Geek Points

Last night, I upped my geek points. I've gotten a new computer desk, and as a result I've been playing around with the computers in my room trying to get them in a working configuration I like. Ended up ripping out the graphics card on the windows box and running it headless, and putting a spare graphics card in my linux box to set up a dual-head system. When I need to work on the Windows box I can use terminal services to access the Windows machine via the Remote Desktop Protocol. Main drawbacks are: 1) I obviously can't use the Windows machine for anything cool like gaming or watching videos. It's too choppy, and at the moment I don't seem to be even getting sound from it over the RDP. May just end up popping in a sound card again and connecting speakers to it and playing the sound directly through it rather than trying to pipe it over the network. 2) It's hosed my ability to use DRI. The second graphics card I'm using doesn't support it, and if I try to enable it for one monitor and not the other, the minute my screensaver pops up it causes X to crash. Which probably means it's time to consider investing in a better graphics card.... preferably one with two outputs so both monitors can share it. *shrugs* For now, though, it certainly provides me with an interesting working environment.