The home of Matsu
Matsu currently lives in a small bathroom medicine cabinet in the hall of my apartment. It looks nice, and it has a full lenght mirror as a door, which is nice to make those essential necktie adjustments before heading out in the mornings. The cabinet is fastened against the wall which has the phone and electricity sockets, so there are no wires or sockets to be seen on the outside. I drilled holes on the top so the hot air could escape the cabinet, and for the wi-fi antenna.
- Top of the cabinet – DECT phone base – connected to the phone line through an ADSL/POTS splitter (at the bottom shelf)
- First shelf – Asus WL-500g wireless router (802.11g)
- Second shelf – Alcatel SpeedTouch Home ADSL modem
- Third shelf – Iomega 160GB Network drive (connected to the router)
- Fourth shelf – transformer for the Iomega drive
- Fifth shelf – removed
- Sixth shelf – Compaq P3/700MHz/128MB RAM/11.2GB HDD laptop running XP Pro
- Seventh shelf – Power adaptors for everything plus the ADSL/POTS splitter
It’s a bit tight (specially for the laptop), so my future plans are to turn the whole cabinet into a PC using a mini-ATX motherboard, with perhaps some kind of RAID solution to replace the network drive (as the server is always on, and RAID would make me feel more secure). With a nice, silent power supply, it might be quieter than it is now, which is pretty noisy (both the laptop and the network drive’s disks are quite noisy, spinwise). I wouldn’t need a monitor or keyboard, as I access the server through remote desktop. I would also have to design some kind of inner enclosure for the exposed electronics, or get some kind of lock for the mirror door.
Update: The cabinet was bought at a local Habitat store. I don’t know if it’s a regular item, or something they had on that occasion.
Hi! Congrats on your daughter, may she live a long, happy, healthy life!
My server topology is very much like yours! Take a look at my blog here: http://flink.formula9.net/blog/home/Technology/Computer%20Technology/050715-SilverBird-Intro.html
From the ground to the top shelf:
1. Misc power adapters, 5-way plug, old 300VA APC UPS, and a couple of ADC boxes to hide the mess! 
2. Backup CD/DVD box, Motorola cable modem, Siemens router, Linksys wireless router (with a small switch I built to turn it on and off).
3. Maxtor One-Touch 120GB external firewire harddrive (SilverBird’s boot drive) and an optical Micro$oft Intelimouse
4. SilverBird itself in all it’s glory!
The shelves are made of small tables from the 1960s my grandfather gave me (I sanded and covered them with plastic sticker paper to look a bit better). The backup CD/DVD box will be moved to my grandparent’s house. It’s not really very clever to keep it near the PowerMac and the server, but it looks cool on that shelf…
O meu server tem jogos e um monitor 
Nice, I like the stealth install! But my question is, where did you get that cabinet? Some of us might want to spoof that idea after all!
followed your link from engadget.
i second wizdumb – where’d you get the spiffy cabinet?
awesomely done, although I agree its a bit tight on space. My setup is totally everywhere. My server is a 1.8Ghz somthing or other with 256MB ram and i think 18GB hard drive lol. That sits ontop of the shoe closet downstairs with a eithernet cord going up though the celing and into the router which sits on a shelf in the (once decorated to be study).
priceless!