Wall-mounted PC

[Winfield Hill]

http://82.165.25.75/~kripton/linpix/wallpc01.jpg


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- Win

 

[Kryten]

Nice

For a moment I thought it might be a serious post, and I was about to
mention how one shop I know had mounted a laptop innards into a picture
frame with glass at front and back. Looked nice, to my engineer's eye.


Wall-mounted PCs look easy targets for burglars, so perhaps it might be
better to have home PCs 'wired in' to the house, so that the PC is actually
under the floorboards away from thieving hands while only the keyboard and
monitor are accessible in rooms.

Hardware is easily replaced but the personal data on the hard drives is not.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Winfield Hill <hill_a@t_rowland-
dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote (in <cu83l001l05@drn.newsguy.com&gt
about 'Wall-mounted PC', on Mon, 7 Feb 2005:

http://82.165.25.75/~kripton/linpix/wallpc01.jpg


Bet it doesn't meet the EMC emission limits! (;-)

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[Keith Williams]

In article <eZVCgeFHP6BCFw48@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk says...

I read in sci.electronics.design that Winfield Hill <hill_a@t_rowland-
dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote (in <cu83l001l05@drn.newsguy.com&gt
about 'Wall-mounted PC', on Mon, 7 Feb 2005:
http://82.165.25.75/~kripton/linpix/wallpc01.jpg


Bet it doesn't meet the EMC emission limits! (;-)

It may. The FCC requires components to pass an "open box test" that
only allows a few dB for the enclosure.

--
Keith

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlog
DOTyou.knowwhat> wrote (in <nikf01934o3faf89ers7qio50i7k38fhpp@4ax.com&gt
about 'Wall-mounted PC', on Mon, 7 Feb 2005:

What do
you even call the loss? - it isn't so much *data* loss in the
traditional sense as loss of all the installations and probably a fair
bit of the configuration setups on scores of programs.

It's all 'data' in one way or another, except in your insurance policy.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:45:06 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

[snip]

I find that the main job really is to stick to a consistent directory
structure between PCs.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

I use a program called "FolderMatch" to synchronize my laptop and my
main PSpice machine.

...Jim Thompson
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[Kryten]

"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
news:id8f019f7lbcv0dmojk2kl619rnqdb7clj@4ax.com...

Am I the only one that removes one or more hard drive and stores them
in a safety deposit box before going on vacation?

No, I used to do that when I had a floortop PC.

Now I just take my laptop on vacation with me.


However I had considered embedding my PC under the floorboards or in the
loft, partly for security and partly to make a silent working environment.
The only problems were the removable media (FD and CD) though perhaps these
could be done with USB.

 

[Keith Williams]

In article <V2UNd.704$Em1.325@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>,
kryten_droid_obfusticator@ntlworld.com says...

"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
news:id8f019f7lbcv0dmojk2kl619rnqdb7clj@4ax.com...

Am I the only one that removes one or more hard drive and stores them
in a safety deposit box before going on vacation?

No, I used to do that when I had a floortop PC.

Now I just take my laptop on vacation with me.

You're not afraid of losing it (and data) while on vacation? You don't
leave a backup at home?

However I had considered embedding my PC under the floorboards or in the
loft, partly for security and partly to make a silent working environment.
The only problems were the removable media (FD and CD) though perhaps these
could be done with USB.

Why not a local system with perhaps a Via processor as the media
server? Have the CPU cycles in the basement with 100BaseT or GigE to
hook 'em together. I know someone who put the cycle server in the
garage, though temperature regulation would be something I wouldn't
want to bother with. My basement would be perfect though.

--
Keith

--
Keith

 

[Kryten]

"Keith Williams" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c7299dd6499bf4f9898f3@news.individual.net...

You're not afraid of losing it (and data) while on vacation?

Vacation being Christmas at parent's.
Nothing wild and exciting :-<

 

[Kryten]

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." <Paul@Hovnanian.com> wrote in message
news:42097F80.59D1A310@Hovnanian.com...

What's a 'vacation'?

Last time I had one was for a week in Bergen, in 1998.
And another in 1989.

And if you think that is sad, just don't ask me what's a 'date' :-<

 

[Pig Bladder]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 03:47:20 +0000, Kryten wrote:

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." <Paul@Hovnanian.com> wrote in message
news:42097F80.59D1A310@Hovnanian.com...
What's a 'vacation'?

Last time I had one was for a week in Bergen, in 1998.
And another in 1989.

And if you think that is sad, just don't ask me what's a 'date' :-

What do you workaholics expect to accomplish?
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Kryten <kryten_droid_obfusticator@
ntlworld.com> wrote (in <cJfOd.1020$a81.800@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net&gt about
'Wall-mounted PC', on Wed, 9 Feb 2005:

Last time I had one was for a week in Bergen, in 1998. And another in
1989.

In January? (;-)
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk