I think that the wiring part got covered in another post. the other items that your talking about though are:
home "control" is normally kind of customized to the home by the installer, but the last one that i helped put in was an elan system. (http://www.elanhomesystems.com/)
For lighting you really need to look into lutron (http://www.lutron.com/) and then hook them together.
I seem to remember SATA disks being hotswapable with out much issue. Pick up a few SATA to PATA cconverters and a SATA card. On that same note, there are SCSI to IDE converters that you could put into a hotswapable SCSI cage.
For a while i had an oc3 that started in my room, and ended in my garage... granted it was only there so i could learn about them, and mess with the tech.
Power:
1 computer uses about 350-400 watts, a monitor is about 60-70, and a small speaker set uses about 10 or so. that's 480, call it 500 watts per computer. I'm also thinking that your in the US so one computer will use about 4.5 amps on the high side. So at the lans that i run we drop 3 cords hooked up to 15 amp breakers into the table setup with 12 computers, since not every one has the biggest baddest super power hungry computer this works out fine.
Network:
With that many people it makes much more sence to try and get your hands on bigger switches to hook together with a trunk of some kind insted of lots of little switches, just for price and performance. At the lan i run we have a few centillion switches along with a cisco 5k all of these have 48-96 ports in them the switches are hooked together with ATM or gigabit... but this leaves you with a problem, 48-96 ports in one place is way more than your going to have in a single table cluster. the solution! network snakes 30-50 foot long bundles of 6 or 12 cat5 cables with rj45 plugs on one end, and a box with keystone jacks on the other. this keeps individual cat5 cables to a minimum, and makes clean up a bit easier. besides with big switches you can poll them and find out who's leaching off who;)
food:
I have found that for the really long parties it makes sence to only provide 2 meals (normaly both dinners) since by the time the next mean comes around not every one feels like eating the same thing as every one else... also get buddy buddy with the local pizza manager, some times they will give you deals if you order lots of food at a time, and they might want to sponser you.
BATHROOMS:
Possibly the worst lan i've ever hosted was at a place with bad bathrooms, i can not stress this enough. make sure you have the number for the guy who is in charge of fixing them if they break to... it has been known to happen.
Internet
always a good thing to have around... for patches or for email... but it is a good idea to have some one who knows what there doing to setup a firewall to limit stuff like... kazaa etc, other wise the people who actualy need that bandwidth wont have it (a cache of some kinda helps here too)
Polices:
Make some and dont bend them for anyone, unless you want the attendies walking all over you. it's one thing to have a lan with all friends... it is MUCH diffrent to have a public party were random people show up. It isn't a bad idea to let the local police know that there is a event going on at your location and that you will not hesitate to call them if you need help... then make sure the people at the party know that too.
I'm sure theres more, i might reply to this
and never mind the spelling mistakes.
Seany
The fact that there is a tech boom ahead is perfectly logical if you look back at history.
turning any time of threat to the country much money has been invested into tech advance... look at the computer during WWII and it's aftermath. or firearms during the civil war.
That when eBay went down the other day some files got corupted etc, and when they came around to restore every thing they just hit the 'default' button and reset every thing to default. if slashdot lost all of it's users prefs, but not the users passwords etc. what would be easyest, to email every one of them and ask them to fix it. or reset every thing to default?
Seany
What if you just took some frame grabs of a 'windows9x' ish os and stuck it in html, make it in to a image map and have it take you to a specific help page when you click on specific sections. This doesn't sound to bad, and would only take a few hours. Although i think some one more experianced than I should do it... It wouldn't be very hard to 'convert' a 'how-to run linux' guide in to this format
It's micro not milli, there is a difrance if my
h/s math server me, the order is
d deci 0.1 10^-1
c denti 0.01 10^-2
m milli 0.001 10^-3
micro 0.000001 10^-6
n nano 0.000000001 10^-9
so with a difrance of 10^-3 i think that it would
work quite well if you ask me;)
Seany
Why not compleatly forget doing it on your own computer?? web based versions of what you just talked about are available online for less than the MS licences and you don't have to manage your server computer.
http://www.physicianaccess.com
is the one that seemed to have it's act together the best, why don't you stop by and give em a look.
Seany
These mice could be neet for CAD stuff to... or just drawing in general, the harder you press the thicker the line etc... But i can just see it now, your playing quake, and oopps squeased to hard and launched a rocket at the wall *ooppss* But i think alot of that kinda stuff could be taken care of with some well designed software, now if apple would only release those specs...:P
Although i do not know about any software solution for a 'modem sniffer', but! it is posible to sovle your problem with a external modem (barow an old one...) and a 3 way serial splitter, a second computer helps, but you can do loop back to your own computer. I used this when a client need to do a direct cable connect from windows to freeBSD, and it was simple to sniff the way the win direct cable conect authenticates it's sel to program the fBSD side. Hope this helps.
I've noticed most people not having a whole lot a patience with the IRC help people, in #linux #linuxhelp, and #networking, but there are great chan's you might not get an answer right away, but if you are persistent you wil find out if any one knows the answer.!! Seany
The one place that I have found to be a good store to shop at for all my robo stuff is http://www.robotstore.com They have muscule wires to servos, robo arms to Basic stamps... Hope it helps Seany
It is called PICMG. All it is is just ISA and PCI on one card. This board is ment to plug into a passive backplane (ie chipless) the I/O chipset is on this board. On a passive backplane you will see a number of PCI and ISA slots, along with one PICMG slot witch this plugs into, the back plane is wired so that the PCI and ISA busses get seperated.
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I think that the wiring part got covered in another post. the other items that your talking about though are:
home "control" is normally kind of customized to the home by the installer, but the last one that i helped put in was an elan system. (http://www.elanhomesystems.com/)
For lighting you really need to look into lutron (http://www.lutron.com/) and then hook them together.
you need one zone player per zone that you want to cover... so, yes you only get what you pay for :)
you might want to check out the PON stuff by all optic. probably a little pricy for what you are doing, but it fits the bill.
http://www.alloptic.com/
I seem to remember SATA disks being hotswapable with out much issue. Pick up a few SATA to PATA cconverters and a SATA card. On that same note, there are SCSI to IDE converters that you could put into a hotswapable SCSI cage.
Just some thoughts
Seany
For a while i had an oc3 that started in my room, and ended in my garage... granted it was only there so i could learn about them, and mess with the tech.
Power: 1 computer uses about 350-400 watts, a monitor is about 60-70, and a small speaker set uses about 10 or so. that's 480, call it 500 watts per computer. I'm also thinking that your in the US so one computer will use about 4.5 amps on the high side. So at the lans that i run we drop 3 cords hooked up to 15 amp breakers into the table setup with 12 computers, since not every one has the biggest baddest super power hungry computer this works out fine. ;)
Network: With that many people it makes much more sence to try and get your hands on bigger switches to hook together with a trunk of some kind insted of lots of little switches, just for price and performance. At the lan i run we have a few centillion switches along with a cisco 5k all of these have 48-96 ports in them the switches are hooked together with ATM or gigabit... but this leaves you with a problem, 48-96 ports in one place is way more than your going to have in a single table cluster. the solution! network snakes 30-50 foot long bundles of 6 or 12 cat5 cables with rj45 plugs on one end, and a box with keystone jacks on the other. this keeps individual cat5 cables to a minimum, and makes clean up a bit easier. besides with big switches you can poll them and find out who's leaching off who
food: I have found that for the really long parties it makes sence to only provide 2 meals (normaly both dinners) since by the time the next mean comes around not every one feels like eating the same thing as every one else... also get buddy buddy with the local pizza manager, some times they will give you deals if you order lots of food at a time, and they might want to sponser you.
BATHROOMS: Possibly the worst lan i've ever hosted was at a place with bad bathrooms, i can not stress this enough. make sure you have the number for the guy who is in charge of fixing them if they break to... it has been known to happen.
Internet always a good thing to have around... for patches or for email... but it is a good idea to have some one who knows what there doing to setup a firewall to limit stuff like... kazaa etc, other wise the people who actualy need that bandwidth wont have it (a cache of some kinda helps here too)
Polices: Make some and dont bend them for anyone, unless you want the attendies walking all over you. it's one thing to have a lan with all friends... it is MUCH diffrent to have a public party were random people show up. It isn't a bad idea to let the local police know that there is a event going on at your location and that you will not hesitate to call them if you need help... then make sure the people at the party know that too. I'm sure theres more, i might reply to this and never mind the spelling mistakes. Seany
The fact that there is a tech boom ahead is perfectly logical if you look back at history.
turning any time of threat to the country much money has been invested into tech advance... look at the computer during WWII and it's aftermath. or firearms during the civil war.
Seany
What if apple started selling dual systems with a choice of OS on them? then! i might buy a mac ;)
Seany
That when eBay went down the other day some files got corupted etc, and when they came around to restore every thing they just hit the 'default' button and reset every thing to default. if slashdot lost all of it's users prefs, but not the users passwords etc. what would be easyest, to email every one of them and ask them to fix it. or reset every thing to default?
Seany
What if you just took some frame grabs of a 'windows9x' ish os and stuck it in html, make it in to a image map and have it take you to a specific help page when you click on specific sections. This doesn't sound to bad, and would only take a few hours. Although i think some one more experianced than I should do it... It wouldn't be very hard to 'convert' a 'how-to run linux' guide in to this format
Seany
It's micro not milli, there is a difrance if my ;)
h/s math server me, the order is
d deci 0.1 10^-1
c denti 0.01 10^-2
m milli 0.001 10^-3
micro 0.000001 10^-6
n nano 0.000000001 10^-9
so with a difrance of 10^-3 i think that it would
work quite well if you ask me
Seany
Why not compleatly forget doing it on your own computer?? web based versions of what you just talked about are available online for less than the MS licences and you don't have to manage your server computer. http://www.physicianaccess.com is the one that seemed to have it's act together the best, why don't you stop by and give em a look. Seany
These mice could be neet for CAD stuff to... or just drawing in general, the harder you press the thicker the line etc... But i can just see it now, your playing quake, and oopps squeased to hard and launched a rocket at the wall *ooppss* But i think alot of that kinda stuff could be taken care of with some well designed software, now if apple would only release those specs... :P
Seany
Although i do not know about any software solution for a 'modem sniffer', but! it is posible to sovle your problem with a external modem (barow an old one...) and a 3 way serial splitter, a second computer helps, but you can do loop back to your own computer. I used this when a client need to do a direct cable connect from windows to freeBSD, and it was simple to sniff the way the win direct cable conect authenticates it's sel to program the fBSD side.
Hope this helps.
Seany
I've noticed most people not having a whole lot a patience with the IRC help people, in #linux #linuxhelp, and #networking, but there are great chan's you might not get an answer right away, but if you are persistent you wil find out if any one knows the answer.!! Seany
The one place that I have found to be a good store to shop at for all my robo stuff is http://www.robotstore.com They have muscule wires to servos, robo arms to Basic stamps... Hope it helps Seany
It is called PICMG. All it is is just ISA and PCI on one card. This board is ment to plug into a passive backplane (ie chipless) the I/O chipset is on this board. On a passive backplane you will see a number of PCI and ISA slots, along with one PICMG slot witch this plugs into, the back plane is wired so that the PCI and ISA busses get seperated.