So, my daughter Julie wouldn't go directly to bed, and I let her sit with me on the computer for a bit, crawling around under the table.
I use a SmoothWall box to connect my various computers and such to the Internet, and she found the power button very interesting. Julie shut down the whole Internet twice.
On the wall, below my table, I -finally- mounted a power strip semi-permanently... screws in the wall, and a nicely coiled power strip next to the outlet. I can remove the strip with a "lift-and-pull" motion, and the cords are tidy... except for all the other cords that go to my other equipment, like the 16-port 10/100 hub (which isn't wall mountable, and the 802.11b access point, and the USB print server, oh... and the SmoothWall box itself.
The tower is unsightly and loud, and I think I might just go back to "consumer-grade" router that doesn't make as much noise and doesn't take up so many plugs, and is wall-mountable. Gigabit would be nice. I don't really need wireless, since my access point can put out an 802.11b signal for hooking up my Playstation Portable.
My friend Brandon has a gigabit D-Link that I might be able to trade for. It has no wireless at all, but I could get that and a dual-tuner PCI TV-card instead of the Sprint RAZR phones I got from him. (Not gonna go with Sprint... a long story for another blog post...)
If for some reason I come into some extra cash, or the sale of my smartphone on eBay goes well, I may just buy a D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit Router. I could keep the print server.
Alternatively, I could just build a ClarkConnect Box, or start up that "Home Server" spin of Fedora that I want to see happen, but I think the amount of effort for both of those projects exceeds the available time I have.
So, *now* what am I going to do with my old, slow computers... too big, too loud... It might really be dumpster time.... sigh.
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