BitNami, Turnkey Linux, InstantBox, JOPUX, VirtualBoxes.org, and DeveloperVMs have made me want to upgrade my computer.

Seriously, you can run damn near anything now, easily. Maybe it means you have Drupal+MySQL in one VM, and Ruby+Postgres in another, but who cares? RAM is cheap.

putting a hard drive in the optical bay

good writeup at superuser.com
lots of caddies for sale at newmodeus.com — they have lots of good information too
- YouTube videos
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- page 7
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- page 14
- page 19 — eSATA port
- page 20 — eSATA port
- page 28
- page 29
- page 33 — free carrying pouch
- Instructions for transferring optical drive faceplate to OBHD caddy