[Q] (Slightly OT) KVM Over CAT5 or Other....

[Donovan J. Edye]

G'Day,

> The hard drive I've got in my desktop PC is so quiet
Agreed. Also if you want to store something on the machine then netbooting
only gets you so far. ;-) No point trying to play MP3's over a network.
*grin*

> chassis fan
This can be alleviated by using one of VIA ITX motherboards.

> The noisiest part of my floor-standing PC is the power supply fan
However this one is still the bug bear. How do you get a quiet PSU to go
with the nice and silent VIA ITX and hard drive. Are there converters that
could be used instead of a PSU? Something similair to notebook power packs?

BTW Have a look at the projects section on http://www.mini-itx.com

-- D

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]  On
Behalf Of Alex Satrapa
Sent:	Wednesday, 6 November 2002 18:08
To:	CLUG Mailing List
Subject:	Re: [Q] (Slightly OT) KVM Over CAT5 or Other....

 << File: signature.asc >> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 12:51, Robert Edwards
wrote:
> I think that this issue of network booting came up in the context of
providing
> a silent thin-client to a noisy server located elsewhere within someones
> home.

A disk-equipped workstation isn't necessarily noisy.  The hard drive
I've got in my desktop PC (well... technically it's a floor-standing PC)
is so quiet I had to put my ear right on top of it to check that I could
hear *something*.  The noisiest part of my floor-standing PC is the
power supply fan, chassis fan, or the CDROM when it's spinning.

So a hard drive is hardly the component to be worrying about for a
silent workstation.  There's no point in having net-boot to eliminate
hard drive noise, when you've got high-RPM fans on your processor, power
supply and case.

Alex