SirWolfgang

I would recommend the Source engine, its free well balanced but its in C++.. I am not sure why you’re learning C# but I feel it’s sort of a middle langue, its powerful and limiting but similar to its bigger brother. The Source SDK can be download free thru Steam if you own a Source game(TF2, Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat: Source, Counterstrike: Source, Left 4 dead, Left 4 dead 2). It also has a great community to help you out with anything you need.. http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page I would also check out www.interlopers.net/ Included in the SDK is the full code for a game from scratch.. Or a game built/starting with the Half-Life 2 Deathmatch.. Which is basically HL2 with out the SP maps.. All weapons and object are there so its good base to start coding small things here and there as you learn.. If you with to continue its going to be hard but remember to comment your code it will save you later

Are you sure about that..? The whole point of cooling takes heat away for the hot areas.. filtering it thru your PSU sound like a bad idea, and a fast way to kill/cook your powersupply

I would look into NetWitness, It does all that and has all the protocols built into it so it knows how to handle everything from email to IM

Old Skool rules say the only intake fan should be your power supply.. but current cases are moving to either your front or bottom being intake, and it leaves out the top back(where the power supply is on old form factors) which is why you see newer nice cases having the PSU on the bottom

Ya, there's not really any 'all-in-one' the issue with that type of thing, is its really only 'all-in-one' for a few people in the situation.. Think about adobe products.. They are amazing in parts because they all are so damn powerful, but if you have them all you can do anything. So ya, I would agree with: ettercap, sslstrip, wireshark one thing I can say might help, is NetWitness it reconstruct the packets into a nice GUI for more or less your "Network IT" use.. There is a free version they includes demo data to see how it works/sorts things.. One nice thing is that it will rebuild emails including images if you grab them too. http://download.netwitness.com/download.php?src=DIRECT

overclocking really isn't/shouldn't be a heat issue.. As long as your cooling can support the CPU & GPU at 100% overclocking will just make things run a little faster. When overclocking, with in the "safe area", All motherboards the allow overclocking will stop booting when you push it too far as a safety measure(at which point you jump it to reset the BIOS).

Back|track 4 is rather buggy atm.. dhclient as super user(su) is what you should be using.. But I would suggest using BT3 until BT4 final if you do not know what your are doing, I been having issues with the pre release when it comes to upgrading.. and remember!! Sudo !!

The most impact for the least amount of cost, after cleaning it, is your heat sink paste/grease. I had this same tube for years: OCZ Ultra 5+, Silver Thermal Compound. "Ultra High Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound" Basically you want paste that will never 'cook' and harden.. I have never seen or heard of this stuff cooking which is good, that allows the best movement of your heat.. I also after buying my GPUs, which I love EVGA, will take those apart and re-paste them.. This process allows you to put on better paste if you are getting the nice stuff i do, and insures that all the screws are all the way down(that can be loose in shipping) making sure of the smallest gap

While I do agree, it would be nice if we made a table of laptops/netbooks, that had things like built in wireless with the atheros chipset or any others that do allow the fun parts of WiFi. Things that I would think one would want in a hakbook, would be a atheros chipset and bluetooth might be useful.. haven't played with it yet.. Anything eles?