These days my job mainly focuses on integration works like doing project planning, prepare design doc and implementation, technical work like troubleshooting or setting up new servers/apps has reduced tremendously compare to last time.
So in order to keep myself stay up to date for the latest technologies and keep improving my technical skill. Few months back I bought a PC from SimLim square together with my colleague for research purpose, like setting up XEN virtual machine, IPSec tunneling, DNS, software load balancer and etc.
So far, i have only setup Xen and running 1 windows and linux guest OS. Will try to setup more services and share the knowledge here

Below is the PC specs and price(with minimum budget):
Motherboard: Biostar MCP6PB-M2 NVIDIA 6150 SOCKET AM2 (supports virtualization)
CPU: AMD PHENOM II X2 555 3.2GHZ 7MB SOCKET AM3 BOX PROCESSOR
RAM: CORSAIR 2 GB DDR 800MHZ
Hard Disk: SEAGATE 250GB 8200 SATA 2
Casing: No brand casing (just find the cheapest one with PSU)
Keyboard and mouse: PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Monitor: LG W1943Se 19′inch LCD

Total: Less than S$650

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