Sigh. The only computer I ever assembled was an E.S.R. DigiComp II. It was hard to do, too, as the parts were a bit warped.

2TB is a lot of twitter data. i've generated only a fraction of that myself. :)

I need a better email archival method than 1GB outlook PST folders organized by year. markmail looks good, but if it were only available for personal email...

You just need to stick it in here (assuming this is close enough to where it needs to be): http://norman.walsh.name/2009/01/27/overengineered

You probably forgot to wire your closet as a server room, though there does appear to be an outlet. Just call anything missing "feature creep"

That's exactly what I had in mind, Derek. In fact, there's even a cat5 end in that closet. Alas, a machine in that closet is clearly audible in the bedroom, so that ain't gonna work.

Some packing foam (the very soft black stuff that has a wavy pattern that actually looks like acoustic baffling) strategically placed to allow airflow works great for me. Mine is in a cardboard box as that was cheapest and easiest to construct.

MarkLogic Server up and running on Ubuntu you say. Us mere mortals only have access to the RHE version for Linux. Do you mind sharing how you got it running? I converted using Alien and changed the LSB. Is there a deb build and if so can it be shared?

Christian,

No, there's no .deb. I installed it with alien. As of Ubuntu 9.10, it appears that the LSB bug has been fixed so it was straightforward.