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Another low power server - with a fan this time: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4473724652.html D On Friday 30 November 2007 18:01:31 Dave Berkeley wrote: > I've been using a couple of VIA MiniITX machines for a while now. The last > one was fanless and has been trouble free. It burns between 20 and 30W, > depending on what it is doing. I use Gentoo on these machines as Ubuntu > (which I use on everything else) will not work on the VIA chipset. I've got > the second machine up in Manchester. I can rsync to this as a cron job > overnight, so that all my data gets backed up off site. It is also very > handy to ssh in remotely. > > These caught my eye recently, but I've not tried one. > > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6395777363.html > > http://www.mini-itx.com gave good service, though they did send the wrong > RAM chips first time, but replaced them. > > D > > On Friday 30 November 2007 17:10:32 Samuel Toogood wrote: > > Greetings! It's my first post for a bit, but have been lurking all the > > while. I'm thinking about making some purchases and I wanted to ask for > > suggestions or advice as to whether this is sensible. > > > > Briefly, the situation is this. We live in a 2 bedroom flat and have a 6 > > month old daughter. At the moment, she sleeps in the same room as us, > > but we are preparing to move her to her own room. The room that she is > > to move into is currently a study/spare room, and has my desktop pc in > > it, plus various other bits of equipment/junk. We are going to have to > > get rid (via eBay, freecycle etc) of the stuff we don't use, but we're > > not sure where to put the desktop. As we barely use the desktop as a > > desktop (we have two laptops as well) I was wondering about getting rid > > of that too, and replacing it with a small box that can be left on all > > the time, and can sit in a child proof enclosure (which we need anyway > > for the wireless router). I quite fancy the idea of having a box I can > > ssh (if ssh is a verb) back to whilst out and have access to data. > > > > Ideally, the box would have low power consumption and be silent, or as > > near as possible. We already have a 500Gb USB external hard-drive to > > use. Having done a bit of research, I've come up with a few options, but > > would welcome any other suggestions. The options I've come up with are: > > > > 1. Buying a linutop box. > > 2. Buying something like this: > > http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=27#build-m61g > > 3. (Bit more wacky) Buying an ASUS eeePC, and using the battery as a > > poor-man's UPS, although as the hard drive needs a power supply, this is > > a moot point. > > > > Does any of this sound sensible? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Sam -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html