[Wolves] anyone heard of this project kano

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 23:37:18 UTC 2014


I had heard that they make very good low cost media servers.  As Richard
says, the secret is in the quiet and low power running of them.

No, I have not got one and no I don't intend on getting one any time soon :)


On 28 January 2014 21:20, Richard Barker <
richard.barker at quietwatercourse.co.uk> wrote:

>  On 28/01/14 17:50, David Goodwin wrote:
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> I think a lot of people are too scared to own up and admit that Dave.
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> One of my 'minions' has one - and it's sat unused for ages. I keep
> suggesting that he replaces our broken burglar alarm box with it.... it's
> not happened yet.
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> I admit they're probably great for allowing kids to get 'hands on' with
> stuff - making little robots that drive around the classroom floor - and
> there's scope for using them for e.g. heating automation and so on .... but
> unless you're in education or you want to wire up your home I'm not quite
> sure I see the point.
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> David.
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>  I have two, one is doing duty as a NAS unit with an external USB drive
> shared via NFS. The other is being used for XMBC and may be used for a
> little electronic tinkering in the near future or as an OwnCloud test rig.
>
> The places they score for me are that they use very little power and are
> completely silent, both of which are factors for me, especially the noise.
>
> Rich.
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