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Tower of Technology
Posted by: Adam Fuson @ 2005.12.30.1719
For months Katherine insisted that a rolling metal shelving unit would really help to organize the build room. Still I resisted the idea, as I didn't want to add clutter to the seemingly hopeless basement mess, and it would cost about $80. During the same time I had planned to customize an old AT&T data cabinet given to me by the management of ReserBicycle. However, after the huge cabinet sat in my basement and I contemplated the price of materials to build custom rackmount server cases and the work involved, it proved much more reasonable to use the rolling shelves. Also, the custom server cabinet would not have any alternate uses, whereas the metal shelves can be used to store any item. Plastic mats also line the metal shelves to prevent small items such as pens from falling through the shelf. The only concerning issue with the metal shelves is their slim design which looks a little unstable.
So one evening Mom and I purchased the big metal shelving unit and some Christmas gifts from Sam's at Ridge. I moved the old data cabinet out of the house and assembled the shelves to the dimension of most of my computer cases. Noticing the size of several of my cases was excessive, I gleaned the good bits and tossed the Frakenstein cases. I moved a monitor, a KVM-switch, and a 1100VA UPS onto the shelf with about a dozen tower chassis. Now only a power cable and a single network cable attach to the shelf. It is self contained and easy to access all the machines from front or back. All the computers are now much more organized and condensed, but I have also lost several machines due to hardware failure. So a few weeks ago I purchased four motherboards, processors and ram, but I have only completed one machine. In the days to come I will acquire hard drives for the other machines and all four machines will most likely run Fedora Core 4.
Ned @ 2005.12.30 1734
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John, your plastic bike thingy is here. Also, your mom and gf called.
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Fuse @ 2005.12.30 2127
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So... Johnny just bought a new bike and his gf will be away on coop, but Chicago is within a weekend's driving distance. So which will be getting ridden more?
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Ned @ 2005.12.30 2214
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They weren't looking for John.
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Fuse @ 2005.12.31 0201
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I found the following in this Slashdot article
In my experience (Vancouver BC) building mass transit creates demand for high density housing. We built our first rapid transit line in 1986, and ten years later you could see residential towers around most of the stations - wherever the municipal governments allowed it. In 2001 we opened a second line and the towers are there already. These are 20-30 story residential towers, in groups of 3-10 around most stations, where previously there were just some old houses. The towers being built now have integrated commercial development, ie: a good grocery store and basic services are less than a 5 minute walk from your apartment. Provided there is demand for real-estate, why not build this way ? People don't want to drive an hour or more to work, and then drive again to the grocery store, and again to the mall, etc. You can waste your entire life sitting in traffic. Rapid transit has network effects. The system becomes more valuable as you build it, and if cities aren't building it now because their density is low then they are completely backwards.
I don't know how it grew from the parent article, but it seems a succinct statement of a tired argument...
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the silent one @ 2005.12.31 1552
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I believe I have nearly killed the Fuse this week riding.
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