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MRGRIM

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  1. It's national, and it took effect on Sept 22. 2009 but was passed in July 09 by Obama. Article on the law. It's quite annoying; however, you can legally buy them online from other countries and have them imported to the US; I would do this but I don't have a credit card.

    Get one of those 'top up' credit cards?

  2. Cigars, I don't claim to be a connoisseur or anything. I prefer milder cigars personally and rather like Vanilla flavoured / tipped ones. I was also reccently given a pack of White Owl Invincible’s which are very nice

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  3. It's 4 people! (+-/ # guests)

    I don't know anyone by name... I use my own method of nicknaming each member of the team, so I know not of this "Matt" prehaps you mean "VM Man" ?

    Matt will be missed, I enjoyed his business related topics as they relate to what I'm doing IRL. I have little interest for Wifi stealing / hacking other than "Wifi isn't very secure" :(

  4. Well, my home server died back in September and I had a budget similar to yours. I wanted to run XenServer and lucikly I found this blog http://www.xenappblog.com/2009/build-a-che...-your-home-lab/

    * ASUS M4A78-EM

    * AMD Phenom X4

    * Corsair 8GB (4×2GB)

    * MiniATX chase PSU 500W

    * 250GB SATA Disk

    It took the headache of buying something that may not be compatible with XenServer away. I upgraded the disk size and also went with a Corsair Power supply (little things I wanted that bumped the price up)

  5. Hehe I have no rationale for prompoting AD. I am a Windows boy, I run a domain in my home (lol) I tried running SAMBA once and it just didn’t work for me, prehaps Linux has improved since those days. For me looking at it objectively an entry level Dell server with SBS OEM is around £700. SBS on its own can be purchased for £400.

  6. In my opinion(and this is just me, but anyway) Active Directory is mainly for large networks that need to have certain policies enfocred for different user groups, while centralizing all domain users and nodes on the domain, restricting their access to certain functions of the OS or even the internet. Its kind of overkill for a home network with only 3 machines.

    I don't really agree, I've always found AD very useful no matter what size organisation. Prehaps you are right in what you are saying, 50% maybe more like 80% of the AD potential is not used by smaller groups.

    As for the OP, I would look at purchasing Small Business Server it really is an "out of box" product.

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