So a few months ago I went to visit a friend of mine who goes to school about 45 minutes from me. While visiting I stayed with him, in a house he and his roommates have dubbed “Doom House.” Now in today’s PC age everyone has a computer and everyone is on the Internet. However a trip to the Doom House, where all the residents are computer science or engineering majors this idea is taken to the extreme. In that house they have 6 computers, running 4 different OS’s, and a centralized “media” server that they can all get data from.

Now coming back to my own apartment where I’ve got 2 PCs and an XBox360 that makes me wonder how I could optimize my computing power. While I’m not quite worried about sharing media to machines running two different Linux variants, Mac, and a few PCs, I am looking to centralize and share my data. Per usual, Lifehacker has me interested in a possible solution.

I think this now is where I need to pull back and ask the readers a question or three. How do you use you computer(s)? Do you use just use the Internet and word processor, or are you an underground electronic music mixing guru? Me, my use ranges from Office, to the Internet, to doing some .NET development for my own coding projects. Anyone out there put together a theater PC? I’m wondering what your take on the link was, I may take a stab at putting one similar together.