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On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:25 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't forget the chrome, maybe some little spinners over the fan ports > eh.... > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:42 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Rackable 'lights' etc > > I was going to suggest that you go to either Autozone, or some other auto > shop, that specializes in tricking out either a car or truck. Find some blue > or purple flouresent lights, the ones that you put under a car to make > appear as if it were floating, hook that up to a 12vdc output and string > them in the cage/cabinet. > > You could really be fancy and find some sort of LED Lights that flicker, or > brighten, when the volume gets 'pumped up'. Find some small walkman radio or > cd player, hook up the lights to the earphone or speaker output and then > watch the light show. > > Or, you could do the Farnsworth approach. Hook up an old CRT device to the > top of your cage and output a dollar sign on the screen. Worked for him. > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> put your switches in there, making sure not to block the lights with the >> cables, nice light show with the link activity lights. >> >> And if you have to, setup a box with multiple multiple-port nics ( like >> the adaptec 4 port ethernet adapter ) assigning each their own IP, and then >> create a batch or script that will pseudo-randomly light the link activity >> lights via PING or short copy commands. Maybe force a couple to 10mb, >> normally a different link light color ... >> >> and for dog and pony shows, if you've got drive cabinets in the racks, >> setup a box with a batch/script/command file that just copies and deletes >> files from a sandbox folder, to make the drive lights continuosly flicker >> nice <g> you could even remotely trigger the copy/delete sequence from >> another machine right before they do the 'show and tell' and kill it when >> they leave ... >> >> Erik Goldoff >> >> *IT Consultant* >> >> *Systems, Networks, & Security * >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Saturday, May 02, 2009 7:41 PM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Rackable 'lights' etc >> >> I have a client that just purchased several 3u and 4u servers to go in >> a couple of cages. The guy asked me for some lights and action to put in to >> show investors and such. I was looking for maybe some rack mount >> environmental device monitor or something. >> >> >> >> Nothing too expensive its mostly just for show, but I figured there had to >> be some neat/stupid stuff out there, I just couldn’t think of anything. >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
