either. Compiling things yourself works just fine and you can either do it "old skool" and leave the fresh toys in whatever directory you like or compile into deb packages and use the package manager.

I was typing that paragraph about ubuntu just thinking "D_A is going to have something to say about this" The truth that I realized is that since these are just crunching only machines... none of my gripes about Ubuntu matters; as long as its stable and works then that serves my purpose. I also need something that is easy to admin for many machines and ubuntu server fits that criteria. If I get a Linux box up for an everyday web browser, a project to mess around with, desktop, non gaming machine (which is somewhere on my to-do list, near the bottom ) then I will use a different distro; something that suites my taste better.

Also while Linux has improved immensely since the stone ages when I last used *nix some i'm not a big fan of the fragmentation of some of the distro's like Ubuntu were your suppose to do things "the Ubuntu way" use the gnome ubuntu-desktop enviroment, use sudo, or whatever else. I'm more of the old school configurable linux fan; I was liking Arch and I used Gentoo when it was new and liked the build from source approach and configurability.

Oh, and the rest of my project is in limbo for awhile:
- Linux issues solved.
- WC loop is working just fine with only one sub-loop and no fans.
- I ordered fans (6) from newark when they only had 5 in stock so I may be waiting a while. The newark page said they would ship direct from the mfg or distributor or something. No word via email about an order processing or shipping info or whatnot. Their site quotes a depressing 10-15 business days for shipping (really? a web business can't ship a product in less time than that these days???)
- Waiting on my 'Taco' 1/35hp pump from grainger; then I have to tear down and rebuild the loop at least part way. I plan to install the pump in between the two rads were I currently have a 1.5" ID hose bridge because I have space there and it should be easy (famous last words.) I'm not expecting fast shipping from grainger, I would consider myself lucky to get the pump this week.
- I have 9 out of my 14 hexacore's up and running; 1 isn't OC'd and another only has a mild OC. Running that setup for this week without messing with them constantly ought to give me an idea of what to expect later. I'm not running a very point friendly WCG mix of projects right now though. Linux boxes are on CEP2 WU's, windows boxes are finishing up some C4CW WU's before going back to 'exclusive' DDT2 (which really means all projects because there are so few DDT2 WU's these days.) Looks like alot of HPF2 WU's in the que which suck balls point wise if they don't throw a computation error.