If that happens, won't sites go down? I know that if I were in the position Verisign is; I would basically tell them to screw off. There aren't many people at all who would be able to re-register their donamin quick enough and the backlog of re-registration would severely hurt many economies in addition to taking a serious lot of time to complete. How long would the internet be down for or would it even go down? I don't think they would do that because of the sever impact that it would have on the WORLD. I may just be mistaken though... please correct me if I am wrong.
um... I have started my own computer shop, and right now I am quite well-to-do because of it. My current markup ranges from 20-40% and I am much better off for it. In addition I currently have one employee who I pay the average technician's salry for my area of $25/hr while the other shop has 2 technicians who combined only make $23/hr (they are both friends of mine... and BTW, that shop and I are not in direct competition... he handles the same business but from a different area of town.) So you tell me how that shop with who has been deemed the "Worst Business owner in (MY) town" by damn near everyone for his prices and what a total jerk the guy is- THE MEAN WHILE making almost double my business is right? How is it right that with the lesser business I have, I am very well off with smaller markups and more expences? Oh... and if you are ascenine enough to call me a 'dumb fuck' atleast have microscopicly large enough balls to not post as an AC.
Personally I do not geocache, but my mother is by far the most avid cacher that there is on my block, nay in my city. I have been drug along with her and I must admit that there is a certain something about finding that cache that makes it almost worth-while.
OTOH I asked my mother the other day why she likes it soo much, and she said that, "It is just fun." Asking why someone would like geocaching is almost like asking why we breathe? We just do. or asking why some people are homosexual (not gay as that only means happy)... they just are. So, I ask you... how can you not like Geocaching? Have you ever been or do you dare not try it because it sounds stupid to you? I personally don't just because it takes way too much time for my impatient self.
A local computer shop has an extreme-beyond-extreme markup well over 100%... The retarded owner sells $2 USB cables for $15-$30 depending on if he has it in stock or not. He also sells $35 wd (to him) BB (2mb cache) 40-gig drives for $119. That is an example of the markup and idioticy that exhists in small american businesses.
There is some software that a client produces called "PC Time Clock." www.pctimeclock.com It is prety cool and that is what I use at my shop. We never have any problems with it but the guy is a freak. It's cheap too!
I would make part of the requirement of bringing in a computer be that they have to take it into a local computer shop and have their computer thoroughly inspected for viruses/malware/spyware etc... and require them to have that company sign-off on the computer. This will allow a strict anti-virus and anti-spy policy to be enforced at a level where you don't have to waste all of your time explaining what to do at someone who has little respect for you. Also, you should know that a lot of spyware etc out there will slow your network too... not just viruses.
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Because with Yahoo chatrooms and IRC, you can get all the cyber-lovin' you want, without the pretense and baggage of "character classes", "gold pieces", and "elves."
You must think I am some teen perv out for cybersex.
I like MUDS better then MMORPG's because, as an earlier post pointed out, the lower ammount of simultaneous users makes for a more personal environment with a more in-depth draw. I also don't like graphical MMORPGs because of the logics behind how you have to pay for then, and because having the environment descriped rather then painted gives it a more personal touch, allowing me to make the world however I want to imagine it. My problem with paying for a MMORPG (Everquest being my only example of this seeing as Ultima I just plain didn't like after getting the software and first month free) is that you have to pay for both the software AND the montly service. When sega tried their MMORPG, I liked it a lot and would have subscribed had it not been for the large ammount of people on at all times, and the ammount of those people that were jerks.
While I generally would agree with your post, I also must disagree... What about all those trigger-happy folks who might say kill a water guy coming out for an emergency fix on a line that runs through your property... and also what about incidences where the tresspassing is for a good reason and there is no monitary or physical harm/inconvenience. My mother is a hunter, she once shot a deer lethally but it (as deer often do) had enough strenght to get a good leep and about 20 yards away onto a neighboring private property... Without damaging anything at all, she got the deer and didn't even so much as field-dress it on the other property (did it on the one she was supposed to be on.) However because it was tresspassing, she was sued for $5,000 and lost... So there are instances where I believe that tresspassing laws are BS...
Here in my local town, a competing computer shop sells 'refurbished' used computers that all they do is reformat the system; they don't even bother dusting them. This is a wide-spread problem that is due to perception. Some shops will, as another post mentioned, physically disassemble and refurbish the pack, or some shops will just 'recondion' it which is a matter of fully charging and fully discharging it a few times. Ask the shops how thoroughly they 'refurbish' the packs and ask if they are just simply refurbishing the charge (reconditioning) or the actual componets. This will also help test the honesty and friendliness of the shop!
the problem with laptop HDD's is that since they grab their power from the same power connectors as the data transmit chip does, they can not do long distances like they want. You would need some form of repeater to use a Laptop HDD, and also due to the small ammounts of casing etc... on a laptop HDD, they have a high magnetic interferance (sp?) rating... This also makes them weak to magnetic interferance which might be bad in this situation. As far as data transmition etc goes... an optical transmision will be the best source... even heavily shielded ethernet will have some UHF interferance and wireless will provide plenty of RFI to throw the sensors off... Optical does have it's downsides though.
Actually this COULD be an easy fix in windows too, potentially. I know that you can make multiple folders on one HDD act as two partitions (not seperate sizes though) in Windows. I am very sure that it is a matter of them patching a small command into the kernel or command tansulator to make this possible with the ram/solid-state combination that the article suggests this technology will bring about... plus, anytime a new OS comes out they usually have support for the newest stuff at least within their first month, and it is just a SHORT matter of time before something new hits the markets, no matter how settled/good it may be now.
I see that the macs here dominated at everything they are already better then a PC at... but what will gaming be like? I am very sure that raw power the MACS far out-do PC's (even after the amd 64-bit comes out and closes the gap) but all of the enhancements and support on PC's make games better on them... I wonder where all the gaming benchmarks are...
Didn't any of you notice that they only specifically said that Arctic Silver will void your warranty? The reason for this is that Arctic Silver is a Thermal EPOXY... While the text of the article also points out that they don't like the "conductive properties" of (obviously) the minute ammount of silver in it, they also on their "green-list" had a thermal greese that does have minute ammounts of silver. I do not think they are trying to dictate what you use, beyond trying to keep idiots from costing them needlesly large ammounts of money. Face it, just about everyone in the world thinks they know enough to set up a computer, but when they do it, they will completely forget the HS/FAN or use too much thermal greese to the point where it's minute conductive properties cause shorts... It is the idiots they are after, not us... give them a break!
I have seen one that a friend set up called brunhilde... I don't know where to get it, or if it is still out there, but it was sweet stuff... he abandoned it though because he had all sorts of HW conflicts in his linux box, and this is a linux-native proggy...
Surprising that the most popular 'simple' password I have come across: drowssap wasn't on the list... either it must not be very composite, or the programmers of the worm are fairly out-of-touch.
It literally removes the magnetic code/signatures from the HDD. I used to work at a data recovery shop (yes one with static room where we physically remove the data etc...) and even we couldn't recover anything off a HDD that has been passed through one...
The only bummer is they draw lots of amperage on a 220... (meaning they literally dim the lights even on my very well powered home...)
The NSA/DOD/Whatever probably uses these when they erase a HDD for redistro/etc...
I hope you get modded down as flamebait... Just because you are a liberal who has no moral conviction. I ask you, if you had a robber in your home and he was shooting at you or throwing something at yo, are you just going to keep saying, "please stop?" No, you are going to defend yourself, or call the cops and get killed like a weak pansy. All of you left'wingers are why there are soo many rapists, murders, theives and prostitutes (which has been directly linked to cold molestation which is tolerated so much because of you liberals.) I bet you though Clinton was a good president too, with his adultery and his teaching our children that homosexuality and being a transvestite is okay... People like clinton which say that even saying "Merry Christmas" is bad... Since when has it been 'holiday?' I hope you soon see your folly when we become new china because of the next liberal president we have...
What is with all you hippies? There will never be a time when we all have to commute in haz-mat suits driving airtight cars with their own oxygen source... There may be enough neuclear force to destroy the world, but even nations as angry and stupid as North Korea or Iraq wouldn't do THAT much damage... Sure it is possible that in the future we will have to worry about bombs destroying our homes or something... but it will be a while before and take a lot to come to nuclear war.
Another thing to know, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they can live and walk freely even today with very little above-normal exposure to radiation. Radiation dissipates fairly fast if it isn't continually agitated by further radiation.
You will have to worry about having to walk around with a sunscreen-sprinkler continually protecting you from a hole in the ozone layer (which by the way has been shrinking steadily since 2000 as was told here on slashdot) before you have to worry about a fallout (the game) like scenario.
My best hint is to avoid anything RTS or time consuming. Some of the best ones that you can get away with at work are the older games that can easily be ALT-TAB'd out of when the big boss (not your team leader) comes around. FPS' are probably the best bet. Try Unreal Tournament. You can still get it at most major stores like Best Buy etc... and it does have a spawn version built-in for situations like yours. It is also able to run on the systems that you describe quite well, but the size can be a problem... the spawn version is around 300mb I believe.
From what I have read, X is the latest in a large string originating from O Window meaning Open-Window... If you read all of the different 'history of unix' or 'history of X' pages and books, you will get that far back. Now if it goes any farther back, I do not know, but it would be kind-of cool if they had all the way from A to X... in some form of unknown geekish way.
The difference between a 72 degree room and a 75 degree room can be enough to take an otherwise rock solid system and turn it into something that crashes non-stop. Given just a little more heat, It may become too unstable to even post all the time.
You would have to have a notrh-bridge cooler on your proc for this to be true!
This is barely true in extreme circumstances... what you are saying is all those cheap people like me who don't have ac and live in 90deg weather HAVE to have crashing computers? WRONG-O>>> Ambient temperature doesn't have as much to do with the cooling as you people think... Hell... AIR temperature has less to do with your computer's cooling then many other effects...
First off... the bigger is better rule does apply to the heatsink... You can sufficiently cool an AMD (which does run cooler then the new p4 btw) without a fan if you have the proper heatsink... The CPU will ALWAYS run hotter then the ambient temperature... You would have to live in Death Valley or the Sahara to have an ambient temperature equal to the normal operating temp of todays 1ghz+cpu's. This means that the air isn't the problem, but rather how much area is being affected by the air. You can immerse a processore in ice and run it, but it will still overheat even if you keep it continually exposed to fresh ice. This is because there is not enoough surface area touching the ice... here is an experiment to try: take a block of ice and a bag of cubes... place them both in a temp controlled room and see which melts first. The block will keep it's internal temperature for longer because it has a lesser surface area exposed, this is the same principle in proc cooling.
secondly the speed of the air has some affect. Notice how the air feels cooler when you are speeding down the freeway rather then stopped? This is because the standing air will absorb the heat and not conduct it. This is why you can use bubble-paper-stuff for a decent insulator... air doesn't conduct thermal energy very well. If you move the air past a thermal surface at a higher speed, that air will absorb the same thermal energy as if it were stagnant, but it would rapidly be moved out of the way and replaced with air that has not been thermally charged.
now I am tired and hope you can make sense of what I typed... it looked good when I typed it, and I could make heads-and-tails when I previewed it...
Um... Ultra 320 is not actually 320mb/sec... Ultra 320 is just a form of Ultra 160 raid that was developed in a whay where you can have 160 per HDD... while if you only have one HDD, the channel max is still only 160... I am not sure how or why it works like that rather then a higher bus no matter how many drives, but it is all explained at Adaptec's website.
Actually if you read it more closely as well as previous articles about DVR etc... they aren't working together so much as for eachother... This "union" would be more similar to something like all of those 'got milk' ads you see. As opposed to each company advertising for itself, they formed an industry advertising campaign... While they still advertise seperately for themselves, they use the 'got milk' ads to help boost sales in a time when drinks like SoBe and Snapple were starting to win-out... All I see this as is another instance where a whole industry is working to emphasize advertisement for the industry, not the companies within the industry.
One thing you can try to get parts is going to your local 'authorized mac repair specialist.' The local mac repair shop where I live is usually okay about it. Aparently the only problem with building MACs is the bus structure between all of the cards for NIC etc... You are going to have to make sure all of your hardware is MAC compatible because the bus addressing etc... is supposedly a little different from that of PC's.
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If that happens, won't sites go down? I know that if I were in the position Verisign is; I would basically tell them to screw off. There aren't many people at all who would be able to re-register their donamin quick enough and the backlog of re-registration would severely hurt many economies in addition to taking a serious lot of time to complete. How long would the internet be down for or would it even go down? I don't think they would do that because of the sever impact that it would have on the WORLD. I may just be mistaken though... please correct me if I am wrong.
um... I have started my own computer shop, and right now I am quite well-to-do because of it. My current markup ranges from 20-40% and I am much better off for it. In addition I currently have one employee who I pay the average technician's salry for my area of $25/hr while the other shop has 2 technicians who combined only make $23/hr (they are both friends of mine... and BTW, that shop and I are not in direct competition... he handles the same business but from a different area of town.) So you tell me how that shop with who has been deemed the "Worst Business owner in (MY) town" by damn near everyone for his prices and what a total jerk the guy is- THE MEAN WHILE making almost double my business is right? How is it right that with the lesser business I have, I am very well off with smaller markups and more expences? Oh... and if you are ascenine enough to call me a 'dumb fuck' atleast have microscopicly large enough balls to not post as an AC.
Personally I do not geocache, but my mother is by far the most avid cacher that there is on my block, nay in my city. I have been drug along with her and I must admit that there is a certain something about finding that cache that makes it almost worth-while.
OTOH I asked my mother the other day why she likes it soo much, and she said that, "It is just fun." Asking why someone would like geocaching is almost like asking why we breathe? We just do. or asking why some people are homosexual (not gay as that only means happy)... they just are. So, I ask you... how can you not like Geocaching? Have you ever been or do you dare not try it because it sounds stupid to you? I personally don't just because it takes way too much time for my impatient self.
A local computer shop has an extreme-beyond-extreme markup well over 100%... The retarded owner sells $2 USB cables for $15-$30 depending on if he has it in stock or not. He also sells $35 wd (to him) BB (2mb cache) 40-gig drives for $119. That is an example of the markup and idioticy that exhists in small american businesses.
There is some software that a client produces called "PC Time Clock." www.pctimeclock.com It is prety cool and that is what I use at my shop. We never have any problems with it but the guy is a freak. It's cheap too!
I would make part of the requirement of bringing in a computer be that they have to take it into a local computer shop and have their computer thoroughly inspected for viruses/malware/spyware etc... and require them to have that company sign-off on the computer. This will allow a strict anti-virus and anti-spy policy to be enforced at a level where you don't have to waste all of your time explaining what to do at someone who has little respect for you. Also, you should know that a lot of spyware etc out there will slow your network too... not just viruses.
Because with Yahoo chatrooms and IRC, you can get all the cyber-lovin' you want, without the pretense and baggage of "character classes", "gold pieces", and "elves."
You must think I am some teen perv out for cybersex.
I like MUDS better then MMORPG's because, as an earlier post pointed out, the lower ammount of simultaneous users makes for a more personal environment with a more in-depth draw. I also don't like graphical MMORPGs because of the logics behind how you have to pay for then, and because having the environment descriped rather then painted gives it a more personal touch, allowing me to make the world however I want to imagine it. My problem with paying for a MMORPG (Everquest being my only example of this seeing as Ultima I just plain didn't like after getting the software and first month free) is that you have to pay for both the software AND the montly service. When sega tried their MMORPG, I liked it a lot and would have subscribed had it not been for the large ammount of people on at all times, and the ammount of those people that were jerks.
While I generally would agree with your post, I also must disagree... What about all those trigger-happy folks who might say kill a water guy coming out for an emergency fix on a line that runs through your property... and also what about incidences where the tresspassing is for a good reason and there is no monitary or physical harm/inconvenience. My mother is a hunter, she once shot a deer lethally but it (as deer often do) had enough strenght to get a good leep and about 20 yards away onto a neighboring private property... Without damaging anything at all, she got the deer and didn't even so much as field-dress it on the other property (did it on the one she was supposed to be on.) However because it was tresspassing, she was sued for $5,000 and lost... So there are instances where I believe that tresspassing laws are BS...
Here in my local town, a competing computer shop sells 'refurbished' used computers that all they do is reformat the system; they don't even bother dusting them. This is a wide-spread problem that is due to perception. Some shops will, as another post mentioned, physically disassemble and refurbish the pack, or some shops will just 'recondion' it which is a matter of fully charging and fully discharging it a few times. Ask the shops how thoroughly they 'refurbish' the packs and ask if they are just simply refurbishing the charge (reconditioning) or the actual componets. This will also help test the honesty and friendliness of the shop!
the problem with laptop HDD's is that since they grab their power from the same power connectors as the data transmit chip does, they can not do long distances like they want. You would need some form of repeater to use a Laptop HDD, and also due to the small ammounts of casing etc... on a laptop HDD, they have a high magnetic interferance (sp?) rating... This also makes them weak to magnetic interferance which might be bad in this situation. As far as data transmition etc goes... an optical transmision will be the best source... even heavily shielded ethernet will have some UHF interferance and wireless will provide plenty of RFI to throw the sensors off... Optical does have it's downsides though.
Actually this COULD be an easy fix in windows too, potentially. I know that you can make multiple folders on one HDD act as two partitions (not seperate sizes though) in Windows. I am very sure that it is a matter of them patching a small command into the kernel or command tansulator to make this possible with the ram/solid-state combination that the article suggests this technology will bring about... plus, anytime a new OS comes out they usually have support for the newest stuff at least within their first month, and it is just a SHORT matter of time before something new hits the markets, no matter how settled/good it may be now.
I see that the macs here dominated at everything they are already better then a PC at... but what will gaming be like? I am very sure that raw power the MACS far out-do PC's (even after the amd 64-bit comes out and closes the gap) but all of the enhancements and support on PC's make games better on them... I wonder where all the gaming benchmarks are...
Didn't any of you notice that they only specifically said that Arctic Silver will void your warranty? The reason for this is that Arctic Silver is a Thermal EPOXY... While the text of the article also points out that they don't like the "conductive properties" of (obviously) the minute ammount of silver in it, they also on their "green-list" had a thermal greese that does have minute ammounts of silver. I do not think they are trying to dictate what you use, beyond trying to keep idiots from costing them needlesly large ammounts of money. Face it, just about everyone in the world thinks they know enough to set up a computer, but when they do it, they will completely forget the HS/FAN or use too much thermal greese to the point where it's minute conductive properties cause shorts... It is the idiots they are after, not us... give them a break!
I have seen one that a friend set up called brunhilde... I don't know where to get it, or if it is still out there, but it was sweet stuff... he abandoned it though because he had all sorts of HW conflicts in his linux box, and this is a linux-native proggy...
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Surprising that the most popular 'simple' password I have come across: drowssap wasn't on the list... either it must not be very composite, or the programmers of the worm are fairly out-of-touch.
Magnetic Speperator...
I have one, honest to god..
It literally removes the magnetic code/signatures from the HDD. I used to work at a data recovery shop (yes one with static room where we physically remove the data etc...) and even we couldn't recover anything off a HDD that has been passed through one...
The only bummer is they draw lots of amperage on a 220... (meaning they literally dim the lights even on my very well powered home...)
The NSA/DOD/Whatever probably uses these when they erase a HDD for redistro/etc...
I hope you get modded down as flamebait... Just because you are a liberal who has no moral conviction. I ask you, if you had a robber in your home and he was shooting at you or throwing something at yo, are you just going to keep saying, "please stop?" No, you are going to defend yourself, or call the cops and get killed like a weak pansy. All of you left'wingers are why there are soo many rapists, murders, theives and prostitutes (which has been directly linked to cold molestation which is tolerated so much because of you liberals.) I bet you though Clinton was a good president too, with his adultery and his teaching our children that homosexuality and being a transvestite is okay... People like clinton which say that even saying "Merry Christmas" is bad... Since when has it been 'holiday?' I hope you soon see your folly when we become new china because of the next liberal president we have...
What is with all you hippies? There will never be a time when we all have to commute in haz-mat suits driving airtight cars with their own oxygen source... There may be enough neuclear force to destroy the world, but even nations as angry and stupid as North Korea or Iraq wouldn't do THAT much damage... Sure it is possible that in the future we will have to worry about bombs destroying our homes or something... but it will be a while before and take a lot to come to nuclear war.
Another thing to know, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they can live and walk freely even today with very little above-normal exposure to radiation. Radiation dissipates fairly fast if it isn't continually agitated by further radiation.
You will have to worry about having to walk around with a sunscreen-sprinkler continually protecting you from a hole in the ozone layer (which by the way has been shrinking steadily since 2000 as was told here on slashdot) before you have to worry about a fallout (the game) like scenario.
My best hint is to avoid anything RTS or time consuming. Some of the best ones that you can get away with at work are the older games that can easily be ALT-TAB'd out of when the big boss (not your team leader) comes around. FPS' are probably the best bet. Try Unreal Tournament. You can still get it at most major stores like Best Buy etc... and it does have a spawn version built-in for situations like yours. It is also able to run on the systems that you describe quite well, but the size can be a problem... the spawn version is around 300mb I believe.
Just my 6 cents.
From what I have read, X is the latest in a large string originating from O Window meaning Open-Window... If you read all of the different 'history of unix' or 'history of X' pages and books, you will get that far back. Now if it goes any farther back, I do not know, but it would be kind-of cool if they had all the way from A to X... in some form of unknown geekish way.
The difference between a 72 degree room and a 75 degree room can be enough to take an otherwise rock solid system and turn it into something that crashes non-stop. Given just a little more heat, It may become too unstable to even post all the time.
You would have to have a notrh-bridge cooler on your proc for this to be true!
This is barely true in extreme circumstances... what you are saying is all those cheap people like me who don't have ac and live in 90deg weather HAVE to have crashing computers? WRONG-O>>> Ambient temperature doesn't have as much to do with the cooling as you people think... Hell... AIR temperature has less to do with your computer's cooling then many other effects...
First off... the bigger is better rule does apply to the heatsink... You can sufficiently cool an AMD (which does run cooler then the new p4 btw) without a fan if you have the proper heatsink... The CPU will ALWAYS run hotter then the ambient temperature... You would have to live in Death Valley or the Sahara to have an ambient temperature equal to the normal operating temp of todays 1ghz+cpu's. This means that the air isn't the problem, but rather how much area is being affected by the air. You can immerse a processore in ice and run it, but it will still overheat even if you keep it continually exposed to fresh ice. This is because there is not enoough surface area touching the ice... here is an experiment to try: take a block of ice and a bag of cubes... place them both in a temp controlled room and see which melts first. The block will keep it's internal temperature for longer because it has a lesser surface area exposed, this is the same principle in proc cooling.
secondly the speed of the air has some affect. Notice how the air feels cooler when you are speeding down the freeway rather then stopped? This is because the standing air will absorb the heat and not conduct it. This is why you can use bubble-paper-stuff for a decent insulator... air doesn't conduct thermal energy very well. If you move the air past a thermal surface at a higher speed, that air will absorb the same thermal energy as if it were stagnant, but it would rapidly be moved out of the way and replaced with air that has not been thermally charged.
now I am tired and hope you can make sense of what I typed... it looked good when I typed it, and I could make heads-and-tails when I previewed it...
SCSI Interface bandwidth:
Wide ---> 10 MB/sec
Fast ---> 10 MB/sec
Fast Wide ---> 20 MB/sec
Ultra ---> 20 MB/sec
Wide Ultra ---> 40 MB/sec
Ultra2 ---> 40 MB/sec
Wide Ultra2 ---> 80 MB/sec
Ultra160 ---> 160 MB/sec
Ultra320 ---> 320 MB/sec
Um... Ultra 320 is not actually 320mb/sec... Ultra 320 is just a form of Ultra 160 raid that was developed in a whay where you can have 160 per HDD... while if you only have one HDD, the channel max is still only 160... I am not sure how or why it works like that rather then a higher bus no matter how many drives, but it is all explained at Adaptec's website.
where are you taking the leak to? NBC? CBS? ABC? CNN? and what is the leak of?
Actually if you read it more closely as well as previous articles about DVR etc... they aren't working together so much as for eachother... This "union" would be more similar to something like all of those 'got milk' ads you see. As opposed to each company advertising for itself, they formed an industry advertising campaign... While they still advertise seperately for themselves, they use the 'got milk' ads to help boost sales in a time when drinks like SoBe and Snapple were starting to win-out... All I see this as is another instance where a whole industry is working to emphasize advertisement for the industry, not the companies within the industry.
One thing you can try to get parts is going to your local 'authorized mac repair specialist.' The local mac repair shop where I live is usually okay about it. Aparently the only problem with building MACs is the bus structure between all of the cards for NIC etc... You are going to have to make sure all of your hardware is MAC compatible because the bus addressing etc... is supposedly a little different from that of PC's.