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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....
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>  *From:* Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:42 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Rackable 'lights' etc
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>  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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>  On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>  put your switches in there, making sure not to block the lights with the
>> cables, nice light show with the link activity lights.
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>> 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 ...
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>> 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 ...
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>>  Erik Goldoff
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>> *IT  Consultant*
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>> *Systems, Networks, & Security *
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>>  *From:* Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Saturday, May 02, 2009 7:41 PM
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Rackable 'lights' etc
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>>   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.
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>> 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.
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