I enjoyed taking Liam to LinuxFest Northwest 2009. I won i Core i7 system at the raffle there! I don’t expect to win such a thing again. I thought I’d just post a screenshot, because Compiz is just so cool. It runs BOINC pretty well:

top - 21:07:17 up 2 days,  9:08,  2 users,  load average: 8.24, 8.37, 8.48
Tasks: 260 total,   9 running, 251 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  0.3%us,  0.7%sy, 99.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  3.9%us,  1.0%sy, 95.1%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu2  :  0.3%us,  2.6%sy, 97.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu3  :  0.0%us,  0.5%sy, 74.7%ni, 24.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu4  :  0.7%us,  0.3%sy, 99.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu5  :  0.0%us,  0.2%sy, 75.0%ni, 24.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu6  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy, 75.2%ni, 24.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu7  :  2.3%us,  2.6%sy, 95.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   6023600k total,  5343188k used,   680412k free,   149640k buffers
Swap: 17647360k total,        0k used, 17647360k free,  2560740k cached