The main machine for my personal use is a 2 x 750 MHz Ev67 Alpha with 4Gb of RAM and far too many disks. It is 17 km away from me in a locked basement.

Ohh... you mean the one on my desktop?
It's grey and hums - theres a "Perl inside" sticker on it, it's an X-server and (unfortunately) outlook mail-machine, I don't even hear MP3's on it so I don't have the faintest clue about the soundcard, videocard or whatever - it's so much nicer to have a real machine to work on.