After the economic meltdown and I lost my job in banking, I went back to college for my BS in Computer Science. I've worked the past 2.5 years on a large application in C# / Asp / Javascript / HTML / etc etc etc. They announced in October that all dev jobs were being relocated to Florida (I live in ...

Games - If I start gaming again EQ would be in the picture, but I would also want to explore others in the fantasy / rpg genre, no shooters, I've always hated them. Development - no game development - I've never been interested in that, no VMs. I've enjoyed the object oriented languages (C# / Java) ...

I may increase the budget.. we'll see. :) This is why I haven't given any real advice yet... "budgets" and I aren't on speaking terms... LOL Ok, let's go at this a different direction then. I'm not in any rush - I still have my 5 year old pc laptop I bought when I went back to school, plu...

I have actually used iBuyPower before. It's who I bought the current desktop system through a little over 7 years ago. I may increase the budget.. we'll see.

Thanks - the Asus & Alienware were what I was leaning toward.

I just wanted to pipe in to say that I love docking stations. If you ever intend to pick it up and move, being able to just set it down at your desk and have everything already plugged in is really nice. If the docking station can support multiple displays, then it's even better. Yea, I have a dock...

Rapi - have you had any issues with the other MSI's? How long have they been in service? I've read several reviews stating the same thing you said about their casing being unreliable, so I'm a little hesitant about that. I'm willing to spend up to about $1,500 (maybe a little more depending on how t...

Hey gang - so my desktop looks like it's finally about to die. I have a few more things to try to extend it a little longer, but I want to go ahead and start thinking of a replacement. Instead of going with another desktop, I want a laptop. Most of what I've seen only have one HDMI connection, and a...

Hahaha.. that was great!

sounds pretty nasty, sorry but what actually is DDOSing? It's an attack where multiple computers attack a target by overwhelming it with all sorts of messages, connection requests, malformed packets, etc. Networks / servers are typically designed to handle an upper limit of bandwidth, but when that...

Please stay safe all. /hugs

ES has lost another alumni. I woke yesterday morning to find out our friend James Smith a/k/a Gadjett was killed in an accident. For any of you that knew him, you will remember how fun and funny he was. He was a Fan Faire attendee and was a great person to be around. He was someone for whom I had a ...

oh really?

Hey Red!

Not active currently due to some other stuff going on, but yes, still a few of us ex-TP's around.

Actually.. my account is active - I just don't get to play right now. Adulting is very demanding these days. Soon...