Computer Systems Engineer
Introduction
This is the second part of my Home Server articles, continuting from Part 1
To finish off my article in two parts, this article considers a few other factors in setting up your own Home Server. The topics covered are:
Now, lets get on with it!
It’s Christmas eve, and here I am, sitting in my dads kitchen watching the rather depressing news. The underground is going haywire, as I found out when I went out to get my little brothers a copy of Donky Konga the other day, after I waited at Kennington station for half an hour.
We might just get snow showers! 30% chance according to the weatherman.
d – says Inny.
I got to play with a simple Cyberhoist setup yesterday. a piece of 1.5m truss on 2 hoists. The hoists are connected to a G5 mac via an Ethernet network, which run s a program called Hoist Controller. It is object orientated, which means each piece of truss is an “object”, which is drawn in a CAD program like VectorWorks. You then assign it with pickup points and rotational points, and then import it into the program. From there, you can then set it to go up, down, or tilt, pitch, roll, and the computer will calculate the speeds and distances for the hoists to move, moving the object to within 0.1mm of your setting.
Pretty darn cool, and its so easy and quick to setup, even I can use it with NO previous training.
Anyway… my laptop isn’t coming till after christmas now, dad hasn’t ordered it yet from the Dell salesman guy. Hopefully it’ll get sent to my house quite soon 
Anyway, I’m going to enjoy Christmas now, and hopefully, sort that darned home server guide out!!