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This is not a computer rack. It appears to be a regular wall-mounted communication equipment rack, with about  60cm depth and a two-sections body: the section to be permanently attached to the wall is about 10 cm depth; the main body with the rails is about 50 cm. Still a decent place to...

I agree: this will not be solved quickly. The prevalent idea is that functionality comes well before security. The same mindset was common on other engineering branches, but things changed after some disasters that struck the imagination of the people (think of the Zeppelin, or Titanic). There...

For a moment, I had the illusion to be back again in 1996, when you could read news like this: "15 years kid disables a service provider using its personal computer from home". I was dreaming: almost 20 years have passed, Internet has a crucial role now, security is way better... ...or maybe...

As concerto49 said, it won't be cheap. I have something like this in place, shipping disks/tapes back and forth quarterly for a remote disaster recovery backup procedure, and I am still looking for a cheaper solution. Backblaze does something like that (they can ship a USB drive with your...

The new Mac Pro is obviously a nice computer. Price is not known yet, and I still hope that it will be realistic; but it misses some features that are standard in a typical production machine for office environements: - it only has one processor socket; high-end and midrange workstations have...

This Mac Pro is basically the new high end Mac Mini: single processor, limited internal expansion capability, small and stylish case. This is a wise and logical choice for Apple; they abandoned the real "pro" market long time ago, and a business workstation would not have made any sense now.

I bought the Surface RT at launch last year; at the time I already had a iPad1, iPad2, the Asus Transformer and a Windows traditional tablet. When I need a tablet, I still usually use the iPad2. I am used to the entertainement and audio/video apps and I find the general experience good enough...

There is already a commercial application, with a free open source edition: http://www.screenlyapp.com/ A LEGO case kit is offered here: http://www.thedailybrick.co.uk/lego-sets/custom/lego-custom-raspberry-pi-case.html But: what's wrong with the cheap stock plastic case offered by most...

I already tried that. A well refined distribution, but despite the accelerated x driver, scrolling performance on the Windows desktop is horrible and a simple flash animation will grind to a halt the browser window in the RDP session. According to qualified posters on Raspberry official forum...

This sensor is measuring the rack internal temperature. Picture is not very clear because I made it in a hurry; the sensor is the red part at the end of the white wire, attached to the rail with the black zip tie. This is a (small) part of the custom monitoring dashboard, with a...

At work I have installed a Raspberry pi with attached Dallas temperature sensors near the top of each rack. Each Raspberry run a script that sample the temperature every 2 minutes and store it on a local Mysql database. Data is replicated to a central database. A web application (on a...

I like Cinnamon, because it is similar to the classic Windows desktop I am used to. 1 Gb Ram is enough for a fully functional Linux Mint15 with Cinnamon. It may eventually work with 512Mb, but I don't see the point: it is not meant to be a lightweight desktop. I never tried to install it over...