Always worked on a Mac.  Luckily, my employer will buy me one every 3
years.  I have 3 Riv; two used - but never bought a used computer.

On Jan 13, 10:03 pm, "Jim Bronson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh yeah, I forgot about my server.  I have a mini-ITX low power board
> with an embedded Celeron proc running my file server.  It is running
> the free os FreeNAS.  http://www.freenas.org This is based on OpenBSD
> Unix.
>
> The server actually boots off of a 128MB USB stick, the entire FreeNAS
> OS is about 90MB or so.  Upon bootup it loads completely into RAM, of
> which I have 1GB of it installed.  Really I could have gone with
> 256MB, it's just that there was no price difference due to 1GB sticks
> being at the height of production, so I said, "why not get a gig".  I
> have two 500GB internal hard drives set up doing RAID1 (mirroring).
> The server uses about 38 watts at full load give or take a watt or
> two.  I leave it powered on all the time unless I know I'm going to be
> gone for a while.  It is hardwired into a wireless router and I can
> access my music files over the wireless network anywhere on my
> property with a multitude of devices including my PS3.
>
> The total cost all hardware parts used in this setup was $281 plus my
> time invested.  I was originally going to buy a prepackaged NAS at
> Fry's or another electronic store until I figured out I could do it
> cheaper myself and have more fun in the process.  If I was to do it
> again today, I could probably do 1TB drives for the same price as they
> have declined in price quite a bit.
>
> Riv content:  I own a Rivendell Custom acquired 2nd hand.
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Bill M. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Same here - two Rivs, no Mac for me.  My wife has a Mac, but both kids
> > and I use Windoze.  I hada  server running Linux for a while, too.
>
> > On Jan 13, 8:39 pm, All Rounder 2000 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Survey seems to indicate an inverse relationship. :)
> >> I was looking for a survey response to describe me: Multiple Rivs,
> >> Zero Macs.
>
> --
> having a blood clot is a sticky situation
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