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After creating the new Cougarfest Archive, which generates photo thumbnails on the fly, I've noticed the CPU on this server spiking to 100% quite often. The 933Mhz machine has been just dandy up until now, but the .NET imaging library has a hunger for power that cannot be satisfied by a 4 year old machine. My options are to switch back to Linux, or buy new hardware. Since I'm all about the work/earn/buy programming of society, the choice is obvious for me. I'm currently on the lookout for cheap 64-bit barebone systems under $500. I plan to finally make the move to 64-bit on my desktop, and transplant my current motherboard/CPU to the server. The whole operation is complicated, time consuming, and expensive which is exactly the way I like it. All implied references are correct. Oh and Missy's first Cougarfest was last week and she had a blast, and I'm happy she came, and I'm happy she came (not a typo).