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    10 Reasons Not to Buy an iPad for Students

    Ah, I understand the intention there. I still feel that there are students I know that would have issue with even an extra $1000. This is all from the perspective of a fairly cheap school, where a 12-credit load only runs in state students $3000-4000. But you're right, in the grand scheme of...
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    10 Reasons Not to Buy an iPad for Students

    I'm an Information Systems major actually, which falls under the Business school. Some sort of software factors into almost every class for me (Visual Studio, SAP, MS Project, SPSS, etc) . Still, all required software is provided on lab computers. Keep in mind, my assumptions are based on my...
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    Odd length patch cord suppliers?

    Black Box does custom patch cable lengths, but usually that is only cost effective in larger quantities. They do have a good selection of cables in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. foot lengths if that helps.
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    Transferring ownership of machine with OS loaded but no license

    The install without a key feature and 30-day activation period aren't really intended as a "trial". If you look on Microsoft's website, they don't offer trial downloads of Windows, you must purchase it. They don't offer you the chance to try their software before you buy it. Let me play devil's...
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    10 Reasons Not to Buy an iPad for Students

    I stated that I couldn't see a school requiring a student to "provide their own laptop in a classroom". By that I mean a laptop that is purchased by the student. If a school provides a laptop, then that's great. All the more reason for the student to not need their own laptop and just buy a...
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    10 Reasons Not to Buy an iPad for Students

    As a college student, I can tell you that in my major (Business/IS), any application that is required for a class is provided installed on a computer in a lab. If you want to install it on your own desktop or laptop, great, but its not a requirement. I can't imagine any school requiring a...
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    Windows 2008 Server opinions

    Ah yes, forgot to mention the MSDN access, so price was not an issue. Again not practical for the average home user.
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    Windows 2008 Server opinions

    My 2 cents, having recently switched my laptop from Vista to Server 2008: Server 2008, for my uses, seems to be a faster, better option. Boot time is about the same, however shutdown time seems to be significantly faster in 2008. Basic things like file and network browsing and connecting to...
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    Free Raffle from Directron.com and MicroTemp

    In.
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    Active vs Inactive [H]orde Folders: We Can Do Better

    Sorry, wasn't aware anything had been planned. It just seemed like everyone was wondering about driving new membership/retaining members, so i thought I'd throw in my two cents. I'm more than willing to help out with things if you have a need; I've been away for the summer but I'm back around...
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    Active vs Inactive [H]orde Folders: We Can Do Better

    It wouldn't depend on HardFolding, for a small-medium (<50) number of contestants the numbers can manually be pulled from the Stanford site and entered into an excel sheet. This method has been used in the past. Someone has to devote a little time to running the contest, but its really not much...
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    Active vs Inactive [H]orde Folders: We Can Do Better

    So no one has any comments on my idea for some contests to motivate the small-cpu count folder??
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    The DC Contest Parts Donation Thread v2.0

    I'd be willing to help with whatever needed. I'm in the US (California). I also have some parts to add to the collection, a few older motherboards & CPUs, some RAM, CD-ROM drive, video and NIC cards etc. I'll come up with a good list in the next week or so. I think just posting lists here...
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    Active vs Inactive [H]orde Folders: We Can Do Better

    I didn't mean to indicate that you said that, I was just expressing my random opinion :). I think you're right about re-activating old members as opposed to recruiting new, I just don't know that we'll ever be able to maintain more than ~10% active for more than a short period of time. But we...
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    Active vs Inactive [H]orde Folders: We Can Do Better

    I think that percentage is always going to be high, simply due to the large numbers of people that have folded for [H] at some point in time. I don't think that 90% dormancy rate indicates that anything is changing, and that would seem to be confirmed by the similar rates at OCAU etc...
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