User:Morpheus

Bit About Me

I'm 29, and have been working in the IT industry for the past 12 years, in various guises. I started out as a system builder for a local IT Firm, which later became insolvent, and I was made redundant, I've worked in Tech Support, 1st and 2nd Line. Currently I do webhosting for Friends and Family. I've been involved in and now run a fairly successful community, which utilises vBulletin as it's main core, with other additions from vBulletin.org and also some of my own customisations.

My Kit

At present, I'm still looking into building up an LMCE system. There's currently quite a bit of old hardware that's been decommissioned around the place. Originally, the system used to run as a domain with 2 win2k3 servers, one functioning as the Global Catalogue Server and the other as an Exchange 2k3 Server, with 5 PC's joined to it for use by anyone (roaming profiles, for both house members, and guests - great for central backups). 3 years ago, I changed my main PC over to OpenSuse Linux, and since then, the other machines have been upgraded, and disjoined from the domain, with the 2 Compaq servers being obsoleted in the corner of the room. Initially I was going to port the domain environment over to Linux, but have since decided against that as the old Compaq's seem to draw an awful lot of power for what they're actually doing. There's also 3 laptops, 2 of which are fairly obsolete by todays standards, though may find a use for them later.

LMCE and my plans

I hope to have a system setup for LMCE in the very near future, it may even become my desktop, as currently it barely gets used, and would be great to use as a test bed. The initial proposal is for it to store all of the media, so it will be stored centrally, but accessible in any room in the house. At somepoint, I will be looking to make use of the telephony system, I've used Asterisk in the past, so hopefully it will be fairly straight forward, though I'll be double checking things before I do delve into it.

Later on, I'll be looking at the home automation side of LMCE, using it to control the lights, and other utilities around the house. At the moment, the house is rented, so I'm not looking to make too many changes which I'll later have to undo should I actually take the plunge and buy a house. I first looked into LMCE when I got the home automation bug and looked into X10 when the Gadget show did a take on it, the possibilities I thought, were endless. After looking at Pluto, I wanted the Pluto Core (must have gadget lol!).

I'll try to keep this page updated as I go through my travels with putting all the theory into action. --Morpheus 08:26, 22 February 2010 (CET)