Just built up a Zotac ION mini-itx box for home server duties to replace my aging shuttle box.
Pretty happy with the 20-30W power usage.
Bought a slimline DVDRW drive and a 2.5" HDD to keep the power usage down. I have an eSATA enclosure with a 1TB for my main storage but that's turned off most of the time.

Oh yeah, this keyboard's been doing the business for me for a few years now
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Keysonic-Wireless-Keyboard-Integrated-Frequency/dp/B000L10Y5E

Looks pretty good. Currently looking at getting some sort of "netbook". Was choosing between the Eee 1000HE and HP Mini 2140, but will add this to the list.
Here's my considerations so far...

- HP Mini 2140 is very small and light (1.1kg), but poor battery life (3 cell included, 6 cell costs £80 extra) and expensive for a netbook (£450+), looks awesome if you're that sort tho. Also has a strange resolution.

- Eee 1000HE, still small but bigger than HP, bit heavier (1.5kg) as it comes with 6 cell battery giving 9.5hrs (seriously... http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/03/20/review_netbook_asus_eee_pc_1000he/page5.html) and about £300

I'd be very interested in this though if it has user-changeable battery and a 6 cell unit is available.
But I reckon the 1000HE will be the one I go for.

I'm going to chip in my vote for Axis cameras. Bought a bunch of 207W cams for site surveillance, works great!

Wow that's ok pricing, hardware RAID 6. I wonder what the controller is, and the cooling in that thing.

I just built a new NAS to replace our old Lacie Ethernet disk.
The Ethernet disk worked ok (Macs had problems, but they always do) , but it was a 1U unit and got super-hot, and was 4 years old.
Also it managed to get 500GB by striping 2x250GB drives, so when it died it took all our data with it. The data recovery bill was a fair old amount, but cheaper than replacing the whole thing a few years back

Now we've got a nice spacious 5U case, with 2 external 5.25" backplane units (4 hot-swap bays per backplane) connected up to an awesome 3Ware 9690SA RAID card. At the moment we've only got 5x500GB drives in a RAID 6 and another 500GB as a hot-spare, which gives us 1.3TB with 2 bays empty.
But we figure we'll replace the drives in 18 months with 1 or 1.5TB units when we need to increase capacity.

Total cost of building that server, maybe £1400 / $2800.
More expensive, but it runs cool and we built it so can replace parts as and when we need to.

Sell me those speakers separately!
But using standard speaker connections and not anything fancy. Unless it's some kind of wireless cool thing, which costs less than $100!

Compact Flash, useless?
So are you just holding out for the MultiMedia card version? :D

All these new TLDs are getting ridiculous!
I mean did anyone actually buy a .mobi domain?

It's just another way for ICANN/Internic to get more money from massive companies like Google/MS/AOL etc who will be forced to buy the names to secure them, even if they have no intent to use them.

How about just making the subdomain car.domain.com standard practice instead?
Like wap.domain.com or mobile.domain.com was and sort of still is
Oh that's right, they're free to set up so no money for Internic

Also, what's the point in .car anyway?
So people can run their own web servers from their cars and .car tells you it's a car server?
Stop it!!!

There are stats that SSDs are considerably slower at read/write for single large files... like 4GB ISO images etc
It's the read/write of small files which gives SSDs a speed boost... because of the tiny seek/access times relative to those of HDDs

I think anyway :)

When I can buy a 64GB SSD for £150 ($300) then I'll be all over this

Speed.
Using a single, regular-speed CF card as an HDD replacement would be slooow.

The cool thing about this device is it supports faster CF cards, and 2 of them, so you can have them in a RAID setup... but as others have said, that will probably only just bring it to 2.5" HDD speed.
So still not as lightning as a full-blown SSD

Wow, I'd totally forgotten about CDDB!
I use EAC with FreeDB - the accuracy very often sucks though, spelling mistakes and incorrect track positions on rarer stuff.

Hopefully the Discogs API will continue development to allow some cool stuff along these lines though. Although the management at Discogs have become a*sholes and have completely destroyed the foundations of the community with their recent v4 rollout. It's become way to easy to add new submissions, and new submissions are no longer moderated in the way they used to be. Now there's duplicates and errors cropping up all over the place. Hopefully they can get that sorted though [rant over]