Originally Posted by BAMF

Speaking of expensive projects, I'm about to upgrade my PC shown in the picture (on the ground, the other is a lab setup), change my one HTPC over to a little tiny miniITX version with the new Sandy Bridge chips with onboard GPUs for the living room, put another in my bedroom where I'm putting the 32" TV thats in the living room, which is in turn getting replaced with a 46"+ 120hz TV. And from there I'm building a little barebones server to host my 1.5TB fileshare thats currently on the living room PC, act as a domain controller so I can finally have some decent security on my machines, and run this VOIP software I'm learning which will enable me to not only use VOIP phones on the CHEAP, but will allow me to put two-way SIP security cameras around my house which I can monitor anywhere, anytime. From there, once I have the infrastructure setup, I can start doing things like linking the house's thermostat to my cell phone so I can keep track of and set it on the fly, etc. etc. etc.