ml> i have only two systems on a desk... all of the rest are on the
ml> (carpetted)
ml> floor... those two are only on a desk because there is no more room on
ml> the
ml> floor for them... plus they are two of the most important machine so they
ml> deserve a higher perch than the others ;)

My "main computer" that I use for my own personal use also acts
as a "nightlight" on our first floor.  I have all the blue bling
lights inside it, so it cools very cool on my desk.  

I only have (3) servers/computers in my network room in the basement under
the stairs.  

One runs my webserver, Active Directory domain, DNS, DHCP, and both my BBS
virtual machines.  It also runs firewall logging, etc.

The other is basically my NAS with just tons of hard drives in it.

The third runs all my weather station programs for my website and is
physically connected via serial port to my weather station.

I have them all on a KVM also.

ml> sounds reasonable :) i don't have anything here with enough real
ml> capabilities to run any VMs... if i could combine the memory from all the
ml> machines, ok... i might... but there's only so much speed to go around...
ml> i
ml> just know that the bbs machine is a lot happier now that it has had its
ml> recent brain transplant -=B-)

My main system has 16 gigs of ram, so I can fire up loads of VMs if needed.
 I also upgraded the memory in my webserver system to 8 gigs so that it can
handle the few VMs it is running.

- Mark

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