I’m a technology collector. I save nearly every piece of computer equipment I ever buy, whether I can use it or not. It does come in handy from time to time. I’ve reused pieces of old computers to fix new ones and saved a bunch of money in the process. Right now, I may be at my geekiest concerning my setup. Not only do I have one windows server managing my PCs but I’ve converted an old mac to OS X server, which is very cool. It’s got a lot of out of the box features and runs really well on old hardware. I’ve upgraded my network to include a managed switch, which I’ve had lying around since college and just now got around to setting up. I’ve noticed a definite improvement in network throughput since setting that up. I was working with an older Linksys gigabit switch that I hung onto cause it looked nice on top of our server. However, once one of the ports died it was time to move on.

I’ve got plans for some old equipment, too. A lot of it has to do with me setting up a test environment to work with so I’m not stuck with lousy upload times to my production server. I’m gonna need to start making more money though, all these computers on all the time is having a noticeable effect on my electric bill.