Comments on: Our baby server farm

By: Michael W. Dean

Michael W. Dean — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:31:15 +0000

Jonathan Swift would LOVE this li’l server.

MWD

By: jay

jay — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:06:56 +0000

is serving babies not a modest proposal? i like the nigrig setup.

By: ChainSmirker

ChainSmirker — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:09:37 +0000

Something to consider, or not:

Rather than blowing cool air onto the unit, you want to draw the hot air away from the unit. Maybe reverse the fan? Air FLOW is the important thing.

Also, dust makes an excellent thermal insulator, and in some cases can be electroconductive. That makes for a Very Bad Situation. Canned air is pricey; filtration is cheap and also adds nerd cred.

OR, ignore all this and just spash some salt water into it every once in a while. See if I care.

By: Michael W. Dean

Michael W. Dean — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:56:39 +0000

well, I remember they couldn’t export Pentium 3 computers to china, because they were considered “supercomputers” and thus considered munitions.

I do know that a 10 Mbps fiber optic line, that I’m paying 100 bucks a month for, would have cost 10,000 a month 10 years ago. And my first computer had a one-meg hard drive, had 64 k of RAM, and cost $3000. This new one cost 425, with the extra memory. It has two gigs (2 million k) of RAM (which would have cost 4000 dollars ten years ago, in fact, the first memory stick I bought, 16 megs for 80 dollars, I bought it from a place where they had an armed guard, kept the memory in a safe, and sold nothing but memory. They got robbed a few times, and this was in the financial district of San Fran, at 225 Bush, in the Chevron building) and has an 80 gig (80,000 meg) hard drive.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:48:58 +0000

“Baby Server Farm”, isn’t that a Spinal Tap song?

Technology is a beautiful thing. 20 years ago, that setup would have been both prohibitively expensive, and probably illegal.

By: Michael W. Dean

Michael W. Dean — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:47:28 +0000

>Did you ever think that some day you would be living in padded rooms, and not be locked up?

No. And I love that!

By: marion

marion — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:45:27 +0000

Nice set up. However, you may want to consider taping a washable air conditioner filter over the front of the fan to help keep dust and smoke from getting inside the computer box. Just a thought, not sure how much of a problem that is anyway.

Did you ever think that some day you would be living in padded rooms, and not be locked up? LOL

By: Michael W. Dean

Michael W. Dean — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:37:00 +0000

Oh yeah, and the moving blankets on the wall? We covered most walls in the house with them, to make podcasting on the H2 non-echoy. I live in a near-anechoic chamber. Love it, but it makes going out in the world seem that much more spiney.

By: Michael W. Dean

Michael W. Dean — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:35:18 +0000

Thanks, sir.
Yeah, we had fun with it. My idea, wife figured out how to mount the fan (with packing tape.)
The hole on the front left is so I can add data with my 4-gig USB thumb drive without removing the cover (though it also helps with air flow.)

Gotta love a cool, comfy, happy pooter!

We got the kitty stickers at the grocery store, impulse item. They’re all over all of our gear now.

MEW!
MWD

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:33:58 +0000

That setup is a piece of art in itself.