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28 Dec 2011, 6:42 pm

Hey!
What are your PC DIY projects going to be/are?
Im thinking of putting a hackintosh into a Powermac G5 case, that would be so awesome.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/show ... p?t=659935
Is what I plan to do, click the "show spoiler" button.


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28 Dec 2011, 10:17 pm

I recently bought two old PCs at a thrift shop. I used one PC to beef up the other one, so that I can make it into an SQL server. I also run Linux on netbooks, running it from a storage card.

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28 Dec 2011, 10:51 pm

Making a home file server.


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29 Dec 2011, 6:13 pm

I have gone through several iterations of MythTV. My current system is pretty extreme ...

Ubuntu on an i3 540 processor ATX motherboard with 12 Gbytes of DDR 3 RAM, 6 Freeview DVB tuners with 8TB RAID 5 storage and LVM.

Also functions as an FTP server for my 7 IP CCTV cameras saving stills on a separate 1.5 TB disk drive. Automatic deletion of old images to make space for new ones.

Also functions as a Samba based NAS, with overnight backup to a 1 TB external USB drive.

It's great when it works. I have provided evidence to the police from the CCTV system.

Can be a problem if the power glitches, when the RAID 5 goes into a re-sync mode for several hours and the JFS journal needs replaying before it will mount. I've never lost any recordings due to disk failure, but I get real nervous at the complexity of all this sometimes.

I also built a mini-itx system with my son Christmas Eve. Not decided what to do with it yet. It's a bit noisy because of cooling issues.

I like building computers, taking them apart and rebuilding them, but my activity on this varies over time.



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29 Dec 2011, 8:20 pm

I am hungrily wating for the release of the Raspberry Pi, with which I intend to attempt a car pc, some home automation ( at the least my electric water cylinder has no timer, and I am not good at remembering to turn it off, or on ), and streaming video to, if any of that is possible. I have no experience of doing any of these, so hope it will be a fun and challenging experience.


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29 Dec 2011, 8:24 pm

Orr wrote:
I am hungrily wating for the release of the Raspberry Pi, with which I intend to attempt a car pc, some home automation ( at the least my electric water cylinder has no timer, and I am not good at remembering to turn it off, or on ), and streaming video to, if any of that is possible. I have no experience of doing any of these, so hope it will be a fun and challenging experience.

Me too, I want a Raspberry Pi. Who wouldn't!?
Im going to use the one Im getting for..... Dont know to be honest. Might be handy for an apache server for web development, and access it via SSH, that way, I could just put all of my web development stuff onto the R-PI and just simply keep it plugged in for whenever I want to do web programming, and access it via SSH and use Nano to edit it all.
I hope they release it soon!


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30 Dec 2011, 2:11 am

Adding an SSD to my computer.


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30 Dec 2011, 5:46 pm

Noting currently, but I would like to rape a Netbook and turn it into a Standalone VST Processor at some point.


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