I am considering to buy a dual-core 'monster', but as I travel by bicycle, I would hate to bring it with me to over-the-board tournaments like Leiden or the WCCC. With a desktop you get much more GHz-bang for your buck, though, than with a laptop.
It seems to me it should be possible to leave the PC at home, switched on and set up as an internet Chess server running my engine(s). I could then bring one or two small laptops to the tournament hall (which supplies an internet connection), and use Winboard/Zippy to log on to this PC in the same way I log on to ICC.
My question now is: are there any standard solutions for this? The laptop part seems easy enough (if I know the IP address of my machine at home), but what software would I need to set up the server?