Antique Furniture before its even finished!

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dsc_2360.JPGSo after sitting around for about ten years gathering dust, being moved from city to city and being partially used, I decided the little old table needed some tender loving care and get completed.

This little table is made from some pretty ordinary timber, I actually cant even remember what it is! Nonetheless, the table, I think, is designed as a phone or side table, it has a single draw with some funky dovetail joints and legs – 4 of them oddly enough – which are turned up in a lathe.

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Multimedia Server

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dsc07572.JPGThere comes a time when have ALL your junk on one box is just not on…..Over the years I have slowly converted my hardcopy multimedia to a more useable format on my desktop, this however becomes cumbersome when others on the network require access and you want to keep some sort of respectable performance and temperature on your desktop.

So theres only one obvious answer 🙂 get another box……

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Backup / Replacement Gateway – 1RU PIII 733

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dsc07455.JPGSlowing starting to get tired of a flaky extremely cheap duron piece of crap as the proxy server, firewall and gateway…with that said I am still using the machine 🙂

Nontheless, and for the sake of a play with a 1RU server, I picked one of these older whitebox style machines off ebay for 40 odd dollars. The bloody thing sound very sick when I first fired it up so there was nothing to do but pull it apart for a look 🙂

These 1RU machines use very fast 40mm fans which kinda suck from the silent point of view and this machien used very cheap thin 40mm fans. Out with those and in with some old semi decent 40mm x 20mm guys running at a reduced voltage and things started to sound a bit better, the loudest item is the PSU now.

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