Well I’ve spent my “free” time the past few days setting up a FreeBSD server in a sexy black case. It has no monitor, no mouse, and no keyboard. Why, pray tell, would I set up a computer and leave it behind?
The main reason is so that my parents and I can back up our stuff. Mom can back up her documents from her 8(?) year old computer before the hard drive decides to finally bite it. Dad can back up his tax documents. And I can back up all the stuff that would be on my hard drive, just in case my laptop explodes or something.
The other big reason is because I need to bounce emails off a server in order to make posts from my phone.
Of course there are a couple nice perks, like the ability to send files to my parents with ease, or manage things from Japan, or even print out stuff on their printer or burn music CDs for them!
