[XCSSA] XCSSA Meeting: High voltage, DIY NAS/RAID, USB Bootable Linux, and other fun stuff (Mon, July 20th, 7pm in the NTC building, old room 140 (not the basement))

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:31 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:
>
> DIY Network Attached Storage (NAS) System: By Tim
> Tim has shared some of the details of his home brew NAS system.   
> Well Monday
> night he'll go over the details of his system built on a special low  
> power,
> ITX mother board (VIA EPIA SN10000EG) that boots and runs off CF  
> boot media.
> The rest of Tim's NAS system runs with Seagate Barracuda LP drives,  
> pico PSU,
> running dedicated SW RAID on Ubuntu.  This has been a presentation  
> that we've
> been waiting for.  Also.. if he's able to get it working.. Tim told  
> me that
> he might bring his midiSID project that he's made quite a bit of  
> progress on.
> Keep your fingers crossed! (see web site for links)
>

Alas, it appears as though I will not have my MB-SID finished by  
tomorrow. Turns out, the method I was going to use to connect the  
control surface with the mainboard isn't going to work as well as I  
hoped. So I am going back to the standard way of doing it, which will  
require a different type of cabling (100 Mil cable over 50 Mil IDC  
cable). I can bring the parts in, but I'd rather build the  
anticipation :)

Hopefully I will have it ready to go by next meeting. Gives me time to  
cook up a nice demo song hopefully anyway.

That said, I still have the NAS stuff. We will still have network  
access in the new room right?

Tim