RE: New, silly project?

["Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

I have to admit to not having enough time to follow the Via list that
closely but from looking at the pictures yesterday it looked like the
internal PSU generated all the required rails when being supplied from a single 12V supply from the external PSU.

That would make it an ideal candidate for a Home Automation PC as it could<= BR> possibly be run from a float charged 12V battery. It would depend on wether=
the 12V supply had to be EXACTLY 12V or if it could be upto 15V. A fully charged battery is 13.2V typically 14.4 when charging.

Keith

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bond [mailto:chris@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 May 2002 18:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] New, silly project?


> Let's see what Via Project guys come up with regarding small PSU.
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The Cupid 2677 have the best power solution - and in all fairness im
going to recommend this case for the viaproject as its amazing value for money.

I have a Via in a novatech 1u case (99+vat) they is loads of room to put two in there not sure on the psu though.

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
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 May 2002 17:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] New, silly project?
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You'd need two PSUs, since PSUs these days are "intelligent" and = need to
babble to the (single) motherboard a lot.
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Sharing keyboard, mouse and monitor is something I already do with a
traditional external switch.
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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...
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M.
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=A0-----Original Message-----
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 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 =A3250, 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 (=A330-40) 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).
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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).
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Cheers,
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Nik
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