>And the money you guys must spaff away... That's how hobbies work. The same goes for time. They're not putting a bunch of resources into home networks becau

>And the money you guys must spaff away... That's how hobbies work. The same goes for time. They're not putting a bunch of resources into home networks because they're bad at it, they're doing it because it's fun. My home network is a cable modem and an integrated router/AP, because all I care about is that it's good enough. Yet, I'm honestly contemplating buying an old Itanium server from a liquidator near me, not because I'm going to use it as a server, but because I'd like to try my hand at IA-64 assembly language, and it would be more fun to do it on the real hardware than an emulator. No one going to run any IA-64 instructions I write, but I want to do it for the fun of it. If someone buys that same server to run their home automation system, it would be no different.