My Setup

Okay - so I wrote everything BUT what you asked for. What's the network configuration in Chez Vnutz? It's actually relatively old school.

I went all in on Apple back in 2004 - selling off all of my PC equipment prior to deployment. My thinking was that NastyPrincess would have an easier time dealing with the computer if she only had one wire to deal with - a power cord on the Apple G5 iMac. I taught her to plug the modem into the old Airport Express base station, plug in the G5 and turn on the wireless mouse/keyboard. Done!

The only problem with the setup was the whole stolen capacitor design fiasco that led to faulty motherboard capacitors that burst. Not exactly Apple's fault.

When I came back from the desert, I didn't have any of my multimedia gear anymore and needed to deck out the new house. I wasn't keen on a super speaker system or another projector so I just bought a Mac Mini on eBay and hooked it up to a massive (then) 37" LCD TV as the monitor. It worked really good.

While it was nice to use the computer while lying on the sofa, sometimes it's just handy to work at a desk. So I went back to eBay and got Apple Retro by buying the original Cube and upgrading the snot out of it. Still, despite the upgrades, the memory speed (PC100) was the limiting factor so I swapped the Cube and the Mini. Now the Cube farms all the multimedia to the TV for entertainment and the Mini does the workhouse grunt work of video editing, photoshop, etc.

Everything is running through the old Apple Airport Extreme - the Cube, the Mini, the work computer, an ancient Sony Vaio laptop running the OmniNerd deployment clone UAT environment and another ancient Sony Vaio that only is relevant today thanks to Linux.

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