MythTV

Running the MythTV computer all the time uses some power, and generates a noticeable amount of heat.  It also provides data storage - it houses and shares my iTunes library and backups. I think this idea* of Microsoft's would** have potential, because most of the Cloud I want immediate access to - not mediated by patchy internet services.  I want it to be 'the Cloud' for occasions: accessing my data when I happen to be in France, or when my house burns down.  I don't want to have to talk to the US every time I clean out my email, or my iTunes library.  Would I be willing to store someone else's data on a reciprocal basis, and have the cloud in my home? Maybe***.


* Data Furnaces - 'Cloud' servers as the heat source for the hot water service and perhaps home heating.
** except power consumption / per electronic utility is on its way down and down.
*** THE LORD occupies his home (the Temple) by means of a Cloud - see 1 Kings 8:10 -

¹⁰And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD, ¹¹so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.