I've been puzzling over what I could reasonably say about my friend, but it is complicated by the fact that they are well-known. Not famous like a rock star, b

I've been puzzling over what I could reasonably say about my friend, but it is complicated by the fact that they are well-known. Not famous like a rock star, but well-known within their field of work. I use "they" rather than "he" or "she" so as to avoid identifying their gender, not for their privacy but because while not well-known there are some people who know they are a close friend. EDIT: Sorry, I meant to avoid writing "she" and "her" but screwed up. I might sell my workstation; I'm not dead certain as I am quite attached to it however it's a lot easier to replace a box than a close friend. It's not really _current_ technology however it is quite powerful and the case looks really cool. I'm not sure what to sell it for however I will figure that out by tomorrow afternoon: 2.5 GHz Core Quad Xeon e5420 16 GB FB-DIMM memory 1000 watt power supply 16-lane PCIe 1 GB ATI video (don't recall the model #) SuperMicro Motherboard (forgot #) Really Sexy CoolerMaster case - 10 5 1/4" drive bays! generic floppy drive supermicro dual-layer Blu-ray burner The video card has two DVI sockets. The motherboard has six internal SATA sockets, I've brought two of them out to eSATA. Also two gigabit ethernet. Serial, parallel, legacy mouse and keyboard connectors, 4 external USB, I think there's six internal. Sound on the motherboard, I think it's Intel HD Audio. The motherboard has two Xeon sockets but only one is installed. It can take a maximum of 64 GB of FB-DIMM, with 4-way interleaving. FB-DIMM is largely out of style as it uses more power but it really is better than DDR* for multithreaded code; the buffer enables different CPU cores to read and write the same address ranges at the same time. While you can do that with DDR in a strictly logical sense, the memory controller arbitrates the bus so in reality that doesn't actually happen, thereby slowing down multithreaded code. Optionally, four Antec hard drive coolers. I'd rather keep the four drives and my hardware raid controller, as the controller was given to me by a former employer (I worked on the OS X driver for that same card). I have a drive I don't really need, that while not brand new is in mint condition. I can install any OS you like; I have a fully-licensed Windows 7 OEM installer, with the sticker and everything, or I could install any Linux or *BSD distro you like.