The project I talked about earlier is a project to put together a secure home PBX system.  Just for fun.  I thought it’d be a good exercise and it would expose me to some telecommunications concepts with which I am completely unfamiliar.  Getting out of one’s comfort zone is a good thing, right?

So, to get started, here’s what I’ve got as a home-networking set-up and this is how I see it changing…

Box 1:  linux public server.  Some ancient AMD Athalon based system with, I think, 2g RAM.  Running SuSE 11, I believe.  Was my hardened home server before I moved the domain out to the cloud.  (here)

Box 2:  Sarah’s Windows box.  An HP Pavillion Slimline x3300 PC.  Pretty much a piece of crap that we got at Best Buy for like $400 a couple years ago.  It’s running Vista currently, but in way-I’m-too-retarded-to-do-you-any-good-scaled-down mode.  Seriously.  For all of Vista’s hype, this GUI looks like Windows 3.1.  Crapware.

Box 3:  My old windows box which I dumped when I got my current box (iMac 27″ i7…drool…)  … this Vista box is a Gateway LX6810-01 and it’s a pretty decent box.  I used it for a LAMP platform for a hot minute, but mostly as a glorified XBox with a keyboard.

Here’s what we’re going to do….