Several weeks ago , I got my custody on some old estimator hardware at firesale prices , taking habitation a400MHz G4 towerand huge 20 - in Apple CRT presentation ( yes it weighs a long ton ) for $ 75 .
I choke up it home and hooked it up to my external LaCie 250 GB Firewire cause . With some Bluetooth capability added via USB , I add a keyboard and shiner . And for the net coup de grace , I connected it to my home base connection with a 50 foot Ethernet cable television service that runs out - of - sight near the roof .
The G4 ( which I dubbed “ Enkidu , ” as the associate of my elementary computer , an iBook called “ Gilgamesh ” ) and its comrade outside ride ( “ Humbaba , ” the colossus in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh ) were to become my home medium center and waiter . I connected the tug to my stereo speakers and behold — my novel digital center had been instill with life history . I could now watch movie on something other than my 14 - inch iBook screen .
I right away configure Humbaba ’s music directory to act as the main repository for my iTunes library , in a flash liberating close to 30 GB on my iBook . I also dropped my 2 GB worth of photos over there , and my assorted movie files . I no longer had to worry about lead out of precious gigabytes on Gilgamesh .
So now , when my bosses are kind enough to have me turn from my abode in Oakland , I can stream my own music from Humbaba . But that ’s a simple topic of enabling communion in iTunes .
Sometimes I find that I require to set a enceinte data file to download to Humbaba , but I do n’t want to leave my working environment to sit down down in front of the screen background computer . I know there was a manner that I could assure one computer from other through Virtual connection Control , also known as VNC .
I wanted a elbow room to locally curb my other calculator without spending a fortune . aged editor Rob Griffith ’s suggested I essay the freeChicken of the VNCfromGeekspiff .
Its pun on tuna by , Chicken of the VNC is a fabulously easy program to apply . I followed Rob ’s instructions on how to configure the server computer ( in my case , Enkidu ) and I could very easily moderate its screen and function from wherever in my house I happen to be . Often I ’ll localise a gravid file to download from the cyberspace overnight , and because Enkidu is plug in now to my router , and not via WiFi , I can only let it do its thing and let Gilgamesh sleep on the ledge on my bedside board when I go to sleep .
kick in that I ’d migrated to having a laptop as my elementary machine , there are some tasks that make having a background around well worthwhile .
