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A Look into cfgt’s Cupboard of Tricks

Published on 10/03/2007, by in General.

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I know you can see the mess of cables there. I'm not a very neat person to begin with when it comes to cables. I fully intended to use a shorter cable instead of the blue one, but that got lent out a few days ago. :P

Among the cables are: 2 CAT5e cables with RJ45 heads, 2 power adapters, 1 plug converter, 1 XBox controller and 1 XBox AV cable (needed for it to boot without FRAGging (flashing red and green)).

The XBox is a fully working LAMP and SAMBA server, running Torrentflux so that I can move my laptop around (and out of) the house without fear of having missed so many hours of torrenting. :D It still does work as an ordinary XBox, and yes it still plays games. :D

Another thing in the picture is a NETGEAR WGR614 wireless router. While it is a router, I am currently just using it as a wireless switch because my Netcomm NB5 modem comes with a router feature. (I believe in separation of power, or what most people might call spreading the load – whatever.)

And that's only one shelf in the cupboard. Anyone want to venture a guess into what else is in it?

3 Responses

  1. Some people might be wondering why that odd piece of cardboard is doing there holding the NB5 up. The main purpose of that is actually to prevent the NB5 overheating. (It did crash once out of heat. Yes, I’m a slave driver and very few routers can stand my torture.)

  2. When you said you moved everything into the cupboard… I sorta expected well… things to be neatly arranged… not just chucked into it like that

  3. When I lacked the short cable to make it neat, I decided to just give up and leave it as that.

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