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[David Minton <david AT designhammer.com>]

If you want to do X10 cheap, there was a Mac version that would run on
hardware as old as a Mac Plus. How much computing power do you need to send
an electrical pulse to turn lights on and off? What is neat is the old
compact Macs are very small, simple, and I am sure someone will give you
one.

Unfortunately, the name of the App escapes me. Someone else may remember it.

I will defer to the network professionals to advise you on your ethernet
network. If all you use is a notebook, you may be happier with wireless
ethernet, though.

David

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David Minton - Managing Partner
DesignHammer Media Group, LLC
www.designhammer.com



On 4/18/01 9:54 AM, "Gina Norman" <gina AT vnet.net> wrote:

> I'm adding onto my house (new master bedroom and bath) and I'm getting the
> builder to pull speaker wire as part of the job, so I can use my speaker
> set "B" in the bedroom.  It has occurred to me that as long as he's
> pulling wire anyway, he might as well pull the sorts of wire that would be
> useful in setting up a home network.  Notice the vagueness of that last
> bit -- that's the root of my problem.
> 
> I'm a website mgr. sort-of-girl and have (almost no) idea what the
> hardware end of the world looks like beyond some basic concepts I have
> loosely attached to the word "server."
> 
> The word CAT5 is in my head, but I don't know:
> 
> 1) if that's really what I need
> 2) where I could get such a thing (need fewer than 70 ft. and would
> prefer not to buy tons more than I need)
> 3) if there's something else I'll need along with the CAT5.
> 
> The computers themselves are, at this point, hypothetical.  My home PC is
> an ancient coal-fired Mac, so when I want to work from home I take in my
> laptop.  I've thought about getting an older windows-type machine because
> I'm really interested in X-10ing my house.  I would expect that the cable
> might be used to connect my laptop in the bedroom to my X-10 machine in
> the living room.
> 
> Any ideas/thoughts?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> -gina
> 
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> confused and befuddled by the overwhelming monstrosities of my life,
> causes a default to the simplest and most pleasant of thoughts.  Like
> Marshmallow Peeps.  I *like* Marshmallow Peeps.
> 
> Gina Norman                                      And the only bit that
> gina AT vnet.net (me personally)                    really matters:
> ginanorm AT nortelnetworks.com (me at work)         http://users.vnet.net/gina
> gina AT earthling.net (me personally, again -- sick of me yet?  ;)
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