Going Green
Since "green" is in, I've decided to do my part.
1. My AppleTV has turned out to be a disappointment. Even with XBMC loaded, I couldn't get my nfs shares mounted. Unplugged.
2. Since my AppleTV is unplugged, there's less of a compelling reason to keep my home "server" up all the time. All it does is export a 1TB usb drive via NFS and run an irc session in screen every great while. I can easily plug the usb drive into my Mac when I want to access that data. Unplugged.
Okay, lets plug the drive into the Mac. Shit, OSX doesn't support ext3 partitions. Oh well, there's a userland filesystem driver last updated in 2006 that I can load. This will work grea... oh, my Mac locked up when I tried to mount it. Well, I guess I can just pull the 500gb or so worth of data off, move it somewhere else (some combination of my 80gb USB drive, my 250gb USB drive, my 120gb laptop drive, and who knows, maybe even the 4GB SSD in my eee.)
Currently I have my 80GB drive and my 1TB drive mounted in Windows XP in VMware with XP kernel level drivers for ext3 working nicely, and transferring data. This may qualify as one of the most hooptie ways I've ever had to do anything.
I am sure I'll lose something important.
Oh, and I take the bus to work now instead of driving. That makes me green with nausea.