Nice! Does it serve drinks?



(Thank you! I'll be here thru Thursday! Remember to tip your server!)

Since you're running a server anyway, have you considered things you can do with it when not at home? I mean things like Torrentflux, if you're into torrents, IRC shell, file storage for remote access, serving your media files outside your home (Knots2 is a mighty nice application for on-the-fly transcoding of media to be served over the Internet)... I suppose you're running Windows on that, so I can't say how much of this is easily done without installing some Linux distro, but if you have the time to mess around with it, there's a lot of pretty nifty stuff you can do.

Recently I've been toying with the idea of setting up a one-time-pad system for logging into webmail etc. from public computers that might be infested with keyloggers: Just create a webpage on the home server that asks for a random number from a pregenerated list and passes your login credentials to the webmail provider if you provide the correct number.

@rebuilder, nice list. I will certainly give those a look, though I've never been into IRC as I've never understood how it could be better or worse than running something like iChat or Trillian. Surely it's all due to my ignorance.

Geek.

run an observatory in your backyard with it

If you used UltraVNC you'd be able to access your server via a java based webpage from a MAC or PC or anything. Ultra VNC is what I use at home and it works fine.

>> ^spoco2:

If you used UltraVNC you'd be able to access your server via a java based webpage from a MAC or PC or anything. Ultra VNC is what I use at home and it works fine.


Thanks for the tip. I have a feeling I will be switching to this.

Regarding VNC, I agree with @spoco2 that Ultra is the way to go, though nearly all flavors of VNC support the java applet (including TightVNC). You can also use any VNC client to access your server, including the one that comes with OS X, though it might not support special "Tight" features.

Assuming your server is running Windows, though, you're almost certainly better off using the built-in remote desktop. You can use CoRD or one of the other numerous clients from a Mac.

If you're looking to do things along the lines of @rebuilder's post, I might recommend FreeNAS, which I have been running without incident for roughly a year now. It's managed entirely via web interface. It supports SMB/CIFS (Windows File Sharing), AFP (Apple Filing Protocol), BitTorrent, media streaming to X360/PS3/iTunes/etc, and more. It does SMART monitoring on your hard drive(s) and can even email you if there are problems.