Taizo

Congratulations, you guys. It's been amazing watching you grow and adapt as a team and I'm glad that I was able to build PCs alongside you as you did. If there's anybody worthy of the recognition by YouTube and the tech community as a whole, it's the Linus Tech Tips crew.

Whoops, didn't realize it was over... congrats to whoever won!

Ewwwwwwww

Ahh, I see. For some reason I thought that Switches = Hubs. After some wikipedia-ing, I think that I understand now. I suppose that I just wanted to know if I could successfully be a cheapskate by using what I had at hand. I don't really have the $30+ for an OK quality switch at the moment :\

Hey guys. I'm hoping that some of you who understand networks better than I can help me out with this. So the dorms at my university supply each room with a single data port to be shared between two people. I'm currently stuck using the god-awful wifi as my roommate doesn't have a wireless card in his PC. We are forbidden from using routers in our rooms - we can only use switches (they don't want to give us any control). If you break that rule and use your own router, they'll shut off the data port in your room. The thing is, I don't really know how switches work... I also don't have a working one at the moment [and would prefer to not have to go and purchase one], but I do have my D-Link DIR-860L that I keep up here disconnected just for game streaming. I know that there are ways to repurpose routers as switches, but I need to know if just disabling the DHCP server and changing the IP of the device (<<this is what i'm confused about?) will keep the dorm internet folks from recognizing it as a router and shutting off my internet. Also, how will I change the router switch back after I disable the DHCP server? All that I know about what hubs do is that they magically split an ethernet signal from a router - will my campus internet people be able to notice that I'm actually using a router if I try this? Somebody please explain this witchcraft to me. Will I be tethered to crappy wifi forever? Please help me out and teach me a thing or two if you can! :lol:

The gray inside of the stock HAF 912. Also my crappy mountings for my cold cathodes.

Fascinating... I guess I'm just incredibly lucky that none of my six Seagate drives have ever failed me *knock on wood* Seriously, though. I've had this 230 gb for seven years - it's got 9304 power-on hours on it - well over a year of on-time. I don't know about this.

It was awesome meeting you all yesterday. Equally as awesome to watch Linus and the guys doing their thing. BTW, huge props to Brandon and the rest of the production team for keeping everything so friggin organized. I've tried to manage putting together a film before, and I learned a lot from just watching those guys' process. Taizo

ahh balls, I'm only going on Monday

Linus, don't become tigerdirect, please

This is baller. I retweeted that - here's my twitter: https://twitter.com/taztehspaz

Holy cow, thanks Intel, GB and Linus! This is crazy... Here's the link to my Facebook share: https://www.facebook.com/TaizoCurry/posts/141753809328816 And here's the Twitter post, @taztehspaz: https://twitter.com/taztehspaz/status/315027040443199489