Why not ask around family and friends? Surely someone will have an old laptop or even old pc which is less power hungry.
To be honest I wouldnt be over bothered about the energy (I say that as someone who provides IT support to an energy company) as there is plenty and its not a lot of money, and what you could do is run that then wait a bit to buy a cheap laptop or less power hungry pc as one will come up. Obviously the green people won't like this so I'm sorry. Regards, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Daubney Sent: 03 October 2007 23:51 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers Mark Harrison wrote: > > I have a number of mates who install "home automation" stuff (web > control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) > > Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the "home control servers" > because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! > > For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com > > M. > > Ok lads and ladies, I've been giving this some thought now. I can't afford a new server machine, and probably shouldn't be running this monster 24/7. Digging around, in my price range is a Linksys NSLU2 (about £60..) which can be reflashed with Debian. I reckon that this would be enough (with a SATA to USB case for one of the drives) to do what I need the server to do....... would this be a better solution? I had a look on ebay at laptops but most of them seem to be a con and not have HDD's/Power Supplies, both of which are relativley expensive. I'm open to any idea's on better solutions too! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
