Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-21 Thread agillis
VortexBox is based on Fedora linux. ubuntu is the most popular linux for desktops but RedHat (fedora) is the most popular for servers. A NAS is a server so this is why I used Fedora. Far from non-mainstream RedHat is the most used Linux OS for servers so it's very easy to support because there i

Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-20 Thread Gus
> It could be an option for you but depends on whether you are using your > MiniITX box for anything over and above, email, internet etc. Hmmm. My Linux skills are rudimentary, so probably a non-mainstream-OS-version-too-far for me. Thanks for clarifying though. The automation on the ripping/t

Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-20 Thread socistep
Gus;416734 Wrote: > I can second the positive experience with MiniITX. I recently bought a > MiniITX PC in a Psile case, driven largely by the desire to find > something that had low power consumption. Then installed Ubuntu and > set it up with Wake-On-Lan and auto shutdown at the same time eve

Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-20 Thread Gus
I can second the positive experience with MiniITX. I recently bought a MiniITX PC in a Psile case, driven largely by the desire to find something that had low power consumption. Then installed Ubuntu and set it up with Wake-On-Lan and auto shutdown at the same time every evening and it's been gr

Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-17 Thread socistep
agillis;416016 Wrote: > Glad it worked out for you. If you want to save yourself building a low > power PC and install the software we ship prebuilt 1TB VortexBox > appliances to the UK all the time. The cost is about £270 including > shipping. Yeah that looks good, hope you get a fair few order

Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-17 Thread cliveb
agillis;416108 Wrote: > No you have to pay the import tax yourself. I think it's 15% in the UK > so that's another 30 quid. Plus the collection fee that's charged by the carrier. My wife recently had to pay Parcel Force about £13 for the priviledge of them collecting £11 for the taxman. I have in

Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-17 Thread agillis
No you have to pay the import tax yourself. I think it's 15% in the UK so that's another 30 quid. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org agillis Lead Developer VortexBox agi

Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-17 Thread PaulR
It's tempting! Does that price include import tax? -- PaulR PaulR's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1220 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62458

Re: [slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-16 Thread agillis
Glad it worked out for you. If you want to save yourself building a low power PC and install the software we ship prebuilt 1TB VortexBox appliances to the UK all the time. The cost is about £270 including shipping. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexb

[slim] Home Server - Vortexbox & MiniITX - Positive Experience

2009-04-16 Thread socistep
Hi All, Like a lot of users as soon as I bought my first SB kit I started looking at a 'server' so that I can run my music 24/7 without having laptop on. I initially looked at a NAS, the majority of posts are around NAS's on the forums, however I ruled this out, I personally thought that the NAS