I get a hold of a network storage server D-Link DNS-323. Just plug-in two hard-drives, and you got a raid-1 file server that can do all kinds of downloads. From now on, I won't need to keep my PC on. Just config it from a web interface.
There are all kinds of hack that can be done to this slim-box. Eventually, it can be used as a Linux server with 18 Watt power consumption.
My story with DNS-323 goes on as I spend more time with it. Like any relationship, you get bitten by misunderstanding. DNS-323 out-of-the-box was using firmware 1.03 which doesn't support Chinese filename. So when I dump my life storage on it. Those Chinese filenames got messed up. Fortunately the open source community saved my life again. And now DNS-323 is on new firmware and samba supports any unicode filename. :-)
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Another power sink at home are the 4 windows PCs, totally 8 cores. So I started looking for alternatives for them. Turns out Mac Mini has pretty low power consumption (around 23 Watt when idle, and 110 Watt at peak). That's still much better than my Windows PC. So I am going to get one.
Yeah!!! Leopard, go go.
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