My wife and I shopped around for an engagement ring for some time before we finally found one that said "take me home". It seemed to us that all of the diamond engagement rings were all too similar and too glitzy. Both of us also have a strong subconcious need to not be like-everyone-else(tm). Besides, for something as personal as a engagement/wedding ring, it only makes sense to get one that has as much personal significance to the wearer as possible.
But just because you decide not to go with a diamond, don't think that you're going to get off cheap. This particular ring cost about $500. Still, it was well worth it in my opinion.
--- No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. -Voltaire
I was in almost exactly the same situation about two or three years ago. The university had gotten duped into installing token ring all over campus at some point in the past, but the CS department had recently aquired a couple unix boxes which were not Token Ring friendly. A friend and I were put in charge of these boxes and one of our most daunting challenges was to get them to talk to the campus network. Our eventual solution was to set up a i486 box with a Token Ring and ethernet cards. We set the box up as a firewall with IP masquerading. The unix boxes were on the own internal tcp/ip network (192.168.?.?) so the rest of the world could not see them. We could still get to them remotely by telneting to the linux box first, but I imagine there are more sophisticated ways of accomplishing this. Since it's not likely that your university is going to give you more than one IP address for your room/port(s) this may be what you need to do. Everything you need to know should be in the NET-3, Firewall, IP-Masquerade, and other related HOWTO's. Good Luck.
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My wife and I shopped around for an engagement ring for some time before we finally found one that said "take me home". It seemed to us that all of the diamond engagement rings were all too similar and too glitzy. Both of us also have a strong subconcious need to not be like-everyone-else(tm). Besides, for something as personal as a engagement/wedding ring, it only makes sense to get one that has as much personal significance to the wearer as possible.
But just because you decide not to go with a diamond, don't think that you're going to get off cheap. This particular ring cost about $500. Still, it was well worth it in my opinion.
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. -Voltaire
I was in almost exactly the same situation about two or three years ago. The university had gotten duped into installing token ring all over campus at some point in the past, but the CS department had recently aquired a couple unix boxes which were not Token Ring friendly. A friend and I were put in charge of these boxes and one of our most daunting challenges was to get them to talk to the campus network.
Our eventual solution was to set up a i486 box with a Token Ring and ethernet cards. We set the box up as a firewall with IP masquerading. The unix boxes were on the own internal tcp/ip network (192.168.?.?) so the rest of the world could not see them. We could still get to them remotely by telneting to the linux box first, but I imagine there are more sophisticated ways of accomplishing this.
Since it's not likely that your university is going to give you more than one IP address for your room/port(s) this may be what you need to do. Everything you need to know should be in the NET-3, Firewall, IP-Masquerade, and other related HOWTO's.
Good Luck.