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 | Geeky Project Notes |
| Audio Center |
| Goals |
 | Move to a digital solution that provides me with the same convenience that CDs have but in a much denser form factor. |
 | Needs to be simple to administer |
| Amanda needs to be able to use it |
| I don't want to have to spend the rest of my life managing digital audio files (ripping etc.) |
| Ripping and archiving is cool, as long as I don't have to do it multiple times for the same media file. |
| Approaches |
| Home PC w/ big HD |
| Can't run wires, too much concrete. Need a dependable wireless link with a HD hanging off of it that I can plug into the amp/surround sound... |
| Didn't work, the 3COM card in combination with the SMC router can't peer through the amount of concrete between here and the media pc in any sort of useful manner. |
| Nomad JB1 |
| Drop in a bigger HD and do sneaker-syncs |
 | not a bad option as Toshiba makes a 60gb drive that will work in the nomad |
| Downside is that 60gb of files on the nomad means a duplicate 60gb on the workstation |
| disk is cheap, so this isn't really a concern |
| and it is getting cheaper (duh!) so there is no rush... |
| Drop in a bigger HD and let NotMad take care of the rest |
| need to look into this further. |
| Got the webserver functionality working. Still not sure if this is the best way to go - especially w/ the sympatico bandwidth caps...ick. |
| Organize Workstation |
| Observations |
| metal shelving sucks |
| too deep, too high between shelves |
| makes it too easy to stack crap up... |
| Too many cables, not enough power |
| need to organize |
| does this mean too many periphs? |
| two printers, two computers, router, switch, two monitors, two scanners, two PDAs... |
| at least I've got some redundancy ;) |
| Everything is pretty horizontal, but the concrete walls make it tough to go vertical with mounted shelves... |
| Organize Photographs |
| yuck. |
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by Ross Wm. Rader.
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