I am all too familiar with the Capacitor Plague of the early 2000’s, having had three motherboards and a DSL modem/router fail because of it. Well, I can add my VIA EPIA CL to that list now too.
You know, I’ve had this same idea for a few years now, and now that I know what it looks like, I’m thinking about doing it again. Over the last couple years, I’ve gotten rid of most of my extra computer junk and downsized to a laptop, but when I look at my current “rack,” there are a few essentials that won’t go away for the foreseeable future:
I’ve also been thinking that the money I spent on this laptop might have been better invested in a new chair. I thought it would be nice to sit on my couch with a laptop, but my legs just get hot and sweaty. Laptop keyboards and touchpads suck when trying to get any actual work done, and when I come home, I miss the dual monitor setup I have at work. So if I do decide to invest in a new desktop machine, I think I’d have enough computer junk to justify a little 12U server enclosure, and I’m sure it would look a lot better than the shelf I have now.
Since I don’t have a wiki set up here, I guess I’ll use this page to keep track of my potential shopping list:
OK, I’ll write more later.