RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

[Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

Eric Krichbaum <eric () telic us> wrote:

> I have a 12 pack of single mode run between wiring closets upstairs and
> downstairs.  Only one server running feeding media to my xbmc's
> everywhere
> but quite a bit on gig.  Nothing overly noisy unless you have your head
> in
> the closets.
>
> Eric

Anyone got experience with XBMC and similar linux media centre tools running on tablet or netbook class hardware? I 
like the idea of using a couple of el cheapo Android tablets with decent external speakers as music/video/TV/phone 
terminals, getting content from a NAS box and perhaps phone from a * server.

Roku etc. are far, far too expensive for what they do.

Alternatively, Eric, what are your XBMCs running on? 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Bellovin [mailto:smb () cs columbia edu] 
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 9:59 PM
> To: Joe Greco
> Cc: nanog () nanog org; Jeff Johnstone
> Subject: Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
>
>
> On Aug 12, 2011, at 10:17 39PM, Joe Greco wrote:
>
> > > What nobody wired their abode with fiber ?
> > >
> > > Am i the only one here
> >
> > I ran a bunch of fiber from the telco rack to the server rack to 
> > reduce the risk of damage to expensive servers ...  it's likely to be
>
> > meaningless but it is just a little extra precaution.  The server
> rack 
> > is at least a little bit isolated from everything else.
> That's overkill.  I have very little in the house except what's needed
> to
> support ordinary client machines for everyone in the house.  That means
> GigE
> to several locations, some of which have small GigE switches of their
> own.
> For example, my wife's computer is colocated with a network-connected
> color
> printer/scanner/fax.  The basement location has a WiFi access point,
> the
> home backup server (though lately, I've started using a colo machine
> for
> that), etc.  For me -- two generations of laptops (one as backup for
> the
> other), and a Mac Mini as backup desktop.  Then there's another access
> point, a B&W laser printer, etc.  But anything noisy?  Nope.
>
>
>               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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