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While I'm in Russia I'll be carrying around my camera gear in a rucksack because all of my camera bags scream "rob me!". I'm thinking of sticking my spare lenses in 2 layers of thick hiking boots, would that be protective enough? What should I be thinking about?

It is quite standard Antec; it works well. The side panels on most of Antec's cases are a bit on the thin and wobbly side, though. If you stick a piece on Dynamat on the door panel, it should help. Just get the one made for a license plate, that should add enough mass to calm any fan vibrations...

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I'm busy getting ready for my Moscow trip next week. This is pretty much my last chance to prep for the trip, as I'm working pretty solid next week.

That sounds like a solid office machine. Let us know how the build goes.

We'll see what happens to Guinness now that the two main production facilities are closing down...

Man, that is a lot of drugs. I have no insurance and pay about $50 a month for us (birth control). In my adult life, I have probably paid $300 for all the drugs I've ever taken. I find it very hard not to blame the consumers.

No doubt a special and expensive drive (150% special, 1000% expensive).

Home Premium @ $129 and Ultimate @ $219? They are getting desperate...

Not me I'm afraid; I'm leaving for Russia week after next and saving all the money I can.

Very interesting find. They don't move and don't generate heat; why do you need a case at all? Do what I've done and attach them using double-sided poster tape to the underside of an optical drive; keeps it out of the way and easy to change cases.

What security features do you want? If you aren't hosting stuff inside, anything with NAT-ing capabilities should be as secure as anything else (no external ports open). Of course, if you are hosting stuff or want to VPN into your house, then a smoothwall would be a good idea. The only thing I...

Perhaps I spoke too soon about it holding off the SSDs; they are now cheaper.

That card is several generations older, and doesn't support DX10. Not that that matters much, but I would choose the faster card if Aero is in it's future.

It is an impressive looking bridge.

All the more reason to kill and eat them ;)

Gigabyte 8500GT w/512MB?

Pity my laptop requires a 1.8"...

Wow, listed on Newegg (almost) as advertised...the 120GB version is actually $649! That is impressive.

That looks like a good layout.

Tower of Goo....20.4 Meters so far. Great game in 1.8MB

I can thank trying to learn linux to my finally learning to type. Working on a command line for a week straight and it just starts happening.

I suspect the architecture has more to do with it, Bozo. Even going from a higher-clocked A64 X2 to a C2D made for a snappier experience. I've been keeping my task scheduler on my second monitor for about a month now, just seeing what uses more cores and what doesn't. 99% of the time, those...

Thanks Chewy, I would love to get them ACT!, but she had a bad experience with it in a past life, so I can't make the sell. WorkgroupShare looks very promising. I may just roll that out.

Welcome beksteentje! Good to have some fresh blood around here. I will be sure to take a look at that in the morning, thanks for the tip.

Like all things I've seen for LDAP, it goes something like this: LDAP is easy! Configure a big load of it manually like this ...and if you want any data in it, you can add it manually as well...somehow It also doesn't look like it allows updating at all; only adding entries in text mode and...

Looking at the pricing, it requires MDaemon as well. 6 User MDaemon - $130 6 User Outlook Connector - $120 Not bad compared to Exchange, but they have exchange already. I was hoping to get them off a server completely. I'm even using Jungle Disk for their backups.

When I took over this client, it was a single user. The local PC company had taken her to the cleaners with a Dell PowerEdge running SBS2k3R2 and every service running, a top-of-the-line Dimension for herself (including 2 hard drives that weren't even configured!) and a PIX 501 firewall. All of...

I actually have them on Google Apps for mail, connected via IMAP into Outlook. It it supported connecting contacts and calendars into Outlook as well, that would solve all my problems; but I haven't seen that functionality yet.

Antec NSK6500 w PS

Other than the WD drive and the proc, Bozo's list looks pretty good. The faster-clocked single-core will likely do better for a basic user (35W!) Samsung makes a much faster drive (16MB cache, higher density) for $20 more.

3 users. All they need to do is share a contact list (all have it open at the same time) in Outlook. It seems a really stupid reason to install an exchange server. Please tell me there is an easy way to do this.

Perhaps this is what happens when you outsource the final design to people who don't speak the language the keyboard is designed for? If this happened on a Cyrillic or Hebrew keyboard, I would have no idea. Still a pretty big design screw-up, laptop keyboard designers have been taking too many...

An interesting comment to a Slashdot post. An interesting take that I haven't heard before, and it seems to pass the smell test. Anyone care to comment?

Not entirely sure about that. Although it seems likely that we will get new members, or that those members will be a good match to our interactions, we could at least hold out some hope...

Ugh...good point. I was really tired.

I have 726 posts in this thread, this will be my 727th. Crazy. I sent a client to the Geek Squad today. She has a Sony Vaio laptop with the stock install of Vista, but her previous employer loaded it with crap; including 2 VPN programs, remote printing software, McAffee BS, and tons of other...

That sounds like a good idea, e_dawg. Non-permanence makes it much easier to swallow.

Taxing poor people doesn't work because the government is giving them money to start with. Would we take some of that money back? Sterilization before receiving welfare seems like the only way, but even I don't like the idea, and I'm a cold-hearted bastard.

A wonderful idea. Except that poor people are able to evade all taxes completely, so it wouldn't be a disincentive.

Thanks for the insight, mubs. That certainly sounds like a problem. I don't think any government-mandated population control will be effective unless it involves forced sterilization (which will have the problem described by mubs) or forced abortions (which won't go over well, either).

I agree e_dawg. I also agree with JTR that, in theory, given enough technology and money to implement it, and enough political will to see it done, we could have a global population in the tens of billions. But I really wouldn't want to be there. In order for people to live that densely...

Confirmed. Pictures included.

I strongly suspect it is just screwed on. I haven't seen it, but to do otherwise would be massively stupid.... <teasing Merc to comment>

Also, as prices increase, more resources become cost-effective.

I have, but it was out of a large sample (at the game center). For the 20 machines over 3 years of being used for gaming 12 hours a day, I replaced about 100 keyboards and 4 mice. MX500/MX510, for the record.

You mean other than a fixed amount of land, water, and air?

I agree that not having more people is better than killing people, but this is a more slippery slope. I can't imagine a socially acceptable way to restrict people's ability to have children. And if it is optional, the ignorant and poor will outpopulate those that are needed to support them!

No. Less women is not what we need. Less people in general while giving those left a reason to live ;)

Can't comment, as I hardly ever shoot with flash. (oh, wait. I can comment, it just isn't useful.)