Possible media server
And/or download box.
So here's the thing. My dad was telling me about some scrap computers they had at work and said he could bring some home if I had any use for them. I figured they would all be dead/too old to be of any use, but it turns out one of the three he brought home was working and didn't have too bad of specs. He got me a Compaq workstation running XP Pro and two more computers that were missing parts. Here's the specs of the Compaq though.
P4 2.4GHz
512MB RAM
40GB Seagate HDD (probably to be replaced by a larger drive)
.. with some other proprietary hardware I haven't identified. As you can see, not a bad box for media storage. With this thing using ~60W average, it's not too bad on power either, making it the ideal way to manage large downloads. Ubuntu Server will be installed. Anyways, on to the pics.
Those of you who looked closely at the last pic might have noticed something in the back of the case. Yes, it has a free PCI slot.
And a nice copper heatsink.
One cool thing too (though not too useful for me) is the CD drive. This lever:
ejects the CD drive.
So, there are the pics. I'm in the idea stage still, but right now I'm kinda leaning towards a steampunk theme or an overly complicated sci-fi computer look (think the side panel from Dave's TIP3000). I'm open to other suggestions too. I'll be heading to a hardware store today to look at some ways to sleeve the wires and some metallic paint and after that I'll hopefully be drawing some ideas. Comments?
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. I'm going to be using Ubuntu though (LAMP config). Anyways, I picked up some brass and copper metallic spray paint at the store, found some awesome (and cheap-ish) copper plumbing to add to the look, and some decent "sleeving". The only problem is it's metal, which is conductive. Obviously I don't want to short anything in here, so how should I go about using it? I know it was used in Orac3, but this is an extremely crammed case and the sleeving would definitely have to touch the mobo and some other parts.
