Asus would be my recommendation too. They are very high end for build it yourself systems and have crossed over into making a lot of commercial gear too (they do contract manufacturing for HP!) Going with their boards gets you halfway from the hobby boards to almost having a commercial level system but with lots of customization.

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RE: Gaming Rig Time
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RE: Too Hot for Over There
I think she is just agreeing that the girls is really hot.
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RE: Symantec Zero Day Flaw
Ouch, that's really bad. For a security product to have that kind of vulnerability. Of course, security products are more likely to be attack targets because they have to have higher privileges than most products.
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RE: NTG Game Night
I didn't realize that it was a fresh post. Was just checking out the unread posts this morning and it was the first one that I saw. I had figured it was from last night.
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RE: Self Promoting - But, Old.
Very interesting, have never seen that before. Congrats.
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RE: NTG Game Night
That's cheap and that is one fun game, old though it is!
Thanks, AJ.
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RE: External Domain Accounts
@Carnival-Boy said:
Also, any general advice on managing vendor remote access to get the right balance between security and simplicity. Am I being too paranoid/controlling?
Not at all. External vendors, for the most part, need to be tightly controlled. If you have a full time MSP that you trust and is part of your normal support, that's different, you'd treat them like internal staff. But for software or appliance vendors that only need access once in a great while and only for special things they should expect tight gateways controlling their access and no privacy.
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RE: Seattle or Portland?
Did you ever settle on a future destination for yourself?
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RE: Grim Fandango Coming Back to The PC (and Mac and Linux)
I am excited for Grim F to be coming back. I never got to play it the first time and have been looking for a way to play it well for years. A modern remake is perfect.
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RE: Dominica on the Lenticular Last Supper
How did I miss this before. This is hilarious. I only noticed the 3D Jesus video before. Almost peed my trousers.
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RE: ThanksAJ.com - Two weeks, about 1K page views
I think that it was. And yes, for sure. Google SEO totally needs human readable links. It's almost as important as the title on the page.
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RE: Largest collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks ever
Great link, thanks for providing it here.
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RE: How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On CentOS 6
Have you started your logging project yet?
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RE: Finally a Linux Desktop
No kidding. Totally jelly here. Well, not so jealous of RHEL 5, but conceptually jealous.
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RE: Windows service needs access to a mapped network drive
Did you manage to get this working?
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RE: Dell RAID is 01 not 10
Make sure that you post back here when you learn more. Everyone is, I imagine, pretty interested in this one.