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RE: New, silly project?
Nik,
Unless
VIA boards are wildly different from normal PC boards (which is, of course,
possible), they will need a PSU each. It's not to do with power
requirements,
it's to do with the way that signalling works between the PSU and the
motherboard...
M.
Huh,
I would take this as "thumbs up" for the idea.
Since home automation is running 24/7 and there will be some tasks
scheduled for overnight, I don't know if there is any point using Power
Saving
features, or there is.
Also, if machine goes into standby or hybernates, it will take a
while
for it to react to commands and wake up. Bearing that in mind and disabling
any power saving, would it then still be able to share power supply. VIA
boards even have TV out so they can be used for Keith's video server, or to
display monitor screen on TV (although I never saw one being good enough,
for
my taste).
Let's see what Via Project guys come up with regarding small
PSU.
BTW,
at the moment, I don't have any monitor in my node0. I use PC Anywhere to
see
what's going on on my server.
Is
there anything similar on Linux platform?
Nik
You'd need two PSUs, since PSUs these days are "intelligent" and
need
to babble to the (single) motherboard a lot.
Sharing keyboard, mouse and monitor is something I already do with a
traditional external switch.
Sharing a CD - well - actually, I already do this, by the simple
expedient of only having one, and using network-sharing to mount
files.
Sharing a case.... that's cool.... It doesn't
strike me as silly at all. It strikes me as very
clever...
M.
-----Original
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From: Nikola Kasic
[mailto:nikola@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 May 2002 17:25
To:
Home automation (E-mail)
Subject: [ukha_d] New, silly
project?
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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