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tykles

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Hi,
Hopefully this is the right place for this question. My primary computer at home is my new 15" PB + 250GB FW external drive. It is rendering obsolete my 2001 867MHz Quicksilver. My question: what can I do with the QS (saying 'give it to me' doesn't count)? There is tons of storage on it(~300Gb i think). Other than using it as an iTunes music server, shared printing and maybe nighttime backups for my house, is there something else I can or should do with it that would be a good use for it? The only other computer that will be on the network is my wife's iBook.
Thanks

edit: I guess one other question would be whether or not I can remotely wake the QS from sleep. The fans are really loud, so I wouldn't really want it running unless it's doing something.
 
tykles said:
edit: I guess one other question would be whether or not I can remotely wake the QS from sleep. The fans are really loud, so I wouldn't really want it running unless it's doing something.

I was browsing around apples download pages yesterday actually and came across a small app that does just this. Its called WakeOnLan. Havent tried it myself, though maybe someone else has. Looks good though.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/networking_security/wakeonlan.html
 
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