best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

[Drew Van Zandt]

It's a fairly high-power machine; however, it is in regular use by upwards
of a dozen people, though only I use it as a desktop (and that is a
concession to waste-avoidance; servers should not ordinarily have desktop
software running on them).  When it's possible to have 3 TB of RAID storage
in my laptop, perhaps this will change, but I expect that by then I will
have outgrown the current RAID.

In 3 years or so it might be worth replacing it with a nettop and a couple
of large external drives, but at the moment a desktop with internal drives
is the only sensible way to maintain that much storage in a live state.

I *use* my hardware regardless of its proximity to my current location; for
those who do not, perhaps shutting it off makes sense.

Also, with a comment like that you had *better* own a Prius.  ;-)

--DTVZ

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Drew Van Zandt<drew.vanzandt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I find that a desktop is better than a laptop, for the home office bit at
> > least.  I don't have to wait for boot/shutdown, keep dragging power
> supplies
> > out, etc.
>
> <OT>
> I apologize in advance if I am preaching to the quire and this is just
> a super-low-power appliance-like machine that runs all your edge
> routing and house hold systems while you are away, but Dude!  Shut
> that thing off when you are not using it!  Global Warming, Peak Oil,
> national security...  All of those are relevant, but in case you
> "choose" not to "believe" in any two of them, any one of them should
> be enough to get you to change your habits.  If you don't have kids,
> do it for my kids, eh?
> </OT>
>
> Ubuntu is making great strides in boot time.  Also, I saw my Ibex boot
> time cut in about half (discarding BIOS and GRUB pause) when I
> installed a Kingston SATA SSD in my laptop running Ibex.  (SSD is also
> good for reducing energy use.)  Jaunty is quicker, but does not like
> my hardware.  I have high hopes for Karmic Koala which is suppose to
> load in less than 10 seconds off disk (YMMV).  Just enough time to
> plug in your power cable if you are quick. ;-)
>
> --
> Alan Johnson
> alan at datdec.com
>
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