On 2/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan Halter</b> <<a href="mailto:bhalter@armyofpenguins.com">bhalter@armyofpenguins.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<pre>I have a couple of their original SFF boxen one of which I currently use<br>for a diskless frontend. It is a nice formfactor but I think the key to<br>all of this is not smaller, but camoflaged.<br> </pre>
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<pre>I think the key is to have your server and disk array in a soundproof<br>closet and have fanless frontends.<br><br>To me, this is Shuttle's answer to the Mac Mini. I, for one, welcome<br>our new even-smaller-form-factor overlords.
<br><br>Reducing size and stopping noise is a great way to help camoflage something. ;)<br><br>-Ross<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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Oh don't get me wrong the sound proof closet and diskless frontends
setup is fantastic I'd just look forward to a less PCish looking
frontend</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I agree.. But I think size is half the battle there. The small PC or Mac Mini look a lot better than a mini-tower PC.<br><br>Another option for non-PC is the Roku Photobridge, running MythRoku.
<br><a href="http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php">http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php</a><br> </div><br></div>