Unboxing the Quo Computer
As fate would have it, I'm back to a nice pace of posts on the blog, especially since I've had a logjam of topics -- a bunch of ideas all came in at once. This also means I get to usher my blog into 2014 on the very first Thursday of the new year, just in time for all the robots & spiders to come looking for new posts. ;) Shortly before Christmas, I finally (and unexpectedly) received a Quo computer in the mail shortly before Christmas, just in time to install an ESX server right before the whole family came so they could have their own VMs on our server. (They ended up bringing all their computers anyway, and used more electricity in 6 days than Stacy & I use by ourselves in a month. :-P) Stacy pledged for this Kickstarter project back in March 2013, and for our particular system, the delivery date was expected to be June. It still seems like we were one of the lucky ones to have received it by now. The "unexpectedly" part comes in w...