Music collection scattered all over my desk

When I was young I can remember sitting on the floor at a friend's house with album covers all over the floor.I don't feel that old and yet the world has changed. Moose is the open source front end I am currently running on my music server. Moose simulates my youth on my desktop as I slide the mouse over the different albums to select which one to play.

I urge all fellow traders to mellow out on some fine music as they contemplate the day.

stevo

NAS & Linux - wonderful technology

I am still around! At the moment the market doesn't really interest me. I have had no signals and only hold one stock - NHC.

I have however been sorting out my network. I dropped a Qnap TS109 II into the mix. It's a NAS (network attached storage) unit. I bought it to store my music collection (stored in lossless FLAC format) and play to my Squeezebox, but it's also very useful for backing up data.

It also only needs around 14 watts to run and I can turn my desktop off to play music. I realised that I only really use the desktop computer for backup and as a music server, although I did set up a music system with it with a USB DAC plus some homemade "concept" speakers. But the desktop is too noisy for a Hifi setup. The NAS doesn't have a fan and is very quiet but I can't plug the DAC into to play music. It's headless - no screen or keyboard of it's own.

Any computer on the network can access the NAS and upload / download files, photos etc. The Squeezebox links wirelessly to the NAS to play music. My daughter's Macbook can also use it. I think that the desktop computer is going back to work so I can remodel my study - rip up carpets, paint walls, new blinds and some decent furniture.

Enough of my rambling - I will post some charts soon and maybe even talk about trading!

stevo