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I don't know about where you are, but here in the Raleigh area there are tons of tech Meetup groups... PHP groups, C# groups, JavaScript groups... great ways to meet new folks...

Any well-run IT shop should add to the bottom line, either through cost savings, efficiency improvements, risk mitigation, or business analytics. Even if all you do is deploy desktops, there's gains to be made, IT is moving to more of this model. As one of those hot shot consultants you don't...

The problem with ordering Ikea and having it shipped is that over a certain weight, it comes by an independent trucking company. When I first moved down to North Carolina, and had no furniture, I furnished most of my apartment (couch, bed, entertainment center, spare bedroom, office, etc.) and...

So that kit isn't really part of what you bought, that's the frame for the half round that goes on the end, I just used it to illustrate that has the parts in it you need. You could always just buy that, that'll have the parts you need. The last time I had an issue (closest Ikea was 3 hours...

That looks like the right frame... looks like you're just missing the little metal rails (top of page 12 in that PDF), along with the screws (111034) that bolt those rails in, and the plastic "t" pieces that bolt the table tops together. Looks like they don't come with that frame, but that is...

There should be a short set of rails that joins the two together. You'd slot it into the corner frame depending on which side you're adding it to. This drawing may be backwards, I think you'd be adding it to the thicker side, but start at page 20 for a reference. You should have two standalone...

The tabletop comes with a frame, and that frame will connect to the corner unit. I think you're going to have extra legs. That corner unit comes with 4, and the extra top you bought is only 47", so you certainly don't need six more. Or were you saying that you bought 6 legs including the 4 from...

This is supposed to be 30x5, so it's close... Just plane jane RoadRunner Extreme... nothing sexy...

Looks like this combination, plus the rounded edges on each side. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49807553/ Those look like Galant drawer units to me... http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/workspaces/18963/

Mine? There's a little lens distortion from it being a 12mm lens (the only way I could get the whole room in a single frame was to use a 12mm super wide angle lens in the doorway. there's also some bounce on the window from the strobe. It was a quickly done, not greatly composed shot, but it is...

It's a 9U high, 21U deep rack from Rack Solutions (http://www.racksolutions.com/desktop-rack.html), with the optional side panels. I had to go with the full 21U depth to accommodate an older rack mount server, but they have 12U, 15U, or 21U options if your hardware isn't really deep. They sell...

I haven't done any gaming for years. The joys of billing 60+ hours a week...

I'm fortunate... my other half is really supportive. When she moved in, the desk was half that size. She wanted her own side ;-)

I'm going to miss it; this has been my office for 3 years (I'm an IT consultant that works from home about 65% of the time). Though I'm also excited... our new house has a nice big loft area that we'll be turning into the home office, and I'll have some chances to move the server rack and such...

It's funny you mention that... our new home office will be quite a bit larger... I'll be extending the right side to at least have a rounded edge.

Here's a look at our Galant setup. The far end across both windows is roughly 12' across. We're moving out of our apartment and into a house in July, so we'll have to take it all apart and rebuild it.

Here's our current setup (I'm on the right, my girlfriend on the left). There's been a couple slight tweaks since this photo was taken (there's an extra monitor on the left side now, and we've got some new shelving up). This setup will be short lived though, we're moving out of our apartment...

We've used QR codes for session evaluation surveys at technical conferences. Each session has a unique survey URL, QR codes generated for each session, and the speaker adds the applicable QR code to the final slide of the session deck. Attendees point phone at the projection screen, get directed...

The barebone chassis I bought is no longer available, but this gives you an idea (you should be able to find something similar). I used the Asus RS100-E7/P12 on a rebate, paired it with a Xeon ES-1220 (Quad core), 4 x 4Gb of Kingston ram and a 60Gb SSD for boot. All in, I was at around $750...

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I wasn't aware of one... do you meet frequently? Got a link or anything?

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I had sort of guestimated $200-400 for a VPN router on each end, so $400-800 total. I don't want to spend a lot... but if I can do it for somewhere in that order of magnitude then I'd be happy. I'm certainly not looking for pro Cisco gear at each end. I looked at the D-Link DSR500, which...

Dropbox isn't going to cut it; we're both photographers so we're talking roughly 300Gb of data (today) that we'd like to be "accessible". There's a WHS box at each end; 1.5Tb on one end and 3.5Tb on the other. I'm more concerned about everything being accessible than I am about the performance...

I'm looking at setting up a network link between my parents house in New York and my place in North Carolina. There's lots of posts about networking houses to share internet, but that's not the goal here; my parents have a 10/3mb service, I have a 30/5mb service. and there's presently a DIR-655...

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com is another great resource. There's a lot of SharePoint Devs and Consultants (myself included) that spend quite a bit of time there. You can also tweet with the hashtag #SPHelp.

Many organizations, particularly in the consulting world encourage community involvement. There's certainly periods of time where I'm more active than others, but there's a lot of advantages to spending time on a topic-centric forum like MSDN or StackOverflow. There's also potential perks to...

Anyone that was serious about creating a social site wouldn't be foolish enough to post any bit of it in a public domain, let alone try to get the masses to suggest names for you for a measly $10 prize. Based on what you've posted so far, if you want to work in the social world, I hear Facebook...

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As cl0ckw0rk said, definitely register your domain yourself. I wouldn't say it's important to separate where the hosting and domain are purchased from, but it is important to purchase the domain yourself so you are the owning and controlling authority of it. Generally, I tell people to also...

Two servers, a switch, modem, and UPS; nothing crazy--and not putting anything on the roof or the like, way overkill. If there was an AC vent in the closet I wouldn't worry about it, but the closet in my office is smaller and than the other ones and doesn't have an AC vent.

No, it's in my apartment.

I just bought a small rack to move my servers, networking equipment and home laser printer into a spare closet in my apartment. I'm looking for advice on closet cooling. I don't have a lot of equipment; 3 servers (all of which are fairly efficient as far as heat goes), a couple switches, modem...

Pretty hard to help you debug code without any code...

Be careful here. Many novice "developers/designers" understand very little about what is/isn't acceptable from a bandwidth perspective. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone upload an 8Mb graphic right out of their DSLR for use as a head shot on a staff page. Just because you resize...

Mockett makes some pretty good stuff. In a previous role I did a lot of conference room design and build, and Mockett was one of our big suppliers. When it comes to things like wire channel and cord cover, there's better (and more reasonably priced) offerings out there in my opinion, but their...

Is this internal only, or external? If you're dealing with SQL and have a lot of data, SSRS or a similar tool may be far better for you. It wouldn't be free, but if your company already has SSRS deployed you may be able to tap into it. You also gain the ability of permission trimming data by...

Make a friendship with Google and all your answers can be found. There's several good ones out there; it all depends on what technology you want to use (jQuery, Flash, Silverlight, etc.). The Flot jQuery plugin is quite good and is used by Flightaware and several other major websites...

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What version of IE have you been testing in? I believe you'll find that older versions of IE also required the addEventListener method.