Heh.

Yeah, my dad had his 59 Ford Fairlane Galaxy hardtop convertible; I've got my rack. Not that I wouldn't kill to get that Fairlane, you understand. V8, Holley 4 barrel downdraft carb, solid steel body next best thing to a tank, enough room for adult intercourse front and back bench seats, and that hardtop.....Unfortunately, you have to be a gearhead to even think about tinkering with any car younger than classis nowadays.....and at least you don't have to spend 45 minutes in the shower with Gunk and gasoline to get the grease off...... 

 

So far, a server isn't in the works.....at least yet. But that is an excellent way to amass the basics. One experiment I still have to do is take the top box in the rack, add a drive as the bootdrive is a non partionable RAID 0, do a linux install, add WINE, and see how the various remote renderers that are native Windows do. As it stands, I have 8 multi core systems for render functions scattered about the house (one of the many reasons I'm in the midst of wiring the house for gigabit; it does make a difference). If he wants to wire up the future dwelling, tell him to make sure that you don't get a house on a slab. I'm replacing the contractors carpet with laminate, and at least downstairs having to run cat 6 along the wall, in the channel under the sheetrock and trim, between the flooring and wall. Not fun. Of course all of downstairs will be plugged into the rack switch, with a dedicated line upstairs to where the cable modem and office is (and when the connection to the cable modem finally fails, it will be relocated into the closet with the rack, along with the router and battery backup). I don't know if we'll ever turn this into a true smart house, but the backbone at least will be there.....