*extra points if it non-intrusively resembles a cloud
First of all, if I had an Erector Set (anyone remember those?) I wouldn't be asking. I'd have made about three levels to stack Pogoplugs, two or three routers, network switch or two, external hard drives and maybe even a computer power supply with green pin wired to ground for external power supplies. The idea is to have all the stuff nice and neat, so at the worst I'd be switching a short ethernet cable or replacing USB stick on a Pogoplug, or thereabouts. As-is it's a big mess, wires everywhere. It's not hard to carefully make wires neater. If the things they're hooked up to stay on one place.
I have no doubt some of you have a tidy non-closet setup like that, and wondered if there's some common rack kind of object that excels where other methods fail? So close and yet so far... maybe get some cheap wood strips and make a mockup, but meh...
First of all, if I had an Erector Set (anyone remember those?) I wouldn't be asking. I'd have made about three levels to stack Pogoplugs, two or three routers, network switch or two, external hard drives and maybe even a computer power supply with green pin wired to ground for external power supplies. The idea is to have all the stuff nice and neat, so at the worst I'd be switching a short ethernet cable or replacing USB stick on a Pogoplug, or thereabouts. As-is it's a big mess, wires everywhere. It's not hard to carefully make wires neater. If the things they're hooked up to stay on one place.
I have no doubt some of you have a tidy non-closet setup like that, and wondered if there's some common rack kind of object that excels where other methods fail? So close and yet so far... maybe get some cheap wood strips and make a mockup, but meh...