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New, silly project?


  • To: "Home automation \(E-mail\)" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: New, silly project?
  • From: "Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:25:00 +0100
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I am thinking about this for a quite a while:
I live in a flat and I have a limited space in cupboard for node 0. I suppose that there are more members in similar situation. I brought my ADSL line there, hub, patching panel, UPS modem and server running 24/7. Now, I would like to start using Linux, but I don't know much about it, so I'll have to install it on another server and gradually move services from Windows platform. Also, I'll have to learn along the way and anyway, probably I will never be able to get rid of windows completely because some programs exist on Windows platform only.
That means that I'll end up with one more server in my rack cabinet, and I don't have a space for it.
When I was looking how to rack mount my current PC in cabinet I found that rack mountable PC case was £250, the cheapest I was able to find, so I bought a shelf instead and put a PC in normal, cheap case on the shelf.
All this resulted in idea using one, rack mountable, cheap cases from Maplin (£30-40) and putting two small motherboards inside (like Via ones). Then I can save on CD, keyb, mouse etc, if I use everything on USB and use some cheap switch, like Belkin one. Most of those devices (CD, floppy, keyb etc) I use very rarely on the servers, so there's no point having them in double.
I am keeping an eye on Via project and waiting for the first impressions and problems that the guys will face (heating and similar).
 
Now I would like you to tell me why this idea is silly and will not work (because I haven't seen anything similar before, but someone needs to be the first).
 
Cheers,
 
Nik
 

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